Next Thing She's Wearing My Roalesk

Commander / EDH GU (Simic)

Hausar

Lands (35)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 11x Forest
• 1x High Market
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 8x Island
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Ramp (9)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Maraleaf Pixie
• 1x Rampant Rejuvenator
• 1x Replicating Ring
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Workhorse

Counterspells (3)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Quandrix Command
• 1x Voidslime

Counters (15)

• 1x Agent's Toolkit
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Darksteel Reactor
• 1x Fight Rigging
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip
• 1x Lifeblood Hydra
• 1x Loyal Guardian
• 1x Lux Cannon
• 1x Magistrate's Scepter
• 1x Mowu, Loyal Companion
• 1x Sage of Hours
• 1x Sharktocrab
• 1x Simic Ascendancy
• 1x Simic Manipulator

Card Draw (9)

• 1x Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Mindless Automaton
• 1x Novijen Sages
• 1x Plea for Power
• 1x Toothy, Imaginary Friend
• 1x Uncage the Menagerie
• 1x Zegana, Utopian Speaker

Removal (7)

• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Incubation / Incongruity
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Smell Fear
• 1x Steelbane Hydra
• 1x Trygon Predator

Commander (1)

Counter Synergies (12)

• 1x Deepglow Skate
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Flux Channeler
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter
• 1x Master Biomancer
• 1x Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1x Plaxcaster Frogling
• 1x Skatewing Spy
• 1x Vivien, Arkbow Ranger
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade

Utility (9)

• 1x Colossal Skyturtle
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Malanthrope
• 1x Nissa, Steward of Elements
• 1x Ride the Avalanche
• 1x Silkguard
• 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
• 1x Worldly Tutor

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{G}{U}Welcome to my commander deck featuring the now 'hit's the graveyard when it dies' creature, Roalesk, Apex Hybrid{U}{G}

As soon as the changes to how commanders die happened, I immediately grabbed my copy of Roalesk, Apex Hybrid and began brewing. My first initial idea was going to be a Simic Superfriends deck (which could still be quite strong but since I already have a Superfriends deck in Niambi, Faithful Healer I didn't want another) so instead I opted for the obvious build, counters. With this current build, I find the deck doesn't often need Roalesk to work and he works as a great enabler of our strategy rather than the foundation.

As you can probably see from the decklist above, the idea of the deck is to generate as many counters as you can (mostly +1's but there are others) and using these as a payoff somehow. Whether it's big beaters like Mowu, Loyal Companion, tapping stuff down with Sharktocrab, take a bunch of extra turns with Sage of Hours or steal stuff with Simic Manipulator. There's quite a lot of stuff you can do with counters! Aside from +1 counters we also have Lux Cannon to blow permanents up and Darksteel Reactor/Simic Ascendancy because who doesn't want to win the game! Special mention to Magistrate's Scepter as there are some infinite combos in there for all the turns once you get that first counter on there involving proliferate.

Aside from that we have a small package for removal, trying to fit as much as a can alongside the counters synergy theme like Steelbane Hydra and Smell Fear and some standard ramp in there. Getting Replicating Ring to trigger is always satisfying.

Thanks for checking out my deck. I enjoyed putting this together as much as I do playing it. If you liked this deck, please do check out my others below:

{G}Rhonas the Indomitable - Bronas{G}
{W}{U}Taigam, Ojutai Master - Taigam, Master of Rebound{U}{W}
{W}{U}Niambi, Faithful Healer - Faith in Superfriends{U}{W}
{R}{W}General Ferrous Rokiric - The Red and White Army{W}{R}
{R}{G}Thromok the Insatiable - Hungry Hungry Hellion{G}{R}
{U}{R}Aegar, the Freezing Flame - Aegarbombs{R}{U}
{W}{B}Breena, the Demagogue - Bird Politics{B}{W}
{W}{U}{B}Chromium, the Mutable - Controlmium The Mutable{B}{U}{W}
{W}{B}{G}Kethis, the Hidden Hand - A Legendary Deck{G}{B}{W}

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.23
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Beast 3/3 G, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Replicated Ring
Folders	other peoples