@@DiceTry Mouse, Otter, or Lizard. Mice by Color preference. Otter cause my second fave animal. Lizard because the revelry and artistry of fire and destruction. Michael Bay style. Lol
the planeswalker's guide describes raccoons as being somewhat forgetful, distractable hoarders, which is a big mood. that plus the fact that i was already a furry with a raccoon fursona, and it's really no question
Ravnica has always felt like each colour pair's late-stage capitalism to me. E.g. the Passion that red would bring to Izzet has been burnt out and replaced with the mania that you get after missing too much sleep and you're just running on caffeine.
Bloomburrow is, in my experience, probably the pinnacle of Black mana being depicted in a positive light. While they do tend to be, relatively, more solitary, and can still be gruesome of course, they all still seem to actively contribute to the wellbeing of Valley as a whole rather than _just_ themselves or their tight-knit groups, with rats being knowledge-keepers, squirrels preparing food stockpiles, lizards maintaining fires for warmth, and of course the white-aligned bats probably being the most interactive with other communities, even if sometimes indirectly, being spiritual guides and keeping watch while others sleep. None of this makes them any less black-aligned. They still dabble in life and death, in hoarding resources and knowledge, but all for generally benevolent reasons rather than greedy or self-serving reasons. In a series where Black mana is often painted as the enemy, or at least as shady, it's nice to see a setting where Black is as welcome as any other slice of the pie.
I agree! I wish for Squirrels that they leaned more into selfish hoarding or burial of nuts rather than literal necromancy, bones, etc. It feels like Strixhaven's Golgari (forgot the name) rather than a new thing.
I love how Bloomburrow expands our original understanding of the color pie with new concepts and combinations. B/W Bats talking about tradition, knowing their place, and being protectors of order, no green in sight? Love it! B/U rats with "beastmaster ranger"-coded insect companions? I LOVE IT. R/B Lizards seeking artistic meaning in arts and destruction, in a far less harmful way than Boggarts and Rakdos? THANK YOU! There's so much character in each faction. Though some pairs are still very similar to past iterations, food-crazed shaman squirrels and garbage-enamored bard raccoons are such fun concepts for their color combinations, I can tell WotC put a lot of love and care into this set. Birds are my personal favorite, they still hold the same self-important aura of any U/W combination but I appreciate their oath to serve and eagerness to support other spieces in very humble, chivalrous ways.
I dunno why, but I find the sheer happiness of this set strangely emotional, like there is a huge amount of love and passion engrained in this set, and all that love is poured into the lore of the world. While I also appreciate the darker sets of Magic, I salute WotC for taking the chance in doing something different, and do so with great expertise.
There’s a reason why everyone loves the “run away together” card from this set so much. It encapsulates the idea of the set in such a PERFECT way across all of its mechanics and ideas. It’s how I imagine each color pair wants to live among their loved ones honestly.
This set was perfectly timed for me. My youngest daughter has been learning the game, and the kitchen table laughter finally broke my wife, getting her interested in the game. Everybody has a firm enough grasp of the rules now that we can play several games without a debate over interactions or confusion about resolving a stack with four spells on it. Getting a set full of cutesy woodland creatures with a largely upbeat theme at that point goes a long way toward building a family tradition.
It's a breath of fresh air. No overarching planes-ending plots or anything from Bolas, Eldrazi, or Phyrexia. Just a simple self-contained plane full of whimsy and wonder from Redwall and Secret of Nimh and the like. I love this set so much.
This was great! Bloomburrow lends itself especially well to this kind of narrative style of exploration and discovery. Your comparison to Ravnica at the beginning was spot-on, I think.
The orzhov faction for this set just goes to show something I've been saying for ages. If you combine white and black you can make a "diet green" faction who believes in personal destinies, maintaining balance in all things, and tradition.
I could see Naya spider folks who make ground webs like those species in Australia that can turn entire meadows look covered in dew with how thickly their webbing lies. Their webs can act as a way of branching out and connecting in harmony as their webbings provide cover during seasons of danger and beautiful tapestries in time of peace.
I adore Bloomburrow and I'm happy to be getting into MTG at this time. Watership Down is my favourite book, and so I took to the spirit of the rabbitfolk especially.
I hope we revisit bloomburrow somewhat regularly moving forwards, it feels like a wonderful setting and it’s emphasis on kindred strategies feels very, VERY fun in my opinion.
I got into this set because I thought it was adorable and because I was excited to play group hug. but after hearing about all of the different animals, all of them tie into a different aspect of myself. nature, adventure, family, justice, story’s, sharing. I haven’t felt a connection to a set like this in the entirety of magic, (dad introduced me when I was like 7-ish so that was at least a decade ago) good I was not expecting to fudging cry at a mtg TH-cam video.😿💖
I honestly didn't love the idea of another cute whimsical set when we still have Eldraine in standard. But after seeing the flavor these little critters have, I couldn't stay mad at them. Bloomburrow is a breath of fresh air after so much drama and high stakes from previous sets.
Man I love how you narrate this world. It’s like you were a traveler who encountered and learned from each faction. You’ve read the flavour texts and marvelled the art clearly. This is all reflected in your video and I felt like I was on a journey with you. Bro, here’s me subscribed 👌
I think it's just a more fun way to look at the set, and honestly made writing it more enjoyable. Will be sure to do the same for Duskmorne when it's our
A wonderful and in-universe extrapolation/experience of the dense, cozy worldbuilding behind Bloomburrow. I cannot wait for the inevitable "Return to Bloomburrow" set.
