Live Play Data

Rootcast Apprenticeship

· Sorcery · Bloomburrow Commander (BLC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

415

Decks Running

189

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=52

10%

13%

62%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 17% (5 / 52 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

415 brought · 178 players

Brought to game

415

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.7pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=46) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=284).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=20).

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 +2.4pp; 95% confidence interval -9.7pp to +14.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

84 instances

4.8%

Battlefield

71.4%

Graveyard

6.0%

Exile

17.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 66 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 34 decks
3 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 25 decks
4 Roxanne, Starfall Savant 9 decks
5 Riku of Many Paths 7 decks
6 Baylen, the Haymaker 5 decks
7 Camellia, the Seedmiser 4 decks
8 Finneas, Ace Archer 4 decks
9 Ygra, Eater of All 4 decks
10 Witherbloom, the Balancer 3 decks

Card text

Rootcast Apprenticeship

Sorcery

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. • Create a token that's a copy of target token you control. • Target player creates a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token. • Target opponent sacrifices a nontoken artifact of their choice.

Bloomburrow Commander (BLC) · Rare · Illustrated by Andreia Ugrai

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.