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| | '''[[Superhuman Physical Characteristics]]''', '''[[Transmutation]]''' (Geyadrone Dihada became monstrous upon trying to absorb an Elder Dragon<ref>Dakkon Blackblade: A Magic: the Gathering Legend</ref>), '''[[Flight]]''', '''[[Large Size]]''' (Type 1, likely higher), '''[[Natural Weaponry]]''' (Claws, Tail), '''[[Breath Attack]]''' and '''[[Fire Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/890ae35680e63dc862f1be45b3f5ce80 Can breath out fire]), '''[[Genius Intelligence]]''' (All Elder Dragons are born knowing their names<ref>Chronicle of Bolas: The Twins</ref><ref>Chronicle of Bolas: The First Lesson</ref>), |
| {{!}}-{{!}}Legends=
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| {{!}}-{{!}}From the Vault: Dragons=
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| {{!}}-{{!}}Core Set 19=
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| {{!}}-{{!}}Judge Promo=
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| |-|Planeswalker Ascension=
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| {{Quote|<i>I was old before this world was even born. I watched my brothers rule for a thousand years until little worms like you overcame them. But I am not my brothers. I am older than they are, greater. I have devoured stars and shattered worlds. I have sired whole races, populated entire planes, and then hunted them to extinction for my amusement. I have bathed in the blood of the gods and used their bones to build my nest.
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| I am the mind-ripper, the death bringer, the winged dark that terrifies your dreams. I was the first to witness the sun rise on this world, and I will be the last to watch it set for the final time. I have no beginning and no end. I have always been, and I shall always be. My name is the foundation of all that is, and those who hear it will obey or become as nothing
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| I am Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, elder dragon, the oldest and most powerful being that has ever or shall ever exist.</i>}}
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| {{Quote|<i>I was old before this world was even born. I watched my brothers rule for a thousand years until little worms like you overcame them. But I am not my brothers. I am older than they are, greater. I have devoured stars and shattered worlds. I have sired whole races, populated entire planes, and then hunted them to extinction for my amusement. I have bathed in the blood of the gods and used their bones to build my nest.
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| I am the mind-ripper, the death bringer, the winged dark that terrifies your dreams. I was the first to witness the sun rise on this world, and I will be the last to watch it set for the final time. I have no beginning and no end. I have always been, and I shall always be. My name is the foundation of all that is, and those who hear it will obey or become as nothing
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| I am Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, elder dragon, the oldest and most powerful being that has ever or shall ever exist.</i>}}
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| {{!}}-{{!}}Conflux=
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| {{Quote|<i>While my foes are legion, these 5 are potentially... problematic.
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| A noble predator, he believes himself to be. This [[Garruk Wildspeaker]], brutal, savage, nearly a merciless killer. His impatience is my virtue.
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| [[Jace Beleren]]'s greatest strength is his greatest flaw. The supremely powerful mind incapable of perceiving how he could rule all - a keystone in an unfathomable plan.
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| So utterly filled with power, so wholly lacking in restraint and vision. Seeking freedom, will [[Chandra Nalaar]] rise above personal retribution, or will her fury consume all?
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| A dark power commanding the dead, [[Liliana Vess]] inspires terror. In debt to demons, entranced in a pursuit of unobtainable desire, as ruthless... as myself.
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| Reinforcer of life, light, in strength in our lives... a contemptible blight. Should we cross again, I'll '''snuff''' [[Ajani Goldmane]]'s spark consigning him to an endless night.
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| They are but obstacles, part of a grand design. Fight them endlessly, they'll likely prevail. However, should you prove to be a duelist of measure, having defeated these opponents with skill, consider your fate, for if you dare face me... '''destroying you will be my pleasure.'''</i>|Nicol Bolas in the M13 trailer}}
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| {{!}}-{{!}}Duel Decks: Ajani vs Nicol Bolas=
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| {{Quote|<i>While my foes are legion, these 5 are potentially... problematic.
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| A noble predator, he believes himself to be. This [[Garruk Wildspeaker]], brutal, savage, nearly a merciless killer. His impatience is my virtue.
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| [[Jace Beleren]]'s greatest strength is his greatest flaw. The supremely powerful mind incapable of perceiving how he could rule all - a keystone in an unfathomable plan.
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| So utterly filled with power, so wholly lacking in restraint and vision. Seeking freedom, will [[Chandra Nalaar]] rise above personal retribution, or will her fury consume all?
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| A dark power commanding the dead, [[Liliana Vess]] inspires terror. In debt to demons, entranced in a pursuit of unobtainable desire, as ruthless... as myself.
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| Reinforcer of life, light, in strength in our lives... a contemptible blight. Should we cross again, I'll '''snuff''' [[Ajani Goldmane]]'s spark consigning him to an endless night.
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| They are but obstacles, part of a grand design. Fight them endlessly, they'll likely prevail. However, should you prove to be a duelist of measure, having defeated these opponents with skill, consider your fate, for if you dare face me... '''destroying you will be my pleasure.'''</i>|Nicol Bolas in the M13 trailer}}
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| {{!}}-{{!}}Archenemy: Nicol Bolas=
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| {{Quote|<i>While my foes are legion, these 5 are potentially... problematic.
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| A noble predator, he believes himself to be. This [[Garruk Wildspeaker]], brutal, savage, nearly a merciless killer. His impatience is my virtue.
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| [[Jace Beleren]]'s greatest strength is his greatest flaw. The supremely powerful mind incapable of perceiving how he could rule all - a keystone in an unfathomable plan.
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| So utterly filled with power, so wholly lacking in restraint and vision. Seeking freedom, will [[Chandra Nalaar]] rise above personal retribution, or will her fury consume all?
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| A dark power commanding the dead, [[Liliana Vess]] inspires terror. In debt to demons, entranced in a pursuit of unobtainable desire, as ruthless... as myself.
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| Reinforcer of life, light, in strength in our lives... a contemptible blight. Should we cross again, I'll '''snuff''' [[Ajani Goldmane]]'s spark consigning him to an endless night.
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| They are but obstacles, part of a grand design. Fight them endlessly, they'll likely prevail. However, should you prove to be a duelist of measure, having defeated these opponents with skill, consider your fate, for if you dare face me... '''destroying you will be my pleasure.'''</i>|Nicol Bolas in the M13 trailer}}
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| {{!}}-{{!}}Guilds of Ravnica Mythic Edition=
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| {{Quote|<i>While my foes are legion, these 5 are potentially... problematic.
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| A noble predator, he believes himself to be. This [[Garruk Wildspeaker]], brutal, savage, nearly a merciless killer. His impatience is my virtue. | |
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| [[Jace Beleren]]'s greatest strength is his greatest flaw. The supremely powerful mind incapable of perceiving how he could rule all - a keystone in an unfathomable plan.
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| So utterly filled with power, so wholly lacking in restraint and vision. Seeking freedom, will [[Chandra Nalaar]] rise above personal retribution, or will her fury consume all?
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| A dark power commanding the dead, [[Liliana Vess]] inspires terror. In debt to demons, entranced in a pursuit of unobtainable desire, as ruthless... as myself.
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| Reinforcer of life, light, in strength in our lives... a contemptible blight. Should we cross again, I'll '''snuff''' [[Ajani Goldmane]]'s spark consigning him to an endless night.
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| They are but obstacles, part of a grand design. Fight them endlessly, they'll likely prevail. However, should you prove to be a duelist of measure, having defeated these opponents with skill, consider your fate, for if you dare face me... '''destroying you will be my pleasure.'''</i>|Nicol Bolas in the M13 trailer}}
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| {{!}}-{{!}}Hour of Devastation=
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| |-|Dragon God=
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| {{!}}-{{!}}War of the Spark=
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| {{Quote|'''Let them die.''' Once I was immortal. Not simply long-lived like all dragons, but truly, unendingly immortal. With power beyond measure. I was a god. What mended Dominaria and the Multiverse unraveled that power. Stole away my birthright. What was the mending of Dominaria next to that of a crime? What was the healing of the Multiverse next to that evil? So let them all die. Their gains had been at my expense, so I will take back what was taken from me - '''with interest'''. They deserve everything they get this day. I will be a true, unending immortal again. But I shall not settle for being a mere god again. Now I will be ''the'' god. ''We'' will be the Multiverse's sole '''GOD'''. Its '''GOD-EMPEROR'''. And ''We'' will become that... '''today.'''|Nicol Bolas revealing his motives}}
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| {{Quote|<i>IT WAS ALMOST TOO EASY. SPREAD THE WORD THAT THE BLACKBLADE KILLED AN ELDER DRAGON. MAKE IT JUST DIFFICULT TO FIND THE THING, SO THAT THEY APPRECIATE ITS WORTH. GIVE THEM [[Belzenlok|ONE OF LILIANA’S DEMONS]] TO KILL WITH IT, SO THAT THEY BELIEVE IN THE UNCONQUERABLE STRENGTH OF THEIR ULTIMATE WEAPON. BELIEVE IN IT ENOUGH SO THAT THEY NEVER BOTHER TO SEARCH IN ANYTHING ELSE. AND WATCH AS THEY COMMIT EVERYTHING THEY HAVE FOR AN ATTACK THAT ABSOLUTELY DEPENDS... ON THE ONE WEAPON WE ARE THROUGHLY PREPARED TO REPEL.
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| YES, THE BLACKBLADE ONCE KILLED AN ELDER DRAGON. AND BECAUSE OF THAT ONE FACT, WE MADE DAMN SURE MILLENNIA AGO THAT IT COULD '''NEVER. KILL. US.''' LET BOTH STOMP THE GROUND UNTIL NOTHING MOVES BENEATH [[The Dreadhorde|THEIR]] UNDEAD FEET. '''WE’VE HAD OUR FUN, NOW WE GROW WEARY OF THE IMPERTINENCE OF ANTS.'''</i>|Bolas upon ascending to godhood}}
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| {{Quote|'''Let them die.''' Once I was immortal. Not simply long-lived like all dragons, but truly, unendingly immortal. With power beyond measure. I was a god. What mended Dominaria and the Multiverse unraveled that power. Stole away my birthright. What was the mending of Dominaria next to that of a crime? What was the healing of the Multiverse next to that evil? So let them all die. Their gains had been at my expense, so I will take back what was taken from me - '''with interest'''. They deserve everything they get this day. I will be a true, unending immortal again. But I shall not settle for being a mere god again. Now I will be ''the'' god. ''We'' will be the Multiverse's sole '''GOD'''. Its '''GOD-EMPEROR'''. And ''We'' will become that... '''today.'''|Nicol Bolas revealing his motives}}
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| {{Quote|<i>IT WAS ALMOST TOO EASY. SPREAD THE WORD THAT THE BLACKBLADE KILLED AN ELDER DRAGON. MAKE IT JUST DIFFICULT TO FIND THE THING, SO THAT THEY APPRECIATE ITS WORTH. GIVE THEM [[Belzenlok|ONE OF LILIANA’S DEMONS]] TO KILL WITH IT, SO THAT THEY BELIEVE IN THE UNCONQUERABLE STRENGTH OF THEIR ULTIMATE WEAPON. BELIEVE IN IT ENOUGH SO THAT THEY NEVER BOTHER TO SEARCH IN ANYTHING ELSE. AND WATCH AS THEY COMMIT EVERYTHING THEY HAVE FOR AN ATTACK THAT ABSOLUTELY DEPENDS... ON THE ONE WEAPON WE ARE THROUGHLY PREPARED TO REPEL.
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| YES, THE BLACKBLADE ONCE KILLED AN ELDER DRAGON. AND BECAUSE OF THAT ONE FACT, WE MADE DAMN SURE MILLENNIA AGO THAT IT COULD '''NEVER. KILL. US.''' LET BOTH STOMP THE GROUND UNTIL NOTHING MOVES BENEATH [[The Dreadhorde|THEIR]] UNDEAD FEET. '''WE’VE HAD OUR FUN, NOW WE GROW WEARY OF THE IMPERTINENCE OF ANTS.'''</i>|Bolas upon ascending to godhood}}
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| ==Background==
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| '''Nicol Bolas''' is a major antagonist of [[Magic: the Gathering]]. He is the youngest and most infamous of the elder dragons that was birthed by [[The Ur-Dragon]] and also survived the Elder Dragon War. He is known by many dames, such as '''The Forever Serpent''', '''The Horned One''', and the '''God-Pharaoh''' to name a few. | |
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| Like the other Elder Dragons, Nicol Bolas was the spawn of The Ur-Dragon, born from an egg-stone shed from the Ur-Dragon's wings, which fell from the sky like a meteor. Born simply as Nicol, he emerged from his egg-stone twinned together with his brother Ugin. Whereas every other Elder Dragon egg spawned only one dragon, Nicol and Ugin woke together, named themselves together, and touched the soil of Dominaria at the same instant. They were both only half the size of their other siblings. When they witnessed their newly-hatched sister Merrevia Sal being killed by humans and their dogs, Nicol expressed outrage, but Ugin convinced him to not aid her - to preserve their own lives, to seek more knowledge, and to find their siblings. Inspired by the sun - who he described as bright and fearless - and by his success in killing one of the hounds, Bolas acquired the notion that this multiverse is a place of "hunters and the hunted". Originally, Bolas was seen as the least of the Elder Dragons, mockingly called the Last Fallen, having shared his name with Ugin and being smaller and weaker than his siblings.
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| When Chromium pointed out that the twins shared their names, one for each, Nicol took the second name Bolas to feel equal to his larger siblings. After Palladia-Mors mocked their size and their hunting techniques, the twins spent years perfecting various techniques for hunting in tandem. After this time, they met and then lived with Arcades Sabboth who had taken up residence as dragonlord in a human settlement. Here Nicol learned about the nature of humans, and how easily they could be manipulated to further his own goals. Having learned enough, he took Ugin to seek revenge for their sister's murder. After tricking the dragon hunters into a quarrel between several factions, he took over as supreme leader. After this, he tried to use his brother for his own ends, and Ugin realized that Bolas had never truly cared for him at all. This mental shock caused Ugin's planeswalker's spark to ignite.
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| Thousands of years before the Brothers' War or even the Thran Empire, the Elder Dragons were engaged in a conflict that lasted for thousands of years, the Elder Dragon War. Nicol Bolas emerged victorious, though there were survivors other than himself, his brothers Arcades Sabboth and Chromium Rhuell, his sister Palladia-Mors, their cousin Vaevictis Asmadi, and possibly others. At the crescendo of the war, Bolas ruled half of Dominaria. The last clash of the war took place on Jamuraa, between the troops of Bolas himself and Arcades Sabboth. Only the unexpected intervention of Ugin prevented the ultimate defeat of Sabboth. The war ended there and then, because in rage and envy of Ugin's newly-revealed planeswalker status, Bolas' planeswalkers' spark ignited and he planeswalked away.
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| Many, many times and adventures later, the two planeswalking brothers confronted each other on the Meditation Plane. First above the wide waters of the Meditation Realm and then on a wild pummeling path through the planes, they struggled for days, years, generations. In the end, by diverse paths, they returned to the Meditation Realm where Bolas killed Ugin. Monstrous waves rose from Ugin's fall in the water. The waves ran on and on, washing far beyond the bounds of the Meditation Realm into the web of connection that links the planes and the Blind Eternities. Bolas was flung through ten or twenty or a hundred planes before he fell hard back into Dominaria, onto the island chain of Madara.
