LifeGain by user5546964

Format: Commander

Commander: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This Oloro, Ageless Ascetic deck operates as an Esper lifegain control build centered on compact, deterministic infinite combos. Taking full advantage of Oloro's eminence trigger to passively gain 2 life each upkeep from the command zone, the deck continuously expands its life cushion to fuel card draw engines like Well of Lost Dreams, sustain life-costing removal like Toxic Deluge, and power payoffs like Aetherflux Reservoir. The proactive plan focuses on executing two-card win conditions: Heliod, Sun-Crowned paired with Walking Ballista for infinite ping damage, or Exquisite Blood combined with Sanguine Bond or Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose for an unbounded drain loop. Backed by premier single-target removal, board wipes, and light stax pieces such as Blind Obedience and Authority of the Consuls, the deck effectively stabilizes the board against fast aggression before tutoring into an immediate, game-ending turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ajani Resolute
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel of Thune
  • 1 Auriok Champion
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dawn of Hope
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Debt to the Deathless
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doctor Strange, Surgeon
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Enlightened Confidant
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Karlov of the Ghost Council
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Storm Herd
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Sigil
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Wrath of God