Comments on: Conflux – Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

By: Five With Flores » Fieldmist Borderpost, Mistvein Borderpost, & Tezzeret the Seeker

Mon, 04 May 2009 02:07:36 +0000

[...] Knight-Errant One of the best cards in Standard. It’s basically Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker for half the [...]

By: Five With Flores » Alara Reborn - Sphinx of the Steel Wind

Five With Flores » Alara Reborn - Sphinx of the Steel Wind — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 +0000

[...] be honest, I don’t really know. For the mana I would sooner explore Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, and I’m not exactly getting in line on that [...]

By: admin

admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:02:20 +0000

Hey everyone!

When I wrote this, I obviously didn’t know about Maelstrom Angel yet. So I think that gives Nicol Bolas a little more of “the touch” to reference by boy GRat.

Possibly there will be more cheatyface in the set for cards like this and Conflux.

LOVE
MIKE

By: Five With Flores » Conflux - Maelstrom Angel

Five With Flores » Conflux - Maelstrom Angel — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:30:32 +0000

[...] cards like Conflux (review forthcoming) and Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker seemed very out of whack. Like I guess they can print largely impractical if aesthetically [...]

By: KZipple

KZipple — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:44:07 +0000

And he seems savage in Type 4.
It might actually get played in block, since 1) the colors are easier, 2) is can steal you a blocker, essentially killing two creatures instead of just one, and 3) the format is slow enough that the extra mana doesn’t matter that much. Of course, Oblivion Ring is frowns.

By: GRat

GRat — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:10:49 +0000

Bolas does not quite have the touch.

He is big, dumb, but at the same time, awesome. The practical uses are not exactly there, however. It’s unfortunate that it turned out the way it did, but only for his obvious flaws of being too damn expensive. I can see that he will have a much better application in limited than constructed, for now.

Most of what I like is from a flavor standpoint. It’s definitely showing that he is powerful as well as bad ass to the point where you just don’t want to want to screw with him, ever.

By: Gifts Ungiven

Gifts Ungiven — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:07:52 +0000

Unsurprisingly, a vocal subset of people are wigging out about Nicol Bolas over on the home site forums.

The biggest complaint is directed toward how he supposedly breaks the color pie (since he can ace out permanents), although someone cogently pointed out that you can envision his Vindicate power as Boomerang + Cabal Therapy, which is perfectly blue-black (and is, in fact, already a card, albeit one that only bounces creatures).

I agree that Nicol seems pretty nichey right now, without some way to either cheat him into play or otherwise make him better than immediately hitting your opponent with a Cruel Ultimatum.

By: jmgh

jmgh — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:39:08 +0000

I think it’s playable but at this time, only in block constructed.
For Standard Ultimatum it’s better than Bolas and in rest of format’s Obviously it’s unplayable….

I like this Planeswalker… but it’s to expensive for play with this :’(