First printed in Commander 2013 (2013)
All 6 prints
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Legendary Creature — Giant Soldier
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life.
Whenever you gain life, you may pay 
. 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.
4/5
- Illustrated by
- Eric Deschamps
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Penny Dreadful, Commander, Oathbreaker
- Restricted in
- Duel Commander
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (8)
- In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause the ability to trigger, even though it causes your team's life total to increase.
- In some unusual cases, you can gain life even though your life total actually decreases. For example, if you are being attacked by two 3/3 creatures and you block one with a 2/2 creature with lifelink, your life total will decrease by 1 even though you've gained 2 life. Oloro's second ability would trigger.
- If Oloro is your commander, its last ability will trigger at the beginning of the upkeep step on your first turn.
- If two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Oloro's ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
- You decide whether to pay as the second ability resolves. If you do, you'll draw a card and each opponent will lose 1 life.
- Oloro's first ability works only if Oloro is on the battlefield.
- Oloro's second ability triggers just once for each life-gaining event, no matter how much life is gained.
- Oloro, Ageless Ascetic is banned as a commander in Duel Commander format, but it may be part of your deck.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.02 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
74 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite draw triggers, Infinite self-discard triggers…: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Queza, Augur of Agonies + Skirge Familiar
- Infinite self-discard triggers, Near-infinite lifegain…: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse + Skirge Familiar
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Mind Over Matter + Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Pristine Talisman
- Infinite self-discard triggers, Near-infinite lifegain…: Mind Over Matter + Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- Infinite draw triggers, Infinite self-discard triggers…: Mind Over Matter + Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Queza, Augur of Agonies
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Nadir Kraken + Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Soul Warden
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Nadir Kraken + Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Soul's Attendant
- Infinite draw triggers, Infinite rummaging…: Confessor + Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Skirge Familiar
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Ashnod's Altar + Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim + Nadir Kraken + Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
- Infinite self-discard triggers, Near-infinite lifegain…: Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Shabraz, the Skyshark + Skirge Familiar