Insidious Roots
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
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.
Combos with Insidious Roots
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Concordant Crossroads Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Tortured Existence Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Tortured Existence Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite tapped creature tokens
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
- Phyrexian Altar Reassembling Skeleton Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
- Gollum, Patient Plotter Skirge Familiar Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
- Nether Traitor Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
Showing the 6 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-02-02
If multiple creature cards leave your graveyard at the same time, Insidious Roots's last ability will trigger only once.
- 2024-02-02
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 are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Insidious Roots, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mycotyrant | 1 | 2 | — |
| Chatterfang, Squirrel General | 1 | 0 | — |
| Teval, the Balanced Scale | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Golgari 2 decks
- Sultai 1 deck
Insidious Roots price history
The Murders at Karlov Manor #208 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | $1.60 | $2.04 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $1.58 | $2.05 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $1.64 | $2.06 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $1.65 | $2.05 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $1.92 | $2.06 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Insidious Roots
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $1.60
- Foil
- $2.04
Showcase
- Normal
- $1.91
- Foil
- $3.10
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Insidious Roots. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
