Bloomburrow (BLB) Limited Primer — Green

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Bloomburrow (BLB) holds its prerelease events on July 26, 2024, and is officially released a week later on August 2, 2024. Want to learn more about card ratings and recommendations for Limited? Then check out this BLB Limited primer series!

For the mechanics, see this article: Bloomburrow Mechanics Explained
For a first look at the Limited archetypes, see this article: Bloomburrow Limited Preliminary

This Limited primer series is based on ratings; some average cards, or cards with relatively simple abilities, will not get a special comment.

Rating Scale

5.0: Must-take, unconditionally
4.5: Must-take if you are in the right colors
4.0: First-pick quality
3.5: Strong enough, but not necessarily a first pick
3.0: Above average (you will really want it in your final deck)
2.5: Average, maybe around pick 6 or 7 in a draft
2.0 to 1.0: Below average (you would rather not play it than play it)
0.5 to 0.0: Unplayable (basically never play it; it will only help you lose)

Ratings

163	164	165

2.5	2.5	3.0

Ratings:

Bakersbane Duo is a normal two-mana creature in most games, but you will want it more if you are on the black-green forage theme; as for the Expend trigger turning it into a 3/3, the benefit after turn four is not large.
Bark-Knuckle Boxer Sometimes being indestructible is not a reason to attack with it, and reliably casting a 4-mana instant on your own to make it indestructible sounds a bit difficult, so most of the time it is a two-mana creature with a slightly better body.
Brambleguard Veteran A 3-mana 3/4 body is quite good, and later, once you have spent enough mana in the mid-game, it makes a steady source of damage, which is decent.

166	167	168

3.0	2.5	2.5

Ratings:

Bushy Bodyguard With steady Food or a graveyard to support it, a four-mana 4/3 + 3/3 is very strong, and even a single forage is above average.
Cache Grab Instant speed raises this one’s strength a bit more; it fits the forage theme very well.
Clifftop Lookout For three mana, reliably pulling a land onto the battlefield is decent, and although it has reach, there are only four fliers in this set that it can block, which is a bit few.

169	170	171

3.0	2.5	4.0

Ratings:

Curious Forager Conditionally returns a permanent to hand, but the condition is not hard to meet.
Druid of the Spade In any deck with tokens it is a creature with an above-average body (creature tokens, Food tokens, and so on can all meet the condition).
Fecund Greenshell The share of creature cards in this set that meet the condition: 59/163. Every trigger earns you a card, and the late-game team pump is quite good.

172	173	174

1.5	4.0	2.5

Ratings:

For the Common Good I almost thought you could copy things happily, but the copy targets can only be tokens, which makes it much harder to use.
Galewind Moose A 6-mana 6/6 with a bunch of quality abilities; Colossal Dreadmaw is left weeping next to it.
Hazardroot Herbalist It gains power without needing to attack, which is fine, the 1/4 body is also great as a blocker that stays home, and the token deathtouch ability is a bonus.

175	176	177

2.5	2.0	3.5

Ratings:

Heaped Harvest A Food that can fetch lands twice, a steady ramp that works very well.
High Stride Usually a combat trick for defense.
Hivespine Wolverine A multifunctional, very flexible creature; note that its fight can only target tokens.

178	179	180

2.0	4.5	4.5

Ratings:

Honored Dreyleader You need numbers to stack up its strength; if it does not stack up, it is not good.
Hunter’s Talent It bites one-sidedly on entering, and each level-up brings a big payoff.
Innkeeper’s Talent It brings permanent growth every turn as soon as it enters, and the level-up costs are not low but the payoff is very high; if you can play it early, the advantage is enormous.

181	182	183

4.0	3.0	4.0

Ratings:

Keen-Eyed Curator A 2-mana 3/3 is already outstanding, and growing it to 7/7 makes a very strong bomb, whether you play it early and raise it while attacking or play it for six late and take the full benefit directly.
Longstalk Brawl For one mana, put a counter and then fight, with a low gift cost; note that if the opponent has no creature to target, you cannot say you cast it without the gift and just put a counter.
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods It is very likely a big creature on entering, and it can attack while staying untapped; if the colors are right, just take it.

184	185	186

2.5	3.0	3.0

Ratings:

Misbreath Elder Used to re-trigger enter-the-battlefield creatures, its body grows steadily, which is decent, but note that returning another creature is mandatory; you cannot choose not to.
Overprotect A combat trick that gives you everything, good for both offense and defense; if your opponent is playing green, you should guard against this one to some degree.
Pawpatch Formation A flexible removal-or-draw-a-card spell, a removal card you can put in the main deck.

187	188	189

3.0	3.0	3.0

Ratings:

Pawpatch Recruit Its ability only grows it when targeted by an opponent, and the offspring cost is not high; when the opponent kills that creature, it effectively makes the others bigger and keeps the threat alive, which is quite strong.
Peerless Recycling The cost of returning two permanents to hand is the opponent drawing a card