MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #247

Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

DIGITAL ONLY

akr·#247·mythic·nonfoil

Illus. Raymond Swanland

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Aug '20

6 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #5,622 · Niche pick

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas

+2: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost. +1: Each opponent exiles two cards from their hand. −4: Nicol Bolas deals 7 damage to target opponent, creature an opponent controls, or planeswalker an opponent controls. −12: Exile each nonland permanent your opponents control.

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Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 8

2017-07-14wotc

If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

2017-07-14wotc

In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spell or permanent cards you control from Nicol Bolas's first ability are exiled.

2017-07-14wotc

Casting the card exiled with Nicol Bolas's first ability follows the normal timing rules for casting that card. For example, if the card is a creature card, you can cast that card only during your main phase while the stack is empty.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from AKR — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #247 of *Amonkhet Remastered*, the set that shipped alongside the August 2020 Amonkhet Remastered release.

Card type: Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas, color identity black/red/blue, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {4}{U}{B}{R} (7 converted).

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #5,622 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Raymond Swanland. Rarix catalogs 886 other cards credited to this artist.