Visage of Bolas
Artifact
When this artifact enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
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- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BRU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #17126
Visage of Bolas puts a copy of Nicol Bolas, the Ravager onto the battlefield — a four-mana legendary with a punishing discard trigger — for four mana, but only if you already control the legendary it's searching for. The narrow condition makes this a strict singleton role-player, not a universal good-stuff artifact.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager decks are the only shell where Visage of Bolas does exactly what it says on the label — it grabs a second copy of the commander from outside the game, meaning if Bolas has been exiled or tucked, Visage can rebuy that trigger and battlefield presence without touching the command zone.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Visage of Bolas is a Commander card in practice. In competitive formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, the four-mana artifact that finds a four-mana legendary is simply too slow and too conditional to register. Commander is the one format where the card earns its slot: singleton rules make redundancy meaningful, and the ability to retrieve Nicol Bolas, the Ravager from outside the game sidesteps commander tax entirely when Bolas has been tucked. Oathbreaker is technically legal but the constraints are even tighter there than in Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Visage of Bolas sits firmly in bulk territory and shows no pressure to move — it's a narrow single-deck card with a small but devoted audience. Pick it up for cheap if you're building around it; there's no reason to speculate or prioritize it in trade.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Nicol Bolas, the Ravager
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.