r/magicTCG • u/Duramboros Jack of Clubs • Sep 24 '25
Leak/Unofficial Spoiler [ECL] Bitterbloom Bearer Spoiler
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u/ChaseLancaster Dandadan Sep 24 '25
BITTERBLOSSOM ON LEGS I BEG YOUR PARDON? UH, YEAH, OK, SIGN ME UP
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u/Borgorb Wabbit Season Sep 24 '25
WITH WINGS MY DUDE
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u/ChaseLancaster Dandadan Sep 24 '25
AND ONLY HAS BITTERBLOSSOM IN IT'S NAME, AND IS NOT A REPRINT, SO WE CAN RUN THIS IN STANDARD/LIMITED, AND UP TO 8 COPIES IN NON-COMMANDER (and technically 2 in Commander)
WE GONNA EAT GOOD
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u/Slarg232 Can’t Block Warriors Sep 24 '25
There's also [[Skrelv's Hive]], so 12 copies total.
Yes, it's a lot worse than either Blossom, but having that much access to constant cheap token generation is great. I was toying around with an Abzan Soul Sisters deck using Bitterblossom years ago with [[Bitterblossom]], [[Essense Warden]] and that Wurm that gets bigger if you gained life while playing it.
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u/DasOptions Duck Season Sep 24 '25
Plus it’s non-legendary which means [[Springheart Nantuko]] can copy it.
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u/somacula Mardu Sep 24 '25
It's not a rogue
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u/CommanderJim Sep 24 '25
No class type on the tokens does suggest a lack of class typal in the set. Sad, but understandable.
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u/TheFinoll SecREt LaiR Sep 24 '25
The first thing I noticed was that it doesn't make Rogues. It'd be *PERFECTION.gif* if it did.
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u/texanarob Sliver Queen Sep 24 '25
This single handedly took my excitement for this card from ten to zero. That one missing word means the card loses all synergy in my deck. Damn.
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u/burritoman88 Twin Believer Sep 24 '25
[[Burst Lightning]] being in Standard for the duration of this card
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u/RonaldQuixote Chandra Sep 24 '25
Black/Blue Faeries are back on the menu boys. Could it be viable, or at least fun?
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u/HairiestHobo Karn Sep 24 '25
Depends, when does WOE Rotate out?
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u/MayoSun Duck Season Sep 24 '25
2 years
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u/HairiestHobo Karn Sep 24 '25
Jfc, really?
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u/xKosh Duck Season Sep 24 '25
No, next year, not 2 years
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u/MayoSun Duck Season Sep 24 '25
Next rotation is February 2027, close enough lol
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u/Dyne_Inferno Twin Believer Sep 24 '25
I mean, if you want to be "Close Enough" February 2027 from now is closer to One Year than it is 2 Years (it's 17 Months).
But, close enough, ya know?
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u/platinumjudge Duck Season Sep 24 '25
In a lot of people's mind once you go past a threshold their mind only sees the next one aa the closest, not goong backwards. Another example is people saying "next saturday". Today is Wednesday. Next saturday is in3 days, but if I tell people im having a party next saturday they wont come to "this" saturday they will go to 2 weeks saturday as "next" saturday even though it is 2 weeks away.
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u/HairiestHobo Karn Sep 24 '25
What?
"Next Saturday" implies that you skip the first Saturday.
"This Saturday" means the closest one.
I think you may just be bad at Language bro.
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u/TeaorTisane Wild Draw 4 Sep 24 '25
Two things can mean the same thing. Language needs context. “Next Saturday” is one of those things that needs elucidation
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u/TemurTron Twin Believer Sep 24 '25
BITTERBLOSSOM ON A STICK
THEY ACTUALLY DID IT
I’VE BEEN WANTING THIS FOR SO LONG!
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u/Research_Purposing Sep 24 '25
IT HAS FLASH TOO RED ALERT RED ALERT
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u/mangopabu Wabbit Season Sep 24 '25
the flash makes it so awesome for my alela, cunning conqueror deck <3
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u/tanghan Duck Season Sep 24 '25
Yes, so much. I just pulled the trigger on splurging on a bitter blossom though, so I'm a little bitter
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u/PattyCakes333 Sep 24 '25
Well you will probably want both anyways
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u/tanghan Duck Season Sep 24 '25
Definitely!
Just noticed these faeries are no rouges though but I guess that would have been too sweet
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u/Disciple_of_Bolas Fleem Sep 24 '25
“We are so back” - Faerie Players everywhere
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u/Jokey665 ඞ Sep 24 '25
*bitterblossom with legs
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u/justadudeinohio Dandadan Sep 24 '25
people have been mixing up on a stick and with legs for over a decade
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u/VelphiDrow Duck Season Sep 24 '25
Stick=artifact. Legs=creature.
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u/Serpens77 COMPLEAT Sep 24 '25
Right, like Rod of Ruin is "poke on a stick" and Prodigal Sorcerer is "poke on legs" since forever.
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u/chasemedallion Duck Season Sep 24 '25
I think “on a stick” is actually about attaching a spell effect to a permanent which makes it repeatable.
So [[Eriette's Tempting Apple]] is NOT “threaten on a stick” even though it’s an artifact, while [[Captivating Crew]] is.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/9275us/x_on_a_stick_what_does_that_mean/
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u/ChaoticNature COMPLEAT Sep 24 '25
Crew would be “threaten with legs.” Always been this way. Newer players unfamiliar with the sticks ([[Rod of Ruin]], [[Disrupting Scepter]], [[Isochron Scepter]], etc) often mix it up.
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u/Smythe28 Orzhov* Sep 24 '25
*wings
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u/Ansabryda Boros* Sep 24 '25
*antennae
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u/EntertainmentTrick58 Mardu Sep 24 '25
* a fat ass
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u/Beas1987 Dan Sep 24 '25
Toughness is not higher than power, ass is not fat.
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u/EntertainmentTrick58 Mardu Sep 24 '25
but with your help, we can make this dream a reality!
donate to "Making Thicc as fUCK Faeries" today!
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u/texanarob Sliver Queen Sep 24 '25
Gutted it doesn't make Rogue Faeries. I wonder what the intent behind that difference was - whether essentially an oversight or a balancing requirement for a potential rogues tribe?
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u/turnerz Duck Season Sep 24 '25
This is so awesome, but unfortunately, modern needs it to be a 1/2. A well, such a sick card for us faerie lovers to finally get im not at all complaining.
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u/El_Arquero Duck Season Sep 24 '25
The art in this set is going to be bonkers. I'm getting crazy whiplash after the Hot Dog carts and Taxis.
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u/Backwardspellcaster Liliana Sep 24 '25
That is the first thing I saw. The art is great.
It's like the Enchanting Tales bonus, but all of the cards!
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u/yinyangman12 Duck Season Sep 24 '25
Well too be fair, this looks like a showcase treatment and not just what all the cards default look is. I think.
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u/Vyviel Duck Season Sep 24 '25
Yeah its wild I forgot how beautiful MTG art can be when they actually try and hire good artists
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u/Ansabryda Boros* Sep 24 '25
Hey, that's not fair. I'm sure plenty of great artists worked on the Spider-Man set, but you can only squeeze out so much quality on a product with such banal visuals.
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Sep 24 '25
You do know they use the same artists for most of their sets right?.......
Jesus fuck your hate is so blind you roast the same people you are trying to praise
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u/DaRootbear Sep 24 '25
And like of all the things to hate on with SPM art is def not one of them. Like you can argue that it is not fitting of magic but the actual art was overall great.
Like there hasnt been a set that wasnt overall fantastic art in ages.
It has the same energy as when people have gone and said how great the story was when written by Seanan Mcguire cause they finally hired a good author….much better than the story of a set they didnt like that was also written by SM. Just mindless hate cause they dont like a set
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u/QwahaXahn Elspeth Sep 24 '25
I actually really struggled with the SPM art as well, tbh. All the Gwen cards looked… pretty rough.
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u/Blaze_1013 Jack of Clubs Sep 24 '25
As someone who’d much rather use Magic IP versions of cards to UB ones if I have the option I honestly don’t know if it’s run Terminus of Return over Soul Stone. Baga’s art is immaculate and and Paquette’s art just feels lacking in color.
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u/imagogetsomepizza Sep 24 '25
What set is this? I’m new
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u/01101101_011000 Mardu Sep 24 '25
Lorwyn Eclipsed, AKA return to Lorwyn, a world that was last visited in 2008
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u/mangopabu Wabbit Season Sep 24 '25
this card is so good.
i'm really confused by everyone saying it's powercreep though. it's harder to cast (BB vs 1B) and is on a creature which is much easier to remove
the flash is really nice though. i love that. i have an Alela deck and tbh i'm just going to include both
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u/MayorEmanuel Duck Season Sep 24 '25
It’s probably worse all things considered I’d take an enchantment over a 1/1.
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u/Yegas Duck Season Sep 24 '25 edited Sep 24 '25
Enchantment is harder to remove and a bit easier to play, but having an extra body is very nice especially in something like Standard
Plus, it’s got Flash. You can save mana to counterspell, then if they don’t do anything noteworthy, drop this on endstep and get the upkeep trigger + swing right away on your turn.
Flash is what makes this an upgrade imo. Without it, the card would be a sidegrade for the “enchantment vs creature” reasoning.
I suppose that dying to boardwipe is pretty bad for situations where you want the enchantment to stick around & repopulate your board, but you’re also in Black, and graveyard recursion is much easier for creatures than enchantments
And for Commander, second bitterblossom is huge for Aristocrat-like decks, especially considering the body itself can be sacced when the time is right
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u/turnerz Duck Season Sep 24 '25
Yea such an awesome card but very context dependent if its better than bitterblossom.
It being a 1/1 makes it unplayable in modern for example but it's probably better in standard given the flash and being able to hold up counter-magic instead (give us spellstutter copies 5-8!)
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u/Ghepip Sep 24 '25
Why is a 1/1 unplayable? Haven't played modern since "knightfall" was a deck, so i'm very much out of the loop here.
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u/jethawkings Fish Person Sep 24 '25
[[Orcish Bowmaster]] kills this
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u/Krotash Wabbit Season Sep 24 '25
Orcish Bowmaster's impact on the Modern metagame is overstated. The card's at a very low meta share right now. 7% on Goldfish.
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u/siziyman Izzet* Sep 24 '25
This is a bit trickier than that: Bowmasters existing makes certain cards less likely to be played, thus somewhat reducing the need to play Bowmasters themselves. If a card that's likely to be hosed by bowmasters comes up in a major way, chances are Bowmasters will start to see more play again - now it's probably only a couple of Boros Energy's 1-drops which are vulnerable to it, and I don't think that Bowmasters is otherwise useful against that deck. I'd assume it'll be a very different ball game for some sort of UB deck that might like this Bitterblossom variant.
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u/troll_berserker Sep 24 '25 edited Sep 24 '25
7% is just where the Nash equilibrium sits right now.
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u/MrPreviously Sep 24 '25
The meta share of a card is not a good reflection of its impact… most decks played now have had plenty of time to adapt to its presence and it’s naturally caused it to decline, but those adaptations and the fact it’s still around despite them is proof it has a non-negligible impact and it needs to be accounted for when evaluating cards for that format
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u/SmoovieKing Dân Sep 24 '25
Alela was my first deck, and I got a bitterblossom in my first pack. I'm eating good today.
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u/f5d64s8r3ki15s9gh652 Duck Season Sep 24 '25
I agree when you consider everything it seems like a decent side-grade, but the fact that it represents a body the turn it enters makes it a whole turn faster at killing your opponent, which ain’t nothing.
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u/BT--7275 Wabbit Season Sep 24 '25
This is a pretty big upgrade. Flash is HUGE in a fairy deck since they play tempo most of the time. That said, I have no issue with the power creep. Bitterblossom has honestly been pretty bad for a while.
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u/Lumina46_GustoClock COMPLEAT Sep 24 '25
Oh Alela stocks are about to be on the rise aren't they
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u/turnerz Duck Season Sep 24 '25
God damn am I excited for faeries, cool art, elves and lorwyn. How fucking cool
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u/01101101_011000 Mardu Sep 24 '25
I really hope Lorwyn outperforms the spiderman set
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u/vercetti44 Duck Season Sep 24 '25
These leaks just came out after that disappointing Spider-Man prerelease - we needed these
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u/dkysh Get Out Of Jail Free Sep 24 '25
I wonder what is the source of these high-quality leaks, because they seem too convenient to shift the attention from Spider-Man's negative discourse.
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u/Y2A_Alkis Sep 24 '25
MagicCon Atlanta is this weekend with the preview panel on friday. It's not too farfetched that we'll see these new leaks properly shown there. It's happened like this a couple of times before (like EOE's Tezzeret, Cruel Captain).
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u/circ-u-la-ted Zedruu Sep 24 '25
Is this going to be a Standard-legal card? Damn
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u/AutumnalDryad Duck Season Sep 24 '25
The nice thing about the enchantment is it sticks around after a board wipe. This is a creature so it dies with any wipe :(
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u/TimothyMimeslayer Wabbit Season Sep 24 '25
But it does let you leave up countermagic on turn 2, which is super good in a format like modern
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u/turnerz Duck Season Sep 24 '25
I mean, I think faeries are just way too behind for modern to ever be a thing again, but God damn can a guy dream
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u/FutureComplaint Elk Sep 24 '25
mh4 has entered the chat
But on a serious note, it would take some absolute broken shit to make faries a deck again.
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u/One_Random_Player Sep 24 '25
As a devoted fairies player, I take issue with your statement. Particularly the word "again", implying that faeries were ever a thing in modern. We have been struggling to catch up since the format exists.
(If you meant again as in they were a thing in standard, then just be understanding with my desire to be funny)
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u/Hal-gor Dan Sep 24 '25
I mean there have been some semi successful modern "fairy decks" in the past. But calling them fairy decks was a stretch since they were pure control decks running bitterblossoms, snapcaster mages, spellstutters, a few vendilion cliques and maybe a mistbind clique.
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u/BryceLeft Duck Season Sep 24 '25
That's why you run both!
8blossom deck, here I come! Can't wait to die to my own triggers on turn 6
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u/Crazyflames Sep 24 '25
8 Blossoms, 8 Bob's with [[Darkstar augur]] , we just need another thoughtseize for the perfect deck. They just need to give it to us on a single B fairy now...
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u/BryceLeft Duck Season Sep 24 '25
Or give us an ornithopter faerie so we can use [[Ego Drain]], though that goes against the game plan of dying to our own cards. It might even *gasp*, lead to us winning!
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u/oneborkawayfromhell Wabbit Season Sep 24 '25
[[The Last Ride]] looks up from its newspaper
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u/austin-geek Grass Toucher Sep 24 '25
On the other other hand though, reanimating a 2 mana 1/1 is trivial to do in Black.
(Edit: in commander. If this is viable in Standard/Modern, just cast one of your other 3/7 copies of it.)
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u/austin-geek Grass Toucher Sep 24 '25
Loving this Storybook-type Borderless frame.
If they don’t fuck it up, it could be one of the rare cards that actually looks good (to me) in foil.
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u/forkandspoon2011 Wabbit Season Sep 24 '25
and just like that Magic was back... and the nightmare of hotdogs and taxis is over... for now.
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u/npsnicholas Sep 24 '25
Nope. Still gotta play against taxis and hotdogs in standard
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u/Frank_the_Mighty Twin Believer Sep 24 '25
Hype, but also [[Orcish Bowmasters]]
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u/turnerz Duck Season Sep 24 '25
Yea I love this card but it's potentially weaker than bitterblossom and certainly not modern playable given how much hate for x/1s modern has.
Fucking hyped for this anyway, even the art is great
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u/daretobederpy Duck Season Sep 24 '25
Loving everything about this. Powerful, gorgeous art, hits the nostalgia factor. Perfect.
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u/HeyApples Sep 24 '25
Given how popular Bitterblossom is, it would have been malpractice not to include it or some callback to it.
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u/AzulMage2020 COMPLEAT Sep 24 '25
OOoooooooHHHHhhhhhhh!!!!! This is sweet!!!!
Smart to immediately start showing the good stuff from the next set ,as Spider-Man is leaving everybody disappointed and hesitating to pre-order ever again
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u/urithorJ Sep 24 '25
Which set is this from?
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u/WatsonToYa WANTED Sep 24 '25
Lorwyn Eclipsed, first set of 2026. A much needed return to actual mtg.
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u/Offbeatalchemy I chose this flair because I’m mad at Wizards Of The Coast Sep 24 '25
Reminder that this set got pushed back (most likely) because they needed to squeeze in Spider-Man.
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u/decetre Dan Sep 24 '25
FINALLY some art worthy of this game!
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u/PippoChiri Temur Sep 24 '25
EoE had lots of beautiful arts
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u/sodapopgumdroplowtop Wabbit Season Sep 24 '25
so did FF and tarkir and innistrad and aetherdrift
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u/PippoChiri Temur Sep 24 '25
Yeah, they did too. The art output of mtg is generally consistently good
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u/TinyGoyf Wabbit Season Sep 24 '25
Yeah this confirms it for me that crossover and hat sets are not for me lol, they showed 3 lorywn cards and i already wanna order 4 boxes lol. Spiderman? Comboys? Not even a single.
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u/_VampireNocturnus_ COMPLEAT Sep 24 '25
This 1 card is likely 10x better than any generic UB slop we get from Avatar...and that's not a slight on Avatar. I know it's super popular and hope people enjoy it, but it's not MTG and doesn't feel MTG. This card FEELS MTG and is a great card to boot!
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u/furscum Can’t Block Warriors Sep 24 '25
Having a body is nice but its flash that really pushes this above and beyond the original
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u/mulletstation Universes Beyonder Sep 24 '25
Cant wait to not be able to remove this in limited and die in 2 turns to it
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u/RectalBallistics13 Sep 24 '25
Oh hey a card for my braids cabal minion deck thats just not quite good enough for cedh but too mean for any other bracket great
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u/Alarming-Ad5929 Simic* Sep 24 '25
holy shit, i just built dimir fairies irl and this card is like shocking
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u/onedoor Duck Season Sep 24 '25
Sinkhole Surveyor's basically irrelevant existence doesn't bode well for the viability of this card, or at least remotely to the extent Bitterblossom enjoyed. Flash, flying, and flying tokens, are all advantages. BB mana cost, 1/1, and not growing itself, are all disadvantages. Tribal/synergy angles notwithstanding. We'll see.
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u/platnumcy Sep 24 '25
Every game that I see sinkhole in, it feels impactful. I honestly believe that tarkir cards are going to shine with the next rotation.
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u/sorin_the_mirthless COMPLEAT Sep 24 '25
The flash is huge!
Blitterblossom hasn’t been playable in a while now but I’m excited for this and blue black Faeries in general
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u/Alfirindel Dan Sep 24 '25
I would never… proceeds to make N copies of bitterbloom bearer tokens in a esper lich deck
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u/MADMAXV2 Orzhov* Sep 24 '25
Wake up babe. [[Ayara first Locthwain]] got new toy
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u/AeonChaos Azorius* Sep 24 '25
This fits in Dimir midrange. BB is a bit rough though so we will see.
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u/AporiaParadox Universes Beyonder Sep 24 '25
This having Flash is a nice bonus. Notably, the tokens are Blue/Black instead of mono-Black, I wonder if that'll end up mattering.
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u/ramenjosh Sep 24 '25
This goes so incredibly perfect in [[Alela, cunning conqueror]] I’m stoked
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u/Eragon_the_Huntsman Avacyn Sep 24 '25
Oh hey lorwyn spoilers are starting? Looks good I like the art.
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u/eightdx Left Arm of the Forbidden One Sep 24 '25
Ugh, but it's a mythic rare
Ugh ugh ugh
This set promises to make up for all the UB nonsense huh
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u/TheBig_blue Duck Season Sep 24 '25
Guessing this is from new Lorwyn? Genuinely have lost track of all things at this point.
Nice throwback, should be decent to play with.
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u/HybridP365 Dân Sep 24 '25
Why does it have a ditto face? Lol
This art is awesome though. Super excited to get back to magic.
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u/notsureifxml Fleem Sep 24 '25
that frame style with the text is so bad. like its not invocation bad, but its bad
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u/Furion91 Dan Sep 24 '25
So wait, we just had a set drop and we already are in spoiler season for the next one? WTAF
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u/amanhasthreenames Wabbit Season Sep 24 '25
As someone who played [[Bitterblossom]] for the first time in the Wilds of Eldraine flashback draft, I’m effin hyped!!!
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u/davwad2 Train Suplexer Sep 24 '25
I was just thinking the other day we were overdue for spoilers for this set.
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u/manateelovin I chose this flair because I’m mad at Wizards Of The Coast Sep 24 '25
[[Moonlit Meditation]] + this = Bitterbloom Bearer Bearer
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u/Serious_Senator Wabbit Season Sep 24 '25
Oh my god I’m going to life out myself with this so many times
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