Schemes of the Omnipotent

Commander / EDH Control Cruel Control Discard UBR (Grixis)

Darkshadow327

Land (37)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Crypt of the Eternals
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 8x Island
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave

Copy/Steal (5)

• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Dragonlord Silumgar
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Quicksilver Gargantuan

Support (5)

• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Waste Not

Control (21)

• 1x Counterflux
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Last Word
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
• 1x Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
• 1x Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Prince of Thralls
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Soul Manipulation
• 1x Trickbind

Discard (8)

• 1x Captive Audience
• 1x Dreamstealer
• 1x Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  ^Flip
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Urgoros, the Empty One
• 1x Windfall

Card Draw (1)

• 1x Rhystic Study

Protection (1)

• 1x Lightning Greaves

Commander (1)

Removal (11)

• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Intimations
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Hour of Devastation
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Vona's Hunger
• 1x Vraska's Contempt

Recursion (6)

• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Thrilling Encore

Ramp (4)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

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Discard (7)

• 1x Angrath, the Flame-Chained
• 1x Dinrova Horror
• 1x Doomsday Specter
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Wit's End

Removal (3)

• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Plague Wind

Ramp (1)

• 1x Mana Crypt

Support (6)

• 1x Glasses of Urza
• 1x Hedonist's Trove
• 1x Leyline of Singularity
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Reset
• 1x Thornbite Staff

Other (2)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Silumgar's Scorn

Card Draw (1)

• 1x Geth's Grimoire

Copy/Steal (5)

• 1x Breaking / Entering
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Clone
• 1x Gigantoplasm
• 1x Kheru Mind-Eater

Control (3)

• 1x Perplex
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Worst Fears

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Compared to the grand schemes of the omnipotent, Nicol Bolas, your cute little plans are pitiful. Nicol Bolas is know by many names: Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh, Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver, Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  , and many others. Nicol Bolas will turn your plans against your; or even worse, never let your plans plans happen in the first place.

This is my take on a Nicol Bolas EDH deck. The game plan is to use the discard to our advantage through Bloodchief Ascension and Liliana's Caress to punish them for discarding. There is also some graveyard cards like Geth, Lord of the Vault, The Scarab God, and Rise of the Dark Realms to take resources from opponents graveyards. There is also control elements to ensure that out plans go through, and our opponents don't.

Hope you like the deck! Comments, suggestions, and upvotes are encouraged.

Top Ranked	Achieved #59 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.40
Tokens	City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Dreamstealer 4/4 B, Zombie 2/2 B