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Bolas's Citadel
Oracle Text
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.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Bolas’s Citadel is a quintessential value-combo engine for black-heavy decks, rewarding you for turning life into a second mana pool and turning the top of your library into a public extension of your hand. It best supports combo and grindy value strategies, especially in shells that can generate lots of life or reduce the cost of the life payment through topdeck manipulation and cheap spells. Cards like Sensei’s Divining Top, Vampiric Tutor, or any repeatable shuffle effect help you chain spells efficiently, while token-makers and treasure production make the sacrifice clause less painful if you ever aim to activate the drain ability. In gameplay, the Citadel shines when you can land it ahead of curve and immediately convert the top of your deck into a flurry of plays, often closing games before opponents can stabilize. The card’s flavor evokes a cold, predatory seat of power: a fortress that turns your own resources into inevitability.
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Character Background
Bolas’s Citadel is a quintessential value-combo engine for black-heavy decks, rewarding you for turning life into a second mana pool and turning the top of your library into a public extension of your hand. It best supports combo and grindy value strategies, especially in shells that can generate lots of life or reduce the cost of the life payment through topdeck manipulation and cheap spells. Cards like Sensei’s Divining Top, Vampiric Tutor, or any repeatable shuffle effect help you chain spells efficiently, while token-makers and treasure production make the sacrifice clause less painful if you ever aim to activate the drain ability. In gameplay, the Citadel shines when you can land it ahead of curve and immediately convert the top of your deck into a flurry of plays, often closing games before opponents can stabilize. The card’s flavor evokes a cold, predatory seat of power: a fortress that turns your own resources into inevitability.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-11 14:10:43 UTC