Rootha by user8245924

Format: Commander

Commander: Rootha, Mastering the Moment

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 17

Deck overview

Rootha, Mastering the Moment rewards casting an instant or sorcery before combat by creating a hasty Elemental based on the largest spell cast that turn. The deck supports that plan with Manaform Hellkite, Rionya, Fire Dancer, Prismari Pianist, Rite of the Dragoncaller, cost reducers, and several spell-copy effects. Its normal game is to develop mana, land a token engine, then cast multiple spells in one turn to create a wide flying board. Rhystic Study, Archmage of Runes, and Curiosity Crafter can improve card flow when drawn, while Counterspell, Force of Negation, and Cyclonic Rift provide broad but uneven interaction. The main weakness is that the primary creatures are expensive and exposed, and most tokens disappear at the end step. The deck can create impressive turns, especially with Rionya, Fire Dancer or Veyran, Voice of Duality, but it lacks reliable tutoring, protection density, and a compact route from a large board to three player eliminations.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodthirster
  • 1 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confounding Conundrum
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity Crafter
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Determined Iteration
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Fury of the Horde
  • 1 Furygale Flocking
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry
  • 1 Great Train Heist
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 1 Magnus the Red
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Manaform Hellkite
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Molten-Core Maestro
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nanogene Conversion
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
  • 1 Overmaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Prismari Pianist
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Redoubled Stormsinger
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Replication Technique
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Restless Spire
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rionya, Fire Dancer
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surge to Victory
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Taigam, Master Opportunist
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Volcanic Salvo
  • 1 Wisdom of Ages
  • 1 Wizard's Staff