Rootcast Apprenticeship
Rootcast Apprenticeship: Sorcery, Bloomburrow Commander. Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{G}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Bloomburrow Commander (BLC)
- Released
- 2024-08-02
- Collector number
- 32
- Artist
- Andreia Ugrai
- Commander rank
- 3,399 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Rootcast Apprenticeship
Rootcast Apprenticeship is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare green sorcery from Bloomburrow Commander (BLC), a Commander product released in August 2024. It is collector number 32 in that set, with art by Andreia Ugrai. It costs {3}{G} (three generic and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Bloomburrow Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.77 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
• Create a token that's a copy of target token you control.
• Target player creates a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.
• Target opponent sacrifices a nontoken artifact of their choice.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.77 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Rootcast Apprenticeship by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Rootcast Apprenticeship
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Bloomburrow Commander (BLC) #65 | Rare | 2024 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Rootcast Apprenticeship, newest first.
- If the same mode is chosen more than once, you choose their relative order as you cast the spell. For example, if you choose the last mode of Rootcast Apprenticeship more than once, you choose the relative order in which the target opponents sacrifice nontoken artifacts.
- No matter which combination of modes you choose, you always follow the instructions in the order they are written.
- You can select a mode only if there's a legal target available for that mode. Ignore the targeting requirements for modes you don't choose. Each time you select that mode, you can choose a different target, or you can choose the same target.
- If Rootcast Apprenticeship is copied, the effect that creates the copy will usually allow you to choose new targets, but you can't choose new modes.
- If all targets for the chosen modes become illegal before Rootcast Apprenticeship resolves, the spell will be countered and none of its effects will happen. If at least one target is still legal, the spell will resolve but will have no effect on any illegal targets.
- You choose the modes as you cast the spell. Once modes are chosen, they can't be changed.
- No player can cast spells or activate abilities in between the modes of a resolving spell. Any abilities that trigger won't be put onto the stack until a spell is done resolving.
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Rootcast Apprenticeship is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.