One of the most intriguing cards in Murders at Karlov Manor is Insidious Roots.

It's a cheap but odd build-around enchantment with a lot of moving parts, but extreme explosive potential as if you can get an engine going, you'll be making a ton of power and toughness as well as a ton of mana. I had an early attempt at this deck in my Ten New Brews from last week, but a week of iterating from fellow content creator Yoman5 has made huge progress on tapping in to what the card is truly capable of!

Time Stamps:

03:13 - Match 1

18:13 - Match 2

45:39 - Match 3

Turtle Roots | MKM Standard | Yoman5

• Creatures (22)
• 2 Vilespawn Spider
• 4 Aftermath Analyst
• 4 Colossal Skyturtle
• 4 Fallaji Archaeologist
• 4 Rubblebelt Maverick
• 4 Scorn-Blade Berserker

• Planeswalkers (4)
• 4 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler

• Sorceries (4)
• 4 Urborg Repossession

• Enchantments (4)
• 4 Insidious Roots

• Artifacts (2)
• 2 Agatha's Soul Cauldron

• Lands (24)
• 1 Forest
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Hedge Maze
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Underground River
• 2 Deathcap Glade
• 2 Shipwreck Marsh
• 2 Yavimaya Coast
• 4 Darkslick Shores
• 4 Dreamroot Cascade
• 4 Llanowar Wastes

• Sideboard (15)
• 4 Cut Down
• 3 Souls of the Lost
• 3 Duress
• 1 Souls of the Lost
• 2 Long Goodbye
• 2 Pick Your Poison

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As you can see in the video, this deck is capable of going off.

While going infinite is possible (with three Insidious Roots, a Tyvar, and two looping Colossal Skyturtles), it's largely unnecessary, as making a dozen huge plant tokens is often more than enough. Both Colossal Skyturtle as well as Urborg Repossession were cards that I missed in my first pass, providing the deck redundancy and the ability to find Insidious Roots much more reliably.

Fallaji Archaeologist also helps a ton in this regard, and I continue to be impressed with Aftermath Analyst. Multiple times over the course of three matches we activated its ability, and were able to use the 10+ extra lands to set up all of our recursion and loops.

This is a scary one as it just feels like we're starting to crack the surface, and it's even good against a lot of different kinds of graveyard hate!