Cycle 20 by Psyga315

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

An unfocused but resilient Grixis value deck built to use both faces of Nicol Bolas: Ravager provides early hand disruption and a flying body, then flips into Arisen as the main card-advantage engine (draw two, removal, stealing threats). The primary plan is to grind out incremental advantage through discard, planeswalker activations, thopter/dragon tokens, and spell-mastery payoffs, finishing with mass-damage or combat. Secondary routes include a dragon token beatdown via Lathliss/Sarkhan, a zombie drain package, and a slow milling fallback. There is no hidden commander; the deck is essentially a planeswalker tribal/value pile with several shallow subthemes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alhammarret, High Arbiter
  • 1 Apex of Power
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arisen Gorgon
  • 1 Blazing Hellhound
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brawl-Bash Ogre
  • 1 Calculated Dismissal
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame
  • 1 Clash of Wills
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Dabbling
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Demonic Pact
  • 1 Diamond Mare
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Drake
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Firecraft
  • 1 Faerie Miscreant
  • 1 Fiery Impulse
  • 1 Fraying Omnipotence
  • 1 Ghirapur Aether Grid
  • 1 Goblin Trashmaster
  • 1 Gravewaker
  • 1 Infectious Bloodlust
  • 1 Isareth the Awakener
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound
  • 1 Kargan Dragonrider
  • 1 Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Lightning Mare
  • 1 Liliana's Contract
  • 1 Liliana's Spoils
  • 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
  • 1 Liliana, Untouched by Death
  • 1 Liliana, the Necromancer
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Necromantic Summons
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen
  • 1 One with the Machine
  • 1 Patient Rebuilding
  • 1 Pendulum of Patterns
  • 1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
  • 1 Plague Mare
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Possessed Skaab
  • 1 Psychic Rebuttal
  • 1 Psychic Symbiont
  • 1 Ravaging Blaze
  • 1 Reclusive Artificer
  • 1 Riddlemaster Sphinx
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Sarkhan's Dragonfire
  • 1 Sarkhan's Unsealing
  • 1 Sarkhan's Whelp
  • 1 Sarkhan, Dragonsoul
  • 1 Sarkhan, Fireblood
  • 1 Send to Sleep
  • 1 Shadows of the Past
  • 1 Shivan Dragon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Supreme Phantom
  • 1 Surge Mare
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Talent of the Telepath
  • 1 Tattered Mummy
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gatebreaker
  • 1 Tezzeret's Strider
  • 1 Tezzeret, Artifice Master
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Machinist
  • 1 Undead Servant
  • 1 Unholy Hunger
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Xander's Lounge