Oloro Fortress life by imdaguzz

Format: Commander

Commander: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Oloro is a control-combo deck that banks life from the command zone while locking down combat with taxes and pillowfort pieces. The primary plan is to stay alive to 40-50 life and win on an upkeep trigger with Felidar Sovereign or Test of Endurance, backed by a second Approach of the Second Sun. Casting Oloro is optional acceleration: every life-gain event becomes a one-mana card draw and one point of drain. Secondary paths use Soul Warden, Suture Priest, and drain payoffs (Vito, Cliffhaven Vampire, Vizkopa Guildmage) to grind, plus Exsanguinate as a big X-spell finish. There is no hidden commander; Oloro is single-faced. The deck wins through upkeep or instant-speed triggers rather than combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Absolution
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cliffhaven Vampire
  • 1 Comeuppance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Court of Grace
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kor Haven
  • 1 Leonin Sun Standard
  • 1 Lightmine Field
  • 1 Marchesa's Decree
  • 1 Masako the Humorless
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Merciless Eviction
  • 1 Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Mystifying Maze
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prahv, Spires of Order
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Storm Herd
  • 1 Sun Droplet
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Vizkopa Guildmage
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Wrath of God