Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
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SetHOU
Collector #140
Released2017-07-14
Raritymythic
ArtistRaymond Swanland
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

MythicColour IDMV 7
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.
Loyalty 7
Card capabilities
Direct damagePlaneswalker
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
Rulings (8)
wotc14 Jul 2017
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.
wotc14 Jul 2017
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.
wotc14 Jul 2017
The cards exiled by Nicol Bolas's first and second abilities are exiled face up.
wotc14 Jul 2017
If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as emerge costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Tormenting Voice, you must pay those to cast the card.
wotc14 Jul 2017
If you don't cast the card exiled by Nicol Bolas's first ability that turn, it will remain exiled.
wotc14 Jul 2017
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.