A Nightmare to Remember (Nicol Bolas, the Ravager)

Commander / EDH Burn Casual Control Discard Multiplayer UBR (Grixis)

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Land (36)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 1x Island
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 4x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Xander's Lounge

Removal (11)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
• 1x Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Noetic Scales
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Discard (19)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Arterial Flow
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Elderfang Disciple
• 1x Fell Specter
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1x Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Waste Not

Ramp (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Burn (7)

• 1x Court of Ambition
• 1x Fell Specter
• 1x Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x The Scarab God

Recursion (4)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x The Scarab God

Commander (1)

 ^Flip

Draw (19)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Court of Ambition
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1x Tinybones, Trinket Thief

Wipe (8)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vandalblast

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Other (21)

• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Blazing Specter
• 1x Crosis's Catacombs
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Dire Undercurrents
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Dreamstealer
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Guul Draz Specter
• 1x Hypnotic Specter
• 1x Kheru Mind-Eater
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nicol Bolas
• 1x Paupers' Cage
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Sedraxis Specter
• 1x Skullcage
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Wheel of Torture

Discard (12)

• 1x Cabal Conditioning
• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Dark Intimations
• 1x Disinformation Campaign
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Mind Twist
• 1x Nezumi Shortfang  ^Flip
• 1x Pain Magnification
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Tasigur's Cruelty
• 1x Words of Waste

Burn (3)

• 1x Megrim
• 1x Nezumi Shortfang  ^Flip
• 1x Storm World

Draw (3)

• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Syphon Mind

Removal (3)

• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Dark Intimations

Recursion (2)

• 1x Cruel Ultimatum
• 1x Dark Intimations

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Formerly the top-rated Crosis the Purger deck with a heavy focus on discard and control!

A quick rundown of the deck..

If we look towards the "custom categories" sorting of the deck, we'll see that the deck operates in a four-step process:

1. Set yourself up for greatness.

Best way I've found to start is play some low-cost spells like Quest for the Nihil Stone or Waste Not to make our discard abilities more efficient

2. Ramp and start setting up pawns.

This would include rocks and low-cost creatures, specters are really nice here

3. Start taking control.

When you control your opponent's hands you control the game, drawing will help with keeping the control consistent

4. Reap the rewards.

By now, you should be taking care of business and probably causing some hate so it's good to start prioritizing threats. Start sending big dudes to the biggest threat by throwing their own graveyards at them and keeping everybody else low on ammo. In a world where only the luckiest of topdecks can save them.

Suggestions, comments and +1's are always appreciated!

Top Ranked	Achieved #37 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #19 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Burn 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Casual 4 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.25
Tokens	Copy Clone, Gold, The Monarch, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	samples, Commanders, Interested, Decks I Need to Make, Grixis, Has interesting cards, Ideas, sick decks, Bruuuuh, commander