Nicol Bolas, Plainswalker is currently rated above Jace, The Mind Sculptor... i lol-ed.
anyway. A case of 'if you can get it out you win' vs Mana cost. With Nicol Bolas. Playing=Winning. With Jace, Your put well on the way. And for half the mana.
All in all. 5/5 just for the fact he is mother duckin' Nicol Bolas
Posted By:
Danveldo
(11/12/2010 4:20:00 AM)
I pull off that mana cost all the time in my deck, where I have stuff like Blood Tyrant and Thraximundar.
I just wish I didn't have such a hard time getting this card :P
edit: I just got the card online :-)
Come to think of it, Bolas is a bit better than Ajani Vengeant in that with his +3 ability, you can kill the opponent's lands one by one, then, if and when you unleash the ultimate, they will be somewhat hard pressed to decide which 7 permanents they will sacrifice, b/c no matter if they sacrifice more creatures and/or other permanents than land permanents, they will already be low on lands due to your bit of destruction you did to their mana pool. then you just keep killing their lands and repeat, it's quite crippling to any deck constructed with cards from the Alara block in general.
The only diff btw Bolas and Ajani Vengeant as far as land destruction is that pulling of Ajani's ultimate will ... (see all)
Posted By:
The_Somnambulist
(6/3/2009 9:53:12 PM)
Just epic win
Posted By:
PainfulTears
(1/26/2010 11:52:00 AM)
Alright, let me put it this way.
This is Nicol Bolas' power level after tens of thousands of years.
He even admits he's weak, and so is trying to absorb the energy of the Conflux.
Now, imagine him after getting back his full strength.
Still think this is overpowered?
Posted By:
Xilinoc
(8/29/2011 3:43:05 AM)
Did you know that once you play the planeswalker, then you put their loyalty counters on them? So if you play... say... doubling season a turn before... He comes into play with 10 counters. And you can just jump straight to his ultimate. And considering G has the best cards for manafixing, it should be no problem to get to his color cost.
Have a nice day.
Posted By:
Gilder_Bairn
(5/2/2010 12:57:28 AM)
Opened up a Conflux booster and got a foil of this... Best card I have in my opinion. Used it on a friend and used the ultimate when he had exactly seven permanents out. Sigh...so much fun...Yes, that is what describes this card, in my opinion, fun...yet utterly broken, just like Emrakul, the Aeons Torn...and Black Lotus...and Storm Crow.
Posted By:
UndecidedLetter
(7/26/2010 10:52:06 PM)
you can make it work, but it is difficult, 8 mana is a big ouch but considering, it is appropriate for the card
try and work on a combo to increase the loyalty counters quickly, for example, gilder bairn: destroy something on Nicol's first turn out, then second turn, find a way to tap gilder bairn and find 2U to untap it and double the 8 counters on Nicol, he now has 16 and can unleash his master ability with 7 counters left, but why stop there, what was good once is good again right? whatever you used to tap gilder bairn before, use again, then another 2U and Nicol is at 32, 3 straight turns to activate Nicol's master ability, even with some damage and gilder bairn being knocked out (your opponent is a fool if he lets this combo continue beyond 1 turn)
Posted By:
Dingo777
(5/8/2009 4:03:50 PM)
I very strongly disagree with people that rate this card poorly. Granted there are very few decks that can play him, but in those that can he is brilliant. I play a 5 color planeswalker deck that gets up to over ten mana every game and can survive for that long EVERY game. (It is very different than AJ Sachers build) With Wraths, Condemns, Volcanic Fallouts, Austere Commands, planewalkers (esp. Garruk), etc. it is very easy to get up the mana. Some people say it is worse than Cruel Ultimatum and that is probably true in the typical 5 color control decks but in my planeswalker deck this is clearly better. In my deck each players life totals are largely irrelevant because I rarely go below 10 life and have ajani goldmane to usually keep above 20 and I usually do not win by chipping away my opponents life total. The deck also runs 0 creatures main and 0 creatures side, so the pulling the creature from your gy never happens. Forcing the opponent to sac one creature is generally in... (see all)
Posted By:
ZursApprentice
(5/23/2009 10:56:32 PM)
Words can't describe it.
Posted By:
Kamidii
(1/19/2011 8:45:20 PM)
8 mana for total game domination... this thing can bypass most things without leaving a single drawback; besides, he is NICOL BOLAS!
okok, you're right: 8 mana is a kick in the darn, but well, get this guy into the battlefield and ask gentlemanly to your opponent "do you concede or do I have to make you suffer?".
Another good point is the non-Nicol Bolas elder dragon-cost (2UUBBRR); but its main problem is that it joins the battle too late, beside that this thing alone can handle your foe whole deck.
Posted By:
WER386
(12/15/2009 8:01:22 AM)