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Rootha, Mastering the Moment

· Legendary Creature — Orc Sorcerer · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

151

Decks Running

In Decks

432

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Rootha, Mastering the Moment

Legendary Creature — Orc Sorcerer

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, create an X/X blue and red Elemental creature token with flying and haste, where X is the greatest mana value among instant and sorcery spells you've cast this turn.

3 / 4

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Lie Setiawan

Final zone distribution

121 instances

0.8%

Library

57.9%

Battlefield

7.4%

Graveyard

2.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 70 decks
2 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 2 decks
3 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 2 decks
4 Cormela, Glamour Thief 2 decks
5 Magnus the Red 2 decks
6 Anhelo, the Painter 1 decks
7 Bria, Riptide Rogue 1 decks
8 Eris, Roar of the Storm 1 decks
9 Mizzix of the Izmagnus 1 decks
10 Muddle, the Ever-Changing 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

151 brought · 78 players

Brought to game

151

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -23.0pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=23) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=61).

Observed gap -3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -23.0pp to +16.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=24

17%

50%

T6-9

29%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 4% (1 / 24 cast on T4)

24 of 100 times cast 24%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.