Oloro, Ageless Ascetic-Lifegain, Drain, Card draw

Commander / EDH Lifegain WUB (Esper)

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Creature (9)

• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Divinity of Pride
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 1x Obzedat, Ghost Council
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Wall of Reverence

Land (37)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 5x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 5x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Act of Authority
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Detention Sphere
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Greed
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Paradox Haze
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Subversion
• 1x Underworld Connections

Artifact (18)

• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Chalice of Life  ^Flip
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Sun Droplet
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Instant (11)

• 1x Absorb
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Hinder
• 1x Last Word
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Spell Crumple

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Serra Ascendant

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Archmage Ascension
• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Cradle of Vitality
• 1x Luminarch Ascension

Artifact (1)

• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

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This is my build for Oloro, Ageless Ascetic.

It is primarily focused on drawing a bunch of cards and gaining a lot of life, while protecting yourself with cards like Ghostly Prison, Propaganda and answering/countering any important threats your opponents play.

The deck usually plays a political role in the game, where you try to manipulate others by pointing out threats on their side of the board, while slowly building up small, incremental advantages for yourself with card draw, lifegain, mana ramp etc..

In the late game, where others have usually depleted their resources you try to win by either resolving a huge Debt to the Deathless, assembling the Sanguine Bond + Exquisite Blood/Vizkopa Guildmage combo or just slowly and painfully draining them to death with cards like Subversion , Sanguine Bond, Bloodchief Ascension, Obzedat, Ghost Council, Chalice of Death   etc..

Cards I may test out:

Luminarch Ascension - Can be insanely strong, but I fear it might draw too much attention to my side of the board.

Collective Restraint - With only 14 basics in the deck and 3 shock lands, I don't think it's worth it.

Psychosis Crawler - I just thought I'd mention this card here since ever Oloro deck is running it. I personally don't think it's worth it since it doesn't do that much the turn it comes into play and is pretty fragile due to it being a creature.

Sensei's Divining Top - It isn't in the deck, since I couldn't find any space for it at the moment + I only have 2 atm, so I can't run them in all of my three EDH decks.

Cradle of Vitality - This card seems as a great addition to the deck, if only I weren't running only 9 creatures.

Serra Ascendant - I would probably run this card, if I had it since it is always a 6/6 flying/lifelink for 1 mana in this deck, due to your health usually not dropping below 30. Plus the lifelink triggers Oloro's ability.

Archmage Ascension - This card seems awesome, but it's somewhat hard to get to the six quest counters you need.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 31 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.46
Tokens	Copy Clone