I'm sorry too, Mitch. I'm sorry too. However, as far as reasonable upgrades go, first up at 14:11, there's me! As of this posting, my lowest TCGPlayer market price is $3.24 for my Commander 2013 printing. Please reprint me until I'm a budget card again.
WOTC can’t reprint pure fire like you everyday. You’re right up there with the fetchlands. Just imagine the world we’d be living in if everyone had easy access to the mana base they wanted.
If you get a reprint it will be at uncommon in a limited print product droping your value between $1 and $2 for a month or so. Everyone fiending for that reprint will buy up any excess supply until the price returns to what it is currently. But I hear ink is reasonably priced these days!
I have an expensive Oloro deck, I was in the mood to build a budget version so I can just place my commander down and play more casual games with friends, this list will help make that a reality! Thank you.
Oloro is one you may have to "prove" is nice from my experience. When I see it across the table I default attack them, and I think that's correct in the blind at least 😉 good luck 👍
@@somersetbassett4580 agreed. But I have a good relationship with my group, we all like to play for fun and see even some of the unfunny commanders "go off"
I actually upgraded mine to a cEDH deck with focus on combo control while utilizing the static lifegain he provides. I would like to see Mitch do the "rich" variant and see what he changes
Even though literal sol ring costs the same if not less? Even when most commander players already own a sol ring from a precon and are available in every single precon?? Let it go Mitch, until the card is cheap again it’s just not an option anymore.
Dude I have an Oloro deck and it is hands down my favorite, and I’ve been dying for you to do this so I can maybe take some pointers to add to the deck.
First commander deck i ever made was with this guy, made it out of cards I already had. Tons of counter spells, some endless turn combos around Nexus of Fate and Omniscience. Yeah my friends told me to make another commander deck pretty quick 🤣
I currently have a deck with this commander. Not budget but I have weponized the life gain and I love the deck. Exquisite blood and Vito make up the backbone of the deck.
I appreciate that the community has come around on stax decks. There used to be so much salt. I have rebuilt my Oloro into a enchantments matter creature stacks deck. Its fun, u get to be public enemy #1 until they kill you, then u get lunch :)
In my budget deck, I find Kozilek's Translator makes good use of Oloro's life-gain and his second ability. It combos well with Debt to the Deathless, as well.
been playing oloro since he came out in 2013 my very first commander and most busted and expensive one. I shifted from vintage to commander dropped all I could and just built oloro have tabernacle moat and the abyss to name a few things in the deck. my nickname given to me at the table is stalin because I've stalled the game for 11 hours before good times.
I've been gone from MTG for a little bit so I haven't been watching as much but as soon as you said "Guardian Idol" I was like wait a min where is Bauble? Then you said "Sorry, Bauble." I completely lost it then xD great one liner!
Out of all the deck tech's that I've seen (I've seen alooot haha), this has to be my favorite by far😍😍 I love how nasty yet wallet friendly this list is!😁👍
Mitch : Farewell wayfarer's bauble Very next video : and first up in reasonable upgrades , wayfarer's bauble!. I'm more disappointed in myself for not seeing this coming lol GJ mitch!
With Approach as a wincon I like to run Remand as a way to instantly put it back in my hand. Controlling as much as this deck remand is also pretty flexible
I’ve been running this commander as a half taxation deck and half life gain deck. I’ve put plenty of creatures that benefit from me just being alive and ways of protecting myself without being a complete and utter nuisance in the game, and I feel like I’ve hit a sweet spot of “this deck is fun to play and fun to play against, because it’s not to hard to beat and not hard to win.” ~quote form one of my friends who wanted to buy oloro
This is one of my favorite Commanders. I LOVE Esper decks! I made mine with a Vampire/Lifelink theme. This deck is RUDE and totally my style XD .... and yes.... I run Armageddon.... I'm sorry.
