Oloro, Guarantees; Death & Taxes.

Commander / EDH Control Enchantment Lifegain Pillow Fort Stax WUB (Esper)

Aleph-Null

Land (33)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 3x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 3x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Watery Grave

Card Draw (6)

• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Kaya, Ghost Assassin
• 1x Drogskol Reaver

Removal (4)

• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Utter End

Recursion (2)

• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Dance of the Manse

Taxes (21)

• 1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Peacekeeper
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Season of the Witch
• 1x Vile Consumption
• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Koskun Falls
• 1x Magus of the Tabernacle
• 1x Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Pendrell Mists
• 1x Windborn Muse
• 1x Norn's Annex
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x Sphere of Safety

Ramp (11)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Thawing Glaciers
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

Board Wipe (3)

• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Winds of Abandon
• 1x Supreme Verdict

Copy Enchantments (3)

• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Mirrormade

Commander (1)

Life Gain/Life Drain (13)

• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Tainted Sigil
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Rhox Faithmender
• 1x Temporal Extortion
• 1x Agent of Masks
• 1x Boon Reflection
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Subversion
• 1x Beacon of Immortality
• 1x Celestial Force
• 1x Revival / Revenge

Good Stuff (7)

• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Solemnity
• 1x Solitary Confinement
• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Force Bubble
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

MVP (5)

• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Zur the Enchanter
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

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Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Life

Gaining life is a huge part of this deck, and you will do it with ease. Wether Oloro is in the Command Zone, or on the field, you will gain life every upkeep. This passive life gain will add up for an awesome life total, and it will literally keep you alive weaponized through Vizkopa Guildmage , and Sanguine Bond . The idea is to use either Beacon of Immortality with Vizkop Guildmage out, doubling your life total; Draining the table for ridiculous amounts of life. Have doublers out like Boon Reflection , Rhox Faithmender , and copy Boon Reflection with a Copy Enchantment , Estrid's Invocation ; then double life total. For some added spice have Tainted Sigil on the battlefield, and it’s GG. Debt to the Debtless, Revival / Revenge , and Exsanguinate are all good mana sinks to end games.

Tax

The point of taxing opponents is to either slow them down, or have consequences for doing just about anything. There are different types of taxes. Taxing to attack Ghostly Prison , Propaganda , Koskun Falls , Collective Restraint , Sphere of Safety , Norn's Annex , Windborn Muse Consequences for Attacking No Mercy is the ultimate, followed by Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker . Now, what I've noticed is everyone swings on Oloro straight away. Which makes sense, and makes most games feel like a 3v1.. I actually enjoy that, and makes it all the more satisfying when you win!

Deterrent for attacking

No Mercy is my favorite enchantment for this, stops everyone from attacking you. Because Everyone targets you to swing at because of the life gain. Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker is another favorite. But dies to removal. :( The idea of wanting your opponents to be attacking just not at you is really easy. Just have a few taxes for attacking up, and use Season of the Witch . This will cause everyone to be swinging; just not at you. So sit back and watch opponents smack each other until you come in for the kill.

Drain the table

Alright so here is what I usually do with this deck; Have things out that drain opponets( Sanguine Bond , Vizkopa Guildmage ) and have things out that make you gain more life; Boon Reflection , Rhox Faithmender , Beacon of Immortality . I prefer Vizkopa Guildmage because it drains every opponent, and you can activate its ability more than once. But activating Vizkopa Guildmage second ability more than once is always an easy to kill everyone. Debt to the Debtless, and the Guildmage is nasty as well. So your board state is say pretty well set up. You've got some things holding the board down to an acceptable level of control.. 'ot to mention you have Tainted Sigil , Boon Reflection , and Vizkopa Guildmage . Untap.upkeep.activate Vizkopa Guildmage x2.gain 2 from oloro.gain 4 instead due to Boon Reflection .each opponent loses 4x2 life.totaling 24.tap.sac. Tainted Sigil .gain24x2.causing each opponent to lose an additional 48x2 thanks to multiple activations. It's not difficult to end games like this and from nowhere. People don't usually expect to die from random life gains..

Protect those enchantments

In my playgroup all my enchantments got targeted. So I picked up Greater Auramancy to copy it, then all my enchantments have shroud. Bam problem solved. But than they started running mass enchantment removal. Such as Bane of Progress , Planar Cleansing , for those we have Dance of the Manse , and eventually I’ll get a Replenish .

Multiplyer

Multiply Life Gain by copying things like Boon Reflection , there will be times I have 3 of them on the battlefield. Multiply Life Drain by activating Vizkopa Guildmage second ability multiple times. Taking out the entire table with Oloro's upkeep trigger happens more often then not.

I hope if anyone ends up making this or the same concept of using life as a weapon that they enjoy it as much as I do. My absolute favorite deck to play.

Top Ranked	Achieved #58 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #44 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Control 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Enchantment 4 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 60 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.70
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G
Folders	commander, Tapped Out - User Decks