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Roalesk, Apex Hybrid
Legendary Creature — Human Mutant · {2}{G}{G}{U} · Green/Blue commander
Flying, trample
When Roalesk enters, put two +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control.
When Roalesk dies, proliferate, then proliferate again. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Then do it again.)
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What Roalesk, Apex Hybrid actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhen Roalesk enters, put two +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control.
- Triggered ability · deathWhen Roalesk dies, proliferate, then proliferate again.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · trampletrample
- Keyword · proliferateproliferate
What a Roalesk, Apex Hybrid deck needs
Plays as counters. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- sacrifice outlets and recursion for the commander (its own death is the payoff)
- blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
- creatures that grow with +1/+1 counters and counter payoffs (it spreads counters across your team)
- counter producers (it proliferates every turn)
The Roalesk, Apex Hybrid deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 6× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 9× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 16× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
Best cards for Roalesk, Apex Hybrid
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Gossip's Talent2 mana
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling4 mana
- Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice3 mana
- Deadeye Navigator6 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Ashnod's Altar3 mana
- Phyrexian Altar3 mana
- Greater Good4 mana
- High Market0 mana
- Lazotep Quarry0 mana
- Witch's Oven1 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Reclamation Sage3 mana
- Rishkar, Peema Renegade3 mana
- Wood Elves3 mana
- Badgermole Cub2 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- The Earth Crystal4 mana
- High Score3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Oversimplify5 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
Combos with Roalesk, Apex Hybrid
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Roalesk, Apex Hybrid is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Roalesk, Apex Hybrid + Deadeye Navigator + Crystalline Crawler13 decks
- Roalesk, Apex Hybrid + Blade Of Shared Souls + Basking Broodscale + Crystalline Crawler11 decks
- Roalesk, Apex Hybrid + Blade Of Shared Souls + Basking Broodscale + Pentad Prism11 decks
- Roalesk, Apex Hybrid + Blade Of Shared Souls + Basking Broodscale + Druids' Repository5 decks
- Roalesk, Apex Hybrid + Blade Of Shared Souls + Scurry Oak + Pentad Prism5 decks
- Roalesk, Apex Hybrid + Blade Of Shared Souls + Scurry Oak + Crystalline Crawler4 decks
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