Just hear me out… (Mono-black Oloro)

Commander / EDH Mono-Black

Darke

Big Mana (9)

• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Nirkana Revenant

Draw (Steady) (9)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Greed
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Board Wipe (7)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dead of Winter
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Protection (5)

• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip
• 1x Withering Boon

Combo 1 (3)

• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Triskelion

Draw (Burst) (9)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Discovery / Dispersal
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Ransack the Lab
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sign in Blood

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 28x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Off Color (6)

• 1x Discovery / Dispersal
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Tutor (6)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Combo 2 (3)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

Commander (1)

Ramp (9)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Removal (6)

• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Defile
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood

Recursion (4)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Victimize

Drain (2)

• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

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Maybeboard

Other (13)

• 1x Apostle's Blessing
• 1x Behold the Beyond
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1x Necrologia
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Stinging Study
• 1x Tivash, Gloom Summoner
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Underworld Connections

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Intro:

Mono(ish)-black Oloro is a unique meme deck that can still hang against strong competition. Why use a commander we can't cast? Mono-black uses their life total as a resource. So an innocuous +2 health a turn doesn't seem like a big deal, until you're turning that into 2 cards drawn later in the game. It's also a fun deck-building challenge to play "Off-color" cards with hybrid or phyrexian mana.

Pregame

1. How does your deck win? Doomsday, or a massive drain life spell

2. When does it tend to pop off? Turns 6-8

3. How long do people have to stop it? 1-2 turns

4. What's it strong against? Creature decks due to all the removal and stax decks because we can survive a late game

5. What's it weak against? Early aggro pressure or counterspell decks

7. Two-card infinite combos? Doomsday is a combo all by itself

8. Tutors? Yes, most of the reasonably costed ones we can play

9. What's the deck's vibe? Classic-feeling Mono-black control with a free enchantment to start every game.

Combo #1

The most consistent win is through Doomsday. There are 3 different piles to assemble based on your current game state

Main Plan Show

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1. Bolas's Citadel

2. Aetherflux Reservoir

3. Any 0-2 cmc card (Gitaxian Probe is ideal here)

4. Any 0-2 cmc card (Imp's Mischief/Mental Misstep is ideal here)

5. Black Sun's Zenith

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All in 6 mana and 6-10 life needed. You draw and cast Bolas's Citadel, cast Aetherflux, cast one more card off the top, and your storm count should be at least 3. Now when you cast Black Sun's Zenith you will pay 2 life, gain 3 life before it "shuffles" itself back on top of your empty library. You infinitely repeat this loop for infinite life and infinite storm, and win with Aetherflux activations.

Backup Plan #1 Show

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1. Discovery / Dispersal/Ransack the Lab

2. Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

3. Triskelion

4. Victimize (need a creature in play)

5. Any card works here*

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Draw and cast the top card, put Mike and Trike in the graveyard and draw Victimize. Play Victimize, saccing a creature, and win with Mike + Trike. All in 5 mana.

*Black Sun's Zenith prevents you from decking if the combo gets disrupted. Reanimate can get a combo piece back that got destroyed.

Backup Plan #2 Show

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1. Discovery / Dispersal/Ransack the Lab

2. Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

3. Triskelion

4. Living Death

5. Any card works here*

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Draw and cast the top card, put Mike and Trike in the graveyard and draw Living Death. Play living death and win with Mike + Trike. All in 7 mana, but you don't need any creatures in play.

*Black Sun's Zenith prevents you from decking if the combo gets disrupted. Reanimate can get a combo piece back that got destroyed.

Combo #2

Use a Big Mana spell such as Caged Sun to fuel a massive Exsanguinate or Torment of Hailfire

Tips and Tricks

Extraplanar Lens Cares about the 'name' of a land. So it will only affect snow-covered swamps, which your opponents playing black probably aren't using in bulk.

Commander's Sphere seems kind of bad in a mono-colored deck, but it lets you crack a Doomsday pile for free to win.

Burnished Hart/Solemn Simulacrum/Wayfarer's Bauble are important because we have many cards that care about basic swamps being in play.

Vilis, Broker of Blood Is easy enough to hardcast in this deck, although sometimes you can reanimate it, and if you untap with him you quickly take over the game.

Deserted Temple let's you untap a Cabal Coffers/Cabal Stronghold to net even more mana.

Notable Exclusions

Coming soon

Budget Build

Coming Soon

Future Changes

• Check out the maybe list.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Exclude colors	WU
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.23