nicolas by user1784525

Format: Commander

Commander: Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Wheel-and-Punish strategy commanded by Nicol Bolas, the Ravager. The primary game plan accelerates mana in the early turns to deploy punishing permanents such as Waste Not, Liliana's Caress, Underworld Dreams, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, and Orcish Bowmasters. Once these pieces are established, the deck resolves symmetrical draw-and-discard spells like Windfall, Wheel of Misfortune, Whispering Madness, and Dark Deal to rapidly drain life totals across the entire table. Symmetrical wheels also fill graveyards with high-value targets, enabling backup victories through mass reanimation spells like Rise of the Dark Realms and Breach the Multiverse. A secondary two-card infinite combo between transformed Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin and Psychosis Crawler provides an instant lethal outlet. The deck generates substantial burst card advantage and consistent pressure, closing games around Turn 6 while leveraging efficient Grixis interaction to disrupt opposing wins.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cool but Rude
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Fraying Omnipotence
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Megrim
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sanctum Lurker
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel and Deal
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman