Better Homes and Bargains

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Casual Lifegain WUB (Esper)

gildan_bladeborn

Creature (37)

• 1x Archon of Coronation
• 1x Athreos, God of Passage
• 1x Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Brimaz, King of Oreskos
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 1x Enduring Tenacity
• 1x Enigma Sphinx
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Ethersworn Adjudicator
• 1x Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation *f-&*
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Magister Sphinx *f-&*
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Mirror-Sigil Sergeant
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant *f-&*
• 1x Obzedat, Ghost Council
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Rhox Faithmender
• 1x Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant  ^Flip
• 1x Sharuum the Hegemon
• 1x Soul of Eternity
• 1x Sphinx Ambassador
• 1x Sphinx Sovereign
• 1x Sphinx Summoner
• 1x Sphinx of the Steel Wind
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
• 1x Treasury Thrull
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Vona, Butcher of Magan
• 1x Wall of Reverence
• 1x Wall of Shards

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Sorin, Grim Nemesis
• 1x Sorin, Solemn Visitor
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Land (37)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Floodfarm Verge
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gloomlake Verge
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Meticulous Archive
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Raffine's Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Shadowy Backstreet
• 1x Snowfield Sinkhole
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Undercity Sewers
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Act of Authority
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Thopter Spy Network

Artifact (12)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Orbs of Warding
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (2)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Death Grasp
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Commander (1)

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Bad puns that only make sense to me are the best deck names.

Unlike my other 5 Commander decks, I didn't build this one from scratch - it started out as the C13 "Eternal Bargain" deck, which I purchased back when I first decided I wanted to play Magic; it's obviously undergone fairly substantial revisions since then (in that there are only 2 cards in the deck I haven't replaced with a different card/shiny version), but I've had this sleeved up in one form or another for basically as long as I've been playing the game, and I'd like to think that its origins still show through all the revisions.

You'll see a lot of cards on this list that other people building around Oloro tend to include (obvious synergies are, well... obvious), and quite a few that might seem conspicuously absent (no Exquisite Blood or Felidar Sovereign? Madness!), and there's a reason for that: I actually liked the idea behind the original pre-con, just not necessarily the specific execution. I'm also not keen on infinite combos and alternate win conditions that are easily exploited due to the nature of the format, so there was no way I was ever going to put those in my deck, no matter how much of an "auto-include" some would seem to be (if you set about building decks with the intention of making them broken that is. I do not).

So what I did instead of cram my deck full of degeneracy was to prune out the various cards from the original list that were underwhelming ("french" vanilla creatures, curses, etc) or just didn't really seem to mesh with the rest of the deck, and replace them with things that augmented the existing themes of the original while also being cool and/or useful/funny; when making revisions, "splashy and unique (but impractical)" almost always won out over "good (but boring)". The goal was simply to make the deck better, but in a fun way that preserved the spirit of the original list, hence the "Better" in the name.

There are some very amusing synergies and shenanigans possible now (exponentially increasing rhinos is always a laugh), without ever quite crossing the line into the "no fun at all to play against" territory I take into consideration when deckbuilding: even when it really takes off and Magical Christmas-Land happens, I don't think this deck is capable of making anyone want to punch me right in the face for playing it, which is something I only wish I could say about all the other Oloro decks I've seen in action over the years (calling some of them "fun police" would be putting it lightly).

Date added	10 years
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	43 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 4 - 0 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.57
Tokens	Cat Soldier 1/1 W, Copy Clone, Emblem Sorin, Solemn Visitor, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Myr 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 WB, Monarch Emblem, Thopter 1/1 C, Vampire 2/2 B, Vampire Knight 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commander decks that exist, cammander decks, future comander, ideas, EDH Gauntlet, Oloro Decks