GruulLegendary Creature — Giant ShamanRosheen, Roaring Prophet
Mana value4Rank#13,204
The Commander
When Rosheen enters, mill six cards. You may put a card with 
in its mana cost from among them into your hand.
: Reveal any number of cards with in their mana cost in your hand. Add 
for each card revealed this way. Spend this mana only on costs that contain .
Guide
Gameplan
Rosheen is a dedicated X-spells matters deck that ramps hard, builds a critical mass of cards with in their cost, then dumps colorless mana into one or two backbreaking X-spells to draw, burn, or make an army. You fill your hand with X-cards via her ETB mill-to-hand and tutors, then tap her for huge bursts of mana to fuel game-ending spells. Win by overloading a single X-spell that either deals lethal, generates an overwhelming board, or refills your hand into a second haymaker.
Strengths
- Generates massive bursts of colorless mana that can dwarf your normal land count
- X-spells scale into the late game, so flooding actually helps you
- Deep, flexible toolbox of X effects: removal, burn, ramp, card draw, and tokens
- Gruul has excellent ramp to reach Rosheen's payoff quickly
Weaknesses
- Rosheen's mana only works on costs containing , so it can't pay generic activated/commander tax or off-theme spells
- Heavily reliant on the commander; if she's removed or repeatedly taxed, the engine stalls
- Lacks interaction outside of X-burn—weak to counterspells, fast combo, and resilient stax
- Mono-target X-spells get punished by fog, lifegain, or protection at the worst moment
Key Cards
- Comet Storm — Multikicker X-burn that can be split across faces or hit one player for lethal with Rosheen's mana.
- Fireball — Classic scalable burn that converts Rosheen's colorless flood directly into damage or a multiplayer wrath.
- Hydroid Krasis — Outside identity—skip; instead use Apex Devastator or Hydra payoffs that draw and ramp.
- Walking Ballista — Repeatable X-creature that stores Rosheen's mana into counters and pings down threats or players.
- Mana Echoes — Turns big X-creature drops and token swarms into explosive secondary mana for chaining spells.
- Unbound Flourishing — Doubles the X on your spells and copies your X-creatures, instantly turning Rosheen's mana into overkill.
Upgrade Path
Add mana multipliers (Unbound Flourishing, Doubling Cube, Mana Echoes) and cost reducers to make her bursts lethal a turn sooner, and include protection like Heroic Intervention or Lightning Greaves to keep her online. Improve the ramp curve with Dockside, fast mana, and untap effects (Sword of Feast and Famine, Seedborn Muse) to tap Rosheen multiple times per turn. Finally, tighten the X-spell suite toward instant-speed flexibility and add tutors like Green Sun's Zenith and Gamble to find your best payoff consistently.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸One-shot a table with a massive Fireball, Comet Storm, or Crater's Claws
- ▸Walking Ballista or Hydra beats backed by Unbound Flourishing for doubled damage
- ▸Go-wide tokens from X creatures swinging for lethal with a haste/anthem effect
- ▸Chaining repeated X-draw spells into an inevitable burn finisher
Archetypes
- Spellslinger (X-spells) — Rosheen fuels and tutors a deck built entirely around oversized X burn and draw spells.
- Ramp/Big Mana — Her colorless mana ability acts as a second land base dedicated to X costs.
- Tokens/Go-Wide — X token makers like Hydra and elemental swarms turn Rosheen mana into a board state.
- Combo — With cost reducers and mana doublers she can loop or one-shot via overloaded X-payoffs.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GR), by popularity.
