Nicol Bolas the Ravager of Hands

Commander / EDH Control Discard Goodstuff UBR (Grixis)

Bohendal

Land (35)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 2x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Angrath, the Flame-Chained
• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

Instant (15)

• 1x Aetherspouts
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Cryptic Command *list*
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mission Briefing
• 1x Remand
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Frozen Aether
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Monastery Siege
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x The Eldest Reborn
• 1x Waste Not
• 1x Words of Waste

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Mind Twist
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Vandalblast

Commander (1)

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Artifact (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thought Vessel

Creature (11)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x The Locust God
• 1x The Scarab God

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Sideboard

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

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Maybeboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Snapcaster Mage

Instant (6)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Wheel and Deal

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage
• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Baral's Expertise
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Windfall

Land (5)

• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Tainted Peak

Artifact (6)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Library of Leng

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Tainted AEther

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This is my Bolas the ravager deck, whose goal is to control the game, mostly by reducing the amount of resources available to my opponents, but still not by making them unable to play. This is a casual/focused deck that should achieve such control without being as oppressive as full on stax. This being said, I'm not against the inclusion of some stax effect individually, but mostly in order to have some self protection, not so much to lock the board. Any ways to lock the hands has room here, however. The rest is pretty much grixis good stuff and a lot of artifact ramp, with Torment of Hailfire as the primary finisher/win con.

Now, some cards here are still remnants of when the deck was still helmed by the original Nicol Bolas and I do need help in replacing any cards with others. I'm still fairly new to the game so I really don't know that many cards that follow the gameplan this deck has, so any and all suggestions are welcome.

In that optic, the deck is meant to scale in multiplayer, so I put a lot of value on "global effects" that affect all opponents or my defense against many opponents like Propaganda, and so I am open to replace at least some of my counterspells which put me at card disadvantage, the oposite of what the deck is supposed to do.

Any cards in maybeboard are suggestions not yet in the deck that I most likely/definitely want to include, but don't know what to replace to slot them in. Spoilers: I love enchantments if it wasn't clear enough already with the intent of the deck.

I welcome and thank any comments/suggestions.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 1 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.18
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Insect 1/1 UR, Zombie 2/2 B