This is my Nicol Bolas List. There are many like it but this is one is mine!
I think this deck is lots of fun to play, everyone drawing lots of cards is always more exciting than one a turn right? I like stealing other peoples stuff, i think the deck reflects this. I also like killing everyone else at once, and it's great that in EDH the Megrim strategy can work! Megrim owners rejoice!
There are lots of cards that i would like to add in but I'm trying to walk the difficult line of having Bolas as my general and not appearing to be a huge threat all the time. A card i'd love to include is Wheel Of Fortune but I'm having trouble getting a hold of one.
Scroll Rack, Windfall and Mind Games are probably my favourite cards in the deck, the rack helps to set up wacky draws for the big everyone draws spells, and Mind Games is just unfair once you have lots of mana at your disposal. Windfall has won me a lot of games when it shouldn't have.
I'd like some more Megrim effects, can you get Megrim on a critter? I haven't decked myself with this yet, but i have come very close, any recommendations? I used to run the Tolarian academy that recycled artifacts but had to drop that because it and Mindslaver was an unpopular play that made me the big target for a few weeks... so an alternative that prevents decking.
1. Ancestral recall has the banhammer (you may have meant Ancestral Visions)
2. Nicol Bolas Planeswalker needs to be in there instead of chandra.
3. Control Magic needs to be taken out for Take Possession because it has split second.
4. Put Academy Ruins in the deck, it helps recur your massive removal
5. Work Nevinyrral's Disk in there somewhere.
6. Find some way to give Nicol Bolas haste. i.e. Fervor, or Lightning Greaves or something of the like. He is also my general and I have noticed that he doesn't live long enough to actually nail an opponent once he hit the field.
7. Sedris The Traitor King. Not only does he give all your dudes unearth, but he allows you to have Nicol Bolas go to the graveyard and thus gain haste before you remove him back to the command zone. It gives you an extra swing before actually having to pay his extra mana cost.
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-Gutted that Ancestral is banned, but I should have checked that. Visions will probably go in instead but it seems like it may be slow? I haven't seen anyone play it in EDH around these parts.
-I have a copy of Sedris which I'm going to put in for my next game, I never thought about eeking out the extra Bolas swing you mentioned, hopefully my table won't have thought of that either!
-I actually took the Academy Ruins out because it was too powerful with the Mindslaver. I think I'll put it back in and take out the turn stealer for Nevs disk, seems like a good swap.
- Agreed on Take Possesion, I like that way better!
-Sadly i don't have a copy of the planeswalker... i have had the chance to confiscate him a few times in big games though.
- I do feel guilty about not giving the big man haste, I'll have a look through my cards and see what i can find.
Thanks for the feedback, it's hard to make cuts without someone pointing these things out. I'm looking forward to some Unearthed swings!
Do you know of any bugs with a megrim strapped to them?
This is my Nicol Bolas List. There are many like it but this is one is mine!
I think this deck is lots of fun to play, everyone drawing lots of cards is always more exciting than one a turn right? I like stealing other peoples stuff, i think the deck reflects this. I also like killing everyone else at once, and it's great that in EDH the Megrim strategy can work! Megrim owners rejoice!
There are lots of cards that i would like to add in but I'm trying to walk the difficult line of having Bolas as my general and not appearing to be a huge threat all the time. A card i'd love to include is Wheel Of Fortune but I'm having trouble getting a hold of one.
Scroll Rack, Windfall and Mind Games are probably my favourite cards in the deck, the rack helps to set up wacky draws for the big everyone draws spells, and Mind Games is just unfair once you have lots of mana at your disposal. Windfall has won me a lot of games when it shouldn't have.
I'd like some more Megrim effects, can you get Megrim on a critter? I haven't decked myself with this yet, but i have come very close, any recommendations? I used to run the Tolarian academy that recycled artifacts but had to drop that because it and Mindslaver was an unpopular play that made me the big target for a few weeks... so an alternative that prevents decking.
Hope you like the list
This deck seems too nice to be honest. In my play group, we play with everything even banned cards are usable. You seem to be light on Planeswalker, they are the best investment in Edh, but that's a personal opinion. Jace 2.0, Liliana, Chandra Ablaze w/Squee ( style points), and Nicol Bolas should in every Grixis control edh.
Possibly, make space for Obliterate, and Jokulhaups if you can. and It's a good test of a deck's resiliency.
