Oloro by Ant90

Format: Commander

Commander: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper lifegain control-combo strategy using Oloro, Ageless Ascetic to generate steady passive life advantage from the command zone. It slows opposing game plans with asymmetric stax and tax pieces such as Drannith Magistrate, Grand Arbiter Augustin IV, and Blind Obedience while holding up efficient countermagic and spot removal. The deck finds its win conditions through a rich tutor suite that accesses compact two-card lines: either the rapid Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation package or redundant infinite life-drain loops combining Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror with Sanguine Bond, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, or Enduring Tenacity. Powerful protection pieces like Grand Abolisher, Teferi, Time Raveler, and Silence ensure the deck can execute its winning turn with minimal vulnerability to opposing interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Angel of Vitality
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Archangel of Thune
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Aura Thief
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Enchanted Evening
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Karlov of the Ghost Council
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Permission Denied
  • 16 Plains
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shadow of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose