MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #2017

Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

slc·#2017·mythic·borderless

Illus. Uta Natsume

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Nov '22

3 yr ago

Value

$4.17+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $4.32 · low $3.93

NM$4.17

LP—

MP—

HP—

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$3.85–$4.40modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $5.25low $4.14range 26.8%n 77

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #5,622 · Niche pick

Variants

Borderless$4.17

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

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $4.17. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $4.14 and $5.25 across 77 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from SLC — the lineup includes Borderless 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 #2017 of *Secret Lair Countdown*, the set that shipped alongside the November 2022 Secret Lair Countdown 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 Uta Natsume. Rarix catalogs 21 other cards credited to this artist.