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Insidious Roots

· Enchantment · Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)

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Times Brought

465

Decks Running

213

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

114 instances

44.7%

Battlefield

36.0%

Graveyard

2.6%

Exile

16.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 58 decks
2 The Necrobloom 12 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 11 decks
4 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 8 decks
5 The Mycotyrant 8 decks
6 Ghave, Guru of Spores 7 decks
7 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 7 decks
8 Tayam, Luminous Enigma 7 decks
9 Witherbloom, the Balancer 7 decks
10 Grist, the Hunger Tide 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

465 brought · 205 players

Brought to game

465

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 86% 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.

≥ -6.4pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=43) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=250).

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 +1.7pp; 95% confidence interval -6.4pp to +9.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=59

12%

19%

15%

12%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 10

On curve 31% (11 / 59 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.