Oloro EDH by ProfDuebeldore

Format: Commander

Commander: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and stax strategy built around Oloro, Ageless Ascetic. By leveraging Oloro's eminence ability, the deck passively accumulates a substantial life total from the command zone without committing mana to commander deployment. During the early turns, it deploys asymmetric tax and hatebear permanents including Drannith Magistrate, Lavinia, Azorius Renegade, Grand Arbiter Augustin IV, Ghostly Prison, and Teferi, Time Raveler to suppress aggressive combat, restrict casting zones, and neutralize opposing instant-speed interaction. Broad-spectrum removal spells like Farewell, Supreme Verdict, and Void Rend clear opposing board states while Rhystic Study and Smothering Tithe generate resource surplus. Once a safe defensive perimeter is secured, the deck closes the game on Turn 7 to 9 using high-impact lifegain payoffs, primarily firing 50-damage laser bursts with Aetherflux Reservoir, running through the library with Bolas's Citadel, or doubling its life total with Beacon of Immortality alongside Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Containment Priest
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dawn of Hope
  • 1 Debt to the Deathless
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kunoros, Hound of Athreos
  • 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Louisoix's Sacrifice
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Terminus
  • 1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Tithe Drinker
  • 1 Trickbind
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vedalken Orrery
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams