Rootha spell slinger by Nord00

Format: Commander

Commander: Rootha, Mastering the Moment

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Izzet Spellslinger strategy built around Rootha, Mastering the Moment. The primary game plan focuses on casting high-mana-value instant and sorcery spells during the precombat main phase to create massive blue and red Elemental creature tokens with flying and haste. Cost reducers such as The Scarlet Witch, Dirgur Focusmage, and Mizzix of the Izmagnus allow the deck to cheat the timing of expensive spells like Magma Opus and Aminatou's Augury. Card velocity is maintained through Archmage Emeritus, Jace planeswalker token abilities, and efficient draw spells. While the deck lacks fast combo finishes or hard lockouts, it generates immense aerial combat pressure and supplementary burn through cards like Guttersnipe and Fiery Confluence, consistently closing games through wide and tall evasive combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Adaptive Training Post
  • 1 Aether Gale
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 Aminatou's Augury
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain
  • 1 Baral and Kari Zev
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Brush Off
  • 1 Burn the Accursed
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chandra's Emberling
  • 1 Clash of Elements
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterbalance
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser
  • 1 Downsize
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Electrolyze
  • 1 Essence Capture
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Flick a Coin
  • 1 Focus the Mind
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Full Throttle
  • 1 Fulminous Forte
  • 1 Furygale Flocking
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hall of Oracles
  • 1 Hexhaven Dueling Arena
  • 1 Impolite Entrance
  • 1 Innovative Commons
  • 1 Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift
  • 1 Into the Story
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Keeper of the Quiet Hour
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magma Opus
  • 1 Melek, Reforged Researcher
  • 1 Mizzix of the Izmagnus
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Muse Seeker
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 No Admittance
  • 1 Potioner's Trove
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Protege's Awakening
  • 1 Ral, Izzet Viceroy
  • 1 Rapturous Moment
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Renegade Bull
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectacle Summit
  • 1 Spinerock Tyrant
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stress Dream
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Super Intelligence
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Scarlet Witch
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Twinned Vision
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vision of Love
  • 1 Visionary's Dance
  • 1 Way of the Cryomancer
  • 1 Way of the Pyromancer
  • 1 Wisdom of Ages
  • 1 Wisecrack
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Wrath of the Bloodmane
  • 1 Young Pyromancer