Rootha, Mastering the Moment
Legendary Creature — Orc Sorcerer
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, create an X/X blue and red Elemental creature token with flying and haste, where X is the greatest mana value among instant and sorcery spells you've cast this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Price
- $1.81
- EDHREC rank
- #14532
Rootha, Mastering the Moment copies your best instant or sorcery for free — once per turn, at the cost of returning her to hand. The catch pays for itself: pair her with Breath of Fury and an extra-combat trigger becomes a loop that never ends.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Rootha, Mastering the Moment is a Commander card through and through — the bounce cost is negligible in a 100-card singleton format where recast value and combo redundancy matter more than card efficiency. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but has no competitive foothold; free copy effects with lower opportunity cost exist in those formats. Commander is where her ceiling lives: any deck that wants extra combats, spells-matter payoffs, or storm-adjacent loops will find her a low-investment engine piece.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Breath of FuryRootha, Mastering the Moment
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite death triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Current price
$1.81 cheap tier
At $1.81, Rootha, Mastering the Moment sits in impulse-buy territory — the kind of card you throw in a cart without thinking twice. The price is stable; she's not a bulk throw-in, but demand is niche enough that she won't spike unless a new combo package pushes her into the spotlight.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.