Thanks for the donation, I appreciate it! As for Bloomburrow, I truly hope we return. I know I was hesitant at first when it was announced, but this Plane is so dense with interesting worldbuilding, and I need more of it.
Rabbits give food... but not tokens... HA! Clever. Glad you jumped on this video. It's truly interesting. And I love the "journey through Valley" aspect. Very fun storytelling.
first off - i LOVE what wizards of the coast did with bloomburrow. for a card game that usually only focuses on crazy monsters and humanoids, it was really refreshing to see a set based on woodland creatures. the world building for valley is stunning, having the animals represent color pairs which fit them all so well. second, i love this style of video. it’s a lot more immersive than just telling the audience random facts about the animalfolk. can’t wait for more videos like this
I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS STORYTELLING. SLOW CLAPS. There is much joy and adventure in the way you journeyed through Bloomburrow and it made each faction feel more lived, more personal.
This video was so immersive and magical!! I did not expect this style of in-depth, story telling, recalling your travels through the plain. really beautiful and creative work
I love this self insert imersive way of storytelling you did with Bloomburrow, was such a delight to watch that I've even watched it twice already. You did an amazing job
Do you think that there's going to be returns to Bloomburrow in future sets? I can't shake the feeling that this initial visit was just scratching the surface and there's more stories of the animal folks waiting to be told.
I hope so but the way modern magic seems to just hop from one idea to the next I don't have much faith. I'm still holding out for a return to Strixhaven
This set upsurped my previous favorite set (New Phyrexia). It's a peak set to me, the world is familiar but has a distinct flair thats completely MTG. Its mechanics are unqiue, a good power level, and flavorful. Theres not a single miss in art and the cards tell a great story without needing outside mateial. I truly think this is the best set to come out since..... I almost want to say War of The Spark. Edit: My favorite critters were probably Bats or the calamity beasts. The beasts were a beyond inspired idea imo.
I must admit, I was disappointed to see your Grixis video delayed for this, but after watching cannot hold the sentiment. This video was very engaging and well told, the description of the frogfolk much increased my understanding of Simic, a hard to comprehend color combination in my opinion!
This is fantastic. The idea of travelling through Bloomburrow from a first person perspective, describing the people and cultures you encounter is exactly what I wanted. Just discovered your channel and now need to dive into more videos. Thank you for this!
This was great. I have always appreciated your videos but this is such a nice approach to world exploration. Kudos for raising my bar. Hope to see more!
I gotta be honest... I really love this style of video... As if you, yourself, are visiting the critters and learning firsthand... I really like it... Please do more.
How have i only just seen this video! Love the way you presented the lore on the form of a story. Makes the information easier to digest/ remember and so immersive. Fantastic 👌🏻
I love bloomburrow, the characters and mechanics are so flavourful. It's got the interconnectedness of Ravnica with the charm of Lorwyn, but if the guilds actually worked well together. The mice are benefitted by the targeting buffs of birds, the squirrels benefit from the rats self mill. Bats flourish from the entry triggers of booming bunnies
I feel the exact opposite to you: i was super exicted for Bloomburrow and then my expectations were exactly reached rather than blown away. Now im just stoked for Duskmourn and the Overlord of the Hauntwoods to come out. I'm stoked to see what that 'Everywhere' land token looks like and some of the cards like Fear of Missing Out and Cursed Recording look amazing.
This was such a great video. I loved every second and the pictures you painted gave me a whole new appreciation for the plane. Especially because I only cared about the Squirrels in the first place.
I recently got into magic because my friends know i love raccoons and theyve been getting back into it. This set may have made me a fan for life. so much imagination and creativity is alive in this set. playing with my precon and building into it feels so important knowing the lore and purpose behind it. I love the atmosphere of this set and its been overall a very fun experience, even playing online and using my raccoons and whatnot to win games
The way you made this makes me feel the world building even more I'm thankful for it. You really went deep intoo bloomburrow, id love too hear som fan fiction for each of the plansewalkers that got a bloomburrow skin
Ravnika and Innistrad are two of my favorite settings in MTG for how they use color to build their worlds and flesh out their factions. Bloomburrow has been winning me over the same way and I love seeing the ways each setting view rhe same material and present different interpretations
This was actually much more interesting than I thought it would be. With a bit more fluffines and a bit less edginess. You start to see the better side of the colours and colour pairs. I like the froggs admire the mouses and envy the otters.
Amazing video, thanks! The flavour of this set is so refreshing, it gives me the sense of traditional folk tales. Maybe "fox folk" would have been great instead of "mouse folk", since there's a lot of rodent representation already, but whatever. I really liked "bird folk" and "bat folk" even though I have vertigo, so probably a flightless bird for me. What would it be your favourite (or, into what did you turn when you stepped/clawed/pawed on the plane)?
They specifically wanted it to be smaller animals, at least for the first visit. So if we come back, I'm sure we'll see those midsized animals feature as more than just inspiration for calamity beasts, as there's a lot more to Bloomburrow than just Valley. And, as for what would I be on the plane? Rabbitfolk. It's my Zodiac, my fursona, and the only pet besides fish I had.
I was waiting for this kind vid to pop up in my feed, I came to the same conclusion with the guilds/animalfolk. I love the frogs, rats and raccoons. I'm already looking forward to Bloomburrow 2. In hope we'll get more species and maybe some plant-cultures.
I've heard people questioning why squirrels are GB and all I have to say is that squirrels are perfect for GB. Squirrels are omnivores and are known to scavenge dead animals for meat or steal eggs from bird nests (I'm looking at you, red squirrels).
This set made me return after I got bored by sets following All Will Be One. It made me feel like I was playing Everdale rather than MTG, maybe because of that animal vibe. I love Everdale and play it along all expansions with my family time to time. Tomorrow my commander precons from Bloomborrow will arrive. Can't wait to make my friends and family play them against each other. On one side I'm an edgy monsters enjoyer but on the other I like my cute animals to team up and win.
I've done a deep dive of the color pie before and even found a survey you could take where you answer a number of questions that you could chose the number of (higher numbers lead to more accuracy) and found myself to represent a tricolor of white, red and blue. White because i prefer order and unity over chaos, red because i driven by my passions and blue because i like to learn as much as i can. My red/blue connection is especially valuable to me as red/blue typically symbolizes creativity, which is is something i value above most other things. This said, while every single one of these tribes appeal to me in one way or another, i see myself as an otterfolk. Being that red/blue is my more dominant color pairing and that the otters value having fun and celebrating, I feel that i would enjoy myself the most as an otter. As an otter though, i would likely be a mage that would go to visit all the other tribes, traveling from one to the other and learning what i can of their magic and culture. Lizard's fire in particular would likely get my interest as i really like fire magic and could see myself weaving lightning and fire together in combat should the need arise. I would learn how the frogs grow their plants to sustain myself on my journey and get deep into the mysticism of the bats and squirrels. And when i am weary from my travels, i'd visit the rabbits or the raccoons for a bit, help them out with their troubles or their fields and swap stories. The birds might get on my nerves a little bit with their self importance but i would still find myself enjoying their displays and would respect their sense of duty. The mousefolk would be fun and i could see myself forming a very tight friendship with a traveling mouse buddy and help them on their heroic quest. Bloomburrow is an awesome setting and i really hope we get more of it in the future.
@@AshleyoftheSwiftspear-pb8cs Oof. it's been a long time, but i think there was a link to it on another one of this creators videos where he talks about the color pie. I'd suggest looking there.
I hope that one day you can do a video (or series) comparing and contrasting the Ravinican Guilds to the Valley Animalfolk to the houses of Strixhaven.
Ironically enough, I feel connected to each of the 3 draft commander tribals in some way: Mice, and their sense of duty to be a hero, Lizards, in their emotional ways of relationships, and Raccoons, in how they like to hold special trinkets and tell stories. Its for this that I have NO IDEA which I actually would be, should I cross into Bloomburrow. Perhaps I'd end up as some sort of miniature calamity beast that shares each of their traits?
My man living the best summer holiday out there. Gosh I love Bloomburrow. Only one question remains though - into which animal was DiceTry turned by the world's magic upon entering?
I honestly prefer Bloomburrow over Racnica. While I can definitely appreciate the guilds, districts, and the (mostly) grandiose stories. I find Bloomburrow to be a complete breath of fresh air with it relative simplicity, wholesomeness, and overall cute factor.
Wow! This blows my mind. I greatly admire the creativity of MTG. Yet they outdone themselves. I think the black species stand out. They are a lot nicer and tamer than black usually is. The squirrels are intriging. Squirrels are known for burying thier nuts. That is so famous. Squirrels mainly do it to store food for the winter. Some nuts don't get eaten. So they grow into new trees. I guess this is like the death and ressureston stuff that Golgari does. I haven't thought about it like that before. Golgari was in need of a refresh, and the squirrels definitely delivered. The opposite of black is Selesnya. Interestingly the rabbits really reminds me of hobbits. Hobbits is exclusivly a Tolkien thing. In other media, they are called halflings and kithkin. This is do avoid copyrifht lawsuits. Hobbits are like rabbits. They are cute little guys that have homes underground. The words hobbit and rabbit even sound similar. Bloomburrow goes all in on the similarity. The rabits have the same lifestyle as hobbits. They even have Selesnya just like hobbit-like creature types. There are two opposing species that remind me of Secret of Nimh. Mrs. Brisby is a mouse. She is brave and heroic. She faces a lot of danger in order to save her son. The Boros mice are just like her. The rats of Nimh are very intellegent due to being in a lab. They are also mysterious and secretive. The Dimir rats are similar. The one rat character that best fits Dimir is Jenner. He is a rather villainous and cunning character. He is totally content with stealing electricity from the humans. He is not willing to go through the trouble of moving to Thorn Valley just to do the right thing. Jenner is pretty screwed up. Yet his mentality is just like vermin in real life. So I don't think Sevret of Nimh overdid the villany. This fits really well with Dimir. Rats are actually really closely related to mice. They look similar. They are even in the mouse-like group in the rodents. It is funny for mice and rats in Bloomburrow to have opposite pairs. Dimir and Boros are opposites. I guess that is good for showing contrast. Rakdos and Simic are another pair of opposites. The representitive speciaes are alike in being the only cold blooded ones. That is odd. That is another contrast. My imagination is running wild. It blows my mind when MTG makes another new plane. There is a fresh new take on the color pie. This video does start out with a comparison to Ravniva. That is good. It gives some grounding in tradition before the wierd stuff starts. Bloomburrow isn't the only plane that reimagins color pairs. Theoros has them as different deities in a pantheon. It also has five monocolor deities. Kaldheim has the color pairs as different realms in the world tree. They are associated with diffrent races. Even three color combos can be reimagined. New Capenna is a reimagining of Alara with cities and noir. Both have shards. Ikoria is a reimagining of Tarkir with mosters and crystals. Both have wedges. I was wondering if there was some rhyme or reason in how color combos get depicted. But nope. They can be depicted is a wuole slew of ways. As long as something fits within the color aesthetics and philosophy, it is good enough. Even the philosophy can bend. Arcavios and New Capenna has whole new spins on philosophy. DiceTry has a video on each of them and they are awesome. This Bloomburrow video is just like that. A good series for DiceTry would be to go to every plane and explain the color pie. That would be incredible. There are a few videos that already fit. MTG is very creative, and that is amazing. DND is also very creative. I wonder if that could fit in. There are quite a few crossover products. I think one can play DND and have a Bloomburrow campaign. That would be awesome. That is good for homebrew. I would just go for a reskin. I like to make it so only class affects battle performance. It is a way to streamline things. This campaign would replace regular fantasy races with the animal species. The only difference is flavor and roleplaying. Each species can be any class. They would work normally in combat.
