"Oloro" by sifari22

Format: Commander

Commander: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper lifegain midrange strategy centered on leveraging Oloro, Ageless Ascetic from the command zone. By generating two free life every upkeep without ever needing to cast its commander, the deck reliably triggers a suite of lifegain payoffs such as Speaker of the Heavens, Marauding Blight-Priest, and Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim. The mana base and acceleration prioritize stable on-curve deployment of card advantage engines like Enduring Innocence, Shorikai, Genesis Engine, and Welcoming Vampire. Around Turn 6, the deck transitions into its critical pressure phase by deploying punishing threats like Liesa, Shroud of Dusk and Elspeth, Sun's Champion. Opponents face steady life loss combined with evasive combat damage from 4/4 Angels and pumped Vampires. Interaction features top-tier white and black exile removal alongside flexible sweepers, while recursion pieces ensure long-game resilience against board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consult the Star Charts
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, Saint of Dusk
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Excalibur II
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Hellish Rebuke
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lonely Arroyo
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Multiply by Zero
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Reroute Systems
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine
  • 1 Smallpox
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Speaker of the Heavens
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Thalia, the Survivor
  • 1 The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart
  • 1 Theorix Annex
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Tragic Arrogance
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vashta Nerada
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire