Card
Insidious Roots
Mana cost {B}{G}
Creature tokens you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 419 known combos. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · MKM · #208
- Cheapest printing
- €1.52
- EDHREC salt
- 0.36
- Color identity
- Black, Green
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
419 known combos.
- Tortured Existence + Phyrexian Altar + Insidious Roots
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Phyrexian Altar + Insidious Roots + Reassembling Skeleton
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Tortured Existence + Insidious Roots + Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite tapped creature tokens
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2024-02-02 · Wizards of the Coast
If multiple creature cards leave your graveyard at the same time, Insidious Roots's last ability will trigger only once. - 2024-02-02 · Wizards of the Coast
In the rare case where Insidious Roots is a creature token, it will grant itself the ability "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast