Blood-Stained Pillow Fort

Commander / EDH Combo Control Lifegain Multiplayer Pillow Fort WUB (Esper)

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Land (36)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deserted Beach
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 7x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Shattered Sanctum
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (11)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Thought Vessel

Creature (18)

• 1x Archivist of Oghma
• 1x Charismatic Conqueror
• 1x Cliffhaven Vampire
• 1x Crested Sunmare
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Faerie Mastermind
• 1x Gixian Puppeteer
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Marauding Blight-Priest
• 1x Queza, Augur of Agonies
• 1x Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1x The Gaffer
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage

Instant (12)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Despark
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Permission Denied
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Enchantment (17)

• 1x Ashes of the Abhorrent
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Citadel Siege
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Trouble in Pairs

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Legions to Ashes
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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Maybeboard

Instant (4)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Mana Drain

Artifact (1)

• 1x The One Ring

Creature (4)

• 1x Ajani's Pridemate
• 1x Elenda's Hierophant
• 1x Heliod, Sun-Crowned
• 1x Tomik, Wielder of Law

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Frozen Aether

Land (1)

• 1x Serra's Sanctum

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This is a pillow fort, mini-control Oloro, Ageless Ascetic deck with a smattering of sangromancy for funsies. The goal of the deck is to punish your opponent for every choice they make, while passively draining the life from them and giving it to yourself, getting card draw, or building up your treasures. Combo's are everywhere in this deck. Everything in the deck interacts with something else. Its beautiful synergy.

Sangromancy

The most fun part of the deck -- the sangromancy! These cards are a constant source of life gain and damage for your opponents. This is essential for keeping you alive long enough to set the board up and has the amazing feeling of slowly bleeding your opponents dry.

1) Bloodchief Ascension

2) Queza, Augur of Agonies

3) Twilight Prophet

4) Kambal, Consul of Allocation

5) Gixian Puppeteer

6) Exquisite Blood

Pillow Fort

Our games are going to be slow. Very slow. So we really want is to survive while our sangromancy brings everyone down to manageable levels and we draw into our win cons. As a result, we need to slow everyone else down to a crawl with tax effects and deter actions with damage.

1) Aura of Silence

2) Authority of the Consuls/Blind Obedience/Charismatic Conqueror

3) Ghostly Prison/Propaganda

4) Kambal, Consul of Allocation

5) Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

6) Citadel Siege

7) Ashes of the Abhorrent

8) Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Card Draw

Card advantage often wins games and with a pillow-fort deck that doesn't feature tutors, we need to ensure we're drawing cards in adequate numbers to get the cards we need. We obviously have Oloro, Ageless Ascetic if he's outside of the command zone (situational), but we need more than that. A great place to start is Alhammarret's Archive to synergize with Oloro's abilities. We also need to make sure we don't discard our extra cards, so we need Reliquary Tower and Thought Vessel.

1) Phyrexian Arena

2) Rhystic Study

3) Mystic Remora

4) Esper Sentinel

5) Drogskol Reaver

6) The Gaffer

7) Archivist of Oghma

8) Faerie Mastermind

9) Twilight Prophet

10) Trouble in Pairs

11) Bolas's Citadel

Ramp

1) Arcane Signet

2) Sol Ring

3) Fellwar Stone

4) Thought Vessel

5) Smothering Tithe

6) Land Tax

7) Talisman of Dominance

8) Talisman of Hierarchy

9) Talisman of Progress

10) Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Removal/Board Wipes

1) Cyclonic Rift

2) Toxic Deluge

3) Anguished Unmaking

4) Despark

5) Generous Gift

6) Swords to Plowshares

7) Aura of Silence

8) Legions to Ashes

9) Path to Exile

10) Karlov of the Ghost Council

Life Gain Interaction

In addition to our tax effects, we have several pieces of life gain interaction in the deck to facilitate fun stuff going on. To start, we've got Alhammarret's Archive pulling its weight in another way, this time doubling our life gain. We've got a ton of ways to gain life in the deck, both on ours and on our opponent's turns, that will capitalize on the Archive . That will be huge to help fuel our win-cons. But let's take a look at some of the other ways we make use of that life as a resource.

1) Sorin, Grim Nemesis

2) Crested Sunmare

3) Sanguine Bond/Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose/Vizkopa Guildmage

4) Cliffhaven Vampire/Marauding Blight-Priest

5) Aetherflux Reservoir

Win Cons

1) Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond/Vizkopa Guildmage/Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

2) Aetherflux Reservoir + Exquisite Blood

3) Aetherflux Reservoir + Bolas's Citadel + Sensei's Divining Top

4) Drogskol Reaver + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse + Vizkopa Guildmage/Marauding Blight-Priest/Cliffhaven Vampire

5) Drogskol Reaver + Queza, Augur of Agonies

Comments, suggestions, and up-votes are definitely appreciated! Thanks for taking a look!

Top Ranked	Achieved #26 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #16 position in Commander / EDH 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Lifegain 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH WUB (Esper) 1 year ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.78
Tokens	City's Blessing, Elephant 3-3 G, Horse 5/5 W, Treasure, Vampire 1/1 W
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