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| Some years later, Bolas fought a Demonic Leviathan planeswalker on the still-young plane of Dominaria. The fight lasted a month, reduced Madara to a third of its original size, and created the first temporal rift. In the end, the dragon relied upon his touch to defeat his foe. After the battle Bolas feasted on the remains of the leviathan over the course of a year, absorbing its power in the process. When he finished, naught was left besides what eventually became known as the Talon Gates and an assortment of blubber. Bolas regards the Talon Gates as his finest trophy and visits them and Madara as often as he can to relish that victory.
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| Bolas' maliciousness and power came to the notice of the planeswalker Azor, who devised a plan with the reborn Ugin to permanently imprison him. To this end, they wanted to use Azor's spark to create an artifact known as the Immortal Sun to trap him on the continent of Torrezon on the plane Ixalan. Azor would summon Bolas into the plane and trap him there, and Ugin would remove him from existence entirely. To their grief, Bolas discovered the plan thanks to Azor leaving hints of himself on the planes that he had ordered.
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| In an effort to thwart their plan, Bolas traveled to Tarkir. He found a willing pawn in Yasova Dragonclaw, Khan of the Temur clan, who sought to end the reign of Tarkir's oppressive dragons. Her conviction and commitment to the destruction of Tarkir's dragons coincided with the ambitions of the Elder Dragon Planeswalker himself. To this end, Bolas gave Yasova a vision of a peaceful and idyllic Tarkir littered with the bones of dragons. In Yasova's vision, a great dragon with scales of burnished gold and a golden orb floating between his horns promised her that if she would lead him to the lair of Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, he would slay him, and the dragons of Tarkir would be no more.
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| Guided by Yasova, he intercepted Ugin and prepared the ritual to call him there. After a close battle, Bolas was finally able to defeat the Spirit Dragon when he and Yasova turned Ugin's own lesser dragons against him. In the original timeline, Ugin died from the physical and magical injuries Bolas had inflicted on him. However, the planeswalker Sarkhan Vol traveled back in time from 1280 years in the future and saved Ugin by encasing him in a hedron cocoon immediately after the battle ended, preserving the Spirit Dragon in a state of suspended animation. Thus, unbeknownst to Bolas, the Time stream was changed so that Ugin still lived.
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| Suspicious as always, Bolas returned eighteen years later when he discovered that Yasova and her twin granddaughters Naiva and Baishya were visiting the site of his victory. He noticed the hedrons on the grave but failed to perceive their significance. He offered Naiva the reign of Tarkir if only she would surrender her grandmother and her twin so he would understand their motivation to visit the grave. Yasova saved Naiva from Bolas' influence and tricked the elder dragon into thinking that Ugin's grave was targeted by the Immortal Sun to trap him away. This made him flee Tarkir.
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| At some point, Bolas somehow became metaphysically tied to the Madaran temporal rift that he had inadvertently visited thousands of years earlier. As a result, he became unable to physically manifest on Dominaria without anchoring himself to local mana lines, lest his presence overwhelms the plane and crack its foundation. On Madara, three lines of blue, black, and red mana intersected at a single point that was ideal for Bolas's purposes. Bolas slew the then Empress of Madara and erected his Imperial Shrine on the focal point. From there, he reigned for 400 years as God-Emperor of Madara.
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| Unfortunately, Bolas created his own worst enemy in the form of his Imperial Champion, Tetsuo Umezawa. After several trials, Tetsuo renounced his title and declared his intention to slay Bolas, killing the dragon's regent. In a fit of rage, Bolas abandoned his body to follow Tetsuo's spirit into the Meditation Plane, unaware that it was a trap. This would ultimately prove to be a fatal mistake: Using the Meteor Hammer spell, Tetsuo destroyed Bolas's Imperial Shrine while Bolas's physical body was inside, severing the elder dragon's anchor to Dominaria completely.
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| Without a physical form, Bolas' spirit-form was unable to escape back to Dominaria or any other plane, and without his connection to the abundant Dominarian mana that he used to fuel his spells, he was left without most of his magic. His physical superiority was rendered irrelevant by the nature of the Meditation Plane, which was a realm of thought and spirit; furthermore, Bolas was largely unaware of its workings, while Umezawa had experience manipulating the fabric of the plane's reality. Stripped of his advantages as a planeswalker, a sorcerer, and a dragon, and forced to battle in a realm where his opponent had a significant edge, Bolas was defeated and apparently killed by Umezawa.
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| However, as a result of his connection to the temporal rift, a ghostly remnant of his life force still lingered by the Madaran coast, trapped between the material world and the Meditation Realm.
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| Bolas' essence remained present in his land, which became overrun by the nekoru descendants of Wasitora and their followers.
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| As the temporal rifts expanded, he became able to manifest in Madara again, albeit as an immaterial shade. In this form, he presented himself under the alias of Sensei Ryu. When he sensed that the planeswalker Teferi was lost in a rift and had become separated from his companions he arranged for them to arrive on the Madaran beach near the Talon Gates. Using Venser's latent planeswalker spark, he was able to finally escape his prison and be fully reborn into the physical world, regaining his body by pulling a copy of it through the rift from an earlier point in time.
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| After Teferi located his companions, he challenged the dragon to a duel in an effort to stay Bolas's "gratitude." Bolas easily won, absorbing and planeswalking away from Teferi's attacks, after which he tortured him with his mind shattering touch and ripped his body to pieces. While Bolas was taunting Teferi's allies with the defeated planeswalker's head in his claw, the dying Teferi shared his knowledge of the collapsing planes with him and he was made aware of the severity of the rift problem. Bolas decided to let Teferi live, allowing the dismembered mage to heal himself. He left soon after swearing a vow to take a terrible vengeance on anyone related to the Umezawa line, and anyone who had ever aided or come into contact with it, then presumably left for Kamigawa.
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| Bolas later returned to Madara, where he was ambushed by the planeswalker Leshrac, who formally challenged him to a duel; the latter was defeated after an epic battle and was imprisoned in the mask of the Myojin of Night's Reach. Bolas implied that he had stripped most of Night's Reach's dark power but she had managed to escape.
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| Bolas then confessed to Teferi and his companions that he had observed the rift phenomenon and took responsibility for closing the Madaran rift, in a way: He had used Leshrac's life force to close the rift. Believing that it was unlikely Teferi and his band could forestall the imminent collapse of the multiverse, Bolas claimed that he had devised a plan to preserve himself in the event that happened. He then left for an unknown destination, likely Amonkhet.
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| Although the multiverse survived, Jeska's Mending spell changed the nature of the planeswalker's spark. Bolas, like all other "old planeswalkers" who survived past the Mending, lost a significant portion of his powers. Still, he retained the formidable powers of an Elder Dragon as well as his unmatched intellect.