1 Nicol Bolas
Creatures (25)
1 Æthersnipe
1 Bogardan Hellkite
1 Clone
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Dimir Guildmage
1 Drift of Phantasms
1 Gatekeeper of Malakir
1 Greater Gargadon
1 Ingot Chewer
1 Izzet Chronarch
1 Jaya Ballard
1 Leaden Myr
1 Magus of the Jar
1 Mirri the Cursed
1 Myojin of Night's Reach
1 Nezumi Graverobber
1 Nightscape Familiar
1 Nucklavee
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
1 Riftwing Cloudskate
1 Scourge of Kher Ridges
1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
1 Shapesharer
1 Sibilant Spirit
1 Silver Myr
Artifacts (10)
1 Dimir Signet
1 Izzet Signet
1 Loxdon Warhammer
1 Memory Jar
1 Mind Stone
1 Mindslaver
1 Oblivion Stone
1 Rakdos Signet
1 Scroll Rack
1 Tatsumasa, the Dragon's Fang
1 Binding Grasp
1 Confiscate
1 Control Magic
1 Megrim
1 Planar Void
1 Underworld Dreams
Instants (13)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Annul
1 Clutch of the Undercity
1 Counterspell
1 Disperse
1 Echoing Truth
1 Evacuation
1 Faerie Trickery
1 Force of Will
1 Grixis Charm
1 Mind Games
1 Opportunity
1 Traumatic Visions
Planeswalkers (2)
1 Chandra Nalaar
1 Jace Beleren
Sorceries (8)
1 Banefire
1 Damnation
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Legerdemain
1 Rite of Replication
1 River's Grasp
1 Wheel of Fate
1 Windfall
Land (35)
1 Akoum Refuge
1 Cinder Marsh
1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Dimir Aqueduct
1 Forgotten Cave
1 Frost Marsh
1 Grixis Panorama
1 Izzet Boilerworks
1 Kher Keep
1 Polluted Mire
1 Quicksand
1 Rakdos Carnarium
1 Remote Isle
1 Rootwater Depths
1 Salt Marsh
1 Secluded Glen
1 Soaring Seacliff
1 Tolaria West
1 Underground River
1 Urza's Factory
1 Vivid Creek
1 Vivid Marsh
3 Island
7 Mountain
3 Island
This is my Nicol Bolas List. There are many like it but this is one is mine!
I think this deck is lots of fun to play, everyone drawing lots of cards is always more exciting than one a turn right? I like stealing other peoples stuff, i think the deck reflects this. I also like killing everyone else at once, and it's great that in EDH the Megrim strategy can work! Megrim owners rejoice!
There are lots of cards that i would like to add in but I'm trying to walk the difficult line of having Bolas as my general and not appearing to be a huge threat all the time. A card i'd love to include is Wheel Of Fortune but I'm having trouble getting a hold of one.
Scroll Rack, Windfall and Mind Games are probably my favourite cards in the deck, the rack helps to set up wacky draws for the big everyone draws spells, and Mind Games is just unfair once you have lots of mana at your disposal. Windfall has won me a lot of games when it shouldn't have.
I'd like some more Megrim effects, can you get Megrim on a critter? I haven't decked myself with this yet, but i have come very close, any recommendations? I used to run the Tolarian academy that recycled artifacts but had to drop that because it and Mindslaver was an unpopular play that made me the big target for a few weeks... so an alternative that prevents decking.
Hope you like the list
1. Ancestral recall has the banhammer (you may have meant Ancestral Visions)
2. Nicol Bolas Planeswalker needs to be in there instead of chandra.
3. Control Magic needs to be taken out for Take Possession because it has split second.
4. Put Academy Ruins in the deck, it helps recur your massive removal
5. Work Nevinyrral's Disk in there somewhere.
6. Find some way to give Nicol Bolas haste. i.e. Fervor, or Lightning Greaves or something of the like. He is also my general and I have noticed that he doesn't live long enough to actually nail an opponent once he hit the field.
7. Sedris The Traitor King. Not only does he give all your dudes unearth, but he allows you to have Nicol Bolas go to the graveyard and thus gain haste before you remove him back to the command zone. It gives you an extra swing before actually having to pay his extra mana cost.
Kickass signature Courtesy of the boys at Heroes of the Plane studios
-I have a copy of Sedris which I'm going to put in for my next game, I never thought about eeking out the extra Bolas swing you mentioned, hopefully my table won't have thought of that either!
-I actually took the Academy Ruins out because it was too powerful with the Mindslaver. I think I'll put it back in and take out the turn stealer for Nevs disk, seems like a good swap.
- Agreed on Take Possesion, I like that way better!
-Sadly i don't have a copy of the planeswalker... i have had the chance to confiscate him a few times in big games though.
- I do feel guilty about not giving the big man haste, I'll have a look through my cards and see what i can find.
Thanks for the feedback, it's hard to make cuts without someone pointing these things out. I'm looking forward to some Unearthed swings!
Do you know of any bugs with a megrim strapped to them?
Decree of Pain and Void are also great.
This deck seems too nice to be honest. In my play group, we play with everything even banned cards are usable. You seem to be light on Planeswalker, they are the best investment in Edh, but that's a personal opinion. Jace 2.0, Liliana, Chandra Ablaze w/Squee ( style points), and Nicol Bolas should in every Grixis control edh.
Possibly, make space for Obliterate, and Jokulhaups if you can. and It's a good test of a deck's resiliency.
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BUW Sharuum Midrange Control BUW
I'm about to build this, but I think I'm going to take it in a more hand control direction with cards like Cabal Conditioning and Words of Waste, which works awesomely with spells like Temple Bell and Font of Mythos.