MTG's Secret Lair Commander Deck Features Nicol Bolas As An Emo Teen
Just a few weeks ago, Magic: The Gathering fans began receiving their Secret Lair Cute to Brute Commander decks, complete with five double-faced cards featuring all-new adorable artwork by Nana Qi and horrific images by Godmachine. The five-color deck is all about transforming cards, showing the origins of some of Magic's biggest names as they become all-powerful planeswalkers.
One of those planeswalkers is of course Nicol Bolas, the now-dethroned and de-sparked Elder Dragon following the War of the Spark. Nicol is perhaps the most adorable of the Cute to Brute cards, showing a little baby dragon with his cute little flame before he becomes a genocidal villain.
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While the card Nicol Bolas, the Ravager makes it seem like he went straight from being a cute baby to a terrifying planeswalker, an included poster proves that wasn't the case. Nicol Bolas had a lot of growing up to do before he could become one of Magic's greatest villains, with stages that include card-playing kid, emo teen, and cool and confident young adult.
You can see the poster on the Magic subreddit thanks to a kind player who wanted to share Nicol's growth with the community, naturally, emo Nicol grabbed the attention of more than a few Elder Dragon fans.
"Honestly it's a bit disappointing it's just the same graphic but flipped with a different color," one Redditor wrote. "The kid Nicol Bolas is super cute tho and the emo teen Nicol Bolas is just a funny idea before he outgrows it."
As much as we can appreciate the poorly veiled vulnerability of emo Nicol (and wish that somebody had just given this emotional teen a hug--probably would have saved a lot of lives) we
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