The Absurd Powers of Nicol Bolas
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- Опубликовано: 23 май 2024
- In this video I powerscale Magic the Gathering's most prestigious Planeswalker and villain Nicol Bolas. I'll be going over Nicol Bolas's most powerful abilities including, Mind Control, Death Manipulation and in some cases even dominion over time itself to show you exactly why his powers deserve the label of "absurd". Thanks to TheComicTutor for his help with some of the research and scans used in this video.
Sources:
- War of the Spark: The Gathering Storm
- Chronicle of Bolas: The Unwritten
- Emperor's fist
- Time Spiral: Time Spiral Cycle, Book I
- The Hour of Revelation
- War of the Spark: Ravnica, Desperate Operatives and Unbowed, Part 1
- The Eternal Ice, Ice Age Book 2
- Myr Thee Well
- Hour of Devastation
- Zendikar's Last Stand
- Stone and Blood
- Angel's Rise and Demon's Release
- The Promised End
- Mystic Odysseys of Theros
- Kruphix's Insight
- Chronicle of Bolas: The Unwritten Now
- Chronicle of Bolas: Perspectives
- War of the Spark: Ravnica
- Agents of Artifice
- Shards of Alara, Conflux, Alara Reborn
- Future Sight: Time Spiral Cycle, Book 3
- You are a Planeswalker
- Chronicle of Bolas: The Twins
- War of the Spark: Forsaken
- Plane Shift: Amonkhet
- Test of Metal
- The Reforged Chain
- Unkindness of Ravens
- The Art of Magic The Gathering, War of the Spark
- Chronicle of Bolas: The First Lesson
- Champion's Trial
Intro: 0:00 - 1:27
Mind Rending Touch: 1:28 - 3:10
Physical Strength: 3:11 - 7:13
Death Manipulation: 7:14 - 8:44
Soul Manipulation and Existence Erasure: 8:45 - 9:49
Planeswalker powers: 9:50 - 11:19
Mind Manipulation: 11:20 - 14:06
Power Drain: 14:07 - 14:21
Counter Magic: 14:22 - 15:25
Multi-tasking: 15:26 - 16:14
Necromancy: 16:15 - 17:06
Age Manipulation: 17:07 - 17:20
Draconic Physiology: 17:21 - 18:48
Other Abilities: 18:49 - 21:24
Law Manipulation: 21:25 - 22:45
Speed: 22:46 - 23:09
Test of Metal: 23:10 - 29:00
Pre-Mending Oldwalker Bolas: 29:01 - 32:27
Elder spell Bolas: 32:28 - 34:54
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Thanks to TheComicTutor for his help with some of the research and scans used in this video.
Really grinded out this video for you guys before my midterm essay deadlines and it was a lot of work with this video alone requiring nearly 300 scanlations during research and powering through several novels and dozens of Short Stories to get them. It'll be a little while before my next one as I get back to focusing on my university studies.
What is the name of the music used in the warp video?
Understandable, have a nice day.
BUT DOES HE BEAT BOBOBO????
How does he scale to Yawgmoth?
And how does he scale to the Eldrazi?
And yet he can be killed by 7 flying squirrels.
They used to work for Squirrel Girl so they know a thing or two...
Damn 7 flying squirrel solo fiction
U can 2
The squirrels can’t kill him if he board wipes and makes the other planeswalker kermit sudoku.
Why yes, I did lose friends because I ran Bolas. How can you tell?
Squirrel girl trained them well
Powerscaling in card games is espacially funny since these outversal gods of everything and all get stopped by a chairmaker or something even more mundane.
Yeah. Card games are probably more heavily subject to gameplay to narrative disparity than even videogames
I love evil characters that are just evil, it's so underrated in the age of "every villian is the hero of his own story"
Same
Indeed it makes the fall due to their hubris that much sweeter. He's like Palpatine meets Smaug.
A lot of powerscalers tend to stick to only one or two verses that they’re comfortable with. I’m really glad you cover a wide variety of characters and verses, since I both get to learn about different series and hear different scaling for different characters.
Yeah I'd say being able to keep track of many verses functions and their characters powers and stories Way he does is incredible
To quote Bolas himself: his schemes are NEVERENDING!
