---
name: "Roalesk, Apex Hybrid"
mana_cost: "{2}{G}{G}{U}"
cmc: 5
type_line: "Legendary Creature — Human Mutant"
colors: []
color_identity: ["G", "U"]
keywords: ["Flying", "Trample", "Proliferate"]
set: "PWAR"
set_name: "War of the Spark Promos"
collector_number: "213s"
rarity: "mythic"
artist: "Svetlin Velinov"
oracle_id: "ca4936cf-48d4-4469-9243-8dbf8ec4cdca"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/roalesk-apex-hybrid-pwar"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Roalesk, Apex Hybrid
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{G}{G}{U}` (CMC: 5)
- **Type:** Legendary Creature — Human Mutant
- **Keywords:** Flying, Trample, Proliferate

## Oracle Text
Flying, trample
When Roalesk enters, put two +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control.
When Roalesk dies, proliferate, then proliferate again. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Then do it again.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Roalesk, Prime Specimen](/printing/roalesk-prime-specimen-ymkm.md) — Legendary Creature — Human Mutant
2. [Merfolk Skydiver](/printing/merfolk-skydiver-lcc.md) — Creature — Merfolk Mutant
3. [Guildpact Informant](/printing/guildpact-informant-war.md) — Creature — Faerie Rogue
4. [Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus](/printing/tekuthal-inquiry-dominus-eoc.md) — Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Horror
5. [Grateful Apparition](/printing/grateful-apparition-cmm.md) — Creature — Spirit
6. [Vexing Radgull](/printing/vexing-radgull-pip.md) — Creature — Bird Mutant

## Printing Details
- **Set:** War of the Spark Promos (PWAR) #213s
- **Rarity:** Mythic
- **Artist:** Svetlin Velinov
- **Total Printings:** 3 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2019-05-03)* You proliferate twice all while Roalesk's last ability is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two proliferations, and no player may choose to take actions.
- *(2023-02-04)* Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
- *(2023-02-04)* To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
- *(2023-02-04)* If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
- *(2023-02-04)* An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
- *(2023-02-04)* You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.