oloro by Bigg_country71

Format: Commander

Commander: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper lifegain control deck commanded by Oloro, Ageless Ascetic. It leverages Oloro's eminence ability to passively build an expansive life cushion from the command zone while setting up stax pieces and taxing effects. Early turns focus on stabilizing with defensive enchantments like Authority of the Consuls and asymmetric stax cards like Drannith Magistrate and Grand Arbiter Augustin IV. Mid-game plays establish card advantage engines with Phyrexian Arena and Oloro's draw trigger while policing the board using efficient spot removal and sweepers such as Farewell and Fumigate. The deck aims to close the game decisively on Turn 6 using a two-card infinite combo between Sanguine Bond and Bloodthirsty Conqueror, which instantly drains the entire table upon any life gain. Alternatively, it can eliminate opponents using Aetherflux Reservoir supercharged by Beacon of Immortality or grinding down life totals with Painful Quandary and Toxrill, the Corrosive.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Archangel's Light
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Break Under Pressure
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Day of Judgment
  • 1 Dazzling Angel
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Dromar's Cavern
  • 1 Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Panorama
  • 1 Extravagant Replication
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Frozen Aether
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hex
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Isolation Cell
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lonely Arroyo
  • 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Most Wanted
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Multiply by Zero
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Psychic Spiral
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Righteous Cause
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Silverquill, the Disputant
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Remedy
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Windborn Muse