Train's Nicol Bolas deck...

[Reverend Love]

Here's your Nicol Bolas deck Train...I figured since Bolas is "Lord of Teh Dragens" we might as well give'er a Dragon theme. ...but sneaky Dragons. Pretty simple to play. Use the acceleration to get out both Sneak Attack and Kavu Lair...then here comes the tricky part...play Dragons..lots of them. With two Kavu Lairs out your getting a 1 for 2 draw ratio..not bad. Rotor Rooter Kavu keeps those dragons available. Also threw in some nifty Albaster Dragons..after sac'ing them stick'm back in the deck. Bladwing raises a pal.

Main Cards: 8
4 Sneak Attack
4 Kavu Lair

Dragons/Varmints: 13
1 Bladewing the Risen
1 Dragon Mage
1 Dragon Tyrant
4 Alabaster Dragon
1 Rorix Bladewing
1 Nicol Bolas
4 Rooting Kavu

Spells/Support: 17
4 Tinderwall (old school R/G acceleration)
4 Llanowar Elves
3 Explosive Vegetation
2 Naturalize
4 Rampant Growth

Land: 22 <------------------No need to get fancy here unless desired
11 Forest
11 Mountains

 

[Reverend Love]

Here's a Spikier version running wurms instead of Dragons as the theme. The more I thought about it the more explosive vegetation and rampant growth just don't work well in this deck...I mean if you lay down a 1st turn l.e, 2nd you got a tinderwall and Sneak attack in hand whatcha gonna cast? This version actually takes advantage of the Sneak Attack drawback and in turn has a few built in recursion...looks good on paper so far.

Main Cards: 8
4 Sneak Attack
4 Kavu Lair

Dragons/Varmints: 16
4 Penumbra Wurm
4 Symbiotic Wurm
2 Endless Wurm
4 Rooting Kavu
2 Genesis

Spells/Support: 14
4 Tinderwall (old school R/G acceleration)
4 Llanowar Elves
2 Naturalize
4 Birds of Paradise

Land: 22
4 Taiga
11 Forest
7 Mountains

 

[train]

I liked the deck enough to build upon it... I like speed - fast speed... but control included... here is my idea below...

Reverend - Thanks for the original idea...

Most Proud of Sneak Attack Nicol Bolas...
Honorable Mention - Weird Harvest - Perfect setup for Nicol Bolas

Main Cards: 8
4 Sneak Attack
3 Kavu Lair

Dragons/Varmints: 13
1 Bladewing the Risen
1 Dragon Mage
1 Dragon Tyrant
4 Crater Hellion
1 Rorix Bladewing
4 Nicol Bolas
4 Rooting Kavu

Spells/Support: 17
Mana Vault
Sol Ring
Grim Monolith
Mishra's Helix
4 Llanowar Elves
2 Explosive Vegetation
2 Naturalize
2 Rampant Growth
2 Weird Harvest

Land: 22
4 Taiga
4 Karplusan Forest
7 Mtn
6 Forest
1 Shivan Gorge

 

[Mikeymike]

Ugh, Nicol Bolas in a Sneak deck - what a kick in the nuts.

A cool card for casual Sneak deck is Reincarnation - its GREEN reanimation from Legends. Pretty cheap too.

Don't forget Mr. Weatherseed Treefolk either, he plays nice with the Kavu Lair.

I don't think you need Mishra's Helix in there. If you making them discard their hand, tapping their lands is just insult to injury.

Awesome tech with the Weird Harvest BTW.

 

[Reverend Love]

Train..the cheese...it's all in'ma hair. ...it's so warm...the cheese..the cheese of setting up a Nicol Bolas with weird Harvest.

You know..we could get absolutely retarded with this Weird Harvest/Nicol Bolas thing if we wanted...but it would stray from the Dragon theme...wanna give it a go?

 

[Rooser]

This reminds me of my friend's bazaar/reanimator deck.

Before Entomb got restricted he could often do this first turn:

Dark Rit, Entomb, (Nicol Bolas), Shallow Grave.

I haven't even had a turn yet and I'm at 13 and discarding my hand.

 

[train]

Oh - I didn't forget about Weatherseed...

And Weird/Nicol is kind of mean...

But after dropping Nicol and smashing for 7, and discarding their hand...

I thought of tapping a green and colorless to play a tempting wurm...

"W-R-O-N-G!!!..."