Nicol Bolas, There's Always a Choice

Commander / EDH

handmaderobot

Land (38)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Arena
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 7x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (9)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Coercive Portal
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Mirari
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (20)

• 1x Barrin's Spite
• 1x Bite of the Black Rose
• 1x Breaking Point
• 1x Capital Punishment
• 1x Choice of Damnations
• 1x Covenant of Minds
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Intimations
• 1x Do or Die
• 1x ExpropriateGC
• 1x Manifold Insights
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Mystic Retrieval
• 1x Plea for Power
• 1x Spelltwine
• 1x Struggle for Sanity
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Tyrant's Choice
• 1x Whims of the Fates

Instant (13)

• 1x Blazing Salvo
• 1x Epiphany at the Drownyard
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fork
• 1x Fortune's Favor
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Split Decision
• 1x Steam Augury
• 1x Truth or Tale
• 1x Volcanic Offering

Commander (1)

Creature (13)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Callous Oppressor
• 1x Charmbreaker Devils
• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Fatespinner
• 1x Magus of the Abyss
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Mogg Assassin
• 1x Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 1x Oracle of Bones
• 1x Sin Prodder
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Metallurgic Summonings
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Psychic Battle
• 1x Zur's Weirding

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace, Architect of Thought
• 1x Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

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It's new deck time, and today I'm building a colour combination I've never tried before: Grixis! I've wanted to build Grixis for awhile now, but I could never figure out what I wanted to do with it. I thought about Jeleva for quite awhile but found her a bit too narrow. Then, thanks to the podcast I do (Snow-Covered Lands podcast, shameless plug!) I ended up with an excuse to build one, and it seems suuuuuper fun!

This is my Nicol Bolas 'Choice' deck. The whole concept behind the deck is that I always want to force my opponents to make a choice. It runs cards like Fact or Fiction (and pretty much every permeation of it), Blazing Salvo, Do or Die, Magus of the Abyss, Volcanic Offering, etc. I don't quite know how the deck wins, though I guess punching people with Nicol Bolas a couple times could work, but I think it would be a really good time to play. You're always going to be interacting with the people playing, even if you're not interacting with the board.

There are a lot of choice cards I'm not playing, because unfortunately a lot of them are not great for EDH (Browbeat, and the like) but if I missed something really cool or interesting please let me know!

Anyway, enjoy!

(PS This is not the exact list I used as a decklist for the podcast episode, as that was made with specific requirements, but it's pretty close.)

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.81
Tokens	Construct X/X C, Copy Clone