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Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas MV 5

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What it does

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

+1: You draw a card. Each opponent exiles a card from their hand or a permanent they control.

−3: Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

−8: Each opponent who doesn't control a legendary creature or planeswalker loses the game.

Combos with Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Aminatou, the Fateshifter The Chain Veil Infinite
    • Exile all permanents opponents control
    • Infinite planeswalker activations
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Aminatou, the Fateshifter Oath of Teferi Infinite
    • Exile all of your opponents' permanents and hands
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Jace, Cunning Castaway The Chain Veil Infinite
    • Exile all permanents opponents control
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite copies of a specific planeswalker
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Jace, Cunning Castaway Ichormoon Gauntlet Infinite
    • Infinite planeswalker activations
    • Infinite copies of a specific planeswalker
    • Infinite proliferate
    • Infinite turns
    • Lock
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Jace, Cunning Castaway Chandra, Acolyte of Flame Infinite
    • Infinite copies of a specific planeswalker
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Jace, Cunning Castaway Oath of Teferi Infinite
    • Exile all permanents opponents control
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite copies of a specific planeswalker
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Jace, Cunning Castaway Pir, Imaginative Rascal Infinite
    • Exile all permanents opponents control
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite copies of a specific planeswalker
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion Jace, Cunning Castaway Infinite
    • Exile all permanents opponents control
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite copies of a specific planeswalker
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

8 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-01-12

    If an ability of a planeswalker exiles cards and another loyalty ability of that planeswalker references the exiled cards, those abilities are linked. If Nicol Bolas gains both abilities from the same planeswalker, the instances he has are similarly linked. Cards exiled by any other abilities Nicol Bolas has (such as his own first loyalty ability) won't be seen by those linked abilities.

  • 2024-01-12

    After you draw a card as Nicol Bolas's first loyalty ability resolves, the next opponent in turn order (or, if it's somehow an opponent's turn, that opponent) chooses a permanent they control or chooses a card in hand without revealing that card. Then each other opponent in turn order does the same, knowing the choices made before them. Finally, all of the chosen permanents and cards are exiled simultaneously.

  • 2024-01-12

    If a loyalty ability of a planeswalker references the card it's printed on by name, treat Nicol Bolas's instance of that ability as though it referenced Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God by name instead. For instance, if Ral Zarek is on the battlefield, Nicol Bolas deals the damage if you activate the second ability he gained from Ral.

  • 2024-01-12

    If any abilities trigger as you draw a card while resolving Nicol Bolas's first loyalty ability, those abilities don't resolve until after your opponents have exiled a card or permanent.

  • 2024-01-12

    Nicol Bolas doesn't gain any static or triggered abilities of other planeswalkers or any activated abilities they may have that aren't loyalty abilities.

  • 2024-01-12

    Nicol Bolas doesn't remove loyalty abilities from the other planeswalkers.

  • 2024-01-12

    While Nicol Bolas may end up with an astonishing number of loyalty abilities, you can still activate only one loyalty ability of Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God during each of your turns.

  • 2024-01-12

    In a Two-Headed Giant game, if one player on a team loses the game, the entire team loses the game, even if the other player controls a legendary creature or planeswalker.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Esika, God of the Tree 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Five-Color 1 deck

Every version of Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

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