BantLegendary Creature — Rhino SoldierRoon of the Hidden Realm
Mana value5Rank#13,256
The Commander
: Guide
Gameplan
Roon is a Bant blink engine: each turn you tap Roon to flicker a creature, re-triggering enter-the-battlefield effects to generate value, ramp, card advantage, and removal via tempo. You grind incremental advantage, snowball a board of ETB value creatures, then convert that into a lethal swing or a combo finish.
Strengths
- Repeatable, hard-to-stop ETB engine right from the command zone
- Can flicker your own creatures for value or opponents' creatures to blank attacks/abilities
- Bant has the deepest pool of blink payloads, ramp, and protection
- Doubles as removal by exiling enemy attackers/blockers in combat (until end step)
- Self-sufficient value engine that doesn't strand you if Roon gets countered
Weaknesses
- Slow, mana-hungry, and telegraphed—activation costs
plus needs Roon to survive a turn - Heavily commander-dependent; repeated removal severely hampers the engine
- Sorcery-speed value at instant cost can be too grindy against fast combo decks
- Limited interaction outside of board presence and color staples
- Flicker tricks help opponents' creatures too if you exile them (they return)
Key Cards
- Eternal Witness — Recurs any card from your graveyard every time you blink it, fueling an endless value loop.
- Sun Titan — Repeatedly reanimates cheap permanents on each flicker, building inevitability.
- Mulldrifter — Turns every Roon activation into two cards, the quintessential blink payoff.
- Deadeye Navigator — Soulbond gives a second, untap-free blink outlet that combos with mana-positive ETB creatures.
- Peregrine Drake — Untaps lands for free mana, enabling infinite mana loops with Deadeye Navigator.
- Restoration Angel — Flash blink that protects key creatures and supplies extra ETB value at instant speed.
Upgrade Path
Tighten the curve with cheap, high-impact ETB creatures and fast ramp (Sol Ring, Cultivate, Smothering Tithe) so Roon comes down protected and active early. Add a compact combo line like Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake/Palinchron with Craterhoof or a Walking Ballista mana sink, plus protection like Heroic Intervention and Swiftfoot Boots. Trim purely durdly ETB cards for efficient interaction (Cyclonic Rift, Swords to Plowshares) and flicker-flexible threats like Agent of Treachery.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Infinite mana via Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake/Palinchron into a mana sink or game-ending ETB
- ▸Blinking a payoff like Craterhoof Behemoth or Triumph of the Hordes for a token/creature alpha strike
- ▸Grinding insurmountable card advantage and beating down with vigilant, trampling value creatures
- ▸Repeated ETB removal (Agent of Treachery, Woodfall Primus) to lock opponents out
Archetypes
- Blink/Flicker — Roon's activated ability is a built-in, repeatable flicker engine that rewards ETB-heavy creature suites.
- Value Midrange — Grinds card and board advantage with ramp, recursion, and incremental ETB triggers.
- Combo — Deadeye Navigator plus mana-positive ETB creatures (Palinchron, Peregrine Drake) enables infinite mana and wins.
- Control — Exiling attackers, blinking removal creatures, and reusing counters/wraths lets Roon play a controlling game.
Combos
- Roon of the Hidden Realm + Eternal Witness + Time Warp
→ Infinite turns, Lock
- Roon of the Hidden Realm + Archaeomancer + Time Warp
→ Infinite turns, Lock
- Roon of the Hidden Realm + Eternal Witness + Temporal Manipulation
→ Infinite turns, Lock
- Roon of the Hidden Realm + Archaeomancer + Temporal Manipulation
→ Infinite turns, Lock
- Roon of the Hidden Realm + Eternal Witness + Walk the Aeons
→ Infinite turns, Lock
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GUW), by popularity.
