Oloro high power by user6605636

Format: Commander

Commander: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 88

Deck overview

This deck is a competitive Esper combo-control list helmed by Oloro, Ageless Ascetic, leveraging the commander's eminence life-gain trigger as passive resource fuel for life-to-card conversion engines like Ad Nauseam, Necropotence, and Bolas's Citadel. The primary strategic objective is to assemble and execute the format's most compact win condition: Thassa's Oracle paired with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact. Supported by format-ceiling fast mana, an elite tutor suite, and proactive protection pieces like Silence, Grand Abolisher, and Ranger-Captain of Eos, the deck reliably initiates a protected win attempt on Turn 3 with zero opponent response cycles. Secondary win paths through Heliod, Sun-Crowned and Walking Ballista or Exquisite Blood combos ensure resilience against targeted hate. The deck also deploys a dense suite of free countermagic and hate pieces like Drannith Magistrate and Orcish Bowmasters to disrupt faster opponents while securing its own execution window.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath