Root Out

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Investigate. (Put a colourless Clue artifact token onto the battlefield with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Tokens

• Clue

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

m0rbidhuskies on Token Ramp Deck-Wolves

2 years ago

Sundering Growth might be a better choice for artifact removal over Root Out, cheaper CMC and helps you make wolf tokens.

Joe_Ken_ on Vannifar and Clues

5 years ago

You could probably add some single target removal into the deck to provide some more interaction with other players.

Reality Shift and Beast Within are both good removal spells for your colors.

Root Out is artifact/enchantment removal that will also investigate once for you.

Also just other removal spells like Curse of the Swine , Imprisoned in the Moon , Lignify , and Nature's Claim would be good to swap in.

Joe_Ken_ on Help Being Casual

5 years ago

I would also tone down on how good of removal you are using in decks. Like instead of using Natural State instead use Root Out another example being instead of Ponder or Brainstorm use Scour All Possibilities

Also just using less effective tutors could help keep things more casual. Like using Thalia's Lancers or Diabolic Tutor instead of cards on the high end of price like Demonic Tutor and Enlightened Tutor

Nathanaiel on Poly'M'rakrul

6 years ago

So here is something I very quickly threw together: Temur Emrakul

It is MUCH more expensive as you are pretty much forced to run fetches (specifically green ones for dryad arbor) in three colors. I haven't tested it yet, but I might get around to it today. I might think about switching the fetches to Wooded Foothills, as the main restrictive card is Indomitable Creativity with triple red.

In terms of investigate cards, since this obviously can't run Tireless Tracker (duh), I found that Root Out is probably one of the better ones. Some other ideas include way overcosted counterspells like Confirm Suspicions. Ongoing Investigation may be worth it, but to activate it we need tokens which essentially eliminates us needing more tokens to sacrifice.. so..

I¨ve decided that Trail of Evidence is probably good, especially with the massive amount of cantrips my build is running, and I believe it's an improvement over mainboard Drake Haven (for the temur build).

Nephilimist on High and Dry 3

6 years ago

I believe so! It would be pretty easy to sub those cards for something standard. There's plenty of other artifact/enchantment removal or flickering cards (Slice in Twain, Siren's Ruse). I just happen to like these (Root Out makes clue artifact token to help with other abilities and Eerie Interlude not only can re-trigger multiple enter battlefield effects but also get you out of a jam) and friends and I mostly play modern anyway.

But honestly they are there to sayisfy my desire to have a five color deck. You can also just as easily sub in a couple red, black, or blue spells instead to fix the colors as well as make it standard.

Hyperalgialysis on Spot removal (or spots removal) …

7 years ago

Bramblecrush is great and hits planeswalkers too. I really like Root Out since you get some draw out of it. also any spells with multiple modes like Blessed Alliance Sultai Charm Orzhov Charm any charm spell or escalate spell really since they are seldom dead in your hand. What to cut? When you play with the deck, everytime you draw a card and wish it was something else right down the card name. After you see some repeat 3-5 times you can drop them for other stuff since you don't get value out of them anyway.

davispruisman on

7 years ago

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livemagic on Counter less

7 years ago

Salve!

Manin, no lugar dos Root Out eu colocaria Natural State ou Naturalize.

O Decimator Beetle eu colocaria no main deck, o side eu deixaria esses que so situacionais, por exemplo o Cut / Ribbons, Abrade e Heaven / Earth. Reviving Melody eu tiraria fora. Agora no vou conseguir indicar cards para substitulos, ento vamos para as lands.

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