Rootha, Mercurial Artist is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
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Official card text
, Return Rootha to its owner's hand: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
How it works : Rootha, Mercurial Artist
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Rootha, Mercurial Artist + Expansion // Explosion
Infinite magecraft triggers
- 1Cast an instant or sorcery spell, or wait for an opponent to cast one.
- 2Holding priority, cast Expansion by paying
, targeting the spell. - 3Activate Rootha by paying and returning it to your hand, copying Expansion, with the copy targeting the original Expansion.
- 4Resolve the copy of Expansion, copying Expansion, targeting the original Expansion.
- 5Repeat step 4.
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#2
Rootha, Mercurial Artist + Increasing Vengeance
Infinite magecraft triggers
- 1Cast an instant or sorcery spell, or wait for an opponent to cast one.
- 2Holding priority, cast Increasing Vengeance by paying
, targeting the spell. - 3Activate Rootha by paying and returning it to your hand, copying Increasing Vengeance, with the copy targeting the original Increasing Vengeance.
- 4Resolve the copy of Increasing Vengeance, copying Increasing Vengeance, targeting the original Increasing Vengeance.
- 5Repeat step 4.
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#3
Rootha, Mercurial Artist + Reverberate
Infinite magecraft triggers
- 1Cast an instant or sorcery spell, or wait for an opponent to cast one.
- 2Holding priority, cast Reverberate by paying , targeting the spell.
- 3Activate Rootha by paying and returning it to your hand, copying Reverberate, with the copy targeting the original Reverberate.
- 4Resolve the copy of Reverberate, copying Reverberate, targeting the original Reverberate.
- 5Repeat step 4.
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#4
Rootha, Mercurial Artist + Twincast
Infinite magecraft triggers
- 1Cast an instant or sorcery spell, or wait for an opponent to cast one.
- 2Holding priority, cast Twincast by paying
, targeting the spell. - 3Activate Rootha by paying and returning it to your hand, copying Twincast, with the copy targeting the original Twincast.
- 4Resolve the copy of Twincast, copying Twincast, targeting the original Twincast.
- 5Repeat step 4.
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#5
Rootha, Mercurial Artist + Refuse // Cooperate
Infinite magecraft triggers
- 1Cast an instant or sorcery spell, or wait for an opponent to cast one.
- 2Holding priority, cast Cooperate from your graveyard by paying , targeting the spell.
- 3Activate Rootha by paying and returning it to your hand, copying Cooperate, with the copy targeting the original Cooperate.
- 4Resolve the copy of Cooperate, copying Cooperate, targeting the original Cooperate.
- 5Repeat step 4.
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#6
Rootha, Mercurial Artist + Desperate Ritual + Through the Breach
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite magecraft triggersInfinite red mana
- 1Cast Desperate Ritual by paying
and choosing to pay and reveal Through the Breach from your hand, adding Through the Breach's effects to Desperate Ritual. - 2Holding priority, activate Rootha by paying and returning it to your hand, copying Desperate Ritual.
- 3Resolve the copy of Desperate Ritual, adding and putting Rootha from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 4Repeat from step 2.
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#7
Rootha, Mercurial Artist + Fork
Infinite magecraft triggers
- 1Cast an instant or sorcery spell, or wait for an opponent to cast one.
- 2Holding priority, cast Fork by paying , targeting the spell.
- 3Activate Rootha by paying and returning it to your hand, copying Fork, with the copy targeting the original Fork.
- 4Resolve the copy of Fork, copying Fork, targeting the original Fork.
- 5Repeat step 4.
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#8
Rootha, Mercurial Artist + Seething Song + Storm-Kiln Artist + Leyline of Anticipation
Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETB
- 1Cast Seething Song by paying .
- 2Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure token.
- 3Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 4Holding priority, activate Rootha by paying and returning it from the battlefield to your hand, copying Seething Song.
- 5Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure token.
- 6Resolve the Seething Song copy, adding .
- 7Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 8Cast Rootha by paying .
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Legal formats
historictimelessgladiatorpioneermodernlegacyvintagecommanderoathbreakerbrawlcompetitivebrawldueltlr
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