
Roalesk, Apex Hybrid
Legendary Creature — Human Mutant
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.)
4 / 5
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 30
All 30 combos.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres
- Fathom Mage
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
- Everflowing Chalice
- Quasiduplicate
- Thrummingbird
- Evolution Sage
- Karn's Bastion
- Rite of Replication
- Flux Channeler
- Astral Cornucopia
- Gyre Sage
- Croaking Counterpart
- Tezzeret's Gambit
- Blade of Selves
- Cackling Counterpart
- Incubation Druid
- Repudiate // Replicate
- Mirror Mockery
- Dreamtide Whale
- Kami of Whispered Hopes
- Phantasmal Image
- Glasspool Mimic
- Glasspool Mimic
- Simic Ascendancy
- Contentious Plan
- Evolution Witness
- Unnatural Restoration
- Cankerbloom
- Deepglow Skate
- Experimental Augury
- Prologue to Phyresis
- Mirror Image
- Replicating Ring
- Inexorable Tide
- Master Biomancer
- Mirrorhall Mimic
- Infectious Bite
- Tainted Observer
- Inspiring Call
- Ripples of Potential
- Mage-Ring Network
- Mutational Advantage
- Rishkar, Peema Renegade
- Rally the Galadhrim
- Bloated Contaminator
- Littjara Mirrorlake
- Llanowar Reborn
- Pentad Prism
- Forgotten Ancient
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Forest
- Command Tower
- Sol Ring
- Fathom Mage
- Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres
- Hinterland Harbor
- Evolution Sage
- Karn's Bastion
- Everflowing Chalice
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
- Quasiduplicate
- Thrummingbird
- Rite of Replication
- Yavimaya Coast
- Gyre Sage
- Astral Cornucopia
- Flux Channeler
- Arcane Signet
- Croaking Counterpart
- Incubation Druid
- Tezzeret's Gambit
- Dreamroot Cascade
- Simic Ascendancy
- Cackling Counterpart
- Kami of Whispered Hopes
- Blade of Selves
- Flooded Grove
- Cultivate
- Simic Growth Chamber
- Repudiate // Replicate
- Breeding Pool
- Rejuvenating Springs
- Dreamtide Whale
- Temple of Mystery
- Beast Within
- Phantasmal Image
- Glasspool Mimic
- Mirror Mockery
- Glasspool Mimic
- Inspiring Call
- Counterspell
- Evolution Witness
- Hardened Scales
- Rampant Growth
- Contentious Plan
- Vineglimmer Snarl
- Cankerbloom
- Unnatural Restoration
- Deepglow Skate
Format legality
Rulings
- 2019-05-03
You proliferate twice all while Roalesk's last ability is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two proliferations, and no player may choose to take actions.
- 2023-02-04
An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
- 2023-02-04
If a permanent ever has both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.
- 2023-02-04
If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
- 2023-02-04
Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
- 2023-02-04
To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
- 2023-02-04
You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.