Bolas's Citadel War of the Spark. Card Type: Legendary Artifact Cost: Card Text: You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play the top card of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its converted mana cost rather than pay its mana cost. I feel the #1 theme War of the Spark has to capture is the player choosing a side in the epic battle between the Gatewatch and Bolas. There's a few ways they could reflect this, while also considering the issue of it being too parasitic like the Spirit vs. Non-Spirit clash was in Kamigawa block.
5/3/2019Bolas’s Citadel lets you look at the top card of your library whenever you want (with one restriction—see below), even if you don’t have priority. This action doesn’t use the stack. Knowing what that card is becomes part of the information you have access to, just like you can look at the cards in your hand.5/3/2019If the top card of your library changes while you’re casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability, you can’t look at the new top card until you finish doing so.
DemographicsBirthplaceLifetime−25,000 to PresentRace, formerlyColorsCenter:Sources,The Nicol Bolas (born as just Nicol), is the youngest and most powerful of the seven to have survived the. He was also known as the, the Forever Serpent, the Horned One, the God-Pharaoh of, and after the as the Nameless. He styled himself 'the mind-ripper, the deathbringer, the winged dark that terrifies your dreams. The first to witness the sun rise on, and the last to watch it set for the final time'. On he was known as Lord Nicolas, and on as Master Venati.
Bolas returns to AmonkhetOn Amonkhet, Bolas's scheme worked as intended, with hundreds of the Worthy Dead being converted into his army. When he came to the plane and materialized above his throne in Naktamun, he found the city in ruins, its gods fallen and the population under assault from his minions.
Pleased, he turned to the treacherous Bontu, commanding her to kill the last of the gods,. When Bontu managed to defeat her sister, Bolas instead rewarded her with death, forcing several undead to tear her apart.Seeing his plans come to fruition, Nicol Bolas now turned his attention on the, a meddlesome group of planeswalkers that had come together to stop the on. Asking himself if they were suitable for what he required, Bolas waited for them to form their strategy. As each of them attacked him with their own methods, the dragon proved resilient and even condescending. Using his tail, he kept the invulnerable Gideon at a distance by whacking him against the structures of Naktamun, and simply ignored Chandra's flames, Nissa's vines and Liliana's zombies. Focusing on Jace, Bolas let him briefly enter into his mind before crushing that of the telepath, sending him fleeing from the plane. Turning to the rest of the Gatewatch, he addressed Liliana and offered her a chance to survive the confrontation.
Offering to tutor her in the use of the Chain Veil, he demanded her to leave and retreat to another plane where he would contact her. The necromancer took the offer, even asking her team mates to join her. Bolas now turned his attention to the rest, taking Chandra into one of his claws and breaking several of her ribs with brute force while lecturing her on the futility of using fire against a dragon. As the pyromancer planeswalked away to save her own life, Bolas turned to Nissa.
Using his command over the corrupted world, he turned her link to the land against her to attack her with necrotic magic, forcing her to flee. Now facing Gideon, the sole member of the Gatewatch remaining, Bolas took him into one of his claws and used magic to pierce his invulnerability, giving him a choice: stay and die, or live and betray the oath he had sworn at Sea Gate. Eventually, Gideon fled, too, leaving Bolas victorious.Only a few minutes later, appeared and was sent by Bolas to check on the progress of. Reveling in his victory, Bolas celebrated the first steps in his plan for reclaiming his stolen power. Claiming the Immortal SunBolas sent to to fetch a portable. He then sent to to lay claim on the.
After Vraska had found the artifact, she summoned Tezzeret who took it away with his Planar Bridge. Planning the Conquest of RavnicaAfter putting together some of Bolas' machinations on and, Jace and theorized on Ixalan that something on the plane of was of extreme interest to Bolas. It seemed to be part of his plan to reclaim his lost power. In order to reach this goal, they reasoned that he planned to invade the plane with an, while trapping the resident planeswalkers. Nicol Bolas had turned five planeswalkers to his side and has given them each control over a guild.
Vraska, after having her memories of plotting against the dragon taken away, was under Bolas's influence and became leader of the. Other pawns included the likes of for the and presumably for the. Bolas later send a agent to plant a thought in the mind of who ordered Ral to turn into a beacon to call other planeswalkers to Ravnica. In addition was hired to assassinate the, and was placed in control of the. Had taken control of the, and was counted upon to choose Bolas' side.
Bolas also tried to divide the, by controlling glademaster. Meanwhile, prepared to deploy the for the approaching battle.The plotted to engage Bolas on Ravnica. Little did they suspect that Bolas has not only accounted for their interference, but that he was practically relying on it. War of the SparkAfter luring dozens of planeswalkers to with the, Bolas trapped them there by use of the. He claimed dominion over Ravnica and cast the that harvested and would grant him 'ultimate power' and.Bolas installed Liliana as his 's general. While leading the eternals, she witnessed a young girl shield her younger brother from a collapsing wall, only for both of them to be crushed by the falling debris.
