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# Nicol Bolas, Archenemy: Reimagined # Nicol Bolas, Archenemy: Reimagined
Nicol Bolas, Archenemy: Reimagined is a variant on the original Nicol Bolas, Archenemy, which switches it to Commander/Oathbreaker-style decks (see below for the "-style" part) and attempts to solve some critical problems with the original. This variant features 5 prebuilt decks, representing Nicol Bolas, the 3 original Gatewatch members from Nicol Bolas, Archenemy (Nissa Revane, Chandra Nalaar, and Gideon Jura), and Jace Beleren. Nicol Bolas, Archenemy: Reimagined is a variant on the original Nicol Bolas, Archenemy, designed to solve some issues we noticed with the original product. This variant features 5 prebuilt, Commander/Oathbreaker-style decks, representing Nicol Bolas, the 3 original Gatewatch members from Nicol Bolas, Archenemy (Nissa Revane, Chandra Nalaar, and Gideon Jura), and Jace Beleren, along with some rules tweaks to help improve the variability of games.
#### Table of Contents
* [What Nicol Bolas, Archenemy: Reimagined is trying to do](#what-nicol-bolas-archenemy-reimagined-is-trying-to-do)
* [Deck Construction Notes](#deck-construction-notes)
* [Nicol Bolas, Archenemy: Reimagined Decklists](#nicol-bolas-archenemy-reimagined-decklists)
* [How To Play Nicol Bolas, Archenemy: Reimagined](#how-to-play-nicol-bolas-archenemy-reimagined)
## What Nicol Bolas, Archenemy: Reimagined is trying to do ## What Nicol Bolas, Archenemy: Reimagined is trying to do
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The new version keeps the first ability of the original as-is, changes the second ability to be an extra land drop whenever a planeswalker (i.e. Nissa) enters the battlefield, and increases the cost to {G}{G} to compensate for the slightly increased power here (comparable to Explore). Since we decided to proxy chunks of the decks anyways, this was a trivial change for us, but you can choose not to use it should you wish; that said, we feel it helps keep parity between the 4 Gatewatch decks and avoids a feel-bad moment when the Nissa player realizes her Oath has no functional planeswalker-enters ability like the others have. If we were WotC, we'd very likely make an entirely new cycle for this purpose, but since we're not, we felt keeping the change as small as possible was important. The new version keeps the first ability of the original as-is, changes the second ability to be an extra land drop whenever a planeswalker (i.e. Nissa) enters the battlefield, and increases the cost to {G}{G} to compensate for the slightly increased power here (comparable to Explore). Since we decided to proxy chunks of the decks anyways, this was a trivial change for us, but you can choose not to use it should you wish; that said, we feel it helps keep parity between the 4 Gatewatch decks and avoids a feel-bad moment when the Nissa player realizes her Oath has no functional planeswalker-enters ability like the others have. If we were WotC, we'd very likely make an entirely new cycle for this purpose, but since we're not, we felt keeping the change as small as possible was important.
## Decklists ## Nicol Bolas, Archenemy: Reimagined Decklists
All decklists are in [this folder](https://archidekt.com/folders/528425) for possible future additions. All decklists are in [this folder](https://archidekt.com/folders/528425) for possible future additions.
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Thus for example, if Bolas is at 5 life, his Commanders each cost {5} less to cast (ignoring the possible Commander tax, making Bolas himself cost {U}{G}{R} and Liliana cost {B}{B}). Thus for example, if Bolas is at 5 life, his Commanders each cost {5} less to cast (ignoring the possible Commander tax, making Bolas himself cost {U}{G}{R} and Liliana cost {B}{B}).
It probably won't help that much in most games, but we felt it was very flavourful. It probably won't help that much in most games, but we felt it was very flavourful, giving the player one last chance to make an impact with the Commanders before defeat.
All other gameplay rules from Nicol Bolas, Archenemy apply (shared Gatewatch team turn, cross-blockers, Schemes, Archenemy-goes-first, etc.). All other gameplay rules from Nicol Bolas, Archenemy apply (shared Gatewatch team turn, cross-blockers, Schemes, Archenemy-goes-first, etc.).