It’s spoiler time once again! Starting Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 9:00 am PT, the official previews for Bloomburrow will begin, due for release to MTG Arena on July 30, 2024! This highly anticipated expansion will trigger the long awaited Standard and Alchemy rotation. With some cards already revealed on its first look preview and a few cards through unofficial leaks, you can also check out some of the cards below in our articles below if you cannot wait!
As is the ritual before the beginning of the preview season for each set, MTG’s head designer Mark Rosewater (often shortened to MaRo) gives us a bit of a teaser about what we can expect from the set over on his Tumblr, Blogatog. It usually includes abilities, creature types, and other unusual or noteworthy text that will appear on cards from the set, along with some clues about returning characters and more.
This morning, MaRo published the teaser for Bloomburrow if you are still following along:
Maro’s Bloomburrow Teaser
Before previews for Bloomburrow officially begin, I thought it would be fun to do another of my Duelist-style teasers where I give tiny hints of things to come. Note that I’m only giving you partial information.
First up, here are some things you can expect:
A new mechanic which is a tweak on a mechanic from 2013
“Destroy target creature” (a spell with only this rules text) gets a new mana cost
A cycle of uncommon lands that each reference four creature types
Counters in the set: +1/+1, blight, coin, finality, flood, flying, indestructible, loyalty, stash, stun, and supply
A noncreature subtype makes its first return
A ten-card cycle that acts as typal glue
Two mechanics that came out in the same set return each part of a different two-color archetype
The word “Squirrels” shows up four times in rules text
A mythic cycle with a new symbol
One of the cutest mechanics we’ve ever made
Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:
“Create X tokens that are copies of target token you control.”
“If you control a Raccoon, you may discard a card.”
“Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1.”
“Whenever one or more other creatures you control leave the battlefield without dying,”
“if it’s the first instant spell, the first sorcery spell, or the first Otter spell”
“put a flood counter on target land.”
“where X is the number of creatures you opponents controlled that were exiled this turn.”
“for each other Squirrel and/or Food you control.”
“As long as there are four or more card types among cards exiled with CARDNAME,”
“up to one target artifact, creature, or planeswalker an opponent controls loses all abilities until your next turn.”
Here are some creature type lines from the set:
Creature – Hamster Citizen
Creature – Frog Advisor
Creature – Skunk Assassin
Creature – Raccoon Berserker
Creature – Squirrel Warlock Bard
Creature – Rabbit Mouse
Legendary Creature – Badger Warrior
Legendary Creature – Weasel Mercenary
Legendary Creature – Elemental Elk
Legendary Creature – Bird Dragon
Finally, here are some names in the set:
Crumb and Get It
Festivals of Embers
Hop to It
Kitnap
Playful Shove
Polliwallop
Rabid Gnaw
Shrike Force
War Squeak
Wishing Well
Tune-in to our official YouTube and Twitch channels (youtube.com/@mtg antwitch.tv/Magic and) at 9:00 am PT on Tuesday, July 9 as Bloomburrow previews begin.
Wrap Up
MaRo’s teasers are always chock full of information and insight into the set, and it’s definitely worth giving the full list a read.
That’s all we have for you concerning Bloomburrow for now. What are some of the tidbits from Mark Rosewater’s teaser that have you the most excited for Bloomburrow? Got any predictions? Let us know in the comments, and we’ll keep you up-to-date with the latest news and spoilers. We’ll see you next week on its debut stream!
