Root-Kin Ally
Creature — Elemental Warrior
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Tap two untapped creatures you control: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #28960
Root-Kin Ally enters as a 4/4 for five mana, then taps your other creatures to pump itself — payoff scales directly with how wide your board is. It's a niche card that asks a lot of setup for a single beater, and most token decks have better ways to close games.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Root-Kin Ally is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially zero competitive play in any 60-card format — five mana for a vanilla-sized creature with a tap-down activation is too slow. Commander is the only real home, and even there Root-Kin Ally competes with a deep pool of finishers that don't ask you to tap down your entire board to get value. It's a reasonable budget option in go-wide token decks that need a mana sink, but it's firmly a fringe inclusion.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Root-Kin Ally is deep bulk — you can pick up a copy for almost nothing. Don't expect that to change; low demand and wide availability keep it at the floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.