Card

Bolas's Citadel

Mana cost {3}{B}{B}{B}

Legendary Artifact

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Game Changer: not allowed in brackets 1–2, counts as one of the three allowed in bracket 3. Part of 871 known combos. 8 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Game Changer
On the official list — none allowed in brackets 1–2, at most three in bracket 3.
Printing
Rare · WAR · #79
Cheapest printing
€7.11
EDHREC salt
1.72
Color identity
Black

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — not allowed: Game Changers are not allowed
  • B2 Core — not allowed: Game Changers are not allowed
  • B3 Upgraded — counts toward 3 Game Changers: Counts toward the 3 Game Changers allowed
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • On the official Game Changers list

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

871 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2019-05-03 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you cast a spell for another cost "rather than pay its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Spark Harvest, those must be paid to cast the card.
  • 2019-05-03 · Wizards of the Coast
    Bolas's Citadel may be one of the permanents you sacrifice to activate its last ability.
  • 2019-05-03 · Wizards of the Coast
    You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the cards you play from your library.
  • 2019-05-03 · Wizards of the Coast
    Bolas's Citadel lets you look at the top card of your library whenever you want (with one restriction—see below), even if you don't have priority. This action doesn't use the stack. Knowing what that card is becomes part of the information you have access to, just like you can look at the cards in your hand.
  • 2019-05-03 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • 2019-05-03 · Wizards of the Coast
    You can play a land card from the top of your library only if you have available land plays remaining.
  • 2019-05-03 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the top card of your library changes while you're casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability, you can't look at the new top card until you finish doing so. This means that if you cast the top card of your library, you can't look at the next one until you're done paying for that spell.
  • 2019-05-03 · Wizards of the Coast
    In a Two-Headed Giant game, the last ability of Bolas's Citadel causes the opposing team to lose 20 life.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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