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Oloro Esper Goodstuff

Commander / EDH* Control Lifegain WUB (Esper)

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Commander: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

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Deck History:
The deck has changed quite a bit since i started building it. As it got quite messy, I decided to rewrite the description here. However, I'm not going to hide older comments for the moment, just keep in mind that they might refer to older versions of the deck.

WinCons:
I'm not running Felidar Sovereign or Test of Endurance anymore as those wins weren't really satisfying in my opinion. Instead, I'm trying to focus on combo parts which are useful on their own and interchangeable with each other. The latter being the reason why i'm not particularly happy with Power Artifact at the moment...
- Basalt Monolith + Exsanguinate + Power Artifact
- Basalt Monolith + Debt to the Deathless + Power Artifact
- Deadeye Navigator + Exsanguinate + Peregrine Drake
- Deadeye Navigator + Debt to the Deathless + Peregrine Drake
- Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond
- Exquisite Blood + Vizkopa Guildmage
- Beacon of Immortality + Sanguine Bond
- Beacon of Immortality + Vizkopa Guildmage
- Ashen Rider + Rite of Replication
- Rise of the Dark Realms (because it's fun)

Control Suite:
The deck runs its fair share of counters (primarily focused on exiling or tugging the countered spells) and removal. I generally prefer paying the two additional mana for more flexible mass removal spells which is why i chose Merciless Eviction and Austere Command over Wrath of God and Damnation. Toxic Deluge is my absolute favorite. It works well with Snapcaster Mage or Yawgmoth's Will due to it's cheap mana cost and simply gets them all - even Sigarda, Host of Herons with Darksteel Plate...
Words of Waste may seem rather random, but I run a lot of (enchantment) tutors and supported by the draw power this deck can offer it can be devastating in the later stages of the game. It is, however, rather often a 'win more' card...

Consistency:
The deck contains 7 tutors (Vampiric Tutor, Mystical Tutor, Enlightened Tutor, Demonic Tutor, Lim-Dul's Vault, Academy Rector and Tolaria West). I used to run Enlightened Tutor and Trinket Mage as well and at least the latter will probably make his way back into the deck eventually.
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Well of Lost Dreams , Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Pristine Talisman , Drogskol Reaver + Oloro, Ageless Ascetic , Necropotence + Venser's Journal , Phyrexian Arena, Bloodgift Demon, Consecrated Sphinx, Notion Thief and Recurring Insight offer plenty of draw power, while Hanna, Ship's Navigator , Replenish, Yawgmoth's Will, Academy Ruins, Volrath's Stronghold and Rise of the Dark Realms offer virtual card draw via recursion and can sometimes win games out of nowhere if they aren't expected.

Synergies:
There are a ton of other combos which I'm not going to list all, for not drawing attention away from the important ones. Generally speaking, the flicker and clone effects synergise with almost the entire creature base and inifite mana has more applications than just Debt to the Deathless or Exsanguinate.

Cards that might get cut:
Rise of the Dark Realms, Archangel of Thune, Vault of the Archangel and Words of Waste are all rather pet cards than cut throat effective. Power Artifact seems too unflexible to be good, I'll either add at least Grim Monolith or cut Power Artifact eventually. Peregrine Drake should probably be Palinchron as well. However, I'm not particularly found of the entire Exsanguinate / Debt to the Deathless plan anyway - it's kind of the opposite of Felidar Sovereign . I dropped the sovereign because it wasn't interactive enough to be fun, Exsanguinate / Debt to the Deathless are too easy to intercept without devoting too many cards to them (and arguably still not fun). Bloodgift Demon and Well of Lost Dreams might just not be good enough in what they're supposed to do.

If you have any suggestions or constructive critisism, please feel free to enlighten me ;) I'd really appreciate it

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Jan. 5, 2014
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Added Ashen Rider and Snapcaster Mage as additional Deadeye Navigator and Rite of Replicationfoil targets. Beacon of Immortality also made it back into the deck as another replaceable piece of the Sanguine Bond / Exquisite Blood / Vizkopa Guildmage wincons.
Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots had to make room. The deck is less dependent on Oloro's card draw than earlier versions and doesn't need to protect him so badly anymore.. Finally, I've decided to test Words of Waste. The deck has a fair amount of draw power and the ability to turn that into a global discard seems worth a try. Unlike Words of Worship, which i didn't like, I haven't had the chance to test it yet as I didn't own one so far. Mana Vault got kicked out to make space for Words of Waste, as it was essentially just a placeholder (for Grim Monolith) anyway.

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Date added 11 years
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This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
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9 - 0 Mythic Rares

54 - 0 Rares

20 - 0 Uncommons

5 - 0 Commons
Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.55
Tokens Copy Clone, Minion X/X B
Folders EDH, EDH, Interesting decks, considered decks, EDH, EDH, Cool EDH Decks, EDH
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