With so many new Magic: The Gathering cards coming out each year, it’s inevitable that a few gems fall through the cracks. While this problem has been getting better recently, back in 2023, MTG players were truly overburdened with content. With eleven major sets throughout the year, it’s little wonder that players couldn’t keep up.
Thanks to this abundance of content, many cards, like Roar of Resistance, didn’t get the respect they deserved. While this card has been somewhat niche so far, this week it’s back in the spotlight in a big way.
Roar Of Resistance MTG
MTG players really started paying attention to Roar of Resistance after it was the subject of a video by Ben Bateman late yesterday. Though it’s quite a simple card, it does have a decent suite of good homes in Commander. It’s an easy add to any kind of Tokens deck, for starters, with Goblin Typal lists like Krenko, Mob Boss in particular loving it.
The second ability here is no slouch, either, essentially serving as a cheap Overrun effect. This can make even a mediocre board scary, and you can push things further with trigger doublers like Isshin, Two Heavens as One and Firebender Ascension. Notably, your opponents can use this ability against each other, too. This makes it a great political tool, particularly alongside Goad cards or forced combat Commanders like Kardur, Doomscourge.
Roar of Resistance even enables some spicy combos, allowing for infinite tokens and colorless mana when paired with Myr Propagator and Mana Echoes. With all three pieces in play and four mana available, you can tap Propagator to make a copy, generating two colorless with Echoes. This will leave you enough to create another Propagator with the token copy, and so on until you have infinite tapped tokens and mana.
Cheap And Cheerful
While many MTG players will just be hearing about Roar of Resistance this week, the card does have a bit of a presence in Commander already. According to EDHREC, around 25,200 decks run it, which puts it in the middle ground between ‘unknown’ and ‘popular.
Fortunately for those inspired to give Roar of Resistance a try by this week’s resurgence, it’s still a very affordable card to pick up. You can get a near-mint base copy on TCGplayer right now for just $1.16, and the extended art version is only a little more at $1.53. At these prices, it’s a solid pickup, especially if you run a lot of Token decks that can really leverage it.
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