I have played Hanna Pillowfort and found it powerful and boring. Everyone else gets to play MtG whilst i was playing lego, assembling the pieces to break the table.
I understand that Esper is the poster child of control in Commander, however that really is not the way i want to go with this deck. I really want to accelerate via card draw into a midrange aggressive board state, because Oloro attracts hate.
There are THREE things this deck wants to do
* Draw cards (pseudo ramp with utility)
* Gain life (and spend it)
* Sling (and resling) powerful creatures and other permanents
* SMASH
If you have anything that would improve its ability to do so, please comment! I also have just realised i have one card to many, ill take suggestions on what to cut.
Utility (10 Total) 1x Nihil Spellbomb (at a minimum, it cycles, interacts well with Tempt with Immortality) 1x Blind Obidence (LIFEGAIN, Its power varies, but its better than most think, and the extort can interact with a few things in the deck) 2x Swiftfoot boots (aids in the smashing of things) 3x Crawlspace (works well with Bident of Thassa and is a defensive all-star) 3x Curse of the Forsaken (LIFEGAIN, I want to cut it, but wits very powerful against the people i play with) 3x Path of Bravery (LIFEGAIN, Gets bonkers with Cradle of Vitality) 3x Dromar's Charm (Good all-rounder) 4x Cradle of Vitality (Helps with the smashing) 5x Sanguine Bond (want to cut it but but when it goes off, it goes off!) 7x Akroma's Memorial (Nothing says smash like this thing!)
Many of the life gain cards are "win more" cards that don't actually do much for you. The Wall, Curse of Forsaken and Path of Bravery should be cut. Add more draw cards like Phyrexian Arena, Necropotence or maybe even Bloodgift Demon in their place. If you really want more life gain Paradox Haze is great and interacts with some of the best card draw engines mentioned above.
Erebos' greed ability is to expensive if that is why you run him. An Unfulfilled Desires can add redundancy at better value often.
Does Sharuum really have enough targets? I feel like, unless you are running her at the helm of an all artifact deck, she isn't worth the slot. Serra Ascendant is a must. I'm also a huge fan of Phyrexian Processor here. An amazing life sink as long as you don't get to greedy and make it a target. Dark Confidant is crazy good in Oloro but I understand the economic reason for not running Bob.
You need Vizkopa Guildmage. Even if you don't want to run the "infinite" Exquisite Blood / Sanguine Bond combo (Vizkopa can be a redundant Bond in the combo) the Vizkopa has strong synergy with just Oloro. Activate the second ability every turn in response to Oloro's trigger and burn the table.
If you run Vizkopa then consider Beacon of Immortality. Since you will often have the most life at the table targeting yourself with Beacon with Vizkopa active kills all the other players. If you do it late enough after activating the Mage people might forget and let you resolve the Beacon. Then it's to late. Unless they Trickbind the Mage trigger or something like that.
Sweeps aren't as good when you are so creature dependant yourself. Targeted removal might be better for you. Or run Avacyn.
I feel like Recurring Insight will provide much more value then Stroke. Especially if you aren't running any huge mana engines like Power Artifact and a Monolith. Or any Palinchron infinite engines.
Many of the life gain cards are "win more" cards that don't actually do much for you. The Wall.
Add more draw cards like Phyrexian Arena, Necropotence or maybe even Bloodgift Demon in their place. If you really want more life gain Paradox Haze is great and interacts with some of the best card draw engines mentioned above.
The wall I really like, does stupid things with sanguine and Cradle of Vitality
Serra Ascendant is a must. I'm also a huge fan of Phyrexian Processor here. An amazing life sink as long as you don't get to greedy and make it a target.
I have played Hanna Pillowfort and found it powerful and boring. Everyone else gets to play MtG whilst i was playing lego, assembling the pieces to break the table.
I understand that Esper is the poster child of control in Commander, however that really is not the way i want to go with this deck. I really want to accelerate via card draw into a midrange aggressive board state, because Oloro attracts hate.
There are THREE things this deck wants to do
* Draw cards (pseudo ramp with utility)
* Gain life (and spend it)
* Sling (and resling) powerful creatures and other permanents
* SMASH
If you have anything that would improve its ability to do so, please comment! I also have just realised i have one card to many, ill take suggestions on what to cut.
6x Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
Creatures (20 Total)
3x Phyrexian Metamorph
4x Sorin, Lord of Innistrad (I know)
4x Academy Rector
4x Wall of Reverence (can easily get out of hand)
4x Erebos, God of the Dead (his good, but he needs some help to keep his spot)
4x Divinity of Pride
5x Phyrexian Delver
5x Batterskull (I know)
5x Bribery (I know really)
6x Medomai the Ageless
6x Consecrated Sphinx
6x Isperia, Supreme Judge
6x Wurmcoil Engine
6x Sharuum the Hegemon
7x Drogskol Reaver (best card of the deck!)
7x Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
7x Serra Avatar
8x Sphinx of the Steel Wind
8x Avatar of Woe
8x Ashen Rider
1x Sensei's Diving Top
1x Mystical Tutor (May swap with Enlightened Tutor)
1x Phyrexian Reclamation
2x Lim-Dul's Vault
3x Underworld Connections (Swap with Phyrexian Arena upon acquisition)
3x Stroke of Genius
4x Greed
4x Diabolic Tutor
4x Cryptic Command
4x Bident of Theresa
4x Well of Lost Dreams
5x Unburial Rites
5x Tempt with Immortality
7x Debtors' Knell
Removal (11 Total)
1x Path to Exile
2x Black Sun's Zenith
2x Cyclonic Rift
2x Death Grasp
3x Act of Authority (really don't know how i feel about this card)
3x Toxic Deluge
4x Wrath of God
4x Nevinyrral's Disk (will replace with Austere Command)
6x Terminus
6x Life's Finale
7x Planar Cleansing
1x Nihil Spellbomb (at a minimum, it cycles, interacts well with Tempt with Immortality)
1x Blind Obidence (LIFEGAIN, Its power varies, but its better than most think, and the extort can interact with a few things in the deck)
2x Swiftfoot boots (aids in the smashing of things)
3x Crawlspace (works well with Bident of Thassa and is a defensive all-star)
3x Curse of the Forsaken (LIFEGAIN, I want to cut it, but wits very powerful against the people i play with)
3x Path of Bravery (LIFEGAIN, Gets bonkers with Cradle of Vitality)
3x Dromar's Charm (Good all-rounder)
4x Cradle of Vitality (Helps with the smashing)
5x Sanguine Bond (want to cut it but but when it goes off, it goes off!)
7x Akroma's Memorial (Nothing says smash like this thing!)
Mana Rocks (5 Total)
1x Sol Ring
3x Pristine Talisman
3x Obelisk of Esper
4x Thran Dynamo
5x Gilded Lotus
Lands (40 Total)
40x Same old (including Kor Haven, Academy Ruins and Volrath's Stronghold)
Erebos' greed ability is to expensive if that is why you run him. An Unfulfilled Desires can add redundancy at better value often.
Does Sharuum really have enough targets? I feel like, unless you are running her at the helm of an all artifact deck, she isn't worth the slot. Serra Ascendant is a must. I'm also a huge fan of Phyrexian Processor here. An amazing life sink as long as you don't get to greedy and make it a target. Dark Confidant is crazy good in Oloro but I understand the economic reason for not running Bob.
You need Vizkopa Guildmage. Even if you don't want to run the "infinite" Exquisite Blood / Sanguine Bond combo (Vizkopa can be a redundant Bond in the combo) the Vizkopa has strong synergy with just Oloro. Activate the second ability every turn in response to Oloro's trigger and burn the table.
If you run Vizkopa then consider Beacon of Immortality. Since you will often have the most life at the table targeting yourself with Beacon with Vizkopa active kills all the other players. If you do it late enough after activating the Mage people might forget and let you resolve the Beacon. Then it's to late. Unless they Trickbind the Mage trigger or something like that.
Sweeps aren't as good when you are so creature dependant yourself. Targeted removal might be better for you. Or run Avacyn.
I feel like Recurring Insight will provide much more value then Stroke. Especially if you aren't running any huge mana engines like Power Artifact and a Monolith. Or any Palinchron infinite engines.
Even without infinite mana engines Exsanguinate and Debt to the Deathless are powerful in Oloro. Run the good old Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Cabal Coffers and profit. Magister Sphinx and Sorin set you to 10 turn those X spells into win cons even without infinite mana.
EDH Decks:
WUBOloro, Combo ControlWUB
UBOona Reanimator ComboUB
BRGProssh, Eater of the Blue MageBRG
UBRGrixis StormUBR
Rebuilding Jenara (stealyourstuff.dec)
Pauper Deck:
UBInspired SirenUB
GWBKarador, Necrotic Ooze SubthemeBWG
The wall I really like, does stupid things with sanguine and Cradle of Vitality
Agreed, PP looks very cool...
I really did not like that guy... Though the beacon of immortality combo looks cool.