Today pre-release events have started for the awesome looking new set Bloomburrow.
Bloomburrow is set in a fantastical woodland plane, and Magic’s first entirely non-human plane, Bloomburrow is where courage and great power reside in the tiniest critters. Bloomburrow will be released for MTG Arena on 30 July and available everywhere for tabletop on August 2.
There is also some fancy rewards you can get for heading down to your LGS!
New & Returning Mechanics
It’s not a new Magic set without some new mechanics, and there are some great ones here:
- Offspring, a new keyword found on creature cards allows the tiniest heroes to play their part. By paying an additional mana cost, the player creates a token copy of the original card, except with 1 power and 1 toughness (1/1).
- Gift, gifts come in all shapes and sizes, but you’ll always receive an advantage in return! By promising the Gift specified on a card to an opponent, such as food tokens or drawing a card, players can receive any number of advantages to help sway the tide of battle.
- Forage, a new action allowing players to exile three cards from their graveyard or sacrifice a food token to trigger varying effects. Never go into battle with an empty stomach!
- Valiant, creatures with a brave heart may have this new keyword which triggers bonus effects whenever the card is targeted by a spell or ability.
- Expend, no resource is wasted as this new rule term tracks how much mana a player has spent throughout a turn, then grants boons depending on the number of mana used while the Expend term was in play.
- Modal Spells, allow players to adapt to their surroundings by choosing to trigger three different effects listed on this new type of card. Players can spend up to five ‘pawprints’ with each effect costing one, two, or three pawprints to trigger. Effects can be triggered more than once, creating opportunities for powerful combinations!
