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MaRo's Bloomburrow Teaser

Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser for Bloomburrow 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 — Valiant (Heroic)
• "Destroy target creature" (a spell with only this rules text) gets a new mana cost — Fell (, but it is a sorcery)
• 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 — Class enchantments
• A ten-card cycle that acts as typal glue — The Duo cycle
• Two mechanics that came out in the same set return each part of a different two-color archetype — Threshold () and Flashback ()
• The word “Squirrels” shows up four times in rules text — Camellia, the Seedmiser, The Odd Acorn Gang, Scurry of Squirrels, Valley Rotcaller
• A mythic cycle with a new symbol — The Pawprint Seasons cycle uses paws ().
• One of the cutest mechanics we’ve ever made — Offspring

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

• "Create X tokens that are copies of target token you control." — For the Common Good
• "If you control a Raccoon, you may discard a card." — Take Out the Trash
• "Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1." — Maha, Its Feathers Night
• "Whenever one or more other creatures you control leave the battlefield without dying," — Three Tree Scribe, Dour Port-Mage
• "if it’s the first instant spell, the first sorcery spell, or the first Otter spell" — Alania, Divergent Storm
• "put a flood counter on target land." — Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
• "where X is the number of creatures you opponents controlled that were exiled this turn." — Vren, the Relentless
• "for each other Squirrel and/or Food you control." — Honored Dreyleader
• "As long as there are four or more card types among cards exiled with CARDNAME," — Keen-Eyed Curator
• "up to one target artifact, creature, or planeswalker an opponent controls loses all abilities until your next turn." — Azure Beastbinder

Here are some creature type lines from the set:

• Creature – Hamster Citizen — Jolly Gerbils
• Creature – Frog Advisor — Pond Prophet
• Creature – Skunk Assassin — Downwind Ambusher
• Creature – Raccoon Berserker — Junkblade Bruiser
• Creature – Squirrel Warlock Bard — Bonebind Orator
• Creature – Rabbit Mouse — Brave-Kin Duo
• Legendary Creature – Badger Warrior — Hugs, Grisly Guardian
• Legendary Creature – Weasel Mercenary — The Infamous Cruelclaw
• Legendary Creature – Elemental Elk — Beza, the Bounding Spring
• Legendary Creature – Bird Dragon — Dragonhawk, Fate’s Tempest

Finally, here are some names in the set:

• Crumb and Get It — Instant
• Festival of Embers — Enchantment
• Hop to It — Sorcery
• Kitnap — Enchantment
• Playful Shove — Sorcery
• Polliwallop — Instant
• Rabid Gnaw — Instant
• Shrike Force — 1/3 Bird Knight
• War Squeak — Aura
• Wishing Well — Artifact

Gavin's Bloomburrow Teaser

Gavin Verhey released a teaser with the following hints about the new cards in the Bloomburrow Commander decks:

1. There is a card called "Tempt with Bunnies" with the tempting offer mechanic — Sorcery
2. There is the first ever card with two instances of hideaway — Evercoat Ursine
3. There are four new Classes, one per deck — Alchemist's Talent (Animated Army); Fortune Teller's Talent (Family Matters); Fisher's Talent (Peace Offering); Gourmand's Talent (Squirreled Away)
4. There is a card with "Gift an extra turn" — Perch Protection
5. There is a card with five instances of "twenty" in its rules text — Twenty-Toed Toad
6. There is a Squirrel with the toxic mechanic — Bloodroot Apothecary
7. There is a card that is a direct reference to "Sword of the Meek", right down to the name! — Sword of the Squeak
8. There is a Bat that makes Blood tokens — Moonstone Eulogist
9. There is a red creature with offspring that mimics a popular-in-multiplayer red common noncreature — Agate Instigator (Impact Tremors)
10. There is a card that benefits your Fungus and Saprolings — Brightcap Badger
11. There is a card named "Thickest in the Thicket" — Enchantment
12. There is a card with game text that contains the mighty words... "Storm Crow" — Murmuration

Finally, here is the art of some reprints:

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  Swords to Plowshares
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  Chaos Warp
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  Chart a Course
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  Saw in Half
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  Cut a Deal

Miscellaneous

• All of Mabel’s companions have alliterated epithets.
• 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.
• The art of Flubs, the Fool is an homage to the classic artwork for the Tarot card "The Fool".
• Three Tree Rootweaver is the only common creature without a themed type.
• Repel Calamity refers to Valorous Stance in art, mana cost, rarity, and the second of its modal effects.
• Rolling Hamsphere refers to Myr Battlesphere in type, mana cost, power and toughness, damage ability and token making ability.
• Murmuration effectively casts Crow Storm every end step.
• Swarmyard Massacre couples the same four creature types that Swarmyard does.
• Saw in Half is the first card from an Un-set to be reprinted in a regular set. This was made possible because the card was already Eternal in Unfinity.
• Bloomburrow's release on August 2nd is the earliest set released to cause Standard Rotation by more than a month: while rotation-starter releases have been trending earlier, going from mid-October to the last week of September to the second week of September, Bloomburrow jumps back a full five weeks from the previous year's Wilds of Eldraine on September 8th.
• Design considers Bloomburrow to be a bottom-up set deign.
• As each card in the Duo cycle represents two color pairs from the set's typal themes, each sharing a color, they effectively represent a three-color combination. For example, Brave-Kin Duo is a rabbit () and a mouse (), combining to represent (Naya). Almost all the Duo cards, when looked at in this way, form Shards; However, the two black cards instead form Wedges, with one color allied to the shared color and the other the enemy color of both. Daggerfang Duo is (Sultai) while Glidedive Duo is (Mardu). Incidentally, this also means that Esper and Jund are the only shards to be represented once instead of twice in the cycle.
• Turtles were considered for the typal archetype but lost out to Frogs.