Insert Blink Pun Here: Roon Combo EDH

Commander / EDH Casual Combo Control GWU (Bant) Midrange Multiplayer

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Lands (35)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Aether Hub
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 3x Forest
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hashep Oasis
• 2x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Razorverge Thicket
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tendo Ice Bridge
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wastes
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Wincons (6)

• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Walking Ballista

Dorks (13)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Joraga Treespeaker
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Selvala, Explorer Returned

Tutors (10)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Card draw (9)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Garruk, Caller of Beasts
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Windfall

Misc. (5)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Silence
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner

Commander (1)

Interaction (13)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Wickerbough Elder

Ramp (8)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Sol Ring

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A combo/control deck lead by Roon of the Hidden Realm. The deck's game plan is to assemble a combo win, using Roon's flicker ability to stave off threats as necessary and buy you time to dig for the cards you need.

This is my main commander deck and has been for some time. Roon is not nearly as powerful as top-tier cEDH combo decks with Hermit Druid or Doomsday, but this means he has not been "solved" yet and there are always more improvements to be made, and this is why I love playing him.

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Your primary objective is to assemble your infinite combo, which involves making an arbitrarily large amount of mana and going bonkers with it.

Win conditions Show

Peregrine Drake or Palinchron paired with Deadeye Navigator or Eldrazi Displacer will give you infinite mana, and therefore infinite blinks of whatever ETB effects you can get onto the board. The decisive win condition is Walking Ballista; Trinket Mage or Recruiter of the Guard will fetch Ballista straight into your hand, Prime Speaker Zegana will draw your library, Fierce Empath gets Prime Speaker, and so on. Any tutor putting any of these cards in your hand or on the board will win you the game at this point. Eternal Witness can recover missing pieces if necessary. In the event that you can't get Ballista, Venser, Shaper Savant is a suitable backup, returning all permanents you don't control back to their owners' hands; as you can bounce any spell or permanent at instant speed should anybody else try to continue playing, this should force immediate concessions from the table.

In terms of protection from instant-speed removal and counterspells, Grand Abolisher and Silence will help you resolve and protect your pieces. You've also got some countermagic of your own to help you force pieces through, namely Pact of Negation, Swan Song, Arcane Denial, and Counterspell.

Considerations - make sure you have the correct mana to combo off. Every Deadeye activation costs 2 mana, which means you need at least three lands in order to net mana by blinking Palinchron/Peregrine Drake. In addition, you'll only net mana from whatever land you're not using to activate Deadeye; for example, if your only lands are an island and two forests, you'll only make infinite green mana, because every time you untap the island you'll have to tap it again right away to use Deadeye. While this works if you have Walking Ballista in your hand, it does not give you infinite Deadeye activations, so plan ahead carefully. Displacer has similar considerations, except that you need a minimum of four lands instead of three and at least one colorless land to activate him.

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The vast majority of the deck is dedicated to finding, casting, and protecting the combo.

Combo assembly Show

Tutors - Birthing Pod, Survival of the Fittest, and Fauna Shaman require some careful planning, but you can use them multiple times, and it only takes two or three uses to find the combo. Recruiter of the Guard and Fierce Empath can also be reused if you blink them with Roon. Eladamri's Call and Worldly Tutor are both single use, but grab anything you want.

Card draw - drawing cards is obviously good because it will help you dig for the combo, tutors for the combo, or protection for the combo. Garruk should probably be used exclusively for card draw, unless you somehow have the opportunity to ult him, in which case for goodness' sake do it. Try to play Roon first to defend him if possible.

Ramp - this deck is incredibly mana- and color-hungry. Fortunately, more than half the deck taps for mana. Green Sun's Zenith is best used on turn 1 to fetch Dryad Arbor. Kiora's Follower plus Gilded Lotus, Mana Vault, Mana Crypt, Sol Ring, Bloom Tender, Joraga Treespeaker, or Selvala, Explorer Returned is insane. You'll need 6 mana to play and activate Displacer, 8 for Deadeye, 9 for Tooth and Nail, and even more if you want to hold up countermagic on the combo turn, so plan accordingly!

Overcoming disruption - Wickerbough Elder is your only creature-based answer to Torpor Orb. Use it wisely.

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Roon of the Hidden Realm is not part of the combo, but he's an integral part of the deck nonetheless.

The commander Show

While the deck can function and win without Roon, having him in play is a huge asset, as he has fantastic defensive applications. In addition to providing a 4/4 body, his flicker ability can hit any creature on the board, meaning he can neutralize an attacker, remove an engine or problematic static effect for one turn, reset counters on a creature, or blank a token. Vigilance and trample is also an excellent combination because he can pressure planeswalkers or players with a low life total while also staying back to block.

Roon also has a few helpful interactions with specific cards. He serves as sac fodder for Birthing Pod (fetching Deadeye Navigator or Prime Speaker Zegana). He is also the easiest way to get value out of Prime Speaker Zegana, who will draw five cards if Roon is in play. Having Roon out guarantees that Bloom Tender taps for three mana. Kiora's Follower can untap Roon, getting an extra flicker out of him. Finally, you can reset Gilded Drake by blinking him back to your side of the board; this interaction is bonkers and will almost certainly draw a ton of attention from the table, but it will also make it very difficult for your opponents to maintain a board presence and buy you loads of time to set up.

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Interactive, competitive, and a blast to play, I would recommend Roon to anyone. Comments, criticism, and suggestions for additions/cuts are welcome, and feel free to upvote if you like the deck!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	BR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.56
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Garruk, Caller of Beasts, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Plant 0/2 G, Spirit 1/1 C
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