Battlecruiser Bolas ft. Kess

Commander / EDH* Battlecruiser Casual Cruel Control Multiplayer Reanimator UBR (Grixis)

Xemenes

Land (38)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Crypt of the Eternals
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Endless Sands *f-pre*
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 2x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Skyline Cascade
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Marsh

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Banefire
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Dark Intimations
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Gild
• 1x Hour of Devastation
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Necromantic Summons
• 1x Psychic Intrusion
• 1x Razaketh's Rite
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Spelltwine
• 1x Strategic Planning
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Windfall

Artifact (14)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Corrupted Grafstone
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Omen Machine
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Corrupted Conscience
• 1x Swarm Intelligence

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Silumgar's Command
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Terminate

Creature (10)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Deathbringer Regent
• 1x Docent of Perfection  ^Flip
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Hoarding Dragon
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Hypersonic Dragon
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Vindictive Lich

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Curious Homunculus  ^Flip
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Melek, Izzet Paragon
• 1x Wildfire Eternal
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Jace's Sanctum
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation

Instant (4)

• 1x Consign / Oblivion
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Traumatic Visions

Land (1)

• 1x Bojuka Bog

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Fireball
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Release the Gremlins

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Maybeboard

Land (5)

• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Curse of the Cabal
• 1x Dreadbore

Artifact (2)

• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Standing Stones

Instant (2)

• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Reiterate

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Do you like control decks? Do you like turning your commander game into archenemy? Do you want to show your playgroup why graveyard hate is a must have in your EDH toolbox? And do you love flashy, thematic finishes where you wipe your entire playgroup? Then give this deck a whirl.

This is a semi-competitive Grixis Battlecruiser control deck with a themed Endboss finish: Summon the God-Pharaoh, and rip apart the heavens dropping bomb after bomb on your helpless opponents. Make no mistake: Kess is the commander, but she is not the general of this deck. She has become a servant of the one true ruler: Nicol Bolas. This is a themed deck where Kess has been corrupted by the God Pharaoh himself, and along with his lieutenants, the Havengul Lich and Liliana Death's Majesty, (with support from wizards and dragons who have fallen under his sway, expendable fodder for the Pharaoh) the trio work to summon the Elder Dragon himself. The deck is geared around tossing cards in graveyards (both your own and your opponents), using this as your main card advantage resource, prolonging the game with recurrable removal, counterspells, and boardwipes, before tutoring for Bolas, then recurring the tutor with Kess for a finisher which Bolas will use to tear open the heavens and destroy all with a massive x-spell (Torment of Hailfire, Banefire/Fireball, or Comet Storm) which can be either copied the turn played, or played out of the graveyard next turn. It feels great to say "Hailfire for 10" after a midgame boardwipe into two turns of Bolas exiling cards from everyone's hand, knowing you will do the same thing next turn. Watch the fear on your opponents' faces as they realize the spell sits in your graveyard, waiting to punish them once more. Win with flavor: Your God-Pharaoh has returned! Don't poke/provoke anyone early, and strategically toss spells into your own graveyard (and creatures into your opponents'). Shut down potential threats and play your midgame lieutenants to draw resources and hate, and ramp into a board-wipe and/or tutor, and drop the Pharaoh and enjoy a game of commander archenemy as your helpless opponents watch as their hands, libraries, and permanents are ripped away from them. Watch as your playgroup attempts a final desperate alliance; as they are all left topdecking for answers to their approaching doom. But the God-Pharaoh does not discriminate: all will perish, for when you have finished toying with your new subjects, blast them all into oblivion.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 5 Rares 29 - 6 Uncommons 18 - 5 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.97
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Elemental 1/1 R, Gold, Gremlin 2/2 R, Human Wizard 1/1 U, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B