Nephalia Academy and Grim Monolith?

Hi, Silverf1sh!

I like Nephalia Academy, it is very interesting card, I will think about it.

As for Grim Monolith, after I have formed the mana base for the deck i considered and tested all the best artifacts (including Grim Monolith), and in the end I chose:

• Mox Diamond, Chromatic Lantern, Coalition Relic - because they give any color
• Mana Crypt, Sol Ring, Mana Vault - because they reusable/faster then Grim Monolith

So, if I will add Grim Monolith, then I will need to cut something else, and I have no idea what should be cut. Maybe you will suggest some replacements?

Personally I'd probably swap out Coalition Relic or Raven Familiar

Thanks for your suggestion! I will think about it.

Upvoted because I also have an Oloro commander deck, but mine is lifegain control. I've been looking for a fun Oloro combo deck to play, and I hope you don't mind if I snag some ideas from this one! Great deck!

Thank you very much for upvote!

Of course I don't mind! Feel free to use any ideas and to give any suggestions. I would love to see your Oloro deck too.

Surprised to see no Chrome Mox here, the card is a solid accelerator.

The reason why I don't use Mox is that I need to exile a nonland nonartifact card from my hand (combo piece? tutor? counterspell?). I tried to use that card in many decks, but was always disappointed.

You can have similar problems with Mox Diamond if your hand is light on lands. Both of those Moxen come with a drawback, so occasionally they can be quite bad, but the average draw benefits from the speed they provide in the early turns. Chrome Mox is seen in many competitive EDH decks and even banned in Modern, so i think it's fair to say the card has proven its value.

Chrome Mox is amazing. There are very few decks that don't want to run it.

This deck is rude. I like rude decks. +1 from me. Also I feel special because I was the 100th upvote.

Wow!!! 100!!!

I am very grateful to everyone for their help and upvotes! And special thanks to those who created this web site! Without them it would be impossible to create this deck and to share it with others!

Deathstroke2791: Lol! Thanks for upvote! Will try to make the deck even more rude and interesting! :)

Emzed, NarejED: I'm not sure about Chrome Mox, it is not as good as Mox Diamond (cards are not exiled, and it must be a land), but I'll try to test it. Thanks for suggestion!

Do you have any way to combat Lost Legacy turn 3? or any other card that works similarly?

I don't really understand why should I be afraid of Lost Legacy turn 3. It will exile only one non artifact card. The only card that comes to my mind which could be realy dangerous is Sadistic Sacrament with kicker. But it is definetly not turn 3, 4, or even 5. And I think when you play in multiplayer with 3 opponents It is pretty slow and ineffective card, because it will hit only one opponent, so I've never seen someone played this card.

The answer to the question how to protect yourself from those cards is to counterspell them. Things like Jester's Cap can be exiled.

I was just thinking that Lost Legacy hits omniscience, shutting down most (99%) of your win cons. i still run it in my group for literally that one reason, to shut down infinite combos. even if they do smack down omniscience, i can usually flash in lost legacy (using Vedalken Orrery or something like that) to shut it down

Sadistic Sacrament is a solid tool for black decks to fight against combo (usually without kicker), and thanks to cards like Dark Ritual, it can come out quickly. This deck will not fold to it completely, but getting something like Palinchron, Peregrine Drake and Phyrexian Altar exiled might hurt. Also, without access to Omniscience you lose some speed, so that's another option to get exiled.

Lost Legacy seems like a worse version of Sadistic Sacrament, i don't see a reason to play that card in EDH.

Just because you dont see a reason doesnt mea it isnt played. Just warning you, no need to get rude and defensive

Yes Emzed, Sadistic Sacrament is a nasty card without a doubt, but it is not the worst thing for this deck. The real problem for me when cards like: Blood Moon, Back to Basics, Rest in Peace are on the table. Those are a real pain.

Athraithe, the deck have 8 infinite mana engines along with Omniscience so if someone will exile Omniscience, it wont be a big problem.

Athraithe I was just expressing my personal opinion. I apologize if that appeared rude to you, that was by no means my intention.

9 fetches with only 8 possible things to get from the fetches doesn't seem to be that helpful, that would mean one of the fetches would be dead if you managed to draw all nine

Well, I counted nine targets for fetchlands:

1. Godless Shrine
2. Hallowed Fountain
3. Island
4. Plains
5. Scrubland
6. Swamp
7. Tundra
8. Underground Sea
9. Watery Grave

But to be honest, I can only recall a couple of games in which all the fetchlands were used.

I also had a lot of games in which Chromatic Lantern was on the battlefield. So all the lands (including fetchlands) were helpful.

I think this deck needs an Overwhelming Splendor.

Have you seen this new card yet from HOU?

Hi!

Thanks for the comment. No, I haven't seen it. I will definitely look at this card. Thanks for the suggestion and upvote!