Live Play Data

Insidious Roots

· Enchantment · Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

815

Decks Running

383

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=126

10%

11%

17%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 10% (13 / 126 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

815 brought · 361 players

Brought to game

815

Ever drawn

180

Reached battlefield

126

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=114) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=502).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=51).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.7pp to +12.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

255 instances

3.1%

Library

36.9%

Battlefield

36.9%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 108 decks
2 The Necrobloom 20 decks
3 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 16 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 13 decks
5 Tayam, Luminous Enigma 12 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 11 decks
7 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 11 decks
8 The Mycotyrant 11 decks
9 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 11 decks
10 Zask, Skittering Swarmlord 11 decks

Card text

Insidious Roots

Enchantment

Creature tokens you control have " {T}

: Add one mana of any color." Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.

Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jeremy Wilson

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.