Nicol Bolas

“	There is no greater folly than standing against me.	„
	~ Nicol Bolas

Summary

Though now Nameless, Nicol Bolas was a Planeswalker as well as an Elder Dragon, one of only seven who survived The Elder Dragon War. He along with his Kin were born from Ur-Dragon. Originally being a Planeswalker before the Mending occurred, Nicol Bolas is considered one of the oldest beings in The Multiverse and one of the most dangerous as well. Known for his cunning genius intellect as well as his vast spanning knowledge, Nicol Bolas is a tyrant whose name is spread across The Multiverse. Knowing how to utilize three types of Mana and Death itself he conquered entire worlds and destroyed them as well.

Considering himself a Dragon-God, Nicol Bolas' ambition is truly one to be feared, with his goals and plans capable of spanning planes and threatening The Multiverse.

Powers and Stats

Tier: High 3-A, possibly Low 2-C | 4-A | Low 2-C, possibly 2-A

Key: Oldwalker Nicol Bolas (Pre-Mending) | Neowalker Nicol Bolas (Post-Mending) | Neowalker Nicol Bolas (Test of Metal) | Elderspell Nicol Bolas (War of the Spark)

Name: Nicol Bolas, God-Emperor of Madara, Dominaria's Most Ancient Evil, The Forever Serpent, The God Pharaoh, "Sensei Ryu", "Lord Nicholas"

Origin: Magic: The Gathering

Gender: Male

Age: 25,000+ Years Old

Classification: Elder Dragon, Planeswalker, Multiversal Tyrant

Powers and Abilities:

• Oldwalker Nicol Bolas (Pre-Mending)
• Neowalker Nicol Bolas (Post-Mending)
• Neowalker Nicol Bolas (Test of Metal)
• Elderspell Nicol Bolas (War of the Spark)