Never would have expected magic the gathering was a powerful verse.
They have his own Lovecraft cosmic monster level threaths
Tbh the moment i saw the cards big ass descriptions is when i knew this verse is dunking alot of fiction
MtG built crazy powerful creatures first and defeat them Cuz plot demands power of friendship to win.
I love seeing scaling for the more under looked verses in fiction, cuz I feel like a lot people tend to stick with the more well known and more frequently scaled verses, like Marvel, DC, Dragon ball, etc. So it's nice seeing other settings be given some exposure.
Bruh, what do you mean MTG is the most popular card game in the world
@@sageofpixelz Dude, I never said MTG is not a popular franchise, I simply said that people don't usually scale verses like it and that the majority of people tend to stick with IP's that are more popular and researched in the power scaling scene.
I have 0 understanding of the mtg universe and I’m basically only watching this because I like his videos even if I don’t understand them. But dear god this character sounds so unfathomably based and I’m astounded how he’s not already in charge of their universe. I don’t see how anybody can actually beat him, and the most shocking thing is that because he isn’t in charge already, there must be someone or something that’s stronger than him
It's just that MTG lore is dumb like that. This guy is basically their version of thanos in terms of importance and he got beaten in like a paragraph because high fantasy friendship power bs
He lost to the fact that as a villain he couldn't be allowed to permanently win. That would pretty much end the story of the card game and thus the card game itself, he more so lost to the writers.
Or commodore Guff, maybe he read the story and decided that Nicole bolas couldn't win in the end.
He's ballin, so of course he's absurdly strong
He’s fucking ballin
Amongst power scalers you are the GOAT
You should consider doing one of these on yawgmoth as he is a pretty popular MTG villain
Yawgmoth would also be pretty cool
@@WebCamParrot Oh hi did not expect a response, P.S love your content Parrot you are a legend. :) Keep up the amazing work.
Bolas Vs Trigon sounds like a HELL of a fight.
YES PLEASE!
If he's able to square up with God Emperor as an equal then Trigon just wouldn't stand a chance.
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki Given how ridiculously powerful Trigon is in his own right, it'd still be a way for Nicol to make absolute NAME for himself in the Vs community
Doing MTG content now? This is a next level RUclips channel
holy shit mtg powerscaling
this is what we've been waiting for
As others have said. Really appreciate your versatility in the properties you cover. Of the top of my head it would be cool to see you cover Plastic Man since he's underrated and underestimated. For a verse you'd probably be one of the few gigaminds to explain Typemoon while having it be relatively simple to digest.
So what you're telling me is, this Nicol Bolas fellow could definitely defeat Negan
wow man lets not get crazy here
No by simply moving Lucille he threatened Yggdrasil and forced the entirety of the Greek and Egyptian pantheon to flee. Even the elder things from the void were forced to ignore anything close to earth during his existence.
your analysis is flawless
I would honestly love to see a animated series based on magic the gathering
Can you do a video about the most powerful sci fi civilizations like the halo forerunners, precursors, culture, xeelee sequence ?
You're a real one for this, I've always wanted a rundown on Bolas
I was wondering why I've never heard of some of these characters. I'm more of a comic book guy but u make great videos.
Do what you love
You should make a list of characters that can take on the god Emperor
Pulled me in with the Bobobo video. And now what feels like another targeted video with my boy Nicky B. Stoked for this one!
I have a suggestion, do a video about Settra, the Imperishable, from Warhammer Fantasy, he's a really epic guy, and knowing what i know about your liking of Dr. Doom, you will love Settra.
Considering you scaled bolas it's only fair you did ugin. who is now the most powerful planes walker and is very overshadowed by bolas
Could you do power scaling on Nagash god of the Dead from Warhammer Fantasy?
Even though I didn't know much about magic the Gathering verse I figured it'd be pretty powerful but I was not expecting it to have guys like this cuz bolas is crazy powerful.
This is a great video I really like the fact that you do other verses that most don't get a lot of love when it comes to scaling but the question I have to ask you now is can the Dragonborn slay Bolas in his most powerful form.
Great work as always. I’d love to see more Lovecraft content, the videos you did on the dreamlands were amazing and I’d love to hear you speak more on that.
