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Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Legendary Creature — Giant Soldier

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life.
Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Oloro is in the command zone, you gain 2 life.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{3}{W}{U}{B}
Color identity
BUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#6304
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Oloro, Ageless Ascetic card art
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic gains you 2 life every upkeep from the command zone — before you've spent a single mana — and that passive pressure snowballs fast once you build around life-payment payoffs like Queza, Augur of Agonies. The cost is real: Oloro rewards sitting in the zone rather than attacking, so the deck leans heavily on the 99 to close games.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Oloro, Ageless Ascetic lives — the passive life-gain trigger functions from the command zone, which means you get value every turn regardless of board state, a unique advantage no other format can replicate. In Legacy and Vintage, Oloro is technically legal but irrelevant: six mana for a 4/5 with no immediate impact doesn't compete in those formats, and the command-zone trigger doesn't apply. Oathbreaker has no shell that wants a six-mana creature doing slow incremental work. This is a Commander-only card in every practical sense.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

33 decks
Oloro, Ageless AsceticNadir KrakenAshnod's AltarSoul Warden

Oloro, Ageless AsceticNadir KrakenAshnod's AltarSoul Warden

Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Near-infinite lifeloss; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Oloro, Ageless Ascetic isn't available in our current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest number. As a Commander staple with a dedicated following but no competitive crossover demand, it has historically sat in the $2–5 range — worth picking up if you're building the deck, not worth speculating on.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.