Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon

Flying

When Nicol Bolas, the Ravager enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

: Exile Nicol Bolas, the Ravager, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control. Activate this ability only at any time you could cast a sorcery.

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DemonDragonJ on Diabolical Machinations

1 month ago

I have replaced Blood Tyrant and Garza Zol, Plague Queen with Demon of Loathing and Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  Flip, which reduced this deck's average converted mana cost from 4.42 to 4.37, which is very good, because the newer cards far better fit the theme of this deck than do the older cards; this is the first time that I have put a double-faced card into one of my decks, because I was deliberately avoiding doing so, but that version of Bolas was too excellent to not put into this deck.

Blobby_Bobby on Give Me Dragons Or Give Me Death

1 year ago

I will buy the Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  Flip if need be. I refuse to see a Bolas deck without the most potent of his Planeswalker cards.

LordsofChaos115 on unthinkable apocalypse

1 year ago

yeaGO i was thinking for commander wise Crosis, the Purger, Lord Xander, the Collector,Marchesa, Nekusar, the Mindrazer, Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  Flip, Obeka, Brute Chronologist.i think one of these will benefit the deck as the commander however i do not which one to choose.

nbarry223 on Viga-BOOM!

1 year ago

This is the best I could come up with. Bring to Light is a little awkward game 1, but in games 2/3 when I can find a silver bullet of some kind, it is much better. I wish it worked with Mosswort Bridge, but we can't have everything. I ended up cutting Karn's Sylex + Chalice of the Void to make space for the "Bring to Light silver bullets" as they were my two weakest links in the sideboard.

Surprisingly, with Threats Undetected I've found myself going for:

Elvish Reclaimer
Omnath, Locus of Creation
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
Primeval Titan

instead of Cultivator Colossus in a lot of situations, since Elvish Reclaimer almost always manafixes me into Omnath, Locus of Creation with something like Boros Garrison when I know they are going to avoid Dryad of the Ilysian Grove and Primeval Titan.

Honestly, I think I am trying to accomplish too much and should pick Bring to Light or Threats Undetected to run, but I like the idea of both and they have decent enough synergy with the other cards I need to include.

I did come up with some other "options" for Bring to Light, the best of which is The Gitrog Monster, followed closely by Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  Flip (Phyrexian Obliterator + Arena or sneaky tech like Sower of Temptation being honorable mentions).

I'm a little lighter on basic Forests than I would like, so I'll probably end up cutting something to add them back in a little, as 2 is the bare minimum I am comfortable with.

I think Omnath, Locus of Creation with Threats Undetected or The Gitrog Monster with Bring to Light is the correct answer, but I'm going to keep trying to squeeze in both paths for now.

TheOfficialCreator on Dragons Arisen

1 year ago

Is this a rule 0 deck? You normally can't have planeswalkers as your commander :) maybe Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  Flip?

Eldmoi on Burncard

1 year ago

I didn't do so great at the modern clash event at PAX East, quickly lost to my 2nd opponent's burn deck. On the bright side, each player I went up against gave me some tips, so I received more insight into how to improve this deck going forward.

I am considering adding some cards I recently played in Arena like Thoughtseize, Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger, Tinybones, Trinket Thief, Valki, God of Lies  Flip, Rankle, Master of Pranks, Tergrid, God of Fright  Flip along with a few others like Surgical Extraction.

I found that playing full playsets of fewer unique cards is more beneficial than playing 1-3 cards of more varied cards. I prefer making decks with as many different cards that can fit a theme, so I may create a different version of this deck in Commander which would allow that formulaic approach.

I was inspired to start playing paper formats again because of this event however, and will create a new Pioneer deck based on elements of this deck except in Grixis colors using cards like Drown in the Loch, Ashiok, Nightmare Muse and Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  Flip.

Overall, I had a great time playing this deck at PAX and definitely have to treat it with some fresh new sleeves!

Commander_JAR on Nicol Bolas Reanimation Deck

1 year ago

I was about to say!

I built a Dragonstorm deck around Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  Flip but since took it apart for Mizzix of the Izmagnus. I miss running it in Grixis because Dragonlord Kolaghan is key to winning. Now I have to run multiple haste enablers to make Dragonstorm work in Izzet. I kept my original deck build on this site though in case I want to switch back.

Epicurus on Dragon Legion of Earth

1 year ago

The Ur-Dragon is widely agreed to be the obvious choice. If you can afford it, of course. Thing isn't cheap. But it's eminence ability is incredibly helpful, it's attack trigger is brutal, and oh yeah it's also a 10/10 flyer. No downside. Totally worth 9 mana. However, I don't like suggesting the obvious choices, just because... well, they're too obvious. If you wanted to build an Ur Dragon deck, it would be easier, and probably even better, to Google search "Ur Dragon Deck," than to take whatever suggestions I might give.

Morophon is a solid alternate choice. However, not nearly as good as Ur Dragon at doing basically the same thing. A lot of your dragons are monocolored, so Morophon would only reduce their cost by 1. And besides Scion of the Ur-Dragon, you have nothing that Morophon would reduce by more than 2. And Morophon has to be on the battlefield to do anything at all. All that on a 6/6 body that doesn't fly, which costs only 2 mana less than Ur Dragon, albeit without needing to have all 5 colors to cast it. In other words, Morophon for Commander of this deck would be a weaker version of the exact same deck with Ur as commander.

Tiamat would be better than Morophon, because it would be a somewhat different strategy. Goal there would be quantity. And since it sounds like you're going for as low of a mana curve as one could reasonably expect from dragons, it's probably the most apt design if you didn't want to use Ur Dragon. In fact, you could totally still put Ur Dragon in there with Tiamat as commander, just to be different. But the lower cost dragons makes Tiamat make sense as the choice. It would basically do what you probably intended Niv Mizzet to do, but infinitely more effectively. This would probably be my choice of the three.

Of course, you certainly also could use Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  Flip as commander. The biggest downside to that would be it doesn't do anything dragon tribal except for simply being a dragon. But with Nicky, you'd go that route just because he's bad-ass. The card itself is powerful on its own, and having it right there in the command zone, ready to be cast whenever, is never bad. However, the best Nicol Bolas decks are designed differently, and not necessarily dragon tribal. He's best as commander when he's the main focus of the deck, not just part of the theme. So, as great as he is, my choice would still be Tiamat.

Sorry for such long comments, hahaha. Hopefully all of this is helpful. There's definitely some cuts I could suggest from your list to fit in any of what I suggested that you wanted to fit, but I'll let you mess with it first and not go even longer.

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