Rootha's Elemental Parade (Clone/Combats) by user8270655

Format: Commander

Commander: Rootha, Mastering the Moment

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Izzet spellslinger aggro build led by Rootha, Mastering the Moment. The primary game plan accelerates mana through efficient cost reducers such as Baral, Chief of Compliance and Stormcatch Mentor to deploy Rootha ahead of curve. Once established, the deck casts high-mana-value spells—particularly delve cards like Dig Through Time and Treasure Cruise, non-legendary clone spells like Irenicus's Vile Duplication, and extra combat cards like Full Throttle—to trigger Rootha's combat ability. This produces massive flying, hasty Elemental tokens that deal lethal damage across rapid combat steps. The strategy is reinforced by an elite interactive suite featuring free countermagic, redirection spells, and uncounterability protection to ensure game-winning spells resolve unimpeded, alongside an opportunistic Dualcaster Mage and Twinflame infinite combo as a secondary win condition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Determined Iteration
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Ember Island Production
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Full Throttle
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 God-Eternal Kefnet
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Illusionist's Gambit
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Improvisation Capstone
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Karlach, Fury of Avernus
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mnemonic Deluge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Recruitment
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment
  • 1 Rowan, Scholar of Sparks // Will, Scholar of Frost
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seize the Day
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surge to Victory
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 The Scarlet Witch
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Twincast
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Volcanic Vision
  • 1 World at War