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Bloomburrow

Facts
Placement
Plane
Bloomburrow
Other
Symbol description
A Maple leaf
Design
Doug Beyer (lead), Mark Rosewater , Emily Teng , Jeremy Geist , Daniel Xu , Dan Musser
Development
Ian Duke (lead), Mark Gottlieb , Daniel Xu, Oliver Tiu , Jadine Klomparens , Ian Adams , Neale LaPlante Johnson
Themes and mechanics
Typal
Keywords/​ability words
Offspring , Gift , Valiant , Expend , Forage , Threshold
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Bloomburrow is the 101st Magic expansion. It was released on August 2, 2024.

Set details

Bloomburrow is set on the plane of Bloomburrow, a world of cute anthropomorphic animals with no humans in it. This world is full of squirrels, frogs, mice, and rabbits, showing that even the smallest creatures can have a big impact. The animals have an advanced culture and are the main characters of the set. They wear clothing, talk, and wield magic. Unlike humanoid "animal people" on other planes (i.e. leonin, loxodons, aven, rhoxes, nezumi, and such), the animalfolk of Bloomburrow are the size of regular animals of their species. Much like Segovia, foreign Planeswalkers are changed when 'walking to here; in Bloomburrow's case, human Planeswalkers are transformed into anthropomorphic animals like the local races while here. It's unknown if traveling here by Omenpath will transform oneself, or if only humans are affected.

Bloomburrow contains 281 regular cards (81 commons, 100 uncommons, 60 rares, 20 mythic rares, 20 basic lands), and includes randomly inserted traditional foil versions of all cards. The regular cards include 20 full-art "Seasonal" basic lands (#262-281). All five basic lands get all four seasonal treatments, though some seasons are more commonly found in boosters than others (Spring 40%, Summer 30%, Autumn 20%, and Winter 10%). Alternate card frames have a different numbers than the original version as follows:

Templating changes

Starting with this set, the phrase Enters the battlefield is shortened to "Enters". The main phases are now referred to as the "first main phase" and "second main phase" rather than the "precombat main phase" and the "postcombat main phase" respectively. Additionally, the phrase "As long as it's your turn, ..." has been changed and shortened to "During your turn, ...".

Storyline

Bloomburrow is the first set in the Dragonstorm Arc. A ragtag team of anthropomorphic adventurers must band together to go on an important quest to save the realm from elemental calamity beasts and the Great-Night Owl. Glarb, the King of Frogfolk and a powerful wizard, is said to have insights about the calamity beasts. It is now up to Mabel and her colorful companions Gev, Hugs, Finneas, and Zoraline to redeem their world.

This set features Story Spotlights.

Magic Story

Marketing

Bloomburrow is available in Play Boosters, Collector Boosters, the Bloomburrow Bundle, four Commander decks and a Starter Kit. It is the last set to be printed in the Chinese (Simplified) language. The set introduces seven-card Value Boosters, yet another take on Epilogue Boosters and Beyond Boosters.

Imagine: Courageous Critters

The Imagine: Courageous Critters showcase treatment invites you to envision renowned Planeswalkers and creatures were they to visit the plane of Bloomburrow (BLC #75-100).

The List

Starting with Bloomburrow, de-archived cards, commonly known as The List cards, which feature the Planeswalker stamp in the bottom-left corner will no longer appear in Play Boosters. The cards found on The List in Bloomburrow are solely Special Guests cards.

Special Guests

Bloomburrow features 10 Special Guests (SPG #54-63). These may be found in Play Boosters and may be played in Limited games. You'll find a non-foil Special Guests card in 1 out of 64 Play Boosters (1,5 %). Traditional foil Special Guests cards can be found in Collector Boosters.

Events

Promos

Booster tins

In December, 2024, three special Bloomburrow themed booster tins became available in select North-American Walmart stores. Each tin came with five Play Boosters from 2024 and two accompanying promo cards: a Patchwork Banner and a (non-Bloomburrow) retro frame Liliana of the Dark Realms. One of the tins features art from a skunk-folk that doesn't appear on any card.

Tokens and emblems

Bloomburrow has 29 tokens and one emblem:

