{"ops":[{"insert":"🦨☠️ Olinda the Oblivious 💨🖤"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"[[Olinda the Oblivious]] is a mono-black group-slug commander built around putting "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"odor counters"},{"insert":" on opposing creatures. Whenever Olinda enters or attacks, you can mark up to one creature controlled by each opponent. As long as those creatures keep their odor counters, their controllers lose "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"2 life on their upkeep"},{"insert":". The catch is that Olinda needs opposing creatures to target—so this deck helpfully makes sure everyone has something to stink up.\n\n🎁 Here, Have a Creature"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Several cards deliberately populate your opponents' boards. [[Forbidden Orchard]] gives opponents Spirits, [[Hunted Bonebrute]] gives one opponent two Dogs, [[Clackbridge Troll]] hands out Goats, and [[Genesis Chamber]] spreads Myr tokens around the table. [[Akroan Horse]] eventually moves across the battlefield while producing even more creatures. [[Sleeper Agent]] goes one step further and simply gives "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"itself"},{"insert":" to an opponent, where it starts damaging its new controller every upkeep. [[Oft-Nabbed Goat]] is another particularly strange political piece. Opponents can pay to steal it and put -1/-1 counters on it, and when it eventually dies, those counters turn into cards for you and life loss for everyone else. All of those extra bodies accomplish the same basic goal:\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Nobody gets to claim they don't have a creature for Olinda to target."},{"insert":"\n\n🦨 Make the Stink Stick"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Because Olinda triggers both when she "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"enters"},{"insert":" and when she "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"attacks"},{"insert":", the deck has several ways to repeatedly reuse her ability. [[Conjurer's Closet]] blinks her every end step for another round of odor counters, while [[Blade of Selves]] can produce multiple attacking copies of Olinda and therefore additional attack triggers. [[Panharmonicon]] doubles Olinda's enter-the-battlefield trigger, and [[Strionic Resonator]] can copy individual triggered abilities. The large package of [[Feign Death]], [[Fake Your Own Death]], [[Not Dead After All]], [[Supernatural Stamina]], [[Undying Evil]], [[Undying Malice]], [[Malakir Rebirth]], and [[Kaya's Ghostform]] serves double duty: it protects your commander while also causing Olinda to "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"leave and re-enter"},{"insert":", giving you another set of targets. That makes killing the skunk surprisingly inconvenient. \n\n🩸 Every Point of Life Matters"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Once Olinda has several opponents taking recurring damage, the rest of the deck piles on. [[Blood Artist]], [[Ayara, First of Locthwain]], [[Blood Seeker]], [[Hissing Miasma]], [[Dread Presence]], [[Loyal Subordinate]], and [[Sheoldred, the Apocalypse]] provide additional sources of steady life loss. [[Archfiend of Despair]] and [[Wound Reflection]] are especially vicious because they effectively punish opponents again for the life they've already lost that turn. One round of odor triggers, creature deaths, and incidental drain can suddenly become a massive chunk of someone's life total. [[The Master of Lake-town]] adds another angle: whenever a player loses life, that player mills that many cards, so all of your incremental drain simultaneously starts chewing through libraries.\n\n☠️ The Nasty Finishers"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The deck has several ways to convert all that incremental damage into an actual ending. [[Exsanguinate]] is the classic mono-black closer, especially with [[Cabal Coffers]], [[Cabal Stronghold]], [[Crypt Ghast]], [[Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx]], and [[Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth]] generating huge amounts of mana. [[Gray Merchant of Asphodel]] provides another enormous life swing and becomes particularly appealing when you can reuse its ETB with [[Conjurer's Closet]]. [[Massacre Wurm]] punishes opponents for having all those creatures you've encouraged them to accumulate, turning a crowded board into a liability. And [[Bloodchief Ascension]] gives all of the constant life loss another payoff once it comes online.\n\n🎭 Playing the Deck"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Early on, establish mana and begin creating creatures on opponents' battlefields. You don't necessarily need to rush Olinda out if there aren't worthwhile targets yet. Once the table has enough bodies, cast [[Olinda the Oblivious]] and start spreading odor counters as evenly as possible. Reusing her ETB with blink and resurrection effects is often more valuable than simply trying to attack with her every turn. From there, make attacking you unpleasant with [[Crawlspace]], [[Silent Arbiter]], [[Maze of Ith]], [[Darkness]], and [[Hissing Miasma]], and let the table slowly bleed itself out.\nYour opponents get creatures.\nTheir creatures get odor counters.\nAnd somehow "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"you're the one they blame."},{"insert":" 🦨💨☠️\n"}]}