Maybe I'm the only one that thinks this, but I think we should get a lot more of the dual colors. Or that every plane should have one set. They just work so well
@@DiceTry Was thinking some lil rat dude, like the opposite of the ratfolks in bloomburrow where instead of keeping knowledge your seeking new stuff out and writting it down in a rat sized note book
@@DiceTry you said in your tri-color philosophy vids that you align most with Jeskai, so that'd most likely mean mouse, bird, or otter. Going by the "canon" of the events in this video, the fact that you were actually able to participate in Otterball makes me think otter is the most likely
can you make a video about the bloomburrow 3 colored creatures or depiction of animals out of their pair? Like Glarb, Helga, Baylen, Flubs, Ms Bumblflower, Mr Foxglove, Zinnia, Arthur. Tidecaller Mentor shows a rat teaching blue spells to a rabbit and so on.
which shard are we getting next again? i really hope it’s naya. i wasn’t really satisfied with the first jab at it. as i’m sure you feel the same way about since u decided to re-visit each video
Let me know which animal you would be in Bloomburrow and why
I want to be a bat but I'd probably end up as a mouse
@@DiceTry Mouse, Otter, or Lizard.
Mice by Color preference.
Otter cause my second fave animal.
Lizard because the revelry and artistry of fire and destruction. Michael Bay style. Lol
the planeswalker's guide describes raccoons as being somewhat forgetful, distractable hoarders, which is a big mood. that plus the fact that i was already a furry with a raccoon fursona, and it's really no question
Definitely a Bird or an Otter
Probably a squirrel or bird because I feel most at home amongst the trees.
Imagine if we got this before ravinca, and we just called gruul "raccoon"
Haha, I mean no one's stopping you, let's just start using animals for combo names
@@DiceTry Simic is now "frog"
@@joshuawenninger9346 "classic frog bs"
-Me from now on
Orzhov: I am Veangence! I am the Night! I am Bat!
Ugh, I was up against this horrible white-blue pillow fort deck at my LGS last week. I was this close to flipping the Bird player.
Bloomburrow feels like the best aspects of each color pair. Like if Ravnica could actually get their shit together and work together.
This is so true. It's the pie in harmony.
Ravnica has always felt like each colour pair's late-stage capitalism to me. E.g. the Passion that red would bring to Izzet has been burnt out and replaced with the mania that you get after missing too much sleep and you're just running on caffeine.
i would love to see a mix of bloomburrow and ravnica. where the city is mostly in harmony with itself but there's still the weirdness of ravnica.
its the circle offfffff liiiiiiiiiiffffffeeeeee
humans corrupt everything they touch
Bloomburrow is, in my experience, probably the pinnacle of Black mana being depicted in a positive light. While they do tend to be, relatively, more solitary, and can still be gruesome of course, they all still seem to actively contribute to the wellbeing of Valley as a whole rather than _just_ themselves or their tight-knit groups, with rats being knowledge-keepers, squirrels preparing food stockpiles, lizards maintaining fires for warmth, and of course the white-aligned bats probably being the most interactive with other communities, even if sometimes indirectly, being spiritual guides and keeping watch while others sleep.
None of this makes them any less black-aligned. They still dabble in life and death, in hoarding resources and knowledge, but all for generally benevolent reasons rather than greedy or self-serving reasons. In a series where Black mana is often painted as the enemy, or at least as shady, it's nice to see a setting where Black is as welcome as any other slice of the pie.
I'm so glad someone said it, thank you!
I know right , they made RAKDOS of all things wholesome
I got super giddy when I saw that butterfly bat for the first time. She's so pretty.
@Az The batfolk are my favorites! Otters are a close second, but the batfolk are so pretty and I love their culture.
I agree! I wish for Squirrels that they leaned more into selfish hoarding or burial of nuts rather than literal necromancy, bones, etc. It feels like Strixhaven's Golgari (forgot the name) rather than a new thing.
I love how Bloomburrow expands our original understanding of the color pie with new concepts and combinations. B/W Bats talking about tradition, knowing their place, and being protectors of order, no green in sight? Love it! B/U rats with "beastmaster ranger"-coded insect companions? I LOVE IT. R/B Lizards seeking artistic meaning in arts and destruction, in a far less harmful way than Boggarts and Rakdos? THANK YOU! There's so much character in each faction. Though some pairs are still very similar to past iterations, food-crazed shaman squirrels and garbage-enamored bard raccoons are such fun concepts for their color combinations, I can tell WotC put a lot of love and care into this set.
Birds are my personal favorite, they still hold the same self-important aura of any U/W combination but I appreciate their oath to serve and eagerness to support other spieces in very humble, chivalrous ways.
I dunno why, but I find the sheer happiness of this set strangely emotional, like there is a huge amount of love and passion engrained in this set, and all that love is poured into the lore of the world.
While I also appreciate the darker sets of Magic, I salute WotC for taking the chance in doing something different, and do so with great expertise.
There’s a reason why everyone loves the “run away together” card from this set so much. It encapsulates the idea of the set in such a PERFECT way across all of its mechanics and ideas.
It’s how I imagine each color pair wants to live among their loved ones honestly.
@@sleepyboysaturn1365 omg yes, the art and the flavor is just beautiful, I love it
I enjoyed Bloomburrow's lighter take on the two-color identity, too. thanks for making this video for everyone.
This set was perfectly timed for me. My youngest daughter has been learning the game, and the kitchen table laughter finally broke my wife, getting her interested in the game. Everybody has a firm enough grasp of the rules now that we can play several games without a debate over interactions or confusion about resolving a stack with four spells on it. Getting a set full of cutesy woodland creatures with a largely upbeat theme at that point goes a long way toward building a family tradition.
Was I the only person who was actually excited for Bloomburrow? It's like Lorwyn and Shadowmoor mixed together, but with cute animals!
I'll have to say I wasn't excited at first but honestly I do really like the setting now.
@@DiceTry Yeah even if you weren't already excited, it's hard to not come around on it when the setting is so intricate and well thought out
Yeah, it does resemble Lorwynn a lot. Both are cottagecore sets with no humans
It's a breath of fresh air. No overarching planes-ending plots or anything from Bolas, Eldrazi, or Phyrexia. Just a simple self-contained plane full of whimsy and wonder from Redwall and Secret of Nimh and the like. I love this set so much.
I was excited for Bloomburrow as soon as it was announced as part of the long term roadmap. To me this is the best Magic set in years.
It's quite neat that you did the video as yourself traveling across the plane meeting each animal folk as your own kind of research 😊
It definitely made writing it more fun
@@DiceTryBut what did YOU become?
This was great! Bloomburrow lends itself especially well to this kind of narrative style of exploration and discovery. Your comparison to Ravnica at the beginning was spot-on, I think.
I agree that's why I wanted to take this approach.
The orzhov faction for this set just goes to show something I've been saying for ages. If you combine white and black you can make a "diet green" faction who believes in personal destinies, maintaining balance in all things, and tradition.
Since the 10 species presented represent each of the dual colors, it might be a fun video idea to make hypothetical others based on the tricolors.
I could see Naya spider folks who make ground webs like those species in Australia that can turn entire meadows look covered in dew with how thickly their webbing lies. Their webs can act as a way of branching out and connecting in harmony as their webbings provide cover during seasons of danger and beautiful tapestries in time of peace.
jund are badgers, and yes i am basing this off of the badgers in the Redwall series
The Sultai snakes are a low-hanging fruit to say the least
Esper - Owl
Grixis - Raven
Jund - Wolf
Naya - Bear
Sultai - Snake
Mardu - Lion
Jeskai - Crane
Bant - Elk
Abzan - Elephant
Temur - Fox
I adore Bloomburrow and I'm happy to be getting into MTG at this time. Watership Down is my favourite book, and so I took to the spirit of the rabbitfolk especially.
Im so glad frogs have a true start too a tribe in mtg. Grolnok is a legitimate commander now
I hope we revisit bloomburrow somewhat regularly moving forwards, it feels like a wonderful setting and it’s emphasis on kindred strategies feels very, VERY fun in my opinion.
I got into this set because I thought it was adorable and because I was excited to play group hug. but after hearing about all of the different animals, all of them tie into a different aspect of myself. nature, adventure, family, justice, story’s, sharing. I haven’t felt a connection to a set like this in the entirety of magic, (dad introduced me when I was like 7-ish so that was at least a decade ago) good I was not expecting to fudging cry at a mtg TH-cam video.😿💖
I honestly didn't love the idea of another cute whimsical set when we still have Eldraine in standard. But after seeing the flavor these little critters have, I couldn't stay mad at them.
Bloomburrow is a breath of fresh air after so much drama and high stakes from previous sets.
Eldraine isn't cute. It has capricious fairies, cannibal witches and candy monsters
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Disney coded interpretation of Brothers Grimm 😂
Man I love how you narrate this world. It’s like you were a traveler who encountered and learned from each faction. You’ve read the flavour texts and marvelled the art clearly. This is all reflected in your video and I felt like I was on a journey with you.
Bro, here’s me subscribed 👌
I think it's just a more fun way to look at the set, and honestly made writing it more enjoyable. Will be sure to do the same for Duskmorne when it's our
A wonderful and in-universe extrapolation/experience of the dense, cozy worldbuilding behind Bloomburrow. I cannot wait for the inevitable "Return to Bloomburrow" set.
Thanks for the donation, I appreciate it! As for Bloomburrow, I truly hope we return. I know I was hesitant at first when it was announced, but this Plane is so dense with interesting worldbuilding, and I need more of it.
Rabbits give food... but not tokens... HA! Clever.
Glad you jumped on this video. It's truly interesting. And I love the "journey through Valley" aspect. Very fun storytelling.