• Powers & Abilities
• Resistances

• Oldwalker Abilities
• Cosmic Awareness (As an Oldwalker Nicol Bolas' reach could span across the entirety of The Multiverse and his mind was capable of encompassing entire worlds across it)
• Telekinesis (He could control the movement of an entire sun over an extremely long peroid of time)
• Absorption (Nicol Bolas as an Oldwalker was capable of absorbing raw mana from five separate planes)
• Voice Mimicry (Nicol Bolas' cry could mimic the sound of countless predators and can shake buildings)
• Illusion Creation (Nicol Bolas is capable of creating illusions)
• Dimensional Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can reduce someone into a 2-D object)
• Mind Manipulation & Death Manipulation (Nicol Bolas' touch can scramble minds. It's potent enough to reduce a mortal's mind to ash and utilizes death magic. Nicol Bolas can easily penetrate mental fortifications and bring even Jace close to Mind-Death. He can also use Mind-Control. By simply tilting his chin he can split an Immortal God's mind and with a wave of his hand he can knock them unconscious)
• Madness Manipulation (Type 2; Nicol Bolas can drain a person's sanity by stabbing their mind through magic)
• Transmutation & Morality Manipulation (Nicol Bolas was capable of turning the angels of Amonkhet into twisted reflections of himself. They carry out his will loyally despite who they were before)
• Biological Manipulation, Pain Manipulation & Perception Manipulation (Nicol Bolas' touch makes your blood burst & blood boil. Altering your perception of self and time, his touch makes you experience burning alive and being drowned, starved, and fat. Torn to millions of pieces and instantly put together endlessly for all time)
• Fear Manipulation (Nicol Bolas' presence can make one so fearful that they couldn't speak and could hardly breath, freezing their thoughts)
• Curse Manipulation (Nicol Bolas could curse the sphinxes of Amonkhet so that they could never communicate again, verbally, nonverbally (Mentally for example) or physically)
• Empathic Manipulation & Morality Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can manipulate thought and emotions with his touch. It's so potent it can have one act on his will without them realizing it)
• Soul Manipulation & Life Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can split a being's essence in two, an experience which sunders the mind and body. Nicol Bolas can reverse Life & Death by manipulating the soul. Nicol Bolas can burn someone's soul using his mind alone)
• BFR (Nicol Bolas can banish someone's soul to another world. Even someone who just became an Planeswalker can take others with them into The Blind Eternities)
• Necromancy (Nicol Bolas is he can use Necromancy to a similar degree to Liliana Vess)
• Age Manipulation (Nicol Bolas is stated to be capable of slowing down his own aging utilizing magic)
• Summoning (Nicol Bolas can summon fire elementals)
• Attack Reflection (Nicol Bolas can create protective webs that repel magic attacks including existence erasure. Nicol Bolas can reflect incoming damage and attacks done to and send it back to their source. He could even reflect the effects of this attack. Which would cause instant death, corruption, melting of flesh, capable of destroying body and mind)
• Power Nullification (Nicol Bolas is capable of using counterspells. Counterspells can be used for negating summonings, attacks both magical and physical, enchantments/curses, and even other counterspells)
• Invulnerability Negation (Nicol Bolas could strip Gideon of his Invulnerability)
• Forcefield Destruction (Nicol Bolas can break through magical barriers)
• Seal Unravelling (Nicol Bolas can unravel magical seals)
• Sealing (Nicol Bolas is more adept at utilizing Leylines than Nissa Revane capable of overriding her control. She could bind the Eldrazi Titan's Kozilek & Ulamog to Zendikar using Leylines. This even effected their higher dimensional selves. Its stated that this anchored them to reality, removing their Invunerability and Immortality while also making them targetable by any spell or ability)
• Vector Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can make something lose all speed and force in an instant)
• Reality Warping & Chaos Manipulation (Nicol Bolas was capable of creating rifts with his attacks which are endless in size and can distort reality, venting out chaos. Nicol Bolas can separate himself a half-step from reality making him untouchable. He can still cast spells in this state)
• Creation & Perception Manipulation (Nicol Bolas could create an entire monument for himself and enchant it to appear stationary from every angle. Oldwalkers can simply create things out of Aether alone with a single thought)
• Space-Time Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can break free of time and space, and also bend time to his will, overruling others' control over it. His attacks are capable of warping space. Although the novels legitimacy is questionable it is stated Nicol Bolas had 'Omnipotent' mastery over time and space as an Oldwalker letting him perform feats similar to what's obtained through Clockworking)
• Dimension Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can turn beings two-dimensional without weight or mass)
• Breath Attack & Deconstruction (Nicol Bolas can shoot fire from his mouth. He can also shoot a ball of vapor that can reduce one's body to dust and disrupt thinking. With just a glance Nicol Bolas can dissolve things)
• Possible Law Manipulation (The Gods of Amonkhet stated Nicol Bolas' powers defied the laws of nature)
• Electricity Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can create black lightning imbued with death magic and reduce beings to dust)
• Existence Erasure (Nicol Bolas can create sheer masses of mana that reduce things to nonexistence. Nicol Bolas' power is so potent a single touch can destroy both the body and mind. With a single spell he wiped countless people from existence including their souls)
• Afterimage Creation (Nicol Bolas can create afterimages when he planewalks to avoid attacks)
• Energy Projection (Nicol Bolas can shoot projectiles of dark energy)
• Fire Manipulation & Danmaku (Nicol Bolas can control dark flames and have them rain down from the sky to devour everything they touch. He can also launch an all-out barrage of spells. Nicol Bolas destroyed the entire plane of Skalla burning it with fire so hot it turned white)
• Teleportation (Nicol Bolas can teleport)
• Transmutation, Air Manipulation & Ice Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can use his wings to create a large gust of wind and turn each pebble and grain of sand into an ice-based attack. Each one is capable of freezing a limb solid)
• Power Mimicry (Nicol Bolas could replicate a spell he had only seen a few seconds ago)
• Energy Manipulation & Light Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can form attacks out of energy and light)
• Corruption (Type 1; Nicol Bolas can corrupt beings through the earth and vegetation. He can also corrupt gods, forcing them to forget their origins, linking their existence to him and erasing everything else)

• Oldwalker Resistances
• Corruption & Acid Manipulation (Nicol Bolas paid no mind to a being's touch which could corrupt the body and cause flesh to melt)
• Paralysis Inducement (Nicol Bolas can shake off the effects of paralysis)
• Fire Manipulation (Nicol Bolas could completely ignore Chandra's Flames)
• Earth Manipulation & Plant Manipulation (Nicol Bolas' very presence makes it difficult to manipulate the earth. He could also override others' control over the earth)

• Powers & Abilities
• Resistances

Vastly weaker in comparison to his Oldwalker self and has lost a lot of abilities.