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| At an undisclosed point directly after leaving Dominaria shortly, but before the Mending, Bolas turned his attention to Amonkhet, drawn to the strange metal named Lazotep and its reaction with . During his arrival, he found himself opposed by the eight gods of the world. Despite his waning power, the Elder Dragon proved to be a formidable enemy, laying waste to the population and driving the gods before him, until they gathered in the city of Naktamun for a desperate last stand. In secret, the god Bontu conspired with Bolas to betray her brethren. When the dragon broke through the protective barrier of the city, he cast a spell that killed every single adult being on the plane, weakening the gods enough to subdue them and corrupting them to worshiping him instead. Three gods were set aside and twisted in their forms to fully serve him, while the remaining gods were simply mind-controlled. The spells that maintained the corruption would be maintained by Bontu, who hoped to be rewarded by Bolas later. Using the mummified dead of the plane to raise the children, he built himself monuments and wrote prophecies that would tell of his glorious return. Drawing on the phenomenons like the Curse of Wandering, one of these promises when he returns, he will shatter the Hekma, the magical barrier protecting the populace of Amonkhet from the horrors of the broken lands, and call those who have passed the Trials of the Five Gods to his side to grant them a true afterlife. The remaining ones, including the gods themselves, will have to prove their worth to him just like the mortals they tested before. The theology of this religion were kept in the Accounting of Hours. Afterward, Bolas left, waiting for the time his scheme would pay off. Additionally, Bolas warped the Angels of the plane to serve as his agents.
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| Bolas also spread rumors that he was the one who had created Amonkhet, which was later reiterated by Liliana. The people of Amonkhet found his false prophecies that he will return when the second sun is positioned between the effigy of Bolas' horns on the plane. This is highly anticipated and reflected in figures of speech.
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| Sometime after The Mending, a severely weakened Bolas met with a wizened Liliana Vess. She was jealous of the fact he was seemingly unaffected by the mending. He berated her, stating that he had lost more power than she could learn in a dozen lifetimes. Bolas lamented that only a few years previously, planeswalkers like them were akin to living gods who exerted their power and influence throughout the multiverse. Bolas proceeded to act as a broker for four demons to form a contract with her, to restore some of her power and youth at the cost of her soul. His price for this service was unknown at the time. However, it is later revealed after Liliana kills all four demons, that in the event of the demons' deaths, the contract defaults in ownership to Bolas instead of being dissolved.
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| After the Mending, Bolas lost the ability to retain much of his 25,000 years' worth of arcane knowledge. He managed to escape to the plane of Alara where he began machinations while dwelling in the Shard of Grixis, claiming the necropolis of Kederekt as his own. He prepared to take advantage of the coming Conflux to regain his power, and started to manipulate certain individuals and organizations on the multiple shards to create an environment ripe with tension and ready for war:
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| *Bant: The Order of the Skyward Eye and Gwafa Hazid spread xenophobia and disorder along the borderlands of Bant's nations.
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| *Esper: The Seekers of Carmot warned Esperites about dwindling supplies of etherium, and created a fervent demand for the otherworldly red stone called sangrite.
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| *Grixis: Malfegor led massive armies of the undead, gathering hordes ready to invade the other shards and cut chaotic swaths through any living resistance they find.
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| *Jund: Rakka Mar stirred fervor for greater and greater "life hunts" among the warrior clans there.
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| *Naya: Marisi stimulated the emergence of the philosophical schism of the nacatl Cloud Empire and the revolt of the Wild Nacatl, that resulted in the destruction of most of the advanced Cloud Nacatl civilization and cities and in the cat-people nation's regression back to savagery.
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| Tezzeret survived a near-death experience on the shard of Esper, awakening his latent spark. He found himself on Grixis, atop the Kederekt. After fighting off several creatures, all of whom presumably hoped to gain favor with Bolas, the artificer was approached by the dragon himself. Bolas offered him power in exchange for servitude which Tezzeret accepted.
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| Disguised as a human, Bolas recruited the young Ral Zarek on Ravnica for several clandestine jobs.
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| Sometime after the Mending, Bolas founded an interplanar consortium which was usurped by Tezzeret in a bloody coup d'état. Bolas retained his mind-reading ability and Tezzeret, fearful for his secrets, tried to counter it by using Jace Beleren. This ended in disaster as Bolas easily overwhelmed both planeswalkers mentally, and the pair barely escaped with their lives, fleeing from Bolas's hired barbarian horde.
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| At the end of Jace's struggles, after he defeated Tezzeret in a duel and crushed the artificer's mind, it was revealed that this was all a plan Bolas agreed to in order to regain his consortium. Liliana Vess was the original architect of this plot and had approached Bolas with her plan. Bolas did not regain his organization, but he had obtained Tezzeret's still living but mindless and crippled body.
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| The full gravity of Bolas' plans came to fruition with Alara's conflux. Through the manipulation of the peoples of all five shards, his plan to trigger full-scale war erupted across Alara, awakening the obelisks of mana on each of the shards and causing the Maelstrom to grow in magnitude. Over the course of the conflict, he acquired the servitude of Sarkhan Vol to help spread seeds of destruction across Naya.
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| Ajani's quest to find his brother's killer eventually led him into conflict with Bolas, and knowing that he could not defeat the dragon-god himself, he summoned the essence of Bolas' own soul to fight for him. The ersatz dragon battled Bolas in perfect symmetry before they lunged at each other with powerful bites. Both connected simultaneously, and in a flash of light, the dragons disappeared. It is unknown how badly hurt Bolas was, having harvested the essence of most of the Maelstrom immediately prior to this climactic battle.
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| Bolas demonstrated great interest in the war on Mirrodin. He sent Tezzeret to observe and assess the rise of the New Phyrexians on the plane, and to serve as Bolas's eyes and ears in the Phyrexian hierarchy. Ultimately, the artificer's mission was to delay the rise of a central leader for as long as possible, a task that was doomed to fail.
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| At some point, Nicol Bolas took notice of the volatile nature of Zendikar. He investigated the Eye of Ugin and left after studying it. Long afterward, Bolas sent Vol to guard the Eye, to make sure nothing disturbed it.
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| Sarkhan was, however, misled. When Bolas had sought out and defeated Ugin, he had extracted a great deal of information about the Eldrazi and the lock that kept them contained. Knowing of the titans and what it would take to unleash them, Bolas sent Sarkhan to the Eye and manipulated the pyromancer Chandra Nalaar into arriving at the same time. Unfortunately, that only solved two-thirds of the problem, and so Bolas gambled that Jace would show up if prodded in that direction. The purpose of his manipulations was clear—the release of the Eldrazi. He had hoped that the event would lure a horde of planeswalkers in order to harvest their sparks. This scenario didn't play out.
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| On Amonkhet, Bolas's scheme worked as intended, with hundreds of the Worthy Dead being converted into his Eternal army. When he came to the plane and materialized above his throne in Naktamun, he found the city in ruins, the gods felled, and its population under assault from his minions. Pleased, he turned to the treacherous Bontu, commanding her to kill the last of the gods, Hazoret. When Bontu managed to defeat her sister, Bolas instead rewarded her with death, forcing numerous undead to tear her apart.
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| Seeing his plans come to fruition, Nicol Bolas now turned his attention on the Gatewatch, a meddlesome group of planeswalkers that had come together to stop the Eldrazi Titans on Zendikar. 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. Unknown to either Jace or Bolas, this attempt triggered a failsafe placed in Jace's mind by Ugin, to protect the secret of the latter's survival from Bolas, by temporarily wiping the mind mage's memory and forcing him to planeswalk to Ixalan, thus saving Jace's life (as well as Ugin's secrets). Turning to the rest of the Gatewatch, Bolas addressed Liliana and offered her a chance to survive the confrontation. Offering to tutor her in the use of the Chain Veil, the dragon demanded her to retreat to another plane where he would later contact her. The necromancer took the offer, even asking her teammates to join her, if in vain. 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 as well. Now facing Gideon, the sole remaining member of the Gatewatch, 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.
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| Only a few minutes later, Tezzeret appeared and was sent by Bolas to check on the progress of Ral Zarek. Reveling in his victory, Bolas celebrated the first steps in his plan for reclaiming his stolen power.
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| Bolas sent Tezzeret to Kaladesh to fetch a portable planar portal. He then sent Vraska to Ixalan to lay claim on the Immortal Sun. After Vraska had found the artifact, she summoned Tezzeret who took it away with his Planar Bridge.
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| After putting together some of Bolas' machinations on Ixalan and Amonkhet, Jace and Vraska theorized on Ixalan that something on the plane of Ravnica 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 interplanar army of immortals, 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 the leader of the Golgari. Other pawns included the likes of Dovin Baan for the Azorius and presumably Ral Zarek for the Izzet. Bolas later send a Dimir agent to plant a thought in the mind of Niv-Mizzet who ordered Ral to turn Project Lightning Bug into a beacon to call other planeswalkers to Ravnica. In addition Kaya was hired to assassinate the Ghost Council, and was placed in control of the Orzhov Syndicate. Domri Rade had taken control of the Gruul, and was counted upon to choose Bolas' side. Bolas also tried to divide the Selesnya Conclave, by controlling glademaster Garo. Meanwhile, Tezzeret prepared to deploy the Planar Bridge for the approaching battle.
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| When Bolas arrived on Ravnica, he was confronted by Niv-Mizzet. They engaged each other in epic combat that destroyed large portions of the city. The two dragons fought using a staggering array of magical, physical, and aerial attacks in which both drew blood. Bolas was even surprised when his mind-shattering touch could not penetrate the Firemind's mental barriers. As the fight wore on, Niv sensed his eventual defeat. After Niv collapsed a huge chunk of the city onto Bolas at a Simic zonot, Bolas emerged in a dark sphere of death and destruction, causing Niv to experience fear for the first time and leaped toward his impending death. In the end, Niv-Mizzet's skull and charred bones were all that remained.
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| After luring dozens of planeswalkers to Ravnica with the Interplanar Beacon, Bolas trapped them there through the use of the Immortal Sun. He claimed dominion over Ravnica and cast the Elderspell that harvested sparks and would grant him "ultimate power" and godhood.
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| Bolas installed Liliana as his Dreadhorde'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 before one harvested Dack Fayden'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. Gideon then sacrificed himself to save Liliana from the contract.
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| Liliana commanded Oketra and Bontu to attack Bolas. Unexpectedly, Niv-Mizzet impaled Nicol Bolas through the back with Hazoret's 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 Oketra, but the distraction allowed Bontu to bite Bolas and harvest all of the elder dragon's sparks, including Bolas's own. Bontu was not able to contain all the sparks and quickly ruptured into shards.
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| As the gathered planeswalkers charged at the weakened and desparked Bolas, Ugin telepathically reached out to Jace, explaining that he needed Bolas alive instead of dead. Citing how Bolas had cheated his death at the hands of Tetsuo Umezawa, 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.
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| Ugin wrapped Bolas in his wings while traveling through the Blind Eternities, taking him to the Meditation Realm. 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 Niv-Mizzet 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 summoned by another being ever again.
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| 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.
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| Credit to the MtG Wiki
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| ==Powers and Stats==
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| '''Key''': '''Current''' | '''Prime'''
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| '''[[Tiering System|Tier]]:''' '''6-C''' physically. '''Varies''' with [[Magic]], up to '''4-A''' with his more potent spells. Would eventually become at least '''Low 2-C''' with '''2-A''' [[Environmental Destruction]]/[[Restoration]] after [[Absorption|absorbing]] enough [[Soul Manipulation|sparks]] with the Elderspell | At least '''Low 2-C''', '''2-A''' [[Environmental Destruction]]/[[Restoration]]
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| '''Name:''' Nicol Bolas (Bolas when referred to by one name. Formerly just "Nicol", but added "Bolas" to be like his brethren and have two names), the Last Fallen (by other Elder Dragons during his youth as a form of mockery), The Forever Serpent, The Horned One, God-Emperor of Madara, "Sensei Ryu", "Lord Nicholas", Dominaria's Most Ancient Evil, The God-Pharaoh, the Deceiver, the Ravager, the Arisen, Dragon God, Master Venati, The Second Sun, The Mind-Ripper, The Deathbringer, the Winged Dark That Terrifies Your Dreams, The First to Witness the Sun Rise on Dominaria, and the Last to Watch it Set for the Final Time
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| '''Origin:''' [[Magic: the Gathering]]
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| '''Sex:''' Male
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| '''Age:''' 30,000+ to 50,000+ years old
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| '''Classification:''' Elder Dragon, Planeswalker, Former and would-be God-Emperor of the Multiverse
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| '''[[Status]]''': '''Alive''' (Banished within the prison realm until his natural death in thousands of years)
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| '''[[Alignment]]''': '''Chaotic Evil''' (Ever since Bolas witnessed the death of his sister, Merrevia Sal, he has become outraged and unadmittebly horrified of the idea of lesser beings killing stronger ones such as himself. Inspired by "the bright and fearless" sun and after his success of killing one of the hounds that was responsible for his sister's death, he has adopted the notion that the multiverse is a place of "The Hunters and the Hunted". Took the second name of Bolas to assume a larger place similar to that of his siblings. While living with Arcades Sabboth, he learned about the nature of humans and how they can be manipulated for his own gain. Having learned enough, he took Ugin to seek revenge for their sister's murder, and after tricking the dragon hunters into a quarrel between several factions, he took over as supreme leader. He then tried to use his brother for his own ends, causing Ugin to realize that Bolas had never truly cared for him at all, mentally shocking Ugin and causing his spark to ignite. Was so jealous of Ugin being a planeswalker that Bolas's own planeswalker spark ignited. After learning about Ugin and Azor's plans to end him once and for all, he went to Takir and found Yasova Dragonclaw, and showed her what she wanted: A future with no dragons. After killing Ugin a second time, he was still suspicious of activity that may bring him back from the dead once more. Killed the Empress of Madara and took her place, becoming the God-Emperor of Madara. After Tetsuo Umezawa killed Bolas's regen, Ramses Overdark, Bolas used his own spirit to confront Tetsuo himself. When he sensed that the planeswalker Teferi was lost in a rift and had become separated from his companions, he arranged for them to arrive on the Madaran beach near the Talon Gates. Using Venser's latent planeswalker spark, he was able to finally escape his prison and be fully reborn into the physical world, regaining his body by pulling a copy of it through the rift from an earlier point in time. When Teferi wished for a friendly duel against Bolas as a form of gratitude, Bolas effortlessly stomped and tortured the time mage, ripping his body into pieces. After which, he held Teferi's head in his hand, using it to taunt his allies, only letting Teferi live and heal after gaining the knowledge of collapsing planes from rifts. Bolas then planeswalked back to Kamigawa and vowed to destroy the Umezawa bloodline. Was not concerned about the rifts destroying the multiverse, as he had his own plans for if that happened. After the Mending, Bolas became obsessed with gaining his power back, killing everyone old enough to remember on Amonkhet and defeating all the gods and angels, and forged within them memories of Bolas being the sacred "God-Pharoah" of the plane. This would allow Bolas to create a massive army of spark harvesting Eternals. Berated Liliana on her loss of power from the Mending, making her sign a contract with four demons to gain power, but ultimately, Bolas was the true broker of the contract, making her serve Bolas. Began machinations on Alara while dwelling in the Shard of Grixis, claiming the necropolis of Kederekt as his own. He prepared to take advantage of the coming Conflux to regain his power, and started to manipulate certain individuals and organizations on the multiple shards to create an environment ripe with tension and ready for war: In Bant, the Order of the Skyward Eye and Gwafa Hazid spread xenophobia and disorder along the borderlands of Bant's nations. In Esper, the Seekers of Carmot warned Esperites about dwindling supplies of etherium, and created a fervent demand for the otherworldly red stone called sangrite. For Grixis, Malfegor led massive armies of the undead, gathering hordes ready to invade the other shards and cut chaotic swaths through any living resistance they find. In the form of a young boy, Bolas guided Thraximundar across the various shards, leaving destruction in his wake and feeding the Maelstrom. In Jund, Rakka Mar stirred fervor for greater and greater "life hunts" among the warrior clans there. Finally, in Naya, Marisi stimulated the emergence of the philosophical schism of the nacatl Cloud Empire and the revolt of the Wild Nacatl, that resulted in the destruction of most of the advanced Cloud Nacatl civilization and cities and in the cat-people nation's regression back to savagery. Offered Tezzeret power for his service, which Tezzeret accepted. Recruited a young Ral Zarek to do secret and illicit jobs.)
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| '''[[Dimensionality]]:''' '''3-D'''
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| '''[[Attack Potency]]:''' '''Island level''' physically (Likely the strongest planeswalker to exist after the mending. Portrayed to [https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/debatesjungle/images/b/b4/Conflux_%28fatpack%29.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200106135207 be able to fight against] [[Tezzeret]], [[Elspeth Tirel]], [[Ajani Goldmane]], and [[Sarkhan Vol]] simultaneously. Effortlessly stomped [[The Gatewatch]], casually flicking away [[Gideon Jura]] with his tail, and overpowering [[Jace Beleren]], [[Chandra Nalaar]], [[Liliana Vess]], and [[Nissa Revane]] with their own magic). '''Varies''' with [[Magic]] (Depends on the potency of the spell, most [[Durability Negation|ignore durability]]), up to '''Multi-Solar System level''' with his more potent spells (The Conflux is able to seal together and separate the five planes of Alara. Kruphix states that [https://gyazo.com/06b21635e1804d08038675c3e5f13c35 if Bolas was to enter Theros, he would destroy it and no gods would be able to stop him]). Would eventually become at least '''Low Complex Universe level''' with '''Hyper Multiverse level''' [[Environmental Destruction]]/[[Restoration]] after [[Absorption|absorbing]] enough [[Soul Manipulation|sparks]] with the Elderspell ([http://mythicspoiler.com/war/cards/sparkharvest.html The Elderspell's main purpose was to make Bolas ascend to godhood like how he was prior to the mending.] Stated that once the spell is complete, he will [http://mythicspoiler.com/war/cards/singlecombat.html become a threat to the multiverse] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0SqgSKO9GE&t=213s be able to remake it into his image]) | At least '''Low Complex Universe level''' (All Oldwalkers [https://gyazo.com/27e73de7804eb28c58a360fa452c0d5b are sentient universes] that are able to create planes that contain their own space-time continuum. Bolas is one of the strongest planeswalkers in the multiverse, overpowering [[Teferi]] and others), '''Hyper Multiverse level''' [[Environmental Destruction]]/[[Restoration]] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20080926101613/http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=magic/planeswalkers/week1 Able to create and seal rifts that expand across the multiverse] [https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/details.aspx?name=Retether and infinite time streams]. A Time Stream act as an additional time dimension for a multiverse, and there are infinite "multiverses" existing that each have an [https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/you-are-planeswalker-2008-07-25 infinite universes] that are "beyond measure" within them. Merely using magic along other Oldwalkers caused the multiverse to become unstable) | |
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| '''[[Durability]]:''' '''Island level''' physically, would eventually become at least '''Low Complex Universe level''' after absorbing enough sparks with the Elderspell. Immortality, Null Existence, and Regeneration make him difficult to kill | At least '''Low Complex Universe level'''. Immortality, Null Existence, and Regeneration make him difficult to kill
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| '''[[Striking Strength]]:''' '''Island Class''', would eventually become at least '''Low Complex Universal''' after absorbing enough sparks with the Elderspell | At least '''Low Complex Universal'''
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| '''[[Speed|Travel Speed]]:''' '''Unknown''', at least '''Transonic''' (Superior to the other planeswalkers), '''Extra-Temporal''' through planeswalking (Through planeswalking, Sorin can travel across the Blind Eternities, which [https://gyazo.com/2f2c847da6a3825ad13da5b713da065f pushes him through the tides of time], [https://gyazo.com/5a25e70c7819846ff3428d2a4c44705c the slopes of tomorrow that have already passed, and countless moments], as well as the Blind Eternities being a [https://gyazo.com/600a20ed4f760cfd8f5bcc0f73b8b418 void outside space and time] and is also [https://gyazo.com/09bab896ef0a35a51117d9b9563e8be2 of chaos, impossibility, and insanity]) | '''Extra-Temporal'''
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| '''[[Speed|Combat Speed]]:''' '''Extra-Temporal''' (Comparable to other planeswalkers, who can interact with other beings in the Blind Eternities, or fighting the Eldrazi, who are native to the Blind Eternities) | '''Extra-Temporal'''
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| '''[[Reactions|Reaction Speed]]:''' '''Extra-Temporal''' | '''Extra-Temporal'''
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| '''[[Stamina]]:''' Seemingly '''Limitless''' | '''Limitless'''
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| '''[[Intelligence]]:''' ([https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809131686540345347/819680270449377280/image0.png Knows how to use the Chain Veil without any side effects]. [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809131686540345347/819960053222211634/image0.png Dragons know their name since birth]. His vast intellect makes him view the rest of the multiverse as "playthings")
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| {{!}}-{{!}}Unique Powers='''[[Superhuman Physical Characteristics]]''', '''[[Planeswalker Physiology]]''' (Current, Grixis), '''[[Immortality]]''' (Types 1, 3, 7, and 8: Ugin states that Bolas would be killed, he would become a spirit just like him and [https://gyazo.com/5a31f96d96a0a030e5b5f4ef34852ffb Bolas states that he can get other bodies to possess]), '''[[Flight]]''', '''[[Large Size]]''' (Type 1, likely higher), '''[[Natural Weaponry]]''' (Claws, Tail), '''[[Breath Attack]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/890ae35680e63dc862f1be45b3f5ce80 Can breath out fire]), '''[[Mind Manipulation]]''', '''[[Death Manipulation]]''' (Capable of bringing death in just a touch), '''[[Power Modification]]''' and '''[[Statistics Reduction]]''' ([https://scryfall.com/card/hou/19/overwhelming-splendor?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Capable of making creatures losing all of their powers and becoming weak]. [https://scryfall.com/card/hou/97/hour-of-devastation?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Capable of removing indestructability]), '''[[Power Nullification]]''' (Through various counterspells, stated to be able to [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809131686540345347/809131733915664394/image2.png crush magic]. His mere presence [https://gyazo.com/dcfcaaf105a17af1eaf7185fa2ad67e7 makes it difficult to manipulate earth]), '''[[Information Analysis]]''' (Via [https://scryfall.com/card/ddh/65/deep-analysis?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Deep Analysis]), '''[[Null Existence]]''' (Type 3: Ugin implied that if Bolas were to be killed, he would revive similar to how he did in the mending and become a spirit like him), '''[[Madness Manipulation]]''' (Via [https://scryfall.com/card/dtk/163/tormenting-voice?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Tormenting Voice]. Turned Sarkhan mad), '''[[Curtain Fire]]''' and '''[[Fire Manipulation]]''' ([https://scryfall.com/card/hou/77/torment-of-hailfire?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Able to summon a massive amount of hailfire], which seems to '''[[Explosion Manipulation|explode on impact]]'''), '''[[Energy Projection]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/ce7219d23c74e98e465b8e2a5a20159f Able to use dark energy]), '''[[Blood Manipulation]]''' (Via [https://scryfall.com/card/m13/81/blood-reckoning?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Blood Reckoning]), '''[[Fear Manipulation]]''' (Via [https://scryfall.com/card/m13/84/cower-in-fear?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Cower in Fear]), '''[[Durability Negation]]''' ([https://scryfall.com/card/hou/13/gideons-defeat?