Prolly a dumb question.

[Calebestes]

Am I playing Bant aggro?  Nope.  I am playing Bant Control.  4 thrags and 2 Angela and 2 snaps.  The only creatures.  You drop a bolas on somebody with that deck and bam...it's game over.   It's like popping tamiyos ultimate you can't lose.

[Dudecore]

The idea is, if you're running control, you keep things off the board until you drop {Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker}. If your running aggro, you get everything onto the board ASAP, and don't have 4+ cards in your deck to dead draw because they do cool things.

It's not a written rule, but it's generally a good philosophy to follow. {Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker} is an amazing card, it isn't for all decks. For the record, {Chromatic Lantern} is a great card for mana fixing, if you've got to extend yourself, it's generally a better practice to not extend yourself.

[Calebestes]

I just want to use bolas.  That's it. Lol