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Just hear me out… (Mono-black Oloro)

Commander / EDH Mono-Black

Darke


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Intro:

Mono(ish)-black Oloro is a unique meme deck that can still hang against strong competition. Why use a commander we can't cast? Mono-black uses their life total as a resource. So an innocuous +2 health a turn doesn't seem like a big deal, until you're turning that into 2 cards drawn later in the game. It's also a fun deck-building challenge to play "Off-color" cards with hybrid or phyrexian mana.

1. How does your deck win? Doomsday, or a massive drain life spell

2. When does it tend to pop off? Turns 6-8

3. How long do people have to stop it? 1-2 turns

4. What's it strong against? Creature decks due to all the removal and stax decks because we can survive a late game

5. What's it weak against? Early aggro pressure or counterspell decks

7. Two-card infinite combos? Doomsday is a combo all by itself

8. Tutors? Yes, most of the reasonably costed ones we can play

9. What's the deck's vibe? Classic-feeling Mono-black control with a free enchantment to start every game.

The most consistent win is through Doomsday. There are 3 different piles to assemble based on your current game state

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Use a Big Mana spell such as Caged Sun to fuel a massive Exsanguinate or Torment of Hailfire

Extraplanar Lens Cares about the 'name' of a land. So it will only affect snow-covered swamps, which your opponents playing black probably aren't using in bulk.

Commander's Sphere seems kind of bad in a mono-colored deck, but it lets you crack a Doomsday pile for free to win.

Burnished Hart/Solemn Simulacrum/Wayfarer's Bauble are important because we have many cards that care about basic swamps being in play.

Vilis, Broker of Blood Is easy enough to hardcast in this deck, although sometimes you can reanimate it, and if you untap with him you quickly take over the game.

Deserted Temple let's you untap a Cabal Coffers/Cabal Stronghold to net even more mana.

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Revision 42 See all

(2 years ago)

+1 Dauthi Voidwalker main
-1 Force of Despair main
+1 Grim Tutor main
-1 Hellish Rebuke main
-1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth main
+1 Opposition Agent main
Date added 5 years
Last updated 2 years
Exclude colors WU
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

9 - 0 Mythic Rares

37 - 0 Rares

15 - 0 Uncommons

11 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.23
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