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Negated Gideon's indestructability]), '''[[Magma Manipulation]]''' (Via [https://scryfall.com/card/afc/133/magmaquake?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Magmaquake]), '''[[Plant Manipulation]]''' ([https://scryfall.com/card/hou/123/nissas-defeat?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Used plants to] [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809131686540345347/819683194940031046/image0.png attack Nissa]), '''[[Soul Manipulation]]''', '''[[Life Manipulation]]''', and '''[[Death Manipulation]]''' ([https://scryfall.com/card/znc/100/soul-manipulation?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Can manipulate souls, and reverse life and death]), '''[[Necromancy]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/d6336ab09add9eaab301c25de287ff3e Can use necromancy]), '''[[Morality Manipulation]]''' and '''[[Empathic Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/be01f49123b7e083703f7f0206793ee4 His mere touch can manipulate thought and emotions]), '''[[Clairvoyance]]''' ([https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/images/magic/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic14_Pt1_DKD7.jpg With his orb]), '''[[Avatar Creation]]''' ([https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/images/magic/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic14_Pt1_DKD3.jpg Able to create] [https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/mtg/images/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic11_Pt3_ETE2.jpg small imps that are copies of himself]), '''[[Telepathy]]''' ([https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809131686540345347/819676410419478588/image0.png Stated to be able to use telepathy]), '''[[Resistance Manipulation]]''' ([https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809131686540345347/819678748579463247/image0.png Effortlessly destroyed Jace's mental defenses]), '''[[Illusion Creation]]''' ([https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/mtg/images/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic11_Pt3_ETE4.jpg Created a green illusion of Sarkhan]), '''[[Resurrection]]''' ([https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/mtg/images/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic4_TEZ_Pt3_7.jpg Revived] [https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/mtg/images/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic11_Pt3_ETE4.jpg Tezzeret]), '''[[Portal Creation]]''' ([https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/images/magic/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic14_Pt1_DKD3.jpg His imps can create portals]), '''[[Attack Reflection|Spell Redirection]]''' (Able to change the targets of spells), '''[[Nothingness Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/101bd02cf34e65d4cc82d2fa17ddfa5b Able to summon immense amounts of mana that reduces whatever it comes in contact with into nothingness]), '''[[Magic|Mana]]''' '''[[Absorption]]''' (Can cast Mana Drain, which counters a spell and absorbs its mana for the caster's own), '''[[Electricity Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/eccfdf3f82301fa3ac91674905315956 Able to summon black lightning]), '''[[Statistics Amplification]]''' and '''[[Power Bestowal]]''' (The Elderspell empowers all of the Dreadhorde, allowing them to harvest sparks), '''[[Nothingness Manipulation|Nothingness]]''' '''[[Absorption]]''' (Able to absorb the sparks of other planeswalkers, which are described to be parts of the Blind Eternities and ineffable), '''[[Reality Separation]]''' (Type 4: [https://gyazo.com/7fd6edc8dd8aaf2bc2dd7bfe5275592a Able to seperate himself from reality, making him untouchable by the gods of Amonkhet, who embody the plane's leylines of mana]), '''[[Creation]]''' and '''[[Perception Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/4cd5ad22016b09b1d8b4991e8715b135 Created a monument that is visable across the entire plane]), '''[[Deconstruction]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/bb609a903483c485295afe71f2465632 Able to dissolve objects by merely looking at them]), '''[[Law Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/a1e840c73ef8a452417dee3d22b1bb92 His powers were able to defy the very laws of nature itself]), '''[[Corruption]]''', '''[[Existence Erasure]]''' (Type 2, likely Type 4), '''[[Memory Manipulation]]''' and '''[[Conceptual Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/2408a84dfde3c502a15556d188caeb7d Directly erased anyone old enough to walk that weren't himself or the gods, destroying their souls in the process]. [https://gyazo.com/aa69c33a07bbfc8c204b8fc2eb586079 Manipulated the leylines of Amonkhet to corrupt three gods, causing them to lose all memory, tying their existence to himself, and erasing all else]), '''[[Vector Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/ee98e1d5abe6d69631b4f4f9d4482bd4 Stopped a spear and made it lose all force in an instant]), '''[[Curse Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/9f73ffb4b449a8bf6c622a2337123aa1 Cursed the sphinxes of Amonkhet from communicating verbally, nonverbally/telepathically, or any other sort of fasion]), '''[[Existence Grounding]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/0a94b5580ca6bcdb8a03fbe8c2b3c99b Superior to Nissa] [https://gyazo.com/a2fc09bb29c60fac29fbc4c937ca399f who binded and anchored] [https://gyazo.com/a86ae994fe9f88e6fab1e04f10390fc3 Ulamog's and Kozilek's true forms]), '''[[Telekinesis]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/8a4059ca66bfdb82019a3a24d8fce685 Can move the sun]) | | {{!}}-{{!}}Unique Powers=All previous powers, '''[[Planeswalker Physiology]]''' (Current, Grixis), '''[[Immortality]]''' (Types 1, 3, 7, and 8: Ugin states that Bolas would be killed, he would become a spirit just like him and [https://gyazo.com/5a31f96d96a0a030e5b5f4ef34852ffb Bolas states that he can get other bodies to possess]), '''[[Mind Manipulation]]''' (Able to shatter minds through mere thought or via contact), '''[[Death Manipulation]]''' (Capable of bringing death in just a touch), '''[[Power Modification]]''' and '''[[Statistics Reduction]]''' ([https://scryfall.com/card/hou/19/overwhelming-splendor?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Capable of making creatures losing all of their powers and becoming weak]. [https://scryfall.com/card/hou/97/hour-of-devastation?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Capable of removing indestructability]), '''[[Power Nullification]]''' (Through various counterspells, stated to be able to [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809131686540345347/809131733915664394/image2.png crush magic]. His mere presence [https://gyazo.com/dcfcaaf105a17af1eaf7185fa2ad67e7 makes it difficult to manipulate earth]), '''[[Information Analysis]]''' (Via [https://scryfall.com/card/ddh/65/deep-analysis?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Deep Analysis]), '''[[Null Existence]]''' (Type 3: Ugin implied that if Bolas were to be killed, he would revive similar to how he did in the mending and become a spirit like him), '''[[Madness Manipulation]]''' (Via [https://scryfall.com/card/dtk/163/tormenting-voice?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Tormenting Voice]. Turned Sarkhan mad), '''[[Curtain Fire]]''' and '''[[Fire Manipulation]]''' ([https://scryfall.com/card/hou/77/torment-of-hailfire?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Able to summon a massive amount of hailfire], which seems to '''[[Explosion Manipulation|explode on impact]]'''), '''[[Energy Projection]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/ce7219d23c74e98e465b8e2a5a20159f Able to use dark energy]), '''[[Blood Manipulation]]''' (Via [https://scryfall.com/card/m13/81/blood-reckoning?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Blood Reckoning]), '''[[Fear Manipulation]]''' (Via [https://scryfall.com/card/m13/84/cower-in-fear?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Cower in Fear]), '''[[Durability Negation]]''' ([https://scryfall.com/card/hou/13/gideons-defeat?