Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. 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
- 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
- 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
- Jace, Cunning Castaway Ichormoon Gauntlet Infinite
- Infinite planeswalker activations
- Infinite copies of a specific planeswalker
- Infinite proliferate
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Jace, Cunning Castaway Chandra, Acolyte of Flame Infinite
- Infinite copies of a specific planeswalker
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tam, the Possibility | 2 | 0 | — |
| Esika, God of the Tree | 1 | 0 | — |
| Sisay, Weatherlight Captain | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Five-Color 4 decks
Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God price history
The Ravnica Remastered #205 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $34.77 | $38.48 |
| Nov 10, 2026 | $34.77 | $39.39 |
| Nov 9, 2026 | $34.85 | $39.12 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | $34.85 | $38.85 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | $34.89 | $38.85 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | $34.75 | $38.85 |
| Nov 4, 2026 | $34.28 | $38.85 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | $34.30 | $38.21 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $34.30 | $38.15 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | $34.11 | $37.08 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | $34.10 | $37.08 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | $34.04 | $37.08 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $34.08 | $36.55 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $34.08 | $37.66 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $34.07 | $37.66 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $33.69 | $37.26 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $33.40 | $36.60 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $33.10 | $35.37 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $33.88 | $34.54 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $33.70 | $35.09 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $34.64 | $33.48 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $34.42 | $33.48 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $33.61 | $31.04 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $33.29 | $28.97 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $32.83 | $25.89 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $32.94 | $23.25 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $31.99 | $22.15 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $31.96 | $21.56 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $28.74 | $18.07 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $27.96 | $18.07 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $24.79 | $15.83 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $25.06 | $15.82 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $21.37 | $14.51 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $17.53 | $15.03 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $16.53 | $13.32 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $14.25 | $13.32 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $11.10 | $11.96 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $8.86 | $11.96 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $6.86 | $10.37 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $6.01 | $9.29 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $5.33 | $5.61 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
10 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $34.77
- Foil
- $38.48
Borderless
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $40.06
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $30.95
Borderless
San Diego Comic-Con 2019
- Normal
- $83.05
- Normal
- $31.40
- Foil
- $14.74
- Normal
- $13.87
- Foil
- $41.00
Promo
War of the Spark Promos
- Normal
- $16.41
- Foil
- $13.51
Promo
War of the Spark Promos
- Foil
- $17.73
Promo
War of the Spark Promos
- Foil
- —
Borderless
Mythic Edition
- Foil
- $98.03
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
