---
name: "Seek Bolas's Counsel"
mana_cost: "{U}{B}{R}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B", "R", "U"]
keywords: []
set: "CMB2"
set_name: "Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2021"
collector_number: "98"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Matt Warren"
oracle_id: "022667d0-60f2-4e37-bc50-53198fc933ab"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/seek-bolass-counsel-cmb2"
legalities:
  commander: "not_legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "not_legal"
  vintage: "not_legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Seek Bolas's Counsel
- **Mana Cost:** `{U}{B}{R}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Sorcery

## Oracle Text
Choose one at random —
• You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, pay {U}{B}{R}. If you don't, you lose the game."
• Each player discards their hand.
• Planeswalk to Pools of Becoming. (Once there, you can roll the planar die only if you're playing Planechase.)
• For each opponent, exile cards from the top of their library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast those cards without paying their mana costs.
• Destroy all creatures and non-Bolas planeswalkers.
• You get an emblem with "You can cast nonland cards from your sideboard."

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh](/printing/nicol-bolas-god-pharaoh-2x2.md) — Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas
2. [Bolas's Citadel](/printing/bolass-citadel-war.md) — Legendary Artifact
3. [Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker](/printing/nicol-bolas-planeswalker-e01.md) — Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas
4. [Brilliant Ultimatum](/printing/brilliant-ultimatum-ala.md) — Sorcery
5. [Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver](/printing/nicol-bolas-the-deceiver-hou.md) — Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas
6. [Dark Intimations](/printing/dark-intimations-aer.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2021 (CMB2) #98
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Matt Warren

## Format Legalities
Commander: `not_legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `not_legal` | Vintage: `not_legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2019-11-12)* Pools of Becoming is a plane card that reads “At the beginning of your end step, put the cards in your hand on the bottom of your library in any order, then draw that many cards” and “Whenever you roll CHAOS, reveal the top three cards of your planar deck. Each of the revealed cards' CHAOS abilities triggers. Then put the revealed cards on the bottom of your planar deck in any order.” The second ability can’t trigger unless you roll a planar die.
- *(2019-11-12)* In a Limited event, each card a player opened (in a Sealed Deck event) or drafted (in a Booster Draft event) is their sideboard.
- *(2019-11-12)* You must cast any of the exiled cards you wish to cast while Seek Bolas’s Counsel is resolving. You can’t cast them later in the turn.
- *(2019-11-12)* One card (Fractured Powerstone) allows you to roll the planar die even if you’re not playing a Planechase game as long as you’ve already planeswalked to a plane card. If you roll the Planeswalker symbol outside of a Planechase game, you’ll planeswalk away from Pools of Becoming, but you won’t planeswalk to a new plane. You’re totally lost, which tends to work out well.
- *(2019-11-12)* If you cast a card “without paying 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 Tormenting Voice, you must pay those to cast the card.
- *(2019-11-12)* You can’t choose to roll a planar die (which would allow you to leave the Pools of Becoming or trigger its last ability) unless you’re playing a Planechase game.