"Let me unburden you of these fatuous hopes."
- Nicol Bolas
- Nicol Bolas
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager: Our God is an Awesome God is a Grixis control deck that seeks to stymie its opponents with disruption spells until it can slowly take over the game with its relentless suite of answers and card draw, all while applying pressure to hand sizes with our commander with repeated casts after removal if need be. The idea is to rely on our inevitability to run our opponents out of options while we maintain a steady supply of answers.
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It's a control deck, doing control deck things. The primary game plan in the first three turns is to make all of our land drops, hit a mana rock on turn 2, and cast our commander on turn 3 to start running people out of options as soon as possible.
The odds to do this are around 54% (66.994% x 80.038% = 53.62%), which is pretty reasonable, I think. Failing to accomplish this goal doesn't mean game over, as there are plenty of cheap spells to cast to get you through the early game if this fails.
After that, we either sit back and defend our life total, or aggressively go after the biggest threat with our evasive beats depending on how things are going. Counter anything that directly threatens you, remove what directly threatens you, and board wipe only when absolutely necessary, preferably with counter back up.
The primary win conditions are, of course, Runechanter's Pike, Nicol Bolas, the Arisen, and Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God. If you can protect your life total and ride things out to the 1v1 phase of the game, you're in fantastic shape.