I've got an Oloro Commander Deck and mine has grown so non-budget over the years. My playgroup hates the Teferi/ Knowledge Pool combo, that's why I took it out... replacing it with a Duskmantle Guildmage/ Mindcrank combo is also budget and leads to less frustration in your opponents. Now I feel like building an alternative budget 99!
Hey Mitch. Would love if you’d take your best received budget decks into consideration each new set release, and do a sort of batch update for them in a video when each new set arrives. So we can all upkeep these builds together. I want to build a $50 Oloro deck, and need to consider some of the newer budget spells that are available since this was made. My playgroup is doing something neat now to make things casual and get a chance to make new decks at low cost, and get to run some spells that otherwise wouldn’t make the cut in our usual competitive builds. We’re doing basic lands only, no pure tutors (creatures that tutor are allowed, but no tutor-only spells), and a limit of 10 spells per mechanic. This seriously lowers obvious synergies and forces/allows us to be more creative. I wanted to build Selenia, but unfortunately she relies a bit much on tutors. This Oloro build can work if I replace the non basics, and the Demonic Tutor. Just really curious of what you may have included from newer releases. Thanks for all you do!
Having bought the Oloro pre-con a few years ago, I got a lot of non-budget cards that serve a good purpose, like Toxic Deluge (a Wrath for 2 and a black and you pay X life as an additional cost to have all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you paid to cast it). My Oloro deck focuses on mostly legendary spells like planeswalkers and a combo I have in there is Lich's Mastery + Shabraz the Skyshark. These cards basically says "You gain life ? You draw cards. You drew a card ? You gain life" and goes nearly infinite as you'll empty your entire deck. Because Lich's Mastery also makes it impossible to lose the game as long as it's on the battlefield, we get to keep playing after our deck is empty. From that combo, we have the choices : 1/ using Psychosis Crawler, Cliffhaven Vampire or Sanguine Bond to ping everyone to death with card draw or life gain respectively, 2/ Mill everyone with Psychic Corrosion, 3/ Slap everyone with a ~+80/+80 flying shark, Ajani's Pridemate, Bloodthirsty Aerialist and Twinblade Paladin. I should probably invest in a Dragon Throne of Tarkir just to enable Trample.
my oloro deck, just to make it different than the other 2 oloros in my playgroup, aims to play my opponents' spells/reanimate using life as a resource.
I don't know what it is, but every time I'm in the process of building a deck, Mitch comes out with a deck tech for it and it's suuuuper uncanny. Like this is the 5th time it's happened lmao.
Drannith Magistrate also combos with Knowledge Pool, and it stops opponents from casting commanders, and it's easier to cast than Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
Oloro is the deck I have invested the most money and time into. So I definitely feel some type of way about this decktech. However, I must say not a bad place if someone is starting off completely fresh.
Awesome deck as always! I think this makes a first one commenter for me but I love all your videos! I may build this eventually using this list, I’ve had my eye on Oloro for a while!
With all the effects that cause your opponent permanents to enter tapped I'm surprised not to see Embargo. Added it to my friends Oloro deck and it is way to good. Oloro itself counteracts the life loss clause so you just don't allow your opponents to untap anything but land for only 70 cents at that.
my oloro deck is more lifegain focused (crested sunmare, ajani pridemate, down of hope etc). i prefer it that way, but might still switch random cards for some of the pillowfort cards from your deck. thanks for the great content as always
This looks competent, albeit I'm a bit sad that the commander barely figures into the main strategy. Perhaps one could use the stax shell with another commander, like Raffine?
Was slightly surprised you didn't put in Felidar Sovereign or Angel of Destiny. That being said, I also appreciate it because I feel like those should be a given if you want to go that route. Not to mention that, personally, I feel like they're both boring win conditions, even if they can be fairly simple to pull off. I feel like the combo-y route would be more fun in Oloro, anyway. His life gain is definitely the less impressive of the abilities.
Make a deck teck on rhonas the indomitable with some fight but main focus on putting things on him that pump him up and say each creature able to block this creature blocks it so you can wipe boards when he attacks
What Mitch doesn't want talked about is that his deck techs are responsible for Wayfarer's Bauble gaining popularity. In the end he became his own worst enemy.
