Root Greevil
Creature — Beast
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, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy all enchantments of the color of your choice.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planeshift
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #27245
Root Greevil hands every opponent a copy of itself when it dies — which sounds like a drawback until you pair it with Fractured Identity or any effect that turns opponents' creatures into liabilities. The cost is real: giving three players a 1/1 deathtouch blocker means you need a plan to exploit the copies, not just a vague notion of symmetry.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Root Greevil is a Commander card almost by definition — the on-death trigger only gets interesting when there are three opponents to spread copies to, and the political and combo angles around that symmetry are exactly what multiplayer rewards. In Pauper it's legal but competes in a format where its statline is unimpressive and the opponent-gifting clause is a net negative with no upside. Legacy and Vintage have the card pool to break symmetry effects, but Root Greevil is too slow and narrow to earn a slot in either format's threat density. Play it in Commander, ignore it everywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Root Greevil is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a common box, not a singles order. That price won't move; it's a niche Commander piece with no competitive demand anchoring it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.