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Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh

Legendary Creature — Kobold Warrior

First strike, menace, trample
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

CMC
0
Mana cost
{0}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$29.02
EDHREC rank
#2337
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Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh card art
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh is a zero-mana 0/1 with first strike, menace, and trample — a legitimate combat threat once buffed, and a free body that breaks open engines like Cloudstone Curio on the spot. The cost is the ceiling: without support, Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh does nothing, and Gornog, the Red Reaper decks aside, you're building around a 0/1.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gornog, the Red Reaper

Gornog, the Red Reaper

53.6% of decks · synergy 0.51

Gornog, the Red Reaper scales on the number of creatures with power 0, and Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh is the single best permanent answer to that trigger — it's free, recurring, and never stops being a zero-power body when Gornog needs one.

02
Winota, Joiner of Forces

Winota, Joiner of Forces

50.5% of decks · synergy 0.47

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh is a free non-Human attacker, which is exactly what Winota, Joiner of Forces needs to fire her trigger every combat without spending a card slot or a mana.

03
Zada, Hedron Grinder

Zada, Hedron Grinder

23.2% of decks · synergy 0.21

A zero-mana creature that can attack or block gives Zada, Hedron Grinder a cheap target to copy cantrips and pump spells onto, and Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh's built-in evasion makes those copies matter in combat.

04
Flubs, the Fool

Flubs, the Fool

22.2% of decks · synergy 0.20

Flubs, the Fool rewards casting small creatures repeatedly, and Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh at zero mana is the easiest creature to recast or bounce back into the chain — pure fuel for whatever Flubs wants to snowball.

05
Jodah, the Unifier

Jodah, the Unifier

17.2% of decks · synergy 0.16

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh is a legendary creature, so Jodah, the Unifier counts it toward the legendary cascade trigger while costing nothing to deploy — low opportunity cost, high payoff when Jodah's chain gets going.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh is purpose-built — the partner tag lets it pair with any white, blue, black, green, or colorless commander, and the zero mana cost is at its most exploitable in a format with 40 life and slow opening sequences. In Legacy and Vintage, a zero-mana creature with relevant keywords has fringe potential in free-spell combo shells, but the power floor of those formats means a 0/1 without immediate impact rarely makes the cut. Oathbreaker is legal but formats around Planeswalkers and signature spells, leaving Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh without a natural home unless the shell specifically wants a free body.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

There is no true budget replacement for Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh — the combination of zero mana cost, the partner tag, and three relevant keywords on one card is unique. Ornithopter covers the zero-cost artifact body angle and runs under a dollar, but it brings no keywords and no partner upside, so it only substitutes in shells that purely need a free creature to sacrifice or bounce.

Price Context

Current price

$29.02 premium tier

At $29.02, Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh sits in premium territory for a card with no mana cost — that price is driven by the partner tag and its role as an engine piece rather than raw rate. It holds value as long as zero-mana combo and Gornog, the Red Reaper lists stay popular, but a reprint would hit it hard given how niche the demand is.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.