Nicol Bolas, Bookish Hipster

Commander / EDH

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Sorcery (20)

• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Ashen Powder
• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Borrowing 100,000 Arrows
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Vision
• 1x Drain Power
• 1x Dregs of Sorrow
• 1x Duress
• 1x Fire Tempest
• 1x Mind Ravel
• 1x Mind Twist
• 1x Pillage
• 1x Pyroclasm
• 1x Stupor
• 1x Unnerve
• 1x Wildfire
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Winds of Change

Land (37)

• 1x City of Brass
• 12x Island
• 7x Mountain
• 1x Salt Marsh
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg Volcano

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Annex
• 1x Arcane Laboratory
• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Confiscate
• 1x Control Magic
• 1x Dance of Many
• 1x Death Pits of Rath
• 1x Greed
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Smoke
• 1x Steal Artifact
• 1x Tainted AEther

Artifact (9)

• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Cursed Totem
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Icy Manipulator
• 1x Jester's Cap
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Star Compass

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x False Orders
• 1x Inferno
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Remove Soul
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Terror

Creature (8)

• 1x Aladdin
• 1x Clone
• 1x Hypnotic Specter
• 1x Merfolk Looter
• 1x Royal Assassin
• 1x Sorceress Queen
• 1x Thought Courier
• 1x Vesuvan Doppelganger

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Whenever I see a white bordered card among all the pretty black-bordered cards, I wince a little bit. So what better idea than to build an entire EDH deck out of white-bordered cards?

Thinking I was the most hipster bro in all of magic, I set out to build a deck full of white-bordered cards. Since creatures pre-8th Ed were on average much weaker than the creatures in the modern era, I settled on a control deck of sorts. The best chance to have a deck that wasn't completely unplayable was to use a three color commander so I settled on our dude Nicol Bolas. Before he was bent on taking over the Multiverse, he was just a bookish hipster, content on staying at home, reading and drinking his matcha.

The deck focuses on board interactions, with a small theft/clone/reanimate package and a removal/counterspell package. Typically discard is not strong in multiplayer, but since OG Bolas causes mass discard, I added a few cards that play into that theme. There's even a bit of a Stax Lite (TM) package to slow the game down a bit to bring it back to that Premodern era many remember so fondly.

There are a number of upgrades that I may make to the deck after I play it a few times, and could probably stand to add some more counterspells or some bounce spells here and there.

I haven't been playing EDH very long, and this is my first take at Grixis and at control, since I tend to stick to battlecruiser and aggro strategies frequently. I am open to suggestions!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	31 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.24
Tokens	Copy Clone