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Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
Legendary Creature — Giant Soldier · {3}{W}{U}{B} · Black/Blue/White commander
What Oloro, Ageless Ascetic actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life.
- Triggered ability · lifegainWhenever you gain life, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life.
- Triggered ability · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, if Oloro is in the command zone, you gain 2 life.
What an Oloro, Ageless Ascetic deck needs
Plays as lifegain. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- drain and life-loss payoffs (the damage is not combat damage)
- repeatable lifegain — lifelink, gain-life triggers and Food (every life gained is its trigger)
The Oloro, Ageless Ascetic deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 32× Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
- 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 2× Answer a whole board at once
- 8× Refill your hand
- 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage
- Basilisk Collar1 mana
- High Market0 mana
- Vault of the Archangel0 mana
- Zuran Orb0 mana
- Blood Artist2 mana
- Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
- Authority of the Consuls1 mana
- Bloodchief Ascension1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Supreme Verdict4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Azorius Signet2 mana
- Dimir Signet2 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
Combos with Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Oloro, Ageless Ascetic is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Queza, Augur Of Agonies + Skirge Familiar147 decks
- Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Skirge Familiar + Sheoldred, The Apocalypse69 decks
- Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Pristine Talisman + Mind Over Matter41 decks
- Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Sheoldred, The Apocalypse + Mind Over Matter33 decks
- Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Queza, Augur Of Agonies + Mind Over Matter31 decks
- Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Nadir Kraken + Ashnod's Altar + Soul Warden28 decks
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