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murgatroid99
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No, you cannot target Nicol Bolas using his own ability like that.

The relevant parts of the process go like this:

  1. You start activating Nicol Bolas the Arisen's ability.
  2. You choose the target for the ability. This has to be a card that is in a graveyard at this time.
  3. You pay the costs for the ability. In this case, that means removing 4 loyalty counters.
  4. After the ability is activated and before anyone gains priority, state-based actions are checked. At this time, Nicol Bolas dies because it has 0 loyalty counters.

As you can see, by the time Nicol Bolas finally goes to the graveyard it is far too late to target it with the ability.

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