Oloro lifegain tribal

Commander / EDH Control Lifegain WUB (Esper)

mf13

Land (37)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dromar's Cavern
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 4x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 4x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Descend upon the Sinful
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Obzedat's Aid
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Wrath of God

Creature (24)

• 1x AEtherling
• 1x Angel of the Dire Hour
• 1x Blood Baron of Vizkopa
• 1x Desecration Demon
• 1x Divinity of Pride
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Felidar Sovereign
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Obzedat, Ghost Council
• 1x Rhox Faithmender
• 1x Selfless Squire
• 1x Serra Ascendant
• 1x Serra Avatar
• 1x Shattered Angel
• 1x Sphinx of the Final Word
• 1x Sphinx of the Steel Wind
• 1x Sunblast Angel
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Wall of Denial
• 1x Wall of Reverence

Instant (9)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Quicken
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Boon Reflection
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Greed
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sanguine Bond

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Sorin, Grim Nemesis

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Less about lifegain, more about using those lifegain triggers to draw cards in a control shell.

This deck is capable of gaining ridiculous amounts of life via a few different engines (Serra Avatar + Wall of Reverence , Alhammarrett's Archive + Drogskol Reaver, to name a few) but that generally isn't my win-con. The incidental lifegain from Oloro just sitting in the command zone is huge, and can enable card draw via Phyrexian Arena, Greed, Underworld Connections , and Erebos, God of the Dead. Card draw that doesn't cost me life is Well of Lost Dreams, Rhystic Study and Sphinx's Revelation, and the lifegain from the latter can be a wincon if the right pieces are on the board--Sanguine Bond, Defiant Bloodlord, or activating Vizkopa Guildmage's second ability.

Speaking of which, this deck does use the Exquisite Blood infinite combo with any of the three mentioned cards. None of these are dead cards if they're separated from the other half of the combo, however; at minimum, I get to do 2 damage to an opponent during my upkeep.

Besides the infinite combo (which as of this writing has only gone off a handful of times in scores of games) , the deck has a few other ways to reliably win games. Most commonly it manages to win with a thousand cuts, whittling away the opponents' life while incrementally gaining life. Most memorably when my opponent dropped both Ulamogs, swung with both for three turns, would have killed me the next round and exiled the rest of my library when Oloro sucked out the rest of his life. The longer the game goes on, the more mana I can get on the board to feed a huge Debt to the Deathless which usually knocks out everyone. If there are survivors, they're usually easy pickings with what little life they have left against my enormous pillow. Death Grasp doesn't hit everyone, but it does let me knock one player out of the game and take their delicious life for myself. The deck has enough flying beatsticks that it can win the normie way, if need be.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Exclude colors	RG
Splash colors	U
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.75
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Bird 2/2 U, Vampire Knight 1/1 B
Folders	Commander Ideas, Mine, Oloro, k, Test Combat, Project O