• Planeswalker Abilities
• Telekinesis (Oldwalkers seemed to have the ability to use Telekinesis with no spells required. He could control the movement of an entire sun over an extremely long peroid of time)
• Voice Mimicry (Nicol Bolas' cry could mimic the sound of countless predators and can shake buildings)
• Illusion Creation (Nicol Bolas is capable of creating illusions)
• Mind Manipulation & Death Manipulation (Nicol Bolas' touch can scramble minds. It's potent enough to reduce a mortal's mind to ash and utilizes death magic. Nicol Bolas can easily penetrate mental fortifications and bring even Jace close to Mind-Death. He can also use Mind-Control. By simply tilting his chin he can split an Immortal God's mind and with a wave of his hand he can knock them unconscious)
• Madness Manipulation (Type 2; Nicol Bolas can drain a person's sanity by stabbing their mind through magic)
• Biological Manipulation, Pain Manipulation & Perception Manipulation (Nicol Bolas' touch makes your blood burst & blood boil. Altering your perception of self and time, his touch makes you experience burning alive and being drowned, starved, and fat. Torn to millions of pieces and instantly put together endlessly for all time)
• Transmutation & Morality Manipulation (Nicol Bolas was capable of turning the angels of Amonkhet into twisted reflections of himself. They carry out his will loyally despite who they were before)
• Fear Manipulation (Nicol Bolas' presence can make one so fearful that they couldn't speak and could hardly breath, freezing their thoughts)
• Curse Manipulation (Nicol Bolas could curse the sphinxes of Amonkhet so that they could never communicate again, verbally, nonverbally (Mentally for example) or physically)
• Empathic Manipulation & Morality Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can manipulate thought and emotions with his touch. It's so potent it can have one act on his will without them realizing it)
• Soul Manipulation & Life Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can split a being's essence in two, an experience which sunders the mind and body. Nicol Bolas can reverse Life & Death by manipulating the soul. Nicol Bolas can burn someone's soul using his mind alone)
• BFR (Nicol Bolas can banish someone's soul to another world)
• Necromancy (Nicol Bolas states he can use Necromancy to a similar degree to Liliana Vess)
• Summoning (Nicol Bolas can summon fire elementals)
• Attack Reflection (Nicol Bolas can create protective webs that repel magic attacks including existence erasure. Nicol Bolas can reflect incoming damage and attacks done to and send it back to their source. He could even reflect the effects of this attack. Which would cause instant death, corruption, melting of flesh, capable of destroying body and mind)
• Power Nullification (Nicol Bolas is capable of using counterspells. Counterspells can be used for negating summonings, attacks both magical and physical, enchantments/curses, and even other counterspells)
• Invulnerability Negation (Nicol Bolas could strip Gideon of his Invulnerability)
• Forcefield Destruction (Nicol Bolas can break through magical barriers)
• Seal Unravelling (Nicol Bolas can unravel magical seals)
• Sealing (Nicol Bolas is more adept at utilizing Leylines than Nissa Revane capable of overriding her control. She could bind the Eldrazi Titan's Kozilek & Ulamog to Zendikar using Leylines. This even effected their higher dimensional selves. Its stated that this anchored them to reality, removing their Invunerability and Immortality while also making them targetable by any spell or ability)
• Vector Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can make something lose all speed and force in an instant)
• Spatial Manipulation (His attacks are capable of warping space)
• Reality Warping (Nicol Bolas can separate himself a half-step from reality making him untouchable. He can still cast spells in this state)
• Creation & Perception Manipulation (Nicol Bolas could create an entire monument for himself and enchant it to appear stationary from every angle. Oldwalkers can simply create things out of Aether alone with a single thought)
• Dimension Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can turn beings two-dimensional without weight or mass)
• Breath Attack & Deconstruction (Nicol Bolas can shoot fire from his mouth. He can also shoot a ball of vapor that can reduce one's body to dust and disrupt thinking. With just a glance Nicol Bolas can dissolve things)
• Possible Law Manipulation (The Gods of Amonkhet stated Nicol Bolas' powers defied the laws of nature)
• Electricity Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can create black lightning imbued with death magic and reduce beings to dust)
• Existence Erasure (Nicol Bolas can create sheer masses of mana that reduce things to nonexistence. Nicol Bolas' power is so potent a single touch can destroy both the body and mind. With a single spell he wiped countless people from existence including their souls)
• Afterimage Creation (Nicol Bolas can create afterimages when he planewalks to avoid attacks)
• Energy Projection (Nicol Bolas can shoot projectiles of dark energy)
• Fire Manipulation & Danmaku (Nicol Bolas can control dark flames and have them rain down from the sky to devour everything they touch. He can also launch an all-out barrage of spells. Nicol Bolas destroyed the entire plane of Skalla burning it with fire so hot it turned white)
• Teleportation (Nicol Bolas can teleport)
• Transmutation, Air Manipulation & Ice Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can use his wings to create a large gust of wind and turn each pebble and grain of sand into an ice-based attack. Each one is capable of freezing a limb solid)
• Power Mimicry (Nicol Bolas could replicate a spell he had only seen a few seconds ago)
• Energy Manipulation & Light Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can form attacks out of energy and light)
• Corruption (Type 1; Nicol Bolas can corrupt beings through the earth and vegetation. He can also corrupt gods, forcing them to forget their origins, linking their existence to him and erasing everything else)

