Seek Bolas's Counsel
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Cardmarket€0.32
ManaPool$0.22
TCGplayer$0.32
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Card Kingdom$0.08
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This printing
SetCMB2
Collector #98
Released2021-08-20
Rarityrare
ArtistMatt Warren
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Seek Bolas's Counsel

RareColour IDMV 3
Sorcery
Choose one at random —
• You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, pay . If you don't, you lose the game."
• Each player discards their hand.
• Planeswalk to Pools of Becoming. (Once there, you can roll the planar die only if you're playing Planechase.)
• For each opponent, exile cards from the top of their library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast those cards without paying their mana costs.
• Destroy all creatures and non-Bolas planeswalkers.
• You get an emblem with "You can cast nonland cards from your sideboard."
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
1 other English printingEarliest 2019-11-07Newest 2019-11-07Cheapest priced $0.85 in CMB1
Rulings (13)
wotc12 Nov 2019
You must cast any of the exiled cards you wish to cast while Seek Bolas’s Counsel is resolving. You can’t cast them later in the turn.
wotc12 Nov 2019
Each player controls the current plane card during their turn.
wotc12 Nov 2019
You planeswalk to Pools of Becoming even if you’re not playing a Planechase game. This planeswalk isn’t represented by a plane card. If you are playing a Planechase game, you planeswalk away from the current plane but you don’t reveal the top card of any planar deck.
wotc12 Nov 2019
You can’t choose to roll a planar die (which would allow you to leave the Pools of Becoming or trigger its last ability) unless you’re playing a Planechase game.
wotc12 Nov 2019
One card (Fractured Powerstone) allows you to roll the planar die even if you’re not playing a Planechase game as long as you’ve already planeswalked to a plane card. If you roll the Planeswalker symbol outside of a Planechase game, you’ll planeswalk away from Pools of Becoming, but you won’t planeswalk to a new plane. You’re totally lost, which tends to work out well.
wotc12 Nov 2019
Pools of Becoming is a plane card that reads “At the beginning of your end step, put the cards in your hand on the bottom of your library in any order, then draw that many cards” and “Whenever you roll CHAOS, reveal the top three cards of your planar deck. Each of the revealed cards' CHAOS abilities triggers. Then put the revealed cards on the bottom of your planar deck in any order.” The second ability can’t trigger unless you roll a planar die.