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Negated Gideon's indestructability]), '''[[Magma Manipulation]]''' (Via [https://scryfall.com/card/afc/133/magmaquake?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Magmaquake]), '''[[Plant Manipulation]]''' ([https://scryfall.com/card/hou/123/nissas-defeat?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Used plants to] [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809131686540345347/819683194940031046/image0.png attack Nissa]), '''[[Soul Manipulation]]''', '''[[Life Manipulation]]''', and '''[[Death Manipulation]]''' ([https://scryfall.com/card/znc/100/soul-manipulation?utm_source=mw_MTGWiki Can manipulate souls, and reverse life and death]), '''[[Necromancy]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/d6336ab09add9eaab301c25de287ff3e Can use necromancy]), '''[[Morality Manipulation]]''' and '''[[Empathic Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/be01f49123b7e083703f7f0206793ee4 His mere touch can manipulate thought and emotions]), '''[[Clairvoyance]]''' ([https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/images/magic/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic14_Pt1_DKD7.jpg With his orb]), '''[[Avatar Creation]]''' ([https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/images/magic/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic14_Pt1_DKD3.jpg Able to create] [https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/mtg/images/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic11_Pt3_ETE2.jpg small imps that are copies of himself]), '''[[Telepathy]]''' ([https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809131686540345347/819676410419478588/image0.png Stated to be able to use telepathy]), '''[[Resistance Manipulation]]''' ([https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809131686540345347/819678748579463247/image0.png Effortlessly destroyed Jace's mental defenses]), '''[[Illusion Creation]]''' ([https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/mtg/images/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic11_Pt3_ETE4.jpg Created a green illusion of Sarkhan]), '''[[Resurrection]]''' ([https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/mtg/images/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic4_TEZ_Pt3_7.jpg Revived] [https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/mtg/images/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic11_Pt3_ETE4.jpg Tezzeret]), '''[[Portal Creation]]''' ([https://media.magic.wizards.com/image_legacy_migration/images/magic/daily/webcomics/EN_MTG_Comic14_Pt1_DKD3.jpg His imps can create portals]), '''[[Attack Reflection|Spell Redirection]]''' (Able to change the targets of spells), '''[[Nothingness Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/101bd02cf34e65d4cc82d2fa17ddfa5b Able to summon immense amounts of mana that reduces whatever it comes in contact with into nothingness]), '''[[Magic|Mana]]''' '''[[Absorption]]''' (Can cast Mana Drain, which counters a spell and absorbs its mana for the caster's own), '''[[Electricity Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/eccfdf3f82301fa3ac91674905315956 Able to summon black lightning]), '''[[Statistics Amplification]]''' and '''[[Power Bestowal]]''' (The Elderspell empowers all of the Dreadhorde, allowing them to harvest sparks), '''[[Nothingness Manipulation|Nothingness]]''' '''[[Absorption]]''' (Able to absorb the sparks of other planeswalkers, which are described to be parts of the Blind Eternities and ineffable), '''[[Reality Separation]]''' (Type 4: [https://gyazo.com/7fd6edc8dd8aaf2bc2dd7bfe5275592a Able to seperate himself from reality, making him untouchable by the gods of Amonkhet, who embody the plane's leylines of mana]), '''[[Creation]]''' and '''[[Perception Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/4cd5ad22016b09b1d8b4991e8715b135 Created a monument that is visable across the entire plane]), '''[[Deconstruction]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/bb609a903483c485295afe71f2465632 Able to dissolve objects by merely looking at them]), '''[[Law Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/a1e840c73ef8a452417dee3d22b1bb92 His powers were able to defy the very laws of nature itself]), '''[[Corruption]]''', '''[[Existence Erasure]]''' (Type 2, likely Type 4), '''[[Memory Manipulation]]''' and '''[[Conceptual Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/2408a84dfde3c502a15556d188caeb7d Directly erased anyone old enough to walk that weren't himself or the gods, destroying their souls in the process]. [https://gyazo.com/aa69c33a07bbfc8c204b8fc2eb586079 Manipulated the leylines of Amonkhet to corrupt three gods, causing them to lose all memory, tying their existence to himself, and erasing all else]), '''[[Vector Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/ee98e1d5abe6d69631b4f4f9d4482bd4 Stopped a spear and made it lose all force in an instant]), '''[[Curse Manipulation]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/9f73ffb4b449a8bf6c622a2337123aa1 Cursed the sphinxes of Amonkhet from communicating verbally, nonverbally/telepathically, or any other sort of fasion]), '''[[Existence Grounding]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/0a94b5580ca6bcdb8a03fbe8c2b3c99b Superior to Nissa] [https://gyazo.com/a2fc09bb29c60fac29fbc4c937ca399f who binded and anchored] [https://gyazo.com/a86ae994fe9f88e6fab1e04f10390fc3 Ulamog's and Kozilek's true forms]), '''[[Telekinesis]]''' ([https://gyazo.com/8a4059ca66bfdb82019a3a24d8fce685 Can move the sun]) |
| {{!}}-{{!}}Powers from Upscaling=Due to training others with these powers, or being superior to others in terms of a specific power, he should have the following: Selective '''[[Invulnerability]]''' and '''[[Power Nullification]]''' (Angels from Amonkhet, Aven Mindcensors), '''[[Precognition]]''' (Augurs of Bolas), '''[[Mind Manipulation|Mind]]''' and '''[[Information Manipulation|Information]]''' '''[[Absorption]]''' (Disciples of Bolas), '''[[Healing]]''' (God-Pharaoh's Faithful), '''[[Mind Manipulation|Thought]]''' '''[[Power Nullification|Nullification]]''' (Aven Mindcensors), '''[[Telepathy|Mind Reading]]''' and '''[[Power Mimicry]]''' (Mindclaw Shamans), | | {{!}}-{{!}}Powers from Upscaling=Due to training others with these powers, or being superior to others in terms of a specific power, he should have the following: Selective '''[[Invulnerability]]''' and '''[[Power Nullification]]''' (Angels from Amonkhet, Aven Mindcensors), '''[[Precognition]]''' (Augurs of Bolas), '''[[Mind Manipulation|Mind]]''' and '''[[Information Manipulation|Information]]''' '''[[Absorption]]''' (Disciples of Bolas), '''[[Healing]]''' (God-Pharaoh's Faithful), '''[[Mind Manipulation|Thought]]''' '''[[Power Nullification|Nullification]]''' (Aven Mindcensors), '''[[Telepathy|Mind Reading]]''' and '''[[Power Mimicry]]''' (Mindclaw Shamans), |
| {{!}}-{{!}}Equipment='''[[Portal Creation]]''', '''[[Absorption]]''', '''[[BFR]]''', '''[[Reality Warping]]''', '''[[Nothingness Manipulation]]''', '''[[Life Manipulation]]''', and '''[[Transmutation]]''' (With the Planar Bridge), '''[[Social Influencing]]''' (With the Interplanar Beacon), '''[[Necromancy]]''' (God-Pharaoh's Gift), '''[[Empathic Manipulation]]''' (God-Pharaoh's Statue), '''[[Power Nullification]]''' (Crook of Condemnation), '''[[Dimensional Travel]]''' '''[[Power Nullification|Negation]]''' (The Immortal Sun prevents planeswalking) | | {{!}}-{{!}}Equipment='''[[Portal Creation]]''', '''[[Absorption]]''', '''[[BFR]]''', '''[[Reality Warping]]''', '''[[Nothingness Manipulation]]''', '''[[Life Manipulation]]''', and '''[[Transmutation]]''' (With the Planar Bridge), '''[[Social Influencing]]''' (With the Interplanar Beacon), '''[[Necromancy]]''' (God-Pharaoh's Gift), '''[[Empathic Manipulation]]''' (God-Pharaoh's Statue), '''[[Power Nullification]]''' (Crook of Condemnation), '''[[Dimensional Travel]]''' '''[[Power Nullification|Negation]]''' (The Immortal Sun prevents planeswalking) |