Gain A Life Do A Thing by mrman1257

Format: Commander

Commander: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Esper control deck leverages Oloro, Ageless Ascetic to generate passive life gain directly from the command zone. The primary game plan focuses on establishing defensive taxation and pillowfort enchantments while drawing cards through continuous life-gain triggers and engines like Rhystic Study and The One Ring. As your life total climbs above starting thresholds, you pivot into decisive win conditions. Primary paths to victory include alternate win-condition permanents such as Felidar Sovereign and Test of Endurance, devastating life-drain loops with Drogskol Reaver and Queza, Augur of Agonies, lethal bursts from Aetherflux Reservoir, or resolving Approach of the Second Sun twice.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ajani, Strength of the Pride
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel of Thune
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Boon Reflection
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosmos Elixir
  • 1 Crested Sunmare
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Essence Channeler
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Voice of the Blessed
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Will, Scion of Peace
  • 1 Witch of the Moors