Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas

Mana cost: {U}{B}{B}{B}{R}

How we read this card

Nicol Bolas has all loyalty abilities of all other planeswalkers on the battlefield.

static — grants a keyword

You draw a card. Each opponent exiles a card from their hand or a permanent they control.

activated +1 — draws you 1 card

activated +1 —

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

activated −3 —

Each opponent who doesn't control a legendary creature or planeswalker loses the game.

activated −8 —

Causes: draw a card, exile a permanent, a creature dies, a planeswalker is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, a player loses the game.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a Bolas planeswalker is cast — 4 cards in the game can cause this (Nicol Bolas is one).

When Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God is cast:

  1. Dark Intimations — exiles a card from a graveyard
  2. Wasp of the Bitter End — sacrifices itself

a player loses the game — 41 cards in the game can cause this (Nicol Bolas is one).

When a permanent makes a player lose the game thanks to Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God:

  1. Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound — puts 13 +1/+1 counters on itself
  2. Sengir, the Dark Baron — gains you that player's life total as the turn began life
  3. Blood Tyrant — puts 5 +1/+1 counters on itself
  4. Curse of Vengeance — gains you X life
  5. Share the Spoils — exiles a card from a library

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker in a graveyard — 232 cards in the game can cause this (Nicol Bolas is one).

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer — can bring back
  2. The Eldest Reborn — can bring back
  3. Yawgmoth's Vile Offering — can bring back
  4. Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen — can bring back
  5. Breach the Multiverse — can bring back
  6. Command the Dreadhorde — can bring back
  7. Narset, Enlightened Exile — can bring back
  8. Fallaji Archaeologist — can bring back
  9. Chandra, Chill of Compliance — can bring back

66 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker it grants abilities to — 312 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Ichormoon Gauntlet — Ichormoon Gauntlet gives Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God an extra ability
  2. Way of the Cryomancer — Way of the Cryomancer gives Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God an extra ability
  3. Way of the Deathbringer — Way of the Deathbringer gives Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God an extra ability
  4. Way of the Pyromancer — Way of the Pyromancer gives Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God an extra ability
  5. Way of the Warlord — Way of the Warlord gives Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God an extra ability

307 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker is cast — 361 cards in the game can cause this (Nicol Bolas is one).

When Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God is cast:

  1. The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Jaya's Phoenix — returns itself from the graveyard
  3. Interplanar Beacon — gains you 1 life
  4. Defiler of Instinct — deals 1 damage
  5. Defiler of Flesh — gives +1/+1
  6. Defiler of Dreams — draws you 1 card
  7. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  8. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  9. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

239 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker enters the battlefield — 366 cards in the game can cause this (Nicol Bolas is one).

When Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God enters:

  1. Builder's Talent — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Brainstealer Dragon — makes a player lose life equal to its mana value
  3. Cloudstone Curio — triggers

2 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Nicol Bolas is one).

  1. The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Nicol Bolas is one).

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring back
  2. The Deck of Many Things — can bring back
  3. Afterlife from the Loam — can bring back
  4. Crypt Champion — can bring back
  5. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — can bring back
  6. Push // Pull — can bring back
  7. Vivien on the Hunt — can bring back
  8. Virtus's Maneuver — can bring back
  9. Dredger's Insight — can bring back
  10. Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest — can bring back

799 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Nicol Bolas is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God:

  1. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  2. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  3. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token
  4. Shelob, Dread Weaver — hits a graveyard
  5. Ghoulish Procession — makes a token
  6. Ogre Slumlord — makes a token
  7. Minotaur, Roxxon CEO — makes a token
  8. Harvester of Souls — draws you 1 card
  9. Magus of the Bridge — exiles itself
  10. Koh, the Face Stealer — exiles it

60 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Nicol Bolas is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God:

  1. Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity — brings a card back
  2. Avatar Destiny — mills a card
  3. Blood Spatter Analysis — mills a card

457 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Nicol Bolas is one).

  1. Toothy, Imaginary Friend — When Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God makes a player draw a card, Toothy, Imaginary Friend puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

66 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.