Roil Elemental

Creature — Elemental

Flying

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain control of target creature for as long as you control Roil Elemental.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

plakjekaas on Pattern Recognition #402 - Interesting …

5 months ago

I think Ghost Town is underrated for landfall decks, combined with Burgeoning it turns all your opponents' landdrops into a trigger of all your landfall effects. It guarantees a landdrop every turn. With Walking Atlas and Retreat to Coralhelm you have infinite landfall triggers on an opponent's turn, even outside of green. It's great with Roil Elemental. I even played it in my Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion deck for the extra card to discard with the combat damage trigger.

Gman6664 on Tatyova, Land Cruiser

6 months ago

• Lands: Take Simic Guildgate and Woodland Stream out. Any land that enters tapped without benefit is below par. Yavimaya Coast you can leave in for a budget add. Its personally not a card I like but this commander does offset its self-ping well.

• Remove: Hermit Druid and Elvish Reclaimer dont synergize well since you dont focus on graveyard recursion. This isnt a Muldrotha, the Gravetide deck. Though I do see a few more additions to this graveyard sub-theme now...but I feel its moreso to make work Icetill Explorer. Personally, I'd stay away from graveyard stuff since this is Simic and not Sultai. But you could still make it work, though my personal rec is to stay away from that subtheme all together. (An easy) Cut Urban Evolution, I'd want to do more than draw three cards and play an additional land for 5 mana. Tatyova, Benthic Druid has this built in and should be triggering often that you wouldnt need that card.

• Praise: Mossborn Hydra, Territorial Scythecat, Seedship Agrarian are welcome additions that stack when you play lands, and are even better when MULTIPLE lands a turn are played. Roil Elemental is one of my pet cards and by god is it fun to hit the table and mess with people.

• Consider: Panharmonicon if you are going to consider ETB creatures for a number of your land drops (think of how Ashaya, Soul of the Wild will pop off!). Add Retreat to Kazandu to amplify when your lands enter on any other creature (switch with Retreat to Coralhelm.

• Confusion: I'm curious about your Hydras' and 'X' cost creatures and their effectiveness. Not what I would have thought to do with a bunch of mana, but it does set you up where an opponent can counter your big spell and your turn is dead in the water. I'm otherwise not seeing big bombs in your deck. Yes, Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger is formidable, and Avenger of Zendikar is a staple in this kind of deck. But how do we make these creatures all unblockable? How do we beef them all up with +1/+1 counters? Or how do we protect and regenerate our creatures from board wipes?

• Thoughts: You clearly like playing Blue, some counterspells are present and you like to mess with your opponents plays. Theres something to look into here with that mentality. Not sure what it is as I havent found myself on that particular 'counter' path in MTG yet. But worth exploring to make this deck more your own and less how I've built mine.

• Conclusion: Overall, its a vast improvement from what it was and is certainly faster. I'd focus on getting to either a good combo or having a fordmiable board state. My deck focuses on tempo and bouncing opponents lands back to their hands and giving me advantage that way. You have found a playstyle that works for you and you should keep exploring it.

Rhadamanthus on Princess Yue + Vesuva

6 months ago

Good question, the base creature would be a Roil Elemental. Copy effects also create new copiable characteristics for other copy effects to read from. The simple example I like to use is if a Clone copies Runeclaw Bear, then another copy of that Bear-Clone will also be a plain old Bear.

LilVacation on Princess Yue + Vesuva

6 months ago

Okay that makes perfect sense. Follow up question. If I have a Roil Elemental as a moon land, but that creature was originally a Clever Impersonator, would a Vesuva enter as the Roil or impersonator? I think based on my understanding it would be the Roil Elemental.

vic on Tatyova, Land Cruiser

8 months ago

Any reason not to have Avenger of Zendikar and Roil Elemental? Too costly? It seems to me that those are a couple game winners.

Flarhoon13 on Lazav and Gyruda (Companion): Doom Mind

3 years ago

Ill-Gotten Gains to enable Animate Dead on It That Betrays enabled this deck to win its first game. March 26th memorably saw Lazav, Dimir Mastermind become a Priest of Titania, tapping for 11 and utilizing a Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy twice (borrowed thanks to our Roil Elemental) to cheat out a Vilis, Broker of Blood and a Geth, Lord of the Vault, only to enable the Duskmantle Guildmage and Mindcrank combo victory.

Gidgetimer on Does Roil Elemental's ability still …

3 years ago

Roil Elemental's ability only checks that the targeted permanent is a creature upon targeting and upon resolution. If it stops being a creature later the control changing effect will not end.

mathemagic314 on Does Roil Elemental's ability still …

3 years ago

The situation: I controlled Will Kenrith equipped with Luxior, Giada's Gift. My opponent controlled Roil Elemental, and played a land to gain control of him. When I re-equip the equipment, does the Roil Elemental's ability cease to give him control of it, as it only applies to creatures, and like an aura's static effect, its ability would fall off? Or would he maintain control because the Roil only cares about it being a creature at the time of target?