I've been messing with an oloro pillow fort/group slug deck for a long time. I use things like breathstealers crypt and painful quandary alongside oloro's triggered draw ability to try and whittle down the table. Unfortunately my version is pretty bad because I don't want to use the hard stax cards like aura of silence.
Looks great! Missing some graveyard hate tho for sure, some of the other effects intrinsically slow down graveyard strategies, but would like to see more in my meta
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Last time I was this early Wayfarer's Bauble was a budget card
Too soon
Too soon
... It still is. On Cardmarket you can grab one for like less than 20 cents.
@@francisjirons was it used to scrape gum off a table?
@@Bigballa-po3fm Near Mint/Excellent. I dunno man, just look it up yourself if you don't believe me.
I'm sorry too, Mitch. I'm sorry too. However, as far as reasonable upgrades go, first up at 14:11, there's me!
As of this posting, my lowest TCGPlayer market price is $3.24 for my Commander 2013 printing. Please reprint me until I'm a budget card again.
WOTC can’t reprint pure fire like you everyday. You’re right up there with the fetchlands. Just imagine the world we’d be living in if everyone had easy access to the mana base they wanted.
@@metaphics yeah a fun environment, what a crap world!
If you get a reprint it will be at uncommon in a limited print product droping your value between $1 and $2 for a month or so. Everyone fiending for that reprint will buy up any excess supply until the price returns to what it is currently. But I hear ink is reasonably priced these days!
I treasure the copy of you I have Bauble.. you're the best.
@@metaphics They can't seem to print pure fire like the bauble any day it seems.
"First up, there's..."
Damn. I knew that would hurt, but I didn't expect it to hurt that much.
I have an expensive Oloro deck, I was in the mood to build a budget version so I can just place my commander down and play more casual games with friends, this list will help make that a reality! Thank you.
Oloro is one you may have to "prove" is nice from my experience. When I see it across the table I default attack them, and I think that's correct in the blind at least 😉 good luck 👍
@@somersetbassett4580 agreed. But I have a good relationship with my group, we all like to play for fun and see even some of the unfunny commanders "go off"
@@yam1desu sounds like a good group!
I actually upgraded mine to a cEDH deck with focus on combo control while utilizing the static lifegain he provides. I would like to see Mitch do the "rich" variant and see what he changes
@@NinjaDude018 April 1st video with Mitch doing a complete 180 and taking budget decks and throwing a full wallet at them?! I would watch that.
I love control, pillowfort, hate and stax decks. I used to bring them to every play session. Used to.
Will Wayfarers Bauble now be in all of your reasonable upgrade videos?
Even though literal sol ring costs the same if not less? Even when most commander players already own a sol ring from a precon and are available in every single precon??
Let it go Mitch, until the card is cheap again it’s just not an option anymore.
Dude I have an Oloro deck and it is hands down my favorite, and I’ve been dying for you to do this so I can maybe take some pointers to add to the deck.
So have I but unfortunately my theme is life gain and loss instead
Mine is kinda a mix, closer to group slug using breathstealers crypt and such to do damage I can shrug off myself with lifegain
I felt the pain when you paused for Guardian Idol
Two techs in a row with Telepathy, Mitch's next investment confirmed!
Telepathy (and Revelation for Green) is a pet card and can be great political card.😊
Clean slate of comments .. don't mind if I do ....
When he said “sorry bauble” I almost cried
I just bought your Varina deck yesterday and now I wish I’d waited a bit because this looks so cool! Awesome job as always!
Oloro was my first commander, and quickly made me learn what Archenemy meant. It got so much more hilarious once Aetherflux Reservoir came out.
My oldest and favorite EDH deck is built around Oloro! Excited to see a new budget deck!!! Thanks, Mitch!
First commander deck i ever made was with this guy, made it out of cards I already had. Tons of counter spells, some endless turn combos around Nexus of Fate and Omniscience. Yeah my friends told me to make another commander deck pretty quick 🤣
My first commander I ever played, really nice to see a Budget deck on him!
I love being a control player, first Kess, now Oloro. I'm very happy, can't wait to start plotting for next year.
Oh a trip down memory lane. This was my first EDH deck designed around not winning.
I love my Oloro deck :) first commander deck I ever built and still my favorite to use.
I currently have a deck with this commander. Not budget but I have weponized the life gain and I love the deck. Exquisite blood and Vito make up the backbone of the deck.
I appreciate that the community has come around on stax decks. There used to be so much salt. I have rebuilt my Oloro into a enchantments matter creature stacks deck. Its fun, u get to be public enemy #1 until they kill you, then u get lunch :)
In my budget deck, I find Kozilek's Translator makes good use of Oloro's life-gain and his second ability. It combos well with Debt to the Deathless, as well.
Man if you wanna piss off everyone at the table, play this deck... I love it!
Oh god, I won't touch Oloro, and I adore esper and commanders like Sidri. And you, Mitch. You've, you've made it... AFFORDABLE
been playing oloro since he came out in 2013 my very first commander and most busted and expensive one. I shifted from vintage to commander dropped all I could and just built oloro have tabernacle moat and the abyss to name a few things in the deck. my nickname given to me at the table is stalin because I've stalled the game for 11 hours before good times.
The day when Wayfar's bauble became an upgrade card. Is when it lost it's identity
I've been gone from MTG for a little bit so I haven't been watching as much but as soon as you said "Guardian Idol" I was like wait a min where is Bauble? Then you said "Sorry, Bauble." I completely lost it then xD great one liner!
Out of all the deck tech's that I've seen (I've seen alooot haha), this has to be my favorite by far😍😍
I love how nasty yet wallet friendly this list is!😁👍
Thanks mitch, I appreciate all your hard work.
The Instructor is pleased with this vid!
My Oloro Life-Manipulation deck is my baby. First commander I ever made!
Mitch : Farewell wayfarer's bauble
Very next video : and first up in reasonable upgrades , wayfarer's bauble!.
I'm more disappointed in myself for not seeing this coming lol GJ mitch!
Love this deck idea. I've had Oloro for a long time and never really knew a fun way to build him. Definitely gonna try this out
Mitch! You dastardly man, you! This deck tech was superb!
*Bows to the budget lord*
With Approach as a wincon I like to run Remand as a way to instantly put it back in my hand. Controlling as much as this deck remand is also pretty flexible
I’ve been running this commander as a half taxation deck and half life gain deck. I’ve put plenty of creatures that benefit from me just being alive and ways of protecting myself without being a complete and utter nuisance in the game, and I feel like I’ve hit a sweet spot of “this deck is fun to play and fun to play against, because it’s not to hard to beat and not hard to win.” ~quote form one of my friends who wanted to buy oloro
This is one of my favorite Commanders. I LOVE Esper decks! I made mine with a Vampire/Lifelink theme. This deck is RUDE and totally my style XD
.... and yes.... I run Armageddon.... I'm sorry.
All I want is a pauper commander episode
I've got an Oloro Commander Deck and mine has grown so non-budget over the years. My playgroup hates the Teferi/ Knowledge Pool combo, that's why I took it out... replacing it with a Duskmantle Guildmage/ Mindcrank combo is also budget and leads to less frustration in your opponents.
Now I feel like building an alternative budget 99!
Hey Mitch. Would love if you’d take your best received budget decks into consideration each new set release, and do a sort of batch update for them in a video when each new set arrives. So we can all upkeep these builds together. I want to build a $50 Oloro deck, and need to consider some of the newer budget spells that are available since this was made.
My playgroup is doing something neat now to make things casual and get a chance to make new decks at low cost, and get to run some spells that otherwise wouldn’t make the cut in our usual competitive builds.