This isn't really a lovecraft scaling video, but I do agree that he should cover more lovecraft scaling in the near future!
I think the D&D multiverse is a verse I'd like to see you cover maybe the power of the luminous being
DND cosmology is quite big. Easily reaching outer to high outer.
This was so fun to work on. 10/10 video
Can you debunk VS battles Wiki's DC scaling?
Could You talk about gork and mork Powers ? :)
i was just rewatching the chowder video! i’m glad i checked my notifications
Great video and this was such a nice surprise. I would love to see more videos from mtg covered by yourself.
And they thought dr strange or doom were most powerful magic users
So glad you're uploading again
As Always You Make Amazing Videos.
Could he beat BoBoBo? Also, I kind of want to see a video on Jace now. Played MtG so much and never knew any lore.
FINALLY YOU BACK!
Your showing characters I've never seen before, I like it
So have you considered doing a *How Strong* video about the Dungeons and Dragons universe? Since they are afterall the OG roleplaying game.
Great video! I know why i bought a picture frame just for his card.
So in my imagination elder spell nicol is on the chaos gods form 40k powerscale, when he tried to change stuff on the multiverse level.
Make a video on Xavier Renegade Angel
Would love to see a Yawgmoth video.
Ik that you cover powerful characters mostly but would you mind doing a video on 616 Spider-Man? Especially with a focus on his intelligence and scientific skills.
Parrot back with top content
Interesting video
Excellent video! Could you do a video on Red Tornado next?
Can you powerscale current dc rebirth Superman? Like add his threatining to destroy the phantom zone stuff, one shotting world forger after sundipping, resisting the anti life equation while simultaneously being exposed to every shades of Kryptonite from the dark multiverse, one shotting Barbatos, breaking through hypertime, Dr Manhattan seeing superman destroying him as a very likely possibility. just his best feats in general and you can use his best feats from different eras since death metal undid the effects of all the crisis events. I don’t like to mention his name but basically like SethTheProgrammer’s “how strong is goku” but for superman and like explain where he would scale in the tiering system. A lot of people claim he’s outer and whatnot but a lot of people don’t know how or what feats get him there, so I’m sure a lot of people would like to know how superman scales
He already did bout making of Superman Powerscales includes the Post-Crisis Superman and Theta stated More Superman that's being mentioned in his video of bout the feats
That's likely Base Superman feats while Dr Manhattan was unsure, if Superman could kill him or Not. would just destroy everything of included Metaverse and Tells Superman is above The Narrative and Stories Comic so well. even Story Of Superman as well
You should make the non scripted chowder vs the world
Could you do a video on comics kang and his variants seeing how he just made it in the mcu?
Very cool! Mtg is an interserting verse for powerscaling
Magic is heavily underrated. No one ever has talked about this match up but I think a good video you can do would be Ajani Goldmane vs Battlebeaat from invincible
Webcamparrot you just cure my depression
My N'wah dropped the video the same day as the smite patch
Bolas is great, but I do want to note that he has a consistent anti-feat: He can still be surprised. This happens a few times, notably with Ajani on Alara and Tetsuo Umezawa, who killed the pre-mending Bolas on Dominaria. So attacks or characters that defy precognition could still escape him.
Hey, I don't know if you read these, but uh, could you do a video on the emotional entities in DC?
You’re forgetting one thing- **The Player Planeswalker is **__Casually__** stronger :)**
He reminds me of the dragons from vox machina
what's the background music you used in the beginning of the azathoth video
Medium to high end weakened stat: multiversal+ to high hypervsal(infinite 4d to high 1b)
Hey yah its webcamperriot here the most chilled guy in yt
Just out of curiosity, whatever happened to your Trigon video?
Hey Parrot, how strong do you think Starship Hulk is?
Yup "Irredeemably evil, being a big jerk." That's your classic Fantasy Dark Lord archetype we all miss before idiot villain redemptions came along.
good video is it ok if I ask you a question?
Coud you do a video about Sigmar from Warhammer Fantasy
Can you do about aurelion sol and others characters of lol?
So What is the tier of him?and the tier of Eldrazi? Is it true That Warhammer 40 K verse is part of MTg since there are charts of space marines
Let's go!
Can you do a Mr. Nobody video?
