Nicol Bolas planeswalker by DodoBird

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Grixis Superfriends and resource-denial control deck commanded by Nicol Bolas, the Ravager. The primary strategy focuses on establishing early card advantage and mana stability, stripping opponent hands through symmetric discard effects, and controlling the board with efficient spot removal and sweepers. Once opponents are depleted of resources, the deck deploys high-loyalty planeswalkers such as Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God, Liliana, Dreadhorde General, and The Theorist, Jace Beleren, accelerating their loyalty using proliferate effects like Ichormoon Gauntlet and Deepglow Skate. The game closes around Turn 9 via overwhelming reanimation from Breach the Multiverse, continuous card-theft through Tergrid, God of Fright, or a decisive Torment of Hailfire. The list demonstrates robust resiliency and stack interaction, maintaining commanding table control through every stage of the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Aetheric Amplifier
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Angrath, the Flame-Chained
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bandit's Talent
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Command the Dreadhorde
  • 1 Contentious Plan
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Intimations
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Deliver Unto Evil
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drown in Ichor
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Ichormoon Gauntlet
  • 1 Interplanar Beacon
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jace's Machinations
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Meteor Crater
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Overwrite the Multiverse
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
  • 1 Sanctum Lurker
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Teferi, Temporal Archmage
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 The Eldest Reborn
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Tyrant's Scorn
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Xander's Lounge