Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen MTG Card

Card setsReleased in 5 setsSee all
Converted mana cost4
RarityMythic
TypeLegendary Planeswalker — Bolas
Loyalty 7

Text of card


+2: Draw two cards.
-3: Nicol Bolas, the Arisen deals 10 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
-4: Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
-12: Exile all but the bottom card of target player's library.

Text of card Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen


+2: Draw two cards.
-3: Nicol Bolas, the Arisen deals 10 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
-4: Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
-12: Exile all but the bottom card of target player's library.

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Printings

The Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen Magic the Gathering card was released in 4 different sets between 2018-07-13 and 2021-01-01. Illustrated by 3 different artists.

#ReleasedNameCodeSymbolNumberFrameLayoutBorderArtist
12018-07-13Core Set 2019 PromosPM19 218s2015TransformBlackSvetlin Velinov
22018-07-13Core Set 2019M19 2182015TransformBlackSvetlin Velinov
32019-12-02Secret Lair DropSLD 11582015TransformBorderlessGodMachine
42019-12-02Secret Lair DropSLD 12112015TransformBorderlessGodMachine
52021-01-01Judge Gift Cards 2021PJ21 92015TransformBlackLie Setiawan

Legalities

Magic the Gathering formats where Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen has restrictions

FormatLegality
HistoricbrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
VintageLegal
DuelLegal
ExplorerLegal
GladiatorLegal
PioneerLegal
TimelessLegal

Rules and information

The reference guide for Magic: The Gathering Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen card rulings provides official rulings, any errata issued, as well as a record of all the functional modifications that have occurred.

Date Text
2018-07-13 A double-faced card enters the battlefield with its front face up by default, unless a spell or ability instructs you to put it onto the battlefield transformed, in which case it enters with its back face up. The back face of a double-faced card can’t be played.
2018-07-13 Each face of a double-faced card has its own set of characteristics: name, types, subtypes, abilities, and so on. While a double-faced card is on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that’s currently up. The other set of characteristics is ignored.
2018-07-13 If Nicol Bolas leaves the battlefield after his creature face’s activated ability has been activated but before it resolves, the card remains in whichever zone it moves to. It won’t be exiled or return transformed.
2018-07-13 If another permanent that isn’t a double-faced card (such as Mirror Image) becomes a copy of Nicol Bolas, the Ravager, activating the ability to exile it and return it transformed will only exile it. It won’t return to the battlefield at all.
2018-07-13 In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any permanents you control from Nicol Bolas’s third loyalty ability that came from other players’ graveyards are exiled.
2018-07-13 In some rare cases, a spell or ability may cause Nicol Bolas to transform while it’s a creature on the battlefield. If this happens, the resulting planeswalker won’t have any loyalty counters on it and will subsequently be put into its owner’s graveyard.
2018-07-13 Nicol Bolas, the Arisen has a color indicator on its typeline. This color indicator means that it’s a blue, black, and red permanent.
2018-07-13 The converted mana cost of a double-faced card is the converted mana cost of its front face, even while it’s on the battlefield with its back face up. For example, the converted mana cost of Nicol Bolas, the Arisen is 4.
2018-07-13 When Nicol Bolas’s enters-the-battlefield triggered ability resolves, first the next opponent in turn order (or, if it’s an opponent’s turn, that opponent) chooses a card in their hand without revealing it, then each other opponent in turn order does the same. Then all the chosen cards are discarded at the same time.
2018-07-13 While a double-faced card isn’t on the battlefield, consider only the characteristics of its front face. For example, Nicol Bolas has the characteristics of its creature face in the graveyard, even if it was a planeswalker on the battlefield before it was put into the graveyard.
2018-07-13 You can activate one of the planeswalker’s loyalty abilities the turn it enters the battlefield.