Oloro current by RinLoch

Format: Commander

Commander: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This Oloro, Ageless Ascetic deck operates as an Esper lifegain combo-control strategy that leverages passive life buffer to dominate the mid-game and execute compact infinite combos. From the start of the game, Oloro provides constant lifegain from the command zone without requiring mana deployment. This passive buffer fuels asymmetric drain engines, card-draw outlets like The Gaffer, Cosmos Elixir, and The One Ring, and life-payment resources such as Necropotence. The deck stabilizes the board using a layered suite of taxing permanents—including Authority of the Consuls, Kambal, Consul of Allocation, Charismatic Conqueror, and Propaganda—alongside efficient removal like Swords to Plowshares and Cyclonic Rift. Once mana is established, the deck transitions into immediate victory through multiple redundant two-card combos, primarily Exquisite Blood paired with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Sanguine Bond, or Bloodthirsty Conqueror, as well as Heliod, Sun-Crowned with Walking Ballista. Protected by Grand Abolisher and Flare of Fortitude, the deck closes out the entire table in a single decisive turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel of Thune
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Battle Angels of Tyr
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosmos Elixir
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Indulging Patrician
  • 1 Insidious Dreams
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Karlov of the Ghost Council
  • 1 Killing Wave
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Meteor Crater
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rebuff the Wicked
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Speaker of the Heavens
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Vizkopa Guildmage
  • 1 Voice of the Blessed
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch of the Moors