  1. {W} 1/1 Offspring of Flowerfoot Swordmaster.
  2. {W} 1/1 Offspring of Intrepid Rabbit.
  3. {W} 1/1 Rabbit creature for Carrot Cake; Head of the Homestead; Hop to It; Season of the Burrow and Warren Warleader.
  4. {W} 0/4 Wall creature with defender for Builder’s Talent.
  5. {W} 1/1 Offspring of Warren Warleader.
  6. {U} 1/1 Offspring of Finch Formation.
  7. {U} 1/1 Fish creature for Beza, the Bounding Spring; Fountainport; Into the Flood Maw (Gift); Knightfisher; Longstalk Brawl (Gift); Mind Spiral (Gift); Parting Gust (Gift); Sazacap's Brew (Gift) and Starforged Sword (Gift).
  8. {U} 1/1 Offspring of Splash Lasher.
  9. {U} 1/1 Offspring of Thundertrap Trainer.
  10. {B} 1/1 Bat creature with flying for Lunar Convocation.
  11. {B} 1/1 Offspring of Darkstar Augur.
  12. {B} 1/1 Offspring of Iridescent Vinelasher.
  13. {B} 1/1 Rat creature with "This creature gets +1/+1 for each other Rat you control." for Vren, the Relentless.
  14. {B} 1/1 Snail creature for Wick, the Whorled Mind.
  15. {B} 1/1 Offspring of Starscape Cleric.
  16. {B} 1/1 Offspring of Thornplate Intimidator.
  17. {R} 1/1 Offspring of Coruscation Mage.
  18. {R} 1/1 Offspring of Manifold Mouse.
  19. {R} 1/1 Offspring of Steampath Charger.
  20. {G} 1/1 Offspring of Bushy Bodyguard.
  21. {G} 1/1 Offspring of Pawpatch Recruit.
  22. {G} 1/1 Offspring of Rust-Shield Rampager.
  23. {G} 1/1 Squirrel creature for Camellia, the Seedmiser.
  24. {G} 1/1 Offspring of Tender Wildguide.
  25. {U/R} 1/1 Otter creature with prowess for Ral, Crackling Wit; Otterball Antics and Stormchaser's Talent.
  26. {C} Cragflame, a legendary Equipment artifact with equip {2} and "Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has vigilance, trample, and haste." for Mabel, Heir to Cragflame.
  27. {C} Food artifact for Bakersbane Duo; Bumbleflower's Sharepot; Cache Grab; Crumb and Get It (Gift); Nocturnal Hunger (Gift); Pawpatch Formation; Savor (Gift); Scavenger's Talent; Valley Rally (Gift) and Vinereap Mentor.
  28. {C} Sword, an Equipment artifact with equip {2} and "Equipped creature gets +1/+1." for Blacksmith's Talent.
  29. {C} Treasure artifact for Beza, the Bounding Spring; Blooming Blast (Gift); Fountainport and Season of the Bold.
  30. Emblem for Ral, Crackling Wit.

Themes and mechanics

Bloomburrow is a set that represents forest critters, combining old mechanics and support for new Typals. Each Limited color pair represents a dedicated creature type.

Offspring is a new mechanic that can double up on a creature when casting it. When you cast a creature spell and pay its additional offspring cost, you create a 1/1 copy of it. The creature's stats may not be very impactful, but its abilities are still in full effect. Each Offspring card has a matching token with unique art.

Valiant is a tweaked variant of Heroic that works when the creature is targeted by abilities as well, but only the first time each turn.

Forage is a keyword action corresponding to either exiling three cards from a graveyard or sacrificing a Food.

Expend is a rule term for counting how much mana has been spent to cast spells during the turn.

Gift is an extra cost mechanic that grants an extra benefit if you give certain advantages to the opponent, including card draw and {U} 1/1 Fish Tokens.

In addition, the set introduces the Pawprint symbol ({P}) that is used on the cycle of modal Season cards.

Storm appears as a cameo mechanic on Ral, Crackling Wit's ultimate loyalty ability.

Threshold returns as a limited archetype for Rats ({U}{B}).

Flashback, Landfall, and Hybrid Mana also return as deciduous mechanics.

Changeling makes an appearance as well, as is common for typal-focused sets, but just on two artifact creatures.

Card types

Featured Creature types include woodland creatures, with a focus on Bats, Birds, Frogs, Lizards, Mice, Otters, Rabbits, Raccoons, Rats, and Squirrels as the 10 Typals that make up the draft archetypes. Other woodland creatures include Badgers, Hamsters, Moles, and Possum. Bloomburrow introduces the Skunk and Weasel creature types. Shapeshifters appear as animated wooden constructs. Fish are used as currency, notably as Gifts.

The Elemental Calamity Beasts appear as Bears, Birds, Boars, Cats, Coyotes, Crabs, Elks, Fishes, Insects, Snakes, Turtles, Wolverines and Wolves. Notably only Birds appear as woodland creatures and as Calamity Beasts.

The Enchantment type Class returns from Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms and is introduced into a Magic setting for the first time. It now focuses on innkeepers, blacksmiths, artists, and other villagers.

The Artifact types Food and Treasure return, mainly as Predefined tokens. The push for Food Tokens to be used more proactively than their use in Throne of Eldraine continues as they are a part of the Squirrel's draft archetype ({B}{G}), mainly as a resource for the Forage mechanic.

With the notable story-relevant exception of Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest – which appears to be the only Dragon on the plane – no other iconic or characteristic creature types of any color are present. Even card effects which typically revive creatures as Zombies, do not grant the creature type in this set.

Counters

The set introduces Blight counters and Supply counters.

Limited archetypes

Bloomburrow has a typal theme. Each color pair is associated with one creature type, with a particular strategy associated:

Cycles

Bloomburrow features the following cycles:

Horizontal typal cycles

These horizontal cycles overlap with typal cycles in Bloomburrow, spanning across both all 5 colors equally and all 10 typals equally: Bird ({W/U}), Rat ({U/B}), Lizard ({B/R}), Raccoon ({R/G}), Rabbit ({G/W}), Bat ({W/B}), Otter ({U/R}), Squirrel ({B/G}), Mouse ({R/W}), & Frog ({G/U}). Thus, these cycles are presented as horizontal cycles with the typal group the card belongs to in brackets below.

Double typal cycles

Pairs

Reprinted cards

Preconstructed decks

Bloomburrow features four Commander decks released as a regular part of a set's product line.

Bloomburrow also features a Starter Kit containing two duel decks designed for novice players.

Gallery

Key art

Arena Avatars

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