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Rootcast Apprenticeship

· Sorcery · Bloomburrow Commander (BLC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

218

Decks Running

In Decks

768

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

48 instances

2.1%

Battlefield

70.8%

Graveyard

4.2%

Exile

22.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 38 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 15 decks
3 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 8 decks
4 Roxanne, Starfall Savant 5 decks
5 Camellia, the Seedmiser 4 decks
6 Baylen, the Haymaker 2 decks
7 Esika's Chariot 2 decks
8 Finneas, Ace Archer 2 decks
9 Riku of Many Paths 2 decks
10 Witherbloom, the Balancer 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

218 brought · 84 players

Brought to game

218

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.2pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=25) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=144).

Observed gap +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -11.2pp to +23.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

16%

64%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 16% (2 / 25 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

25 of 100 times cast 25%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.