Rootha, Mercurial Artist card art

Rootha, Mercurial Artist

Legendary Creature — Orc Shaman MV 3

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What it does

2, Return Rootha to its owner's hand: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Combos with Rootha, Mercurial Artist

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Rulings

One official ruling, as Wizards published it.

  • 2021-04-16

    Rootha, Mercurial Artist's ability must have a target to be activated. You can't activate it without a target in order to return Rootha to your hand.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Rootha, Mercurial Artist, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Rootha, Mastering the Moment 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Izzet 1 deck

Rootha, Mercurial Artist price history

The Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #329 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.28$0.00 (0.0%)
Low $0.28 · High $0.30Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foil
Oct 3, 2026$0.28
Sep 30, 2026$0.28
Sep 29, 2026$0.30
Sep 28, 2026$0.28

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Rootha, Mercurial Artist

3 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.

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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.