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Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

· Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas · Ravnica Remastered (RVR)

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Times Brought

293

Decks Running

127

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas

Nicol Bolas has all loyalty abilities of all other planeswalkers on the battlefield. +1: You draw a card. Each opponent exiles a card from their hand or a permanent they control. −3: Destroy target creature or planeswalker. −8: Each opponent who doesn't control a legendary creature or planeswalker loses the game.

Loyalty 4

Ravnica Remastered (RVR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

Final zone distribution

69 instances

5.8%

Library

39.1%

Battlefield

24.6%

Graveyard

1.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 30 decks
2 Jace, Multiverse Architect 26 decks
3 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 19 decks
4 Tam, the Possibility 15 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 4 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 4 decks
7 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 4 decks
8 The Ur-Dragon 4 decks
9 Arzakon 2 decks
10 Jared Carthalion 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

293 brought · 117 players

Brought to game

293

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +7.1pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=33) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=171).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=16).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +14.7pp; 95% confidence interval +7.1pp to +22.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

25%

50%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 35% (10 / 40 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.