Oloro ageless pain in the ass by deathtouchjose

Format: Commander

Commander: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is an Esper control deck built around Oloro, Ageless Ascetic's command-zone life gain engine. The primary strategy is to stabilize the board with pillow-fort pieces (Propaganda, Ghostly Prison, Sphere of Safety), accumulate incremental life through Oloro's upkeep trigger and extort creatures, then convert that life advantage into a win. The deck has multiple independent win conditions: the Sanguine Bond/Exquisite Blood infinite loop, Aetherflux Reservoir activations, Felidar Sovereign / Test of Endurance life-threshold wins, Approach of the Second Sun, and the slow Azor's Elocutors counter plan. Oloro's upkeep trigger provides a repeatable draw engine (pay {1} when you gain life), and the deck runs a dense tutor suite to find its combo pieces or key enchantments. The overall game plan is to out-value opponents with life-gain synergies, protect the life total with attack taxes, and eventually close out with a combo or a life-total trigger.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azor's Elocutors
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baird, Steward of Argive
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Bovine Intervention
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Convolute
  • 1 Crested Sunmare
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Cut a Deal
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deny Entry
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Doctor Strange, Surgeon
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dromar's Charm
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jwar Isle Refuge
  • 1 Marshland Bloodcaster
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Paradox Haze
  • 1 Phage the Untouchable
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Pontiff of Blight
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Serra's Sanctum
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Temporal Extortion
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wall of Denial
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Windborn Muse