Rootwater Thief Price

Updated 2026-08-28

Rootwater Thief from Nemesis is a blue creature that can exile cards directly from an opponent's library when it deals combat damage, which gives it a unique theft-style utility that has found a niche home in Commander's mill and library-manipulation archetypes. Nemesis is a Masques-block set with modest print quantities relative to modern sets, and Rootwater Thief has not been reprinted, keeping supply stable at its original run. Price has been essentially flat over the measured windows, with minor positive movement over both the 30-day and 90-day periods. This is the behavior of a card at equilibrium: niche Commander demand is being absorbed by the available inventory without a meaningful supply-demand imbalance in either direction. A new Commander card that specifically rewards combat-damage-to-player triggers in blue would be the most likely catalyst for renewed price interest.