Wizards of the Coast today launched prerelease events for Bloomburrow, the latest set for the world-renowned trading card game, Magic: The Gathering (MTG). 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.

Magic’s smallest heroes

Step into Valley, an idyllic pastoral woodland where swords and magic are wielded by tails, scales and wings. When a terrible peril looms over this peaceful plane with the rise of the Calamity Beasts, it’ll take mighty amounts of courage in the smallest of creatures to save the valley. Join the brave mouse Mabel and her adventurer friends; Gev the lizard, Hugs the badger, Finneas the rabbit, Zoraline the bat, as well as the now-otter planeswalker Ral Zarek, as they fight to restore peace.

Embark on Mabel’s Journey WPN Play Season

Players can follow along with the story of Bloomburrow in Mabel’s Journey Play Season, exclusive to Wizards Play Network (WPN) stores in Asia-Pacific. Running from July 26 to September 13, players can obtain unique narrative-themed rewards.

By participating in eligible Bloomburrow in-store Prerelease Events, Limited Events (Draft and Sealed), and Friday Night Magic events, players can earn progressive rewards such as a themed MTG dicebag, character portrait cards, a Calamity Beast keyring, and finally, a wall tapestry representing a heroic scene from the Bloomburrow story. Players must earn each reward in order by participating in four consecutive events during the Play Season.

New & Returning Mechanics 

The denizens of Bloomburrow employ new and returning strategies to defend against the calamitous threats, some of which include:

• 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!

Collecting Bloomburrow

Bloomburrow features 24 Imagine: Courageous Critters Planeswalkers such as Jace, The Mind Sculptor, Liliana of the Dark Realms & Nissa, Who Shakes the World. They may be smaller in size, but they are as powerful as ever!

Collectability continues as prominent artist Mitsuhiro Arita contributes to Bloomburrow’s bestial theme by illustrating the mythic card Lumra, Bellow of the Woods. Also joining the ranks of Magic’s notable artists, David Peterson applied their passion for tiny yet mighty creatures and illustrated five key character cards including Helga, Skittish Seer.

As if pulled from a novel, 42 gorgeous Showcase Woodland frames are available to collect in Bloomburrow, with intricate elements changing between the animal factions of Valley.

Bloomburrow’s natural landscape changes drastically throughout the seasons as depicted in stunning full-art basic land cards available in four season varieties, Autumn, Summer, Spring, and Winter. Three Tree City, a powerful Legendary Land card, is also available with four separate artistic illustrations representing each of the four seasons.

Magic the Gathering: Bloomburrow includes Play Boosters, Collector Boosters, Commander Decks, Prerelease Packs, Bundles and a Starter Set.
For more information on Bloomburrow, visit: https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/Bloomburrow.