Gain n' Drain by maseinyoooface

Format: Commander

Commander: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Lifegain Control and Combo build commanded by Oloro, Ageless Ascetic. It leverages Oloro's eminence ability to maintain an expanding life buffer from the command zone without requiring early mana investment. The early turns focus on developing mana rocks, establishing pillowfort defenses like Ghostly Prison and Propaganda, and deploying light stax pieces such as Drannith Magistrate and Narset, Parter of Veils to slow opponent tempo. Card advantage engines like Black Market Connections, Tocasia's Welcome, and Bolas's Citadel supply steady resources into the midgame. The primary path to victory is assembling an infinite lifegain-drain loop pairing Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror with Sanguine Bond, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Enduring Tenacity, or Marauding Blight-Priest. Supported by efficient removal, board wipes, and robust recursion, the deck closes the game decisively on Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Angel of Destiny
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Auramancer
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Esper Panorama
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inspiring Overseer
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Obscura Storefront
  • 1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
  • 1 Ondu Spiritdancer
  • 1 One with the Multiverse
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Witch of the Moors