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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

Decks Running

In Decks

589

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.

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

Final zone distribution

26 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Prismari, the Inspiration 5 decks
2 Veyran, Voice of Duality 4 decks
3 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 3 decks
4 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 2 decks
5 Cormela, Glamour Thief 2 decks
6 Magnus the Red 2 decks
7 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 2 decks
8 Anhelo, the Painter 1 decks
9 Bria, Riptide Rogue 1 decks
10 Eris, Roar of the Storm 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

87 brought · 27 players

Brought to game

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -20.2pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=15) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=49).

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 +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -20.2pp to +32.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.