• Planeswalker Resistances
• Fire Manipulation (Nicol Bolas could completely ignore Chandra's Flames)
• Earth Manipulation & Plant Manipulation (Nicol Bolas' very presence makes it difficult to manipulate the earth. He could also override others' control over the earth)

• Powers & Abilities
• Resistances

All previous Neowalker abilities along with

• Multiple Selves (Multiple Minds: Nicol Bolas states a dragon's mind is incomprehensible to humans as it is simply that much more complex. His brain in particular is even more so beyond the imagination of other dragons. He is capable of creating sub brains to manage and multitask pretty much anything. He could compartmentalize his entire mind of over twenty-five thousand years of memories, organizing a mental structure so he could access any and all information he had without the need to sift through it. He also has no need to handle any cognitive processes himself, as the virtual minds within him handle all knowledge, experience, and skills so he doesn't have to do it himself. He can also assign sub minds to handle a certain task like researching interactions or conversations, or managing puppets in the middle of a fight)
• Extrasensory Perception (Nicol Bolas has both physical and magical senses, they allowed him to gauge the power of himself from another timeline)
• Etherium Manipulation (Nicol Bolas stated he created the beings who taught Tezzeret how to utilize Etherium and can do anything they could do. Nicol Bolsa woudl be capable of replicating all of Tezzerets Etherium and Metal Manipulating Abilities. )
• Transmutation & Telekinesis (Nicol Bolas can use shaping and telecines in combination to turn an opponent's own armor into a weapon against them)
• Higher-Dimensional Existence (Nicol Bolas states his mind if fourth dimensional, capable of navigating a fifth dimensional space)
• Clairvoyance (Nicol Bolas can utilize Clockworking, with it he can see into possible futures and events as they become more predetermined)
• Time Manipulation & Resistance Negation (Using Clockworking you can create a hypertemporal field to reduce things to dust in an instant. With Clockworking you can also control one's personal temporal field in ways that bypass protection against normal time magic)
• Limited Acausality (Type 4; Nicol Bolas can erase himself from time and existence)
• Duplication (Nicol Bolas can create exact duplicates through Clockworking)
• Sleep Manipulation (Nicol Bolas could make Baltrice fall asleep with a gesture)
• Mind Manipulation (Nicol Bolas can erase a being's mind turning them into nothing but a lifeless doll)
• Time Travel & Probability Manipulation (Using Clockworking you can treat time as if it's just another spatial dimension moving through it at will. You can pick and choose the outcome of entire events, though the more improbable the harder it is)
• Forcefield Creation (Using Clockworking one can create hyper temporal barriers that slowdown time to stop attacks)

All previous resistances along with

• Memory Manipulation (Nicol Bolas could completely stop Jace's attempts at effecting his memory turning him into nothing but a lifeless doll)

• Powers & Abilities

All previous Neowalker & Oldwalker abilities along with

• Existence Erasure (With a thought Nicol Bolas could Obliterate Oketra)
• Sound Manipulation & Fear Manipulation (By speaking into his gem which contained his power from The Elderspell, Nicol Bolas could spread his voice across The Multiverse spreading terrors and nightmares)

Attack Potency: High Universe level, possibly Universe level+ (Upon awakening their spark an Oldwalker becomes one with the Universe and obtains infinite power through their sparks. Nicol Bolas in particular, is stated to be capable of creating and destroying entire worlds, some worlds are described as being Infinite is size. This is clarified in this statement here stating he can create and destroy entire planes of existence.) | At least Multi-Solar System level (Nyx is the night sky on the Plane Theros and is home to the gods. Like the night sky, Nyx is stated to contain stars, with The Gods inhabiting its constellations. This is because The Gods of Theros have their physical forms entwined with Nyx, and they are displayed as cosmic entities made up of interstellar dust and constellations. It was stated by Kruphix, The Eldest of The Gods that if Nicol Bolas ever came to their plane, even The Gods of Theros may be powerless to stop him and Theros would be destroyed) | At least Universe level+, possibly Multiverse level+ (Within the first few seconds of using of The Elderspell Nicol Bolas obtained power equal to his Oldwalker self. It's stated by Ugin that if nothing is done to stop him, he would become a threat to The Multiverse, with no Planeswalkers doubting his ability to do that. Just by speaking into his gem which contained his power from The Elderspell, his voice spread across The Multiverse spreading terrors and nightmares. The Elderspell is specifically stated that once complete the user becomes 'Omnipotent' and by utilizing it Nicol Bolas states in MTGA that he has the ability to remake the entire Multiverse, which is infinite)