I run a dragon commander deck with Nico bolas and niv mizzet it has the most powerful dragons in the entire card game in them
When we getting a cosmology scale for the elder scrolls ?
Why have you not done a cosmic armor superman video?
How does he scale to Yawgmoth? Or eldrazi?
I hear Utopia theme mate! Good choice
The soundtrack for that show goes so hard.
Plz do more mtg powerscaling
fire never dies alone
Could you do A video on Gilgamesh from Fate someday
Nice
26:50 this is interesting, I haven’t seen the idea of “supreme multi-tasking minds casting magic” as a thing in fiction, since I had used the idea for an entire race for my own silly stories. Good to see great minds think alike.
kinda reminds me of how worms work
It is a curious note to think of that in fiction, most beings that display supreme abilities tend to be modeled more as one of two things: Superhuman, or eldritch abominations. Which is to say, cause we are humans writing this and just love ourselves a bit too much, we like making powerful things either be nothing like us, or like us but with extra perks. Literally "superhuman" abilities. Now one keynote to make is that establishing how power scaling works in a written work is a heck of a job the more complex it gets, so having nigh unimaginably powerful entities is a difficult chore because then you run into the logical problems of having such a lot of running around. In fact, I would argue that writing supremely powerful characters that do not just atomize any story they are in (making a character so powerful even the literal story they are in falls apart happens a lot, especially for less talented writers or folk just starting out) takes a lot of skill/caution, and thus more grounded lower power characters are always easier to write.
I really wanna see you cover Dante in devil may cry
ayyye i like this
So what would he scale to? Outerversal?
You should try invincible content
Classic magic: the gathering W
This guy can give Mordru a run for his money, always loved the idea of a Dragon-Wizard hybrid achieving apotheosis. My only complain about Bolas is that the design of his head is bizarre and uncanny, they couldn't decide If they wanted something more human or more dragon, and ended up making that abomination that haunt my nightmares. Works great for a villain, but still, terrible artistic decision.
should've just made him look more like the other dragons, I kinda like the gem though
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Can you powerscale Archangels in the Bible next?
I Don't think he well that would make alot of people hate him thats way vsb/csap wiki don't have jesus in them its because they well get alot of hate because of it
what his verse is? I need ANSWER!
He literally says it near the beginning. Magic the Gathering
You should do the monkey King next he’s an incredibly powerful being
Sun Wukong?? Yes he's easily on those Extraversal tiers of power, could easily solo both D.C. and Marvel at the same time.
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki nah
weakend Nicole bolaras: low multiversal to multiversal+ (4d to infinite 4d)
Technically Nicol Bolas does have a sad backstory. His sister got killed by human hunters, moments after he and she were born, alongside his twin brother Ugin.
I mean, his young mindset was centered around "Kill or be killed"
Even I would understand the feeling of becoming an evil, powerful, egotistical, and incredibly vengeful asshole after watching a sister helplessly die.
Yes, he is a powerful, and egotistical jerk but that's because the world scared him. He became what he is, or was since he is now defeated, because of his sister's death. His twin, Ugin goes further into this when he talks about their sister's death.
"Our sister's death haunted me because of how briefly she had lived, and how savagely she had died. As for Nicol, it angered him because it scared him." - Ugin.
Nicol Bolas is not relatable because of all the sh** he has done throughout his 25,000-year life, but how would you be if you watched your sister be mauled as you sit trapped, and helpless to save her? Wanting to scream in anger and fear, only to be shut up, to watch muffled?
If his sister didn't die, the Nicol Bolas we all know and love would never be the badass and powerful villain he is.
Most people when talking about Nicol Bolas overlook his birth, because the sh** he's done is much more well-known. His backstory is one of anger, envy, and sadness.
The only one that can possibly and truly understand who Nicol Bolas is, is his twin brother Ugin.
Nicol Bolas sounds like name of my balkan neighbour.
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Ugin is not happy about this 😂
Day 1 of asking for a “Powers of Hellboy”
Nicol bolas is from WARHAMMER fantasy ?? 😅😅
No. He is from MTG verse. It's a card game similar to Yu-Gi-Oh.
Wake up New webcamparrot just dropped
I bet EoMK could put this snake in his place