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Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Nicol Bolas unless you pay {blue}{black}{red}.
Whenever Nicol Bolas deals damage to an opponent, that player discards their hand.
7/7
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Played in tournaments
Share of published Premodern decklists that play Nicol Bolas (main or sideboard): 2,950 lists from paper events and MTGO in the last 90 days, through .
- Play rate · 90d
- 0.1%
- −0.0 ppdown 30.0% over vs previous 90 days
- Play rate · 30d
- 0.1%
- −0.1 ppdown 50.0% over vs previous 30 days
- Lists · 90d
- 2
- 100% main deck
- Avg copies (main)
- 1.0
- when main-decked
Monthly play rate (12 × 30 days)
Nov 22, 2025Oct 18, 2026
Months with few lists are noisy; early months have partial paper coverage.
Most often in (90d)
- Unclassified1% of lists · 2
Printings (9)
Every tournament-legal paper printing (no gold-border, World Championship or oversized cards). Hover or tap a row to preview that printing.
