Bloomburrow/Trivia

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MaRo's Bloomburrow Teaser

Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.

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 — The Villages
• 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 —

Here are snippets of rules text, you’ll see:

• "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 —

Miscellaneous

• All of Mabel’s companions have alliterated aliases.
• Hugs is depicted as a European badger on his regular card, but as an American badger on the borderless alternate art. Although similar in appearance, the two species are not closely related.