We’re doing basic lands only, no pure tutors (creatures that tutor are allowed, but no tutor-only spells), and a limit of 10 spells per mechanic.
This seriously lowers obvious synergies and forces/allows us to be more creative. I wanted to build Selenia, but unfortunately she relies a bit much on tutors. This Oloro build can work if I replace the non basics, and the Demonic Tutor. Just really curious of what you may have included from newer releases.
Thanks for all you do!
Having bought the Oloro pre-con a few years ago, I got a lot of non-budget cards that serve a good purpose, like Toxic Deluge (a Wrath for 2 and a black and you pay X life as an additional cost to have all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you paid to cast it).
My Oloro deck focuses on mostly legendary spells like planeswalkers and a combo I have in there is Lich's Mastery + Shabraz the Skyshark. These cards basically says "You gain life ? You draw cards. You drew a card ? You gain life" and goes nearly infinite as you'll empty your entire deck. Because Lich's Mastery also makes it impossible to lose the game as long as it's on the battlefield, we get to keep playing after our deck is empty. From that combo, we have the choices :
1/ using Psychosis Crawler, Cliffhaven Vampire or Sanguine Bond to ping everyone to death with card draw or life gain respectively,
2/ Mill everyone with Psychic Corrosion,
3/ Slap everyone with a ~+80/+80 flying shark, Ajani's Pridemate, Bloodthirsty Aerialist and Twinblade Paladin. I should probably invest in a Dragon Throne of Tarkir just to enable Trample.
Man you just put in the missing pieces I have been wondering and looking around for to finish my Oloro deck... TYSM!!
my oloro deck, just to make it different than the other 2 oloros in my playgroup, aims to play my opponents' spells/reanimate using life as a resource.
Babule was such a good friend for so long, you should include an easter egg in every video=P
Mitch: Average EDHREC Oloro deck $464.63
Me side-eying my Oloro deck: How the hell did you cost me so much?
I'm so glad I bought a dozen or so copies of the Bauble a while back.
I don't know what it is, but every time I'm in the process of building a deck, Mitch comes out with a deck tech for it and it's suuuuper uncanny. Like this is the 5th time it's happened lmao.
I put the red card that stops life gain for the rest of the game in all of my decks with red. Works great against Oloro players.
Stigma Lasher.
Seraph of the Sword is a great budget blocker with Silent Arbiter, as you opponents *have* to use removal on it.
Lavinia and Knowledge Pool also work in "locking" them up but even harder Drannith Magistrate also does it quite hard
@ Mitch:
Wayfarer‘ Bauble... about 1€ in Europe.
Just buy them there and include it in your selection. Don‘t give up the Bauble!
Drannith Magistrate also combos with Knowledge Pool, and it stops opponents from casting commanders, and it's easier to cast than Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
I was thinking about making a persistent petitioners deck with this guy as the commander
It’s so great to see builds that are so different than mine.
My first Commander. Still play him.
Oloro is the deck I have invested the most money and time into. So I definitely feel some type of way about this decktech. However, I must say not a bad place if someone is starting off completely fresh.
one person in our playgroup plays Oloro, his finisher is usually Equisite blood combo
Awesome deck as always! I think this makes a first one commenter for me but I love all your videos! I may build this eventually using this list, I’ve had my eye on Oloro for a while!
You read my mind or what? Today I searching Oloro deck and build my own.
Love this! It’s always hard to beat decks like this. Sanctum of the Sun would be amazing in this!
Love the attitude for having to out bauble as a budget upgrade. Maybe it will see reprint in commander legends.
I would absolutely love to see a break the bank episode with this deck tech!
Wayfarer's bauble 😍😍 I knew U wouldn't let the meme go Mitch I just knew it ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Really wanted a budget deck tech for Oloro. Thanks!
I have a life gain oloro deck which isn’t that powerful but I still love it!
