Last updated on July 30, 2024
Tender Wildguide | Illustration by Ellie Livingston
As a partial magpie myself, I understand the instinct to collect the shiniest, prettiest versions of a Magic card you can find. It’s one of the many reasons that I love opening packs, but I also always love finding alternate or foil versions of cards when I’m browsing singles, especially when their cost is equal to or cheaper than the other options.
Bloomburrow’s woodland theme extends to its showcase treatment, fittingly called showcase woodland. Which cards in BLB got the showcase woodland treatment?
What Are the Showcase Woodland Cards in Bloomburrow?
Glarb, Calamity's Augur | Illustration by Chuck Grieb
Showcase woodland cards are a special card treatment from Bloomburrow, in line with other showcase treatments we’ve seen in many MTG sets before. Think of the ichor frames from Phyrexia: All Will Be One, the Ring frame and scene cards from Tales of Middle-earth, or the wanted posters from Outlaws of Thunder Junction.
The showcase woodland cards’ treatment has a vignette style that makes me think of a mix of Thornton Burgess, Brian Jacques, and Over the Garden Wall. The cards themselves are a mix of card types rather than being focused on permanents or spells.
How Many Showcase Woodland Cards Are in BLB?
There are 42 showcase woodland cards in Bloomburrow.
List of Showcase Woodland Cards in Bloomburrow
- Dawn's Truce
- Jackdaw Savior
- Salvation Swan
- Starfall Invocation
- Valley Questcaller
- Warren Warleader
- Whiskervale Forerunner
- Azure Beastbinder
- Dour Port-Mage
- Kitsa, Otterball Elite
- Mockingbird
- Portent of Calamity
- Thundertrap Trainer
- Valley Floodcaller
- Coiling Rebirth
- Cruelclaw's Heist
- Darkstar Augur
- Osteomancer Adept
- Valley Rotcaller
- Wick, the Whorled Mind
- Emberheart Challenger
- Festival of Embers
- Hired Claw
- Manifold Mouse
- Stormsplitter
- Valley Flamecaller
- For the Common Good
- Keen-Eyed Curator
- Mistbreath Elder
- Scrapshooter
- Tender Wildguide
- Valley Mightcaller
- Kastral, the Windcrested
- The Infamous Cruelclaw
- Hugs, Grisly Guardian
- Finneas, Ace Archer
- Alania, Divergent Storm
- Camellia, the Seedmiser
- Mabel, Heir to Cragflame
- Clement, the Worrywort
- Helga, Skittish Seer
- Glarb, Calamity's Augur
Are Showcase Woodland Cards in Play Boosters? The BLB Limited Format?
Yes, showcase woodland cards are in Bloomburrow‘s Play boosters as part of Booster Fun. As cards from the main set, they’re legal in the Bloomburrow Limited formats, subject to usual rules about condition and marked cards.
- TINY TAILS, BIG ADVENTURE—Put your best paw forward and enter the world of Bloomburrow; fight beside mice, frogs, bats, birds, lizards, squirrels, and other critters as you restore the balance of peace in the Valley and prove that bravery comes in all sizes!
- FUN TO OPEN. FUN TO PLAY—Get the best of Draft and Set Boosters, combined into one! Play Boosters are great for Limited play and fun to open, with a possibility of Art cards, Showcase cards, additional Rares, and a foil card in every pack
- BEST BOOSTER FOR PLAYING WITH FRIENDS—Specially balanced for Limited play, grab 6 Play Boosters to build a deck and battle your friends in Sealed games, or grab 3 packs and pass them around to build decks in a Booster Draft
- MAY CONTAIN MULTIPLE RARES—Each Play Booster contains 1–4 cards of rarity Rare or higher, including the possibility of a Borderless Mythic Rare card from Magic’s history
- SHINING FOIL IN EVERY PACK—Every booster also includes at least 1 shining Traditional Foil card of any rarity; in 20% of packs you’ll also find a Traditional Foil Land card
Where Can You Open Showcase Woodland Cards?
Showcase woodland cards show up in Play boosters and Collector boosters from the Bloomburrow MTG set. Both boosters can be found individually or in booster boxes, while Play boosters are also available in Bundles and Prerelease kits.
- TINY TAILS, BIG ADVENTURE—Put your best paw forward and enter the world of Bloomburrow; fight beside mice, frogs, bats, birds, lizards, squirrels, and other critters as you restore the balance of peace in the Valley and prove that bravery comes in all sizes!
- BEST BOOSTERS FOR COLLECTORS—Collector Boosters are a shortcut to the coolest cards in a set, with packs full of Rare cards, shiny foil cards, and special alt-art, alt-frame cards
- SOAR TO THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN—Collect more hard-to-find Bloomburrow cards with 5 cards of rarity Rare or higher and a total of 5 alt-border cards in every Collector Booster
- COLLECTOR BOOSTER-EXCLUSIVE TREATMENTS—Collector Boosters are the only place where you may find extended-art cards, with up to 2 in every pack, and are the only place you may find a card with a special type of foil treatment
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How Many Are in Each Pack?
According to Wizards’ collecting guide, Play boosters have the potential to contain showcase woodland cards in the Booster Fun wildcard slot and in the traditional foil slot, so a potential of 2 slots out of 15.
Collector boosters have two slots for non-foil alternate border rares and mythics, showing up 92.1% and 9.21% of the time respectively. In the foil/raised foil alternate border slot, rares and mythics show up 42.95% and 4.30% of the time. You have high odds of pulling at least one showcase woodland card in a BLB Collector booster.
Are Showcase Woodland Cards Standard Legal?
Yes! Any showcase woodland card from Bloomburrow is legal in Standard. Typical tournament rules about the various other ways a card could be considered “marked” through bending, damage, or other still apply.
Showcase Woodland Cards vs. Enchanting Tales and The Big Score
Showcase woodland cards are a showcase treatment of cards contained in the main Bloomburrow set. They retain the same set symbol as BLB. As showcase treatments of the main set, showcase woodland cards are also legal in Standard.
Enchanting Tales and The Big Score are each bonus sheets from their respective sets, Wilds of Eldraine and Outlaws of Thunder Junction. Enchanting Tales and The Big Score both have different set symbols from their main set. The Big Score is also Standard-legal, while Enchanting Tales is not.
Showcase woodland cards, Enchanting Tales, and The Big Score are all part of their respective Limited environments (Bloomburrow Limited, Wilds of Eldraine Limited, and Outlaws of Thunder Junction Limited).
Enchanting Tales was a sheet made of enchantment reprints, while The Big Score was a sheet made mostly of new cards that was repurposed from a planned small set in the same vein as March of the Machine: The Aftermath and its Epilogue boosters.
Wrap Up
Keen-Eyed Curator | Illustration by Mariah Tekuive
Showcase woodland cards are certainly very pretty and thematic as a tie-in to Bloomburrow. I especially want some of these legendary creatures in the command zone or in the 99 of my Commander decks.
What do you think of Bloomburrow’s showcase woodland cards? Will you be chasing them down, or giving this showcase treatment a pass? Let me know in the comments below or over on Draftsim's Discord.
Until next time, be well and stay safe!
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