Intersting take on Oloro, much more agressive than most of the other decks out there.

IMO, Oloro has a lot of cards he interacts well with, and I tried to reflect both Life-gain, as well as draw-card in my take.

Your deck gave me some ideas i might put to use!

My Oloro deck, if you're interested.Oloro's posse

I did some thinking, weird right, and here are some cards I would consider for your deck if you haven't already.

Bond of AgonyGreedNecropotence * a little spendy money wise, but for you is insane draw *Promise of PowerSlaughterStromgald CabalSurvival CacheTemporal ExtortionToxic DelugeVizkopa Confessor

Sorin, Lord of Innistrad

I did some thinking, weird right, and here are some cards I would consider for your deck if you haven't already.

Bond of Agony Greed Necropotence Promise of Power Slaughter Stromgald Cabal Survival Cache Temporal Extortion Toxic Deluge Vizkopa Confessor

@ Uryah

Necropotence is the most tempting card in your suggestions. but it's more expensive than anything else in the deck. For now I'll leave it out, but I have a feeling once I see it in action I'll have to go get my money ready.

Temporal Extortion is also very tempting, at first I wondered just how much use an extra turn is with my deck... but I guess, bare minimum I'm gaining 2 life and drawing a card. I'll have to find a place for it.

More than anything, I'd like you to help me identify the weakest cards in my set. Can you point out a few and why?

Souls of the Faultless

Sudden Spoiling

@ Uryah

WOW! Last time I read Sudden Spoiling I thought it said "creature" not "creatures" that's awesome!

That's a great card! It could easily lead to the deaths of multiple creatures and/or break up creature based abilities! I need to find a place to put it.... Maybe I'll remove another land? ;)

@ Uryah

Currently I believe Planar Guide , Pontiff of Blight , and One Thousand Lashes are my weakest cards.

Any agreement or disagreement?

I feel that these are the two weakest cards in your deck, Bonehoard and Vedalken Orrery

I don't like Planar Guide at all in your deck, and One Thousand Lashes is a weak 4 cost enchantment in my opinion,

But as for Pontiff of Blight Playing against that card sucked. I remember him doing some work for you against me and Jonathan.

@ Uryah

Planar Guide is a very tempting card choice due to his versatility! He flickers the entire board of creatures at instant speed meaning: He wipes out all tokens and he can end attack phases without needing blockers, and he can respond to creature combos or kill spells or mind control...

My big problem with him is that I don't use hardly any "ETB effects" or soulbinding... I'm worried that he may allow others to get a pretty big advantage there.

Maybe I could talk Terran into using him in his white deck since he uses more ETB than I do.

Vedalken Orrery may seem like a simple card but I'm certain that it will pay for it'self.but can you imagine flashing in Wound Reflection at just the right time? Or dropping Phyrexian Rebirth in response to someone swinging all at you? The fact is that it makes the deck MUCH less predictable and a fair amount more flexible. I wouldn't make room for Vedalken Orrery in your average standard deck, but being free to cast stuff with ALOT of mana untapped during other player's turns will be awesome!

I'll keep Pontiff of Blight for now but I know he's more effective in a deck that: A, makes tokens or spams low cost creatures to trigger more extort effects and/or B, that has extra mana laying around. He could be put to better use.

@ Uryah

Actually, if we were finding my weakest cards I know that Head Games would be one of them but ti's just there for kicks :P

Hey, this is a great deck! I currently built an esper deck with this general in order to learn other colors better. Even though you don't have blue, I like some of the ideas you used. You have certain elements that remind me of my play style, good job. +1 from me.

Why is your deck an Oloro deck when it's only really two colors?

@ cschiller

Because Oloro is an amazing commander whether you cast him or not. The only other marginally tempting commander for a deck like this one would be Obzedat, Ghost Council (He does nothing until cast, and then he would have A LOT of turns before he caught Oloro in life gain) or possibly Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter (Who simply costs more than I'd like to pay for him).

Honestly? Guaranteed Lifegain each turn with the potential for card draw is an amazing card to be able to cast ... or not cast each time I play. Oloro is a great commander. And he's fun to play with. AND he synergizes with the deck EVEN IF HE ISN'T CAST! I love that EDH lets me "cheat" and go outside my intended colors with just one card...

I love Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter . Such a pimp. Just sitting there in his throne with his giant bat wings and aviators...

Anyways, I see what you're saying.

I'd switch a swamp for Shizo, Death's Storehouse . Strictly better.

@ Emrakul-the-Format-Broken

Thankyou! That's a great suggestion! This is a budget mix but that card is within the budget. I'll keep my eye out for one!