Introduction

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This is my Bolas deck built around the theft/control theme. The goal is to control and manipulate my opponents' toys and beat them at their own game. The theme is inspired by his planeswalker flip side Nicol Bolas, the Arisen -4 ability: "Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control". This deck was built with multiplayer inevitability in mind and gets more and more obnoxious the longer the game goes.

Deck Summary

The main plan of the deck is to gain insurmountable advantage by using various theft and control effects to mess with my opponent's game plan. There are several ways to end the game including to assembling a hand lock with Notion Thief / Narset, Parter of Veils + Windfall / Echo of Eons or infinite turns with God-Eternal Kefnet + Time Warp + Scroll Rack / Jace, the Mind Sculptor .

Why Bolas?

  • He is an Elder Dragon and the strongest one at that!
  • He is a flip walker which means I have the flexibility of killing via commander damage or his planeswalker ultimate.
  • You get to play some sweet powerful thematic finishers like Torment of Hailfire .
  • He is the the king of control and manipulation.

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The First Few Turns

The goal for the first few turns is to ramp as hard as possible. I run over 8 mana rocks in order to get at least 5 to 7 mana by turn 4. This will enable me to hyper ramp into the mid game while the table is still busy setting up their board.

Entering the Mid Game

By now we should have ramped enough to be able to play most of our spells. If I have Windfall / Echo of Eons in hand, tutoring for Notion Thief / Narset, Parter of Veils is almost always the best line to try to set up the hand lock. If I have a more creature disruption heavy hand, deploying bolas and quickly flipping him can gain us a huge advantage after using our boardwipe. If we have any theft effect in hand, using them judiciously on powerful permanents should be priority.

It is Inevitable

This deck is built to play a game of any length thanks to the card Echo of Eons + Mystic Retrieval . This card allows me to continuously cycle through my spells and recast them at a higher frequency the longer the game goes. God-Eternal Kefnet + Scroll Rack / Jace, the Mind Sculptor lets me rebuy my spells at a higher frequency to further disrupt my opponents and control the board.

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Notable Synergies

It's Time to End Their Suffering

If our opponents haven't conceded by this point, we do have some ways to close out the game and end their suffering:

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+1 or you'll faced the wrath of Bolas

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Suggestions

Updates Add

This is a major overhaul update with the WAR set:

  • I've decided to remove the entire bounce/discard theme after numerous games because it is just too slow and unreliable.

  • The new theme for the deck will be theft/control with various thematic characters like Liliana making an appearance.

  • With the printing of God-Eternal Kefnet, a new and more efficient win condition can be used to replace my previous ones that are clunky in nature. God-Eternal Kefnet + Scroll Rack + Time Warp is a great late game finisher for this deck.

  • Liliana, Dreadhorde General, Narset, Parter of Veils, Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God, and Ashiok, Dream Render are new planeswalker toys that compliment this deck's theft/control theme really well.

  • The primer is incomplete for now due to the revamp and will be updated and finished over the next few weeks.

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This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.

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18 - 0 Mythic Rares

44 - 0 Rares

20 - 0 Uncommons

7 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.21
Tokens Emblem Dack Fayden
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