Custom Nicol Bolas (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)

Archenemy* Control UBR (Grixis) Vorthos

Raime

Creature (12)

• 3x Augur of Bolas
• 1x Blood Tyrant
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Defiler of Souls
• 1x Frost Titan
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Lightning Reaver
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Thraximundar

Sorcery (15)

• 3x Blood Tithe
• 1x Coastal Breach
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Hour of Devastation
• 3x Innocent Blood
• 2x Pilfered Plans
• 3x Unnerve
• 1x Volcanic Vision

Instant (4)

• 4x Doom Blade

Land (24)

• 3x Crumbling Necropolis
• 4x Evolving Wilds
• 6x Island
• 4x Mountain
• 7x Swamp

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

Artifact (4)

• 4x Manalith

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Sideboard

Unknown (16)

• 1x A Reckoning Approaches *oversized*
• 1x Because I Have Willed It *oversized*
• 1x Behold my Grandeur *oversized*
• 1x Bow to My Command *oversized*
• 1x Delight in the Hunt *oversized*
• 1x Every Dream a Nightmare *oversized*
• 1x For Each of You, a Gift *oversized*
• 1x Know Evil *oversized*
• 1x Make Yourself Useful *oversized*
• 1x My Forces Are Innumerable *oversized*
• 1x No One Will Hear Your Cries *oversized*
• 1x Pay Tribute to Me *oversized*
• 1x The Mighty Will Fall *oversized*
• 1x There Is No Refuge *oversized*
• 1x This World Belongs to Me *oversized*
• 1x What's Yours Is Now Mine *oversized*

Specialty (4)

• 1x Choose Your Demise *oversized*
• 1x My Laughter Echoes *oversized*
• 1x Power Without Equal *oversized*
• 1x When Will You Learn? *oversized*

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Archenemy: Nicol Bolas was a product released in June 16, 2017 with the, at the time, intentions of reviving the Archenemy format and to be the first step of a line of products that would be something along the lines of "MTG as a boardgame". In my humble opinion, this product was a failure being a boardgame since it lacks a lot of objects (dice for the gatewatch players, +1/+1 counters...) for a "Playable out of the box" experience and it's horrible in terms of balance and lore.

With these problems in mind, i've decided to customize each deck for a more lore-friendly and balanced experience. Keep in mind that i've restricted my options to any card up to Hour of Devastation, which is when the battle that this product showcases happens. So if you're wondering why i'm not using a certain card of an expansion that showed up after Hour of Devastaion, you just got the answer.

Nicol Bolas' deck was simple to modify. By default it was a cruel controlish deck so i just had to make it a midrange deck and add some restrictions in its deck building in order to make things more balanced. The restrictions are the really strong cards being one ofs, only 4 instants and they are all single-target removal and most of the deck's cards require double mana of the same color or they are multicolored. I also don't allow the Archenemy to draw from the scheme deck on the first two turns so the Gatewatch can prepare themselves for a bit instead of having some turn 1 bullshit show up.

Nicky B's deck isn't a shit deck to pilot though. You can wear the dragon's horns proudly as you fight the Gatewatch with your Titans, abhorrent creatures, spells that ruin everyone's day and the Scheme Deck, which adds even more cruelty with its bullshit effects.

Check out the other 3 decks with the links below.

Gideon's Deck
Nissa's Deck
Chandra's Deck

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Archenemy legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 7 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 16 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	4.00
Tokens	Copy Clone, Horror 3/3 B, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Customized Archenemy: Nicol Bolas, Archenemy Decks