My buddy built a mean superfriends control with oloro. Has some great games against my niv mizzet parun deck
Yeah I built around him. He is a fun commander
I appreciate the Realm-Cloaked Giant tech card. I've been thinking of it for my Oloro deck too.
Most of the adventure cards are pretty high rate. Giant killer is nice and borrower is an automatic 2-for-1 if not 3-for-1. :)
With all the effects that cause your opponent permanents to enter tapped I'm surprised not to see Embargo. Added it to my friends Oloro deck and it is way to good. Oloro itself counteracts the life loss clause so you just don't allow your opponents to untap anything but land for only 70 cents at that.
I do believe that Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death belongs here :)
Important note if you play this, if you have rule of law and knowledge pool you can't cast anything either
my oloro deck is more lifegain focused (crested sunmare, ajani pridemate, down of hope etc). i prefer it that way, but might still switch random cards for some of the pillowfort cards from your deck. thanks for the great content as always
My experiece with Oloro: Oh god, I am not playing that ever again...
Death and taxes - the backbone of esper
Nice. I'm gonna use a few bits of this in my budget zur the enchanter deck!
Just built this deck a few days ago since the precon is around 200 dollars us.
Zurs Weirding is an amazing card for this list and any stacks deck in general and is extremely underplayed. And only costs 96 cents!!!
reminds me of the Zur deck you did with the Professor
Rethink is an almost criminally underrated budget counterspell
This channel is not what it used to without the bauble
Og Eminence
This looks competent, albeit I'm a bit sad that the commander barely figures into the main strategy. Perhaps one could use the stax shell with another commander, like Raffine?
Was slightly surprised you didn't put in Felidar Sovereign or Angel of Destiny.
That being said, I also appreciate it because I feel like those should be a given if you want to go that route.
Not to mention that, personally, I feel like they're both boring win conditions, even if they can be fairly simple to pull off.
I feel like the combo-y route would be more fun in Oloro, anyway. His life gain is definitely the less impressive of the abilities.
Lavinia Knowledge pool is a CEDH stax win condition. I’d say it’s more boring than a 6 mana 4/6 that has no protection...
This is crazy I was just looking to make a deck thanks for the build!
If i may suggest to add Sigil of the Empty Throne. In the deck you have sufficient enchantment to justify this add on for $1.00
My Oloro deck runs Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood. Need I say more? 😎
Make a deck teck on rhonas the indomitable with some fight but main focus on putting things on him that pump him up and say each creature able to block this creature blocks it so you can wipe boards when he attacks
Yayyyyyyy Mitch found away to put in Wayfarer's Bauble!!
What Mitch doesn't want talked about is that his deck techs are responsible for Wayfarer's Bauble gaining popularity.
In the end he became his own worst enemy.
First up, a reasonable upgrade is wayfarer's bauble
Keep up the great work, Mitch!!
As a small addition, I feel that a Maze of Ith would be a decent add to this deck's mana base
Why are you recommending Wayfarer's Bauble in the reasonable upgrades over Sol Ring that's cheaper ($ wise) and better?
You’re new to this channel aren’t you?
Not at all. A meme isn't a good reason to have a bauble over a cheaper and better sol ring.
A “meme” you must be new
Remember, every deck they post for budget. Won't be shorty after
19 hours later, the deck list price almost doubled.
Mitch, you should do a "Rich" version of this and see what you can do with him
OHHHHH i allways dreamed about cloning God-Pharaohs Statue Ö.Ö. Why just having stacks without 10-30 more statues?^^
I've been messing with an oloro pillow fort/group slug deck for a long time. I use things like breathstealers crypt and painful quandary alongside oloro's triggered draw ability to try and whittle down the table. Unfortunately my version is pretty bad because I don't want to use the hard stax cards like aura of silence.
I built this commander for when my brain hurts and I don’t wanna do math. I can just sit back and gain life
Looks great! Missing some graveyard hate tho for sure, some of the other effects intrinsically slow down graveyard strategies, but would like to see more in my meta
Oh I think sun titan would be a great upgrade too