Indeed lol, I remember making an infinite squirrels deck a long time ago lol... that was fun
first off - i LOVE what wizards of the coast did with bloomburrow. for a card game that usually only focuses on crazy monsters and humanoids, it was really refreshing to see a set based on woodland creatures. the world building for valley is stunning, having the animals represent color pairs which fit them all so well.
second, i love this style of video. it’s a lot more immersive than just telling the audience random facts about the animalfolk. can’t wait for more videos like this
I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS STORYTELLING. SLOW CLAPS.
There is much joy and adventure in the way you journeyed through Bloomburrow and it made each faction feel more lived, more personal.
This is the first time in a long a long while i am excited to play with new magic cards. This set looks really fun.
I just love how this set rekindled my memories of the Redwall series by Brian Jacques :')
This video was so immersive and magical!!
I did not expect this style of in-depth, story telling, recalling your travels through the plain.
really beautiful and creative work
I love this self insert imersive way of storytelling you did with Bloomburrow, was such a delight to watch that I've even watched it twice already. You did an amazing job
Do you think that there's going to be returns to Bloomburrow in future sets? I can't shake the feeling that this initial visit was just scratching the surface and there's more stories of the animal folks waiting to be told.
I hope so but the way modern magic seems to just hop from one idea to the next I don't have much faith. I'm still holding out for a return to Strixhaven
The set is doing really well so a return in the future is likely
@@DiceTry i think i heard somewhere that a return to arcavios is planned eventually
@DiceTry Q12026 I believe.
@DiceTry maybe this is old news by now, but im pretty sure Strixhaven 2 was leaked/released as a set for next year
Bloomburrow goes so hard it's ridiculous.
This set upsurped my previous favorite set (New Phyrexia).
It's a peak set to me, the world is familiar but has a distinct flair thats completely MTG. Its mechanics are unqiue, a good power level, and flavorful. Theres not a single miss in art and the cards tell a great story without needing outside mateial.
I truly think this is the best set to come out since..... I almost want to say War of The Spark.
Edit: My favorite critters were probably Bats or the calamity beasts. The beasts were a beyond inspired idea imo.
I must admit, I was disappointed to see your Grixis video delayed for this, but after watching cannot hold the sentiment. This video was very engaging and well told, the description of the frogfolk much increased my understanding of Simic, a hard to comprehend color combination in my opinion!
This is fantastic. The idea of travelling through Bloomburrow from a first person perspective, describing the people and cultures you encounter is exactly what I wanted. Just discovered your channel and now need to dive into more videos. Thank you for this!
So, I'm a bird now?
I guess I've officially beaked. But that's okay. I don't give a flap.
This was great. I have always appreciated your videos but this is such a nice approach to world exploration. Kudos for raising my bar. Hope to see more!
I gotta be honest... I really love this style of video... As if you, yourself, are visiting the critters and learning firsthand... I really like it... Please do more.
How have i only just seen this video! Love the way you presented the lore on the form of a story. Makes the information easier to digest/ remember and so immersive. Fantastic 👌🏻
I love bloomburrow, the characters and mechanics are so flavourful. It's got the interconnectedness of Ravnica with the charm of Lorwyn, but if the guilds actually worked well together. The mice are benefitted by the targeting buffs of birds, the squirrels benefit from the rats self mill. Bats flourish from the entry triggers of booming bunnies
I feel the exact opposite to you: i was super exicted for Bloomburrow and then my expectations were exactly reached rather than blown away. Now im just stoked for Duskmourn and the Overlord of the Hauntwoods to come out.
I'm stoked to see what that 'Everywhere' land token looks like and some of the cards like Fear of Missing Out and Cursed Recording look amazing.
This was such a great video. I loved every second and the pictures you painted gave me a whole new appreciation for the plane. Especially because I only cared about the Squirrels in the first place.
I recently got into magic because my friends know i love raccoons and theyve been getting back into it. This set may have made me a fan for life. so much imagination and creativity is alive in this set. playing with my precon and building into it feels so important knowing the lore and purpose behind it. I love the atmosphere of this set and its been overall a very fun experience, even playing online and using my raccoons and whatnot to win games
This set feels like magic the gathering and its refreshing
Wow, the flavor of this set is so rich! Well done!
The way you made this makes me feel the world building even more I'm thankful for it. You really went deep intoo bloomburrow, id love too hear som fan fiction for each of the plansewalkers that got a bloomburrow skin
I love everything about this
Bloomburrow!!! Oh I was waiting for someone to make this video. Group hugs for everyone!!!!!
I like the racoon aproach to green red colors. I like how it's not about angry tibe, but friendly travelers.
I love how you made it somewhat in character. AHHH.
As someone who grew up on Redwall and Wind in the Willows, this is my favorite set in YEARS
Great video 😎 I love the perspective you found and presented
The preenery is the pinnacle of creativity 👌🏻
This was absolutely beautiful 😭
Ravnika and Innistrad are two of my favorite settings in MTG for how they use color to build their worlds and flesh out their factions. Bloomburrow has been winning me over the same way and I love seeing the ways each setting view rhe same material and present different interpretations
The frog being described as having a kmowing smile reminded me of this gem:
What's ugly but happy?
A frog.
This was actually much more interesting than I thought it would be.
With a bit more fluffines and a bit less edginess. You start to see the better side of the colours and colour pairs.
I like the froggs admire the mouses and envy the otters.
I love how you told this as a story!
For me, the best MTG set. I just love it
Virgin Evil Rakdos vs Chad Wholsome Lizards
Great advertisement, I now want to buy blumeburrow
Very nice tribute to this great set
This was a beautiful read friend well done
What a nice video! :)
But I hoped for the origin and characteristics of the calamity beast to be told to.
