First Three Hour of Devastation Magic: The Gathering Cards Revealed, Including Nicol Bolas!

Get ready for the return of Nicol Bolas in Magic: The Gathering's next set, Hour of Devastation. Though we're still weeks away from the official previews, we're already getting some images of cards that are rumored to be from Hour of Devastation, and they are so powerful. There's a three-mana mass removal card, and a couple of Planeswalkers from the new set, and of course, one of them is Nicol Bolas himself!

Check out the spoiled cards below:

Bontu's Last Reckoning

Sorcery (Rare)
Destroy all creatures. Lands you control don't untap during your next untap step.
To the last, Bontu wanted only to be among the first of the God-Pharoah's subjects.
040/184

Samut, The Tested

Planeswalker — Samut (Mythic)
+1: Up to one target creature gains Double Strike until end of turn.
-2: Samut the Tested deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two target creatures and/or players.
-7: Search your library for up to two planeswalker and/or creature cards and put the onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
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And finally, Nicol Bolas!

Planeswalker — Bolas (Mythic)
+2: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of his or her library until he or she exiles a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
+1: Each opponent exiles two cards from his or her hand.
-4: Nicol Bolas, God-Pharoah deals 7 damage to target opponent or creature an opponent controls.
-12 Exile each nonland permanent your opponents control.
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(Source: Wizards)

Set Name:Hour of Devastation

Block: Set 2 of 2 in the Amonkhet Block

Number of Cards: 184

Prerelease Events: July 8-9, 2017

Release Date: July 14, 2017

Launch Weekend: July 20-22, 2017

Game Day: August 5-6, 2017

Magic Online Prerelease Events: July 21, 2017

Magic Online Release Date: July 24, 2017

Pro Tour Date: July 28-30, 2017

Official Three-Letter Code: HOU

Twitter Hashtag: #MTGHOU

Languages Available: English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Earlier this week, we saw another card that someone claimed to be in the set, but it looks less believable than the three cards above.

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