Nicol Bolas, The Ravager

Commander / EDH* Control Infinite Combo Reanimator UBR (Grixis)

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Land (37)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 6x Island
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Artifact (8)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Creature (21)

• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Great Whale
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Murderous Redcap
• 1x Nicol Bolas
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Ancestral Vision
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Commander (1)

 ^Flip

Instant (11)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Reins of Power

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Pendrell Mists
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Treachery

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Just a lot of stuff I like, mixed with control and graveyard stuff. The deck oddly seems to pull of fun interactions and performs pretty strongly in my play group most of the time. However I feel the deck is a bit stagnant as of late, and I usually hear groans when I pull it out at game night. Looking for suggestions to spice it up, or do something a bit different with it.

The original main goal of the deck was to dump stuff like the O.G. Bolas in my graveyard and be able to cheat him in play and smack people with big creatures or steal their big creatures and use them against them. Eventually it turned into this control/nostalgia/random good stuff monstrosity due to adapting to other players and needing to stop combos etc... Like I said, generally it is always a threat at the table, and for having it's hand in so many baskets it performs really well in our weekly commander games. Usually too well, to the point of the groans and me not wanting to pull it out the box anymore despite it being one of my first commander decks and generally one I used to consider my favorite. I'd like to play it again, but feel I need to change it around or do something different with it...suggestions would be much appreciated.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.16