Nicol Bolas by Psyga315

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a thematic Grixis tap-out control build centered on the iconic Elder Dragon Nicol Bolas. The strategy focuses on accelerating through early turns using 2-CMC artifacts, systematically controlling the board with efficient sweepers such as Damnation, Crux of Fate, and Toxic Deluge, and deploying high-loyalty Bolas planeswalkers. Once established, the deck generates asymmetric resource disparity by stripping opponents' hands and exiling permanents. In the late game, the deck converts this advantage into victory by transforming Nicol Bolas, the Ravager, overwhelming the table with Bolas's Citadel, or casting a lethal Torment of Hailfire powered by Mana Geyser. While it exhibits high flavor synergy and potent late-game control, its reliance on high-cost sorcery-speed threats and moderate tutor density gives it a measured, classical control pacing.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Apex of Power
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brotherhood's End
  • 1 Chandra's Defeat
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commence the Endgame
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Cruel Ultimatum
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Intimations
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Deliver Unto Evil
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Eternity
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 1 Fraying Omnipotence
  • 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
  • 1 Hour of Devastation
  • 1 Ichormoon Gauntlet
  • 1 Imminent Doom
  • 1 In Bolas's Clutches
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nicol Bolas
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Patient Rebuilding
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prize Wall
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repercussion
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Slave of Bolas
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Sorin's Thirst
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Chain Veil
  • 1 The Elder Dragon War
  • 1 The Eldest Reborn
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Tormenting Voice
  • 1 Totally Lost
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Tyrant's Scorn
  • 1 Visage of Bolas
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wit's End
  • 1 Xander's Lounge