Lose some weight! (Oloro EDH)

Commander / EDH Infinite Combo Lifegain Multiplayer Pillow Fort WUB (Esper)

FunkyGraham

Land (35)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 2x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Council's Judgment
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Creature (21)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Blood Baron of Vizkopa
• 1x Children of Korlis
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Containment Priest
• 1x Ethersworn Adjudicator
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x High Priest of Penance
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Magister Sphinx
• 1x Magus of the Will
• 1x Meddling Mage SL
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Rhox Faithmender
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Sanctum Prelate
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer

Instant (12)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Beacon of Immortality
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Intervention Pact
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Sorin Markov
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Commander (1)

Artifact (16)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Grim Monolith SL
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Progress

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Banishing Light
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Solemnity
• 1x Starfield of Nyx

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This is my long-storied and very heavily altered Oloro EDH.

This is a slow, passive deck, about sitting silently and gaining weight while building up for a devastating combo. There isn't much in the way of countermagic, but you can defend yourself just fine. It's not a very aggressive deck, but like with all my decks you can build a mini-voltron out of any number of creatures or cloned objects if you muster the cards. You will also almost always have at least one good chump blocker that could do massive damage to whomever attacks you.

The main way this has of completely ending a game is the Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond finisher. You will use the Ad Nauseam + Children of Korlis combo to fetch what you need, and Magister Sphinx and Sorin Markov will put people into marked range for an alpha strike of Blood Baron of Vizkopa or whatever else you can combo off. Failing that, you will eventually drain enough life and build enough of a board to kill everyone. You can also animate your mana rocks with Tezzeret's ultimate if you are forced to wipe the board of creatures.

I've been working on making it more Timmy-friendly while still keeping it streamlined enough for Ad Nauseam to work, which is among the greatest challenges I have faced as a deckbuilder.

You must always make a balance in your deck so that you aren't so oversaturated that you kill yourself with attempting the combo, but having enough good bombs throughout that will be worth their inclusion anyways. You also don't want to be powerful enough by default to be an oppressor, but still have a way of stopping someone from being too overpowered too early. You can add other things to make it more or less oppressive than I have. I had to tone it down extensively from my original version!

I mean, when everyone is countering your Ugins and Karns, merely having them is a serious risk for your Ad Nauseam. There were a lot of speed bumps, as it were, that I took out for that reason. I made it more midrangey. Hence, he lost weight.

It could also be said that Oloro is training for a marathon, and building himself up to the big run. If he can't finish the race, he dies trying, but if he does, he gains all of his strength back and more. So it winds up being all poetic and about self-improvement and such, which could be a useful life metaphor. Oh well.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	6 years
Key combos	Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond Ad Nauseam + Children of Korlis
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.80
Tokens	Copy Clone
Folders	Decks To Remember