Pausing to take the scene in, and possibly being reminded of her own failings in saving her brother Josu, Liliana then turned the Dreadhorde on Nicol Bolas, stopping their attack on Gideon (but not after one harvested 's spark). Bolas saw this, and immediately made good on his prior warning to Liliana. He invoked the contract's magic, and Liliana started to disintegrate.
Bolas' roar of anger was matched by Liliana's scream of defiance. Then sacrificed himself to save Liliana from the contract.Liliana commanded and to attack Bolas. Unexpectedly, impaled Nicol Bolas through the back with spear.
Bolas was the one who gave Hazoret her spear in the first place and it contained a little of his essence, which is why it was able to damage him in his god-like state. Bolas managed to obliterate, but the distraction allowed to bite Bolas and harvest all of the elder dragon's sparks, including Bolas's own. Was not able to contain all the sparks and quickly ruptured into shards. Nameless and imprisonedAs the gathered planeswalkers charged at the weakened and desparked Bolas, telepathically reached out to, explaining that he needed Bolas alive instead of dead.
Citing how Bolas had cheated his death at the hands of, and how Ugin himself cheated death by becoming a Spirit Dragon, Ugin determined that the surest way to neutralize Bolas as a threat was to imprison him while tricking the multiverse into thinking he perished, since Bolas' arrogance would have prevented him from having precautions in the case of his imprisonment instead of his own death. To this end, he requested that Jace conjure an illusion of Bolas dying and disintegrating into ashes. Jace reluctantly complied, fooling the other planeswalkers long enough for Ugin to planeswalk into Ravnica undetected and then planeswalk out with Bolas in tow.Ugin wrapped Bolas in his wings while traveling through the, taking him to the. Because Bolas had lost his spark, he was grievously wounded even with Ugin's protection, and it took him weeks before he regained consciousness and months to start recovering. Ugin told him that it was his world even before Bolas became a planeswalker, and that he had helped to be reborn. Ugin also revealed that the gem in the middle of Bolas's horns is part of Ugin’s soul and he saw every step and mistake from his brother. Ugin then informed Bolas that he had lost the use of both his names, so that he couldn't be by another being ever again.Ugin told his brother that he’ll become his jailer for the remainder of Bolas's mortal life and expanded himself all over the Meditation Realm.
It has now become a prison for Ugin and Bolas, alike - they cannot leave it. But just to be certain that Bolas will never plague the multiverse again, Ugin will keep watch over his brother until Bolas' natural death in thousands of years.Note on Test of MetalKey events in have been contradicted by later stories. Chief among these contradictions are Jace and Liliana believing Tezzeret to be dead prior to the events of Kaladesh, and Jace having not seen Liliana between the events of and Catching Up.In a cave composed entirely of sangrite, Bolas rebuilt Tezzeret’s body and mind and tasked him to find the Mad. Bolas ultimately saw this mission come to fruition when he tracked Tezzeret to an island made entirely of etherium. There he demanded to know what Tezzeret had been up to. In order to get direct answers, Bolas formed a mental link to Tezzeret and read his memories. There, many of Tezzeret's plans and actions were laid out.Bolas soon learned he would not be the only visitor upon the Metal Island though.
Jace arrived next, followed lastly by Sharuum, stripped of her etherium. As soon as the sphinx left, a terrible fight broke out among the assembled walkers, and it ended with Bolas apparently victorious. However, during the fight, his concentration and powers severely waned. This was revealed to have been engineered by Tezzeret, who was the true victor of the fight. Tezzeret himself left Bolas trapped on the island, infested with a mental device that would keep the Elder Dragon there as long as needed.Little did Tezzeret anticipate that the dragon he had been fighting was nothing more than a poorly constructed simulacrum, specifically made to fail at reining in the artificer. Bolas himself appeared on the island and informed his copy that it would not be alive by the time Tezzeret returned, and he had served his purpose in making Tezzeret reveal the secrets he had learned.Trivia.
Nicol Bolas was originally printed as a in, and reprinted in, and, the last two featuring new artwork. also appears as a card in the Japanese Duel Masters, which is likewise published by. In he was printed as a Planeswalker card with the type Bolas. This would later be reprinted in and finally in, being the first ever multi-colored card in a core set. He is considered by many fans to be one of the major antagonists of the MTG storyline. He is considered by, one of the gods of, to be one of the greatest possible future threats to the plane putting him on the same level of danger as the.
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