Sitting on the Throne (Oloro EDH)

Commander / EDH WUB (Esper)

Dubi1245

GainLife (26)

• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Radiant Fountain
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Sejiri Refuge
• 1x Seraph Sanctuary
• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Soul Warden
• 1x Soul's Attendant
• 1x Suffer the Past
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Tithe Drinker
• 1x Absorb
• 1x Basilica Guards
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Souls of the Faultless
• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Sunscorch Regent
• 1x Treasury Thrull
• 1x Revival / Revenge

PayLife (11)

• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Vile Consumption
• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Breathstealer's Crypt
• 1x Greed
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Moonlight Bargain
• 1x Bolas's Citadel

GainsTriggered (7)

• 1x Dawn of Hope
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Cliffhaven Vampire
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams
• 1x Epicure of Blood
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Defiant Bloodlord

Lands (36)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Dromar's Cavern
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 2x Island
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 6x Plains
• 1x Port Town
• 1x Radiant Fountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Sejiri Refuge
• 1x Seraph Sanctuary
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Watery Grave

CardDraw (11)

• 1x Dawn of Hope
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Greed
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Moonlight Bargain
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Emergency Powers

Taxes (10)

• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Souls of the Faultless
• 1x Vile Consumption
• 1x Breathstealer's Crypt
• 1x Dissipation Field
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sunscorch Regent

Commander (1)

Removal (17)

• 1x Dispel
• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Suffer the Past
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Negate
• 1x Absorb
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Terminus

Ramp (11)

• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Gilded Lotus

WinCons (3)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Exquisite Blood

Recursion (2)

• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Treasury Thrull

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Sideboard

Other (19)

• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Infernal Reckoning
• 1x Soulmender
• 1x Displacement Wave
• 1x Overrule
• 1x Syndic of Tithes
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Drana's Emissary
• 1x Fate Forgotten
• 1x Solemn Offering
• 1x Devious Cover-Up
• 1x Offering to Asha
• 1x Sunbond
• 1x War Report
• 1x Azor, the Lawbringer
• 1x Felidar Sovereign
• 1x Victory's Herald

GainLife (8)

• 1x Blighted Steppe
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Daxos of Meletis
• 1x Congregate
• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Divinity of Pride
• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Drogskol Reaver

CardDraw (2)

• 1x Daxos of Meletis
• 1x Drogskol Reaver

Recursion (2)

• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Soul Manipulation

PayLife (1)

• 1x Vona, Butcher of Magan

Protection (1)

• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Testing (1)

• 1x Psychosis Crawler

Removal (6)

• 1x Cancel
• 1x Render Silent
• 1x Soul Manipulation
• 1x Single Combat
• 1x Vona, Butcher of Magan
• 1x Akroma's Vengeance

GainsTriggered (5)

• 1x Ajani's Pridemate
• 1x Angelic Accord
• 1x Archangel of Thune
• 1x Crested Sunmare
• 1x Drogskol Reaver

Lands (1)

• 1x Blighted Steppe

Ramp (1)

• 1x Armillary Sphere

WinCons (1)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun

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Maybeboard

Other (19)

• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Serra Ascendant
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Nyx-Fleece Ram
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Long-Term Plans
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Beacon of Immortality

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Oloro lifegain edh deck. Tries to produce and take advantage of many small life gain triggers (ex: Authority of the Consuls with Cliffhaven Vampire or Well of Lost Dreams ) and then use life as a resource for value (ex: Font of Agonies or Necropotence ). You gain a ton of incidental life just by surviving and playing random stuff so people might try to throw a lot of chip damage at you, but you gain so much you really don't need to care. Just keep using incremental damage and card draw to keep ahead of the table and slowly work towards finding a game winning play; it's usually Aetherflux Reservoir or Sanguine Bond .

Because Oloro's life gain triggers from the command zone it is a bit of a waste to actually play him, but if you didn't find any of the other card draw sources in the deck his ability is really solid and you shouldn't be afraid to skootch his chair onto the battlefield. It does mean however that if he gets removed, as long as you drew into another draw source while he was around, you really never need to play him again because almost all of the draw sources in the deck are repeatable netting you a ton of cards if you find even one of them.

The deck also has a few versions of the Exquisite Blood combo using Cliffhaven Vampire , Epicure of Blood , Defiant Bloodlord , or the traditional Sanguine Bond . It can even come out turn 3 using Cliffhaven Vampire + Exquisite Blood and a turn 1 sol ring as long as the vamp can do combat damage to a player to start the combo off. Everything else in the deck is pretty slow though. A particularly good value combo to keep in mind when the chair is sitting on the battlefield is Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Pristine Talisman . The mana rock simultaneously triggers and pays for oloro's card draw ability letting its tap ability actually read "each opponent loses 1 life, you gain 1 life and draw a card", pretty sweet.

I also really wanted the deck to use Archangel of Thune and Victory's Herald , but it just doesn't go wide enough to justify either. Crested Sunmare isn't fantastic either since I have few reliable ways to gain life outside my own turn as this is built. These three work fantastically together, but not with the rest of the deck. They have been swapped out for taxing cards like Breathstealer's Crypt to help kill people faster while sticking to the slow burn game plan.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Pristine Talisman Cliffhaven Vampire + Exquisite Blood
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 5 Mythic Rares 36 - 12 Rares 19 - 11 Uncommons 21 - 11 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.45
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, City's Blessing, Horse 5/5 W, Soldier 1/1 W w/ Lifelink, Treasure