Speed: Infinite (Nicol Bolas could move so fast that he warped space and could even appear to be everywhere at once. This scene is to be taken literally as he was traveling across the entire length and breadth of The Multiverse which is stated to be infinite) | At least Massively Hypersonic (Nicol Bolas fought against Niz-Mizzet who utilized with Lightning through their entire fight and managed not only defeat him but also kill him), possibly Infinite (Nicol Bolas was capable of travelling across the entire Multiverse, though it is unknown if he can move at the same speeds as before) | Infinite (Within the first few seconds of using of The Elderspell Nicol Bolas obtained power equal to his Oldwalker self)

Lifting Strength: Unknown, Stellar with Telekinesis (He could control the movement of an entire sun over an extremely long period of time) | Unknown | Unknown, Stellar with Telekinesis (Within the first few seconds of using of The Elderspell Nicol Bolas obtained power equal to his Oldwalker self)

Striking Strength: High Universal (Nicol Bolas' attacks are strong enough to create rifts that are stated to be endlessly deep)| Unknown | High Universal (Within the first few seconds of using of The Elderspell Nicol Bolas obtained power equal to his Oldwalker self)

Durability: High Universe level, possibly Universe level+ (Has fought against many Planeswalkers and beings who are semi-comparable to himself such as Niz-Mizzet and Ugin his twin) | At least Multi-Solar System level (The Gods of Theros have their physical forms are entwined with Nyx, and they are displayed as cosmic entities made up of interstellar dust and constellations. Kruphix The Eldest of The Gods stated if a Planeswalker like Nicol Bolas came to Theros even the Gods may be powerless to stop him) | At least Universe level+, possibly Multiverse level+

Stamina: Infinite (Oldwalkers had infinite power through their sparks and an endless supply of magic energy at their disposal) | Nigh-Infinite (Planeswalkers can obtain mana and power from simply remembering places they have been before) | Infinite (Within the first few seconds of using of The Elderspell Nicol Bolas obtained power equal to his Oldwalker self)

Range: Universal+, possibly Multiversal+ (Oldwalkers became one with the Universe when their sparks awaken. Nicol Bolas in particular could appear everywhere at once as he travelled the entirety of The Multiverse which is Infinite) | At least Interstellar, likely Universal+ (Even after losing his Oldwalker abilities he was considered powerful enough to destroy Theros, a plane that has an entire night sky full of stars and constellations. He was capable of ripping open the sky of an entirely different world than the one he was on) | Multiversal+

Standard Equipment: None notable

Intelligence: Genius (Nicol Bolas has lived for thousands of years and is considered one of the oldest beings in the Multiverse. He is extremely manipulative capable of turning Mortals, Gods and even other Planeswalkers on one another with his words alone. Through his life he became extremely proficient in Magic, capable of replicating spells after only seeing them once and using three colors of mana. Even by other Planeswalkers he is considered to be on a completely different level in combat, having millennia of experience to the point no one could defeat him one on one. In fact, he had acquired so much knowledge that he began to run out of things to learn, even mastering sailing in his free time, he is constantly stated to have genius-level intellect, containing lore and mana spanning the entire Multiverse. After the mending which took away Planeswalkers God-like powers he managed to form a plan that stretched across millennia and took into account all kinds of possibility, circumstances, statistics and even likelihoods, to regain his powers and obtain Godhood. Through his story he is also shown to be a great tactician, leading his army against entire Planes and conquering them with ease. One of his plans involved rewriting the history of an entire plane and corrupting their gods and angels. He made its inhabitants willingly subject themselves to inhuman training so that when they turned into undead warriors, they would be an addition to his army)

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

Weaknesses: While capable of switching bodies, its stated that this makes him somewhat weaker. On top of this, mana and power are based off of his own memories and the Plane he is on, so if that connection is cut off, he can be weakened. Though it should be noted that can only happen if he is trying to manifest on that Plane.

Gallery

Nicol Bolas

Nicol Bolas (Alternative Art)

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker (Alternative Art)

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker (Alternative Art)

Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver

Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God (Alternative Art)

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God (Alternative Art)

Notable Matchups

Victories:

Losses:

Asgorath (Dungeons and Dragons) Asgorath's Profile (2-A versions were used and speed was equalized)

Inconclusive:

References

Discussions

Discussion threads involving Nicol Bolas