Oloro by GnomeKing

Format: Commander

Commander: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

The deck is built around Oloro's command-zone upkeep trigger rather than casting him early: that free 2-life gain fuels every drain payoff and starts the primary combo. The main win is assembling Bloodthirsty Conqueror with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Enduring Tenacity, turning any life gain into an endless loop that eliminates all opponents. Secondary paths are beatdown with lifelink fliers and tokens, plus Bolas's Citadel / Oloro as repeatable card advantage. There is no true hidden commander; the hidden engine is Oloro's never-cast command-zone lifegain itself.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Accursed Witch // Infectious Curse
  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Ajani's Pridemate
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Celestial Mantle
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fiendish Panda
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
  • 1 Impassioned Orator
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kunoros, Hound of Athreos
  • 1 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
  • 1 Leyline of Hope
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Memories Returning
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Obzedat, Ghost Council
  • 1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
  • 1 One Thousand Lashes
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Sephiroth's Intervention
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin, Grim Nemesis
  • 1 Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Storm Herd
  • 1 Summon: Knights of Round
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Ultima
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Valkyrie's Call
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Vengeful Strangler // Strangling Grasp
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival