Insidious Roots
Murders at Karlov Manor 208 • uncommon
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Collector number
- 208
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- black mana green mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Black · Green
- Artist
- Jeremy Wilson
- Market price
- $1.64
What it does
Creature tokens you control have "tap: Add one mana of any color."
Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
The roots of Vitu-Ghazi allowed Trostani to reach every crack and crevice in the city.
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Insidious Roots was released in 2024 as part of the Murders at Karlov Manor set for Magic: The Gathering. Set within the iconic Ravnica plane, the card reflects the expansion's murder-mystery theme, focusing on the dark, biological corruption hidden beneath the city's veneer of order. Mechanically, the card serves as a payoff for graveyard-centric strategies, encouraging players to exile creature cards to grow their board presence and generate plant tokens.
The card’s visual design emphasizes the grotesque, organic imagery characteristic of the Golgari Swarm, the faction known for managing the plane's cycles of life and death. The illustration captures the reclamation of city structures by overgrown, subterranean forces, reinforcing the set's narrative of hidden histories coming to light. The card was received by players as a potent build-around piece for Commander and constructed formats, praised for its ability to scale in power as the game progresses.
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