I'm a red blue otter, with the energy and curiosity to drift the streams and experiment with the storms
Amazing video, thanks! The flavour of this set is so refreshing, it gives me the sense of traditional folk tales. Maybe "fox folk" would have been great instead of "mouse folk", since there's a lot of rodent representation already, but whatever.
I really liked "bird folk" and "bat folk" even though I have vertigo, so probably a flightless bird for me. What would it be your favourite (or, into what did you turn when you stepped/clawed/pawed on the plane)?
They specifically wanted it to be smaller animals, at least for the first visit. So if we come back, I'm sure we'll see those midsized animals feature as more than just inspiration for calamity beasts, as there's a lot more to Bloomburrow than just Valley.
And, as for what would I be on the plane? Rabbitfolk. It's my Zodiac, my fursona, and the only pet besides fish I had.
I was waiting for this kind vid to pop up in my feed, I came to the same conclusion with the guilds/animalfolk. I love the frogs, rats and raccoons. I'm already looking forward to Bloomburrow 2. In hope we'll get more species and maybe some plant-cultures.
I've heard people questioning why squirrels are GB and all I have to say is that squirrels are perfect for GB.
Squirrels are omnivores and are known to scavenge dead animals for meat or steal eggs from bird nests (I'm looking at you, red squirrels).
Best set in a while, feels nostalgic + no cringey modern fantasy humans
This set made me return after I got bored by sets following All Will Be One.
It made me feel like I was playing Everdale rather than MTG, maybe because of that animal vibe. I love Everdale and play it along all expansions with my family time to time.
Tomorrow my commander precons from Bloomborrow will arrive. Can't wait to make my friends and family play them against each other.
On one side I'm an edgy monsters enjoyer but on the other I like my cute animals to team up and win.
I love Bloomburrow bc it's like epic and diverse sylvanians, and i love mice and rats in child literature like Jill Barklem.
9:32 groups called fluffles!😂😂😂😂😂 I lost my mind when I heard that! P.S. Rolling on the floor right now!
I really want to start calling two-color pairs by their animalfolk counterparts and seeing if folks notice and attempt to correct me
It's the epic fantasy version of the secret of nimh
Guess you’ve never heard of Redwall?
@@exiledark6573 no I haven't but I'm up for new stuff XD
I've done a deep dive of the color pie before and even found a survey you could take where you answer a number of questions that you could chose the number of (higher numbers lead to more accuracy) and found myself to represent a tricolor of white, red and blue. White because i prefer order and unity over chaos, red because i driven by my passions and blue because i like to learn as much as i can. My red/blue connection is especially valuable to me as red/blue typically symbolizes creativity, which is is something i value above most other things.
This said, while every single one of these tribes appeal to me in one way or another, i see myself as an otterfolk. Being that red/blue is my more dominant color pairing and that the otters value having fun and celebrating, I feel that i would enjoy myself the most as an otter. As an otter though, i would likely be a mage that would go to visit all the other tribes, traveling from one to the other and learning what i can of their magic and culture. Lizard's fire in particular would likely get my interest as i really like fire magic and could see myself weaving lightning and fire together in combat should the need arise.
I would learn how the frogs grow their plants to sustain myself on my journey and get deep into the mysticism of the bats and squirrels. And when i am weary from my travels, i'd visit the rabbits or the raccoons for a bit, help them out with their troubles or their fields and swap stories. The birds might get on my nerves a little bit with their self importance but i would still find myself enjoying their displays and would respect their sense of duty. The mousefolk would be fun and i could see myself forming a very tight friendship with a traveling mouse buddy and help them on their heroic quest.
Bloomburrow is an awesome setting and i really hope we get more of it in the future.
Can I have a link to the quiz?
@@AshleyoftheSwiftspear-pb8cs Oof. it's been a long time, but i think there was a link to it on another one of this creators videos where he talks about the color pie. I'd suggest looking there.
Which animal would you be in Bloomburrow, DiceTry?
I hope that one day you can do a video (or series) comparing and contrasting the Ravinican Guilds to the Valley Animalfolk to the houses of Strixhaven.
Otters are my favorite, but I think with my personality, I'd probably be a frog, maybe a bat.
Bloomburrow reminds me so much of the boardgame Root
Raccoons are definitely my favorite from this setting, from both a flavor and mechanic perspective.
Ironically enough, I feel connected to each of the 3 draft commander tribals in some way: Mice, and their sense of duty to be a hero, Lizards, in their emotional ways of relationships, and Raccoons, in how they like to hold special trinkets and tell stories. Its for this that I have NO IDEA which I actually would be, should I cross into Bloomburrow.
Perhaps I'd end up as some sort of miniature calamity beast that shares each of their traits?
My man living the best summer holiday out there. Gosh I love Bloomburrow.
Only one question remains though - into which animal was DiceTry turned by the world's magic upon entering?
That is a question for my viewers, which one do you think I would be?
I honestly prefer Bloomburrow over Racnica. While I can definitely appreciate the guilds, districts, and the (mostly) grandiose stories. I find Bloomburrow to be a complete breath of fresh air with it relative simplicity, wholesomeness, and overall cute factor.
