Bloomburrow (BLB) Limited Over and Underperformers Guide

Hey everyone! We’ve finally given the dust a chance to settle over the adorable land of Bloomburrow. I’ve done enough drafts to have my wife openly question my sanity while producing a pile of content about it, but the Arena Open is coming this weekend so I have a few more articles in me. Today we’re going to be discussing some of the over and under performers of Bloomburrow limited.

Before I start, I do have to remind some of you (not you in particular, but the angry internet people) that this is comparing how cards are performing compared to my initial expectations. That doesn’t mean you should be taking an overperformer over an underperformer.

I’ve already been updating my Bloomburrow Limited Tier List along the way so there is no need for me to add numbers here since they’ve already changed multiple times.

Overperformers

Blacksmith’s Talent

This Blacksmith was significantly more talented than I gave him credit for as he has produced some wonderous works so far. I think I missed on this one a bit by underestimating how much this can steal games out of nowhere with the hasty double striker if they don’t account for it. If they do play around it, then they aren’t getting nearly as much pressure on you as they could.

Carrot Cake

It wasn’t like I didn’t think that this would be a great card. It’s just been as outstanding as it sounds delicious (it doesn’t quite look as tasty though unless you are REALLY into carrots). On rate this is a good card, but there are an insane number of synergies hopping around this set. It does it all, whether that is just going wide, getting a life gain trigger, or sacrificing it to Forage.

Scales of Shale

I spent the first few days of the set thinking about how insanely this card was overperforming. I tried to keep it reigned in by saying “It’s early and people aren’t playing around it”. The problem is that you are often in a situation where you can’t play around it before getting absolutely annihilated for one mana.

Treeguard Duo

There have been plenty of creature like this produced before, but this one can scale up so high that it can change the complexion of a game in one fell swoop. Combine this with trample or evasion and it can outright win it for you. It also combos so well with either of its creature types by going wide with rabbits or bouncing it to replay it with frogs.

Savor

This was one that everyone thought would be a solid card. I didn’t see anybody that thought it was going to be the highest win rate or IWD common in the set. I still don’t hear much about it even with it leading the pack in both of those. You really need cheap interaction to not get ran over and this leaves you with an additional game piece. I probably should have seen that coming.

Underperformers

Wax-Wane Witness

I wasn’t that high on this, but then it felt really strong during the early access event so I changed my mind on it. It was a product of early drafts being wonky with an extreme discrepancy in player skill level during the drafts. It needs multiple life gain triggers going to make it worthwhile and you don’t often have that going on.

Wishing Well

I want to be like “I don’t know what I was thinking with this piece of garbage”, but it was based off of thinking the spells deck would be viable. You only want to be playing that deck when it is so wide open that you can’t help but fall into it.

I played someone who was on that exact path and drew this while being able to play three spells off of it, but by the time they got done doing that I was already finishing them off.

Starscape Cleric

As I mentioned under Wax-Wane Witness, Orzhov looked really strong in early access tilting the valuations. In normal play that archetype really needs to be more controlling to stand up to all of the aggro decks. This is an aggressive card in an unaggressive archetype that is subpar in any other decks.

Alania’s Pathmaker

In theory, this was going to almost always be a two for one with a good power to mana ratio. In practice, it tends to trade down pretty easily and there are much better things that you could be doing for four mana. The otter deck being a total bust doesn’t help much either.

Honored Dreyleader

It is a sad day as I add my little squirrel buddy to the list. He’s still great when you get the straight squirrel and food deck. The problem is that you can’t control how many squirrels you end up being passed. You really don’t want to play this as a 1/1 or a 2/2 so if your deck isn’t already on the right path, it’s for the best that you forget about drey.

Wrap Up

Thanks for reading! I’ll be back soon with some more Bloomburrow Limited coverage for you. Until then, stay classy people!

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