Survival of the Fittest | Oloro EDH

Commander / EDH* Casual Combo Enchantment Lifegain Multiplayer WUB (Esper)

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Instant (3)

• 1x Beacon of Immortality
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Unmake

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Enduring Ideal
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Martial Coup
• 1x Open the Vaults

Enchantment (27)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Boon Reflection
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Decree of Silence
• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Martial Law
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Opalescence
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Planar Collapse
• 1x Quest for Ancient Secrets
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Righteous Aura
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Solitary Confinement
• 1x Soul Barrier
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Subversion
• 1x Tainted AEther
• 1x Vile Consumption
• 1x Words of Worship
• 1x Yawgmoth's Bargain

Artifact (8)

• 1x Bottled Cloister
• 1x Chalice of Life  ^Flip
• 1x Isolation Cell
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Norn's Annex
• 1x Proteus Staff
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Venser's Journal

Planeswalker (7)

• 1x Ajani, Caller of the Pride
• 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
• 1x Jace, Architect of Thought
• 1x Jace Beleren
• 1x Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
• 1x Sorin Markov
• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

Creature (17)

• 1x Ashen Rider
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Azor's Elocutors
• 1x Clone
• 1x Dark Impostor
• 1x Doomwake Giant
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1x Magister Sphinx
• 1x Magus of the Moat
• 1x Medomai the Ageless
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Sphinx of the Steel Wind
• 1x Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
• 1x Wall of Reverence

Land (33)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Flood Plain
• 1x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x New Benalia
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Piranha Marsh
• 1x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Remote Farm
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Saprazzan Skerry
• 1x Sejiri Refuge
• 1x Soaring Seacliff
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Transguild Promenade
• 1x Vivid Creek

Commander (1)

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Enchantment (5)

• 1x Debtors' Knell
• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x Propaganda

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ajani Goldmane

Creature (3)

• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Heliod, God of the Sun
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea

Land (1)

• 1x Serra's Sanctum

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Esper EDH deck designed to outlast most opponents in multiplayer before taking care of the rest. Fun to play, flexible in card choice.

Words of Worship + Yawgmoth's Bargain roughly translates as "(1): Gain 4 life, while Sanguine Bond + Words of Worship + Yawgmoth's Bargain is more than cruel.

Quest for Ancient Secrets allows the deck to be reset should anyone be running enchantment removal after you've cast Enduring Ideal. Once cast, Necrogen Mists can let you shuffle enchantments you draw back into your deck this way, albeit at a slight delay.

Copy Enchantment + Paradox Haze gives you three upkeeps a turn and is very powerful with Enduring Ideal, allowing you to fill the board with enchantment creatures (coming soon) or to set up a destructive combo to help you to win, assuming nobody plays removal.

Enduring Ideal + Paradox Haze + Planar Collapse allows you to use the enchantment boardwipe at a time where almost nobody can respond to it, assuming you bring it out before your final upkeep.

I'm sure that most cards in the deck have some sort of synergy with several others, even if a few of them were only thrown in for fun. Feel free to find your own! Even if all else fails, there's more than a few decent fliers that can end your final foes.

Extra cruel: Nab both Paradox Haze and Copy Enchantment with Enduring Ideal, then Quest for Ancient Secrets. Each turn, in your first upkeep, sacrifice Quest for Ancient Secrets in response to the Enduring Ideal trigger, shuffling your entire graveyard into your deck, then fetch Planar Collapse. This gets sacrificed in your second upkeep, so you can then use the Ideal to grab Decree of Silence. In your third and final upkeep, grab Quest for Ancient Secrets again and watch as your opponents cry.Enduring Ideal + Paradox Haze + Copy Enchantment + Quest for Ancient Secrets + Planar Collapse + Decree of Silence is probably the most complex single process in the deck, but it's damn effective, especially with even a tiny reliable source of damage- like Subversion . Slow, calculated, precise... just as Esper should be.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	9 years
Key combos	Words of Worship + Yawgmoth's Bargain Sanguine Bond + Words of Worship + Yawgmoth's Bargain Copy Enchantment + Paradox Haze Enduring Ideal + Paradox Haze + Planar Collapse
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	4.26
Tokens	Cat 2/2 W, Emblem Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 WB, Vampire 1/1 B w/ Lifelink
Folders	Decks