Wow! This blows my mind. I greatly admire the creativity of MTG. Yet they outdone themselves. I think the black species stand out. They are a lot nicer and tamer than black usually is. The squirrels are intriging. Squirrels are known for burying thier nuts. That is so famous. Squirrels mainly do it to store food for the winter. Some nuts don't get eaten. So they grow into new trees. I guess this is like the death and ressureston stuff that Golgari does. I haven't thought about it like that before. Golgari was in need of a refresh, and the squirrels definitely delivered. The opposite of black is Selesnya. Interestingly the rabbits really reminds me of hobbits. Hobbits is exclusivly a Tolkien thing. In other media, they are called halflings and kithkin. This is do avoid copyrifht lawsuits. Hobbits are like rabbits. They are cute little guys that have homes underground. The words hobbit and rabbit even sound similar. Bloomburrow goes all in on the similarity. The rabits have the same lifestyle as hobbits. They even have Selesnya just like hobbit-like creature types. There are two opposing species that remind me of Secret of Nimh. Mrs. Brisby is a mouse. She is brave and heroic. She faces a lot of danger in order to save her son. The Boros mice are just like her. The rats of Nimh are very intellegent due to being in a lab. They are also mysterious and secretive. The Dimir rats are similar. The one rat character that best fits Dimir is Jenner. He is a rather villainous and cunning character. He is totally content with stealing electricity from the humans. He is not willing to go through the trouble of moving to Thorn Valley just to do the right thing. Jenner is pretty screwed up. Yet his mentality is just like vermin in real life. So I don't think Sevret of Nimh overdid the villany. This fits really well with Dimir. Rats are actually really closely related to mice. They look similar. They are even in the mouse-like group in the rodents. It is funny for mice and rats in Bloomburrow to have opposite pairs. Dimir and Boros are opposites. I guess that is good for showing contrast. Rakdos and Simic are another pair of opposites. The representitive speciaes are alike in being the only cold blooded ones. That is odd. That is another contrast.
My imagination is running wild. It blows my mind when MTG makes another new plane. There is a fresh new take on the color pie. This video does start out with a comparison to Ravniva. That is good. It gives some grounding in tradition before the wierd stuff starts. Bloomburrow isn't the only plane that reimagins color pairs. Theoros has them as different deities in a pantheon. It also has five monocolor deities. Kaldheim has the color pairs as different realms in the world tree. They are associated with diffrent races. Even three color combos can be reimagined. New Capenna is a reimagining of Alara with cities and noir. Both have shards. Ikoria is a reimagining of Tarkir with mosters and crystals. Both have wedges. I was wondering if there was some rhyme or reason in how color combos get depicted. But nope. They can be depicted is a wuole slew of ways. As long as something fits within the color aesthetics and philosophy, it is good enough. Even the philosophy can bend. Arcavios and New Capenna has whole new spins on philosophy. DiceTry has a video on each of them and they are awesome. This Bloomburrow video is just like that. A good series for DiceTry would be to go to every plane and explain the color pie. That would be incredible. There are a few videos that already fit. MTG is very creative, and that is amazing. DND is also very creative. I wonder if that could fit in. There are quite a few crossover products. I think one can play DND and have a Bloomburrow campaign. That would be awesome. That is good for homebrew. I would just go for a reskin. I like to make it so only class affects battle performance. It is a way to streamline things. This campaign would replace regular fantasy races with the animal species. The only difference is flavor and roleplaying. Each species can be any class. They would work normally in combat.
Humans are a race of characters who are known for their fishing, diving, and acrobatics skills. They also play a game called Humanball…
The start of this video is hilarious.
It was very cool how you recording your planes walking what animal did you become in bloomborrow
Bro... I wait your videos as much as the release of a new set.
Wonderful content!
I love t his set. Very fun cards and lore ❤
You know, I like to think our guide became a rat, a collector of knowledge and it would explain why the rats more willing to share knowledge with him
The whole se feels like a homage to Redwall.
Redwall, the set. Haven't broken down and bought a box in a while, thats changed
Bloomburrow deserved more stories
Maybe I'm the only one that thinks this, but I think we should get a lot more of the dual colors. Or that every plane should have one set. They just work so well
rabbits in lore: peaceful creatures
rabbits in standard: go brrrr
you never mentioned what was your plane assigned fursona *hmmm*
I wanted to leave that open for people to speculate. Which one do you think I would be?
@@DiceTry Was thinking some lil rat dude, like the opposite of the ratfolks in bloomburrow where instead of keeping knowledge your seeking new stuff out and writting it down in a rat sized note book
@@DiceTry you said in your tri-color philosophy vids that you align most with Jeskai, so that'd most likely mean mouse, bird, or otter. Going by the "canon" of the events in this video, the fact that you were actually able to participate in Otterball makes me think otter is the most likely
@@DiceTryyou don’t fool me,you said on Discord you’d probably be a Frog lol
@@dekaw9138 I've been found out
the bond shared between the rats and insects seem similar to the eludha in ikoria
can you make a video about the bloomburrow 3 colored creatures or depiction of animals out of their pair? Like Glarb, Helga, Baylen, Flubs, Ms Bumblflower, Mr Foxglove, Zinnia, Arthur. Tidecaller Mentor shows a rat teaching blue spells to a rabbit and so on.
This was awfully sweet!
which shard are we getting next again? i really hope it’s naya. i wasn’t really satisfied with the first jab at it. as i’m sure you feel the same way about since u decided to re-visit each video
Frogfolk in the house!
Very nice tale! What are your opinions on Bloomburrow's approaches on the color pairs? Some of them seemed to me well diferentiated from Ravnica.
This was awesome
im suprised they didn't make a Rats of NIMPH crossover with this set.