The Eldest Reborn

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Goodstuff Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick UBR (Grixis)

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Land (38)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 3x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
• 1x Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
• 1x Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver

Creature (17)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Echo Mage
• 1x Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  ^Flip
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Overseer of the Damned
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x The Locust God
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x The Scorpion God
• 1x Wildfire Eternal

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Breaking / Entering
• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Dark Intimations
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Deliver Unto Evil
• 1x Hour of Devastation
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1x Rags / Riches
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Everlasting Torment
• 1x In Bolas's Clutches
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x The Eldest Reborn
• 1x Waste Not

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Temporal Gateway

Instant (9)

• 1x Aethersnatch
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Soul Manipulation
• 1x Supreme Will

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Sideboard

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Vandalblast

Instant (1)

• 1x Silence the Believers

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Omniscience

Artifact (2)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Basalt Monolith

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Maybeboard

Instant (5)

• 1x Complicate
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Summary Dismissal

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Take Possession

Land (1)

• 1x Karn's Bastion

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Settle the Score
• 1x Tezzeret's Gambit
• 1x The Elderspell

Artifact (1)

• 1x Gem of Becoming

Creature (4)

• 1x Dack's Duplicate
• 1x Marchesa, the Black Rose
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Spark Double

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An update of the second EDH deck I ever built, Nicol Bolas is back and better than ever. A casual deck with some massively destructive spells, attain dominance via devastation or damage from Bolas himself.

Flavor

It includes every version of Nicol Bolas, and is helmed by the original for style. He's legitimately devastating if he sticks, and opponents have a hard time recovering if he wipes their hand. Nicol Bolas, the Ravager   can command if you want something faster, but if you do I don't recommend putting the original Bolas into the 99. Swap it out with a sideboard card instead.

It also includes every Bolas story spotlight card available in these colors, other than Hour of Eternity and Hour of Glory, because I already run the respective gods for those.

It also includes some pseudo-spotlight cards like The Eldest Reborn and Cruel Ultimatum, and I've been considering Crux of Fate but I'm still not sure what I'd replace.

Play

In practice, this deck is a blast to play. So far most strategies have a hard time against it, and whether or not I win or lose is ultimately left up to luck of the draw later in the game. This deck has high synergy between cards, and can achieve some pretty nasty shenanigans. For the most part though, you'll just want to sit back and generate value, while countering the things that might directly affect you. It's a pretty resilient and flexible deck, so once you have good cards on the field or in hand you can do what you want. My recommendation is waiting to make huge, devastating plays and going from there.

Rings of Brighthearth is probably the biggest powerhouse in the deck. It affects your planeswalkers, your gods, the activated abilities of lands (Myriad Landscape to search for 4 lands, for example), etc. If you have 2 extra mana it does real work, and its not limited in application like The Chain Veil or Illusionist's Bracers. It's also a relatively unassuming artifact that can't do anything by itself, so it will be ignored if you have something more obviously dangerous, like Planar Bridge or Thran Temporal Gateway (both of which can be Brighthearth'd for double the trouble).

Mastermind's Acquisition is flexible and dangerous in that flexibility. You can either search something in your deck if you don't have a combo available, OR sideboard in a missing combo piece based on what you have. It can also grab a situational card from your sideboard that might not be in the main deck, though this is unlikely. I like having the answers I need already in the deck, so the second mode of this card can fetch combo pieces like it was meant to in the story.

Considering Changes -

• Sunken Ruins --> Any land that enters untapped.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 1 Mythic Rares 35 - 2 Rares 19 - 4 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.31
Tokens	Copy Clone, Insect 1/1 UR, Ogre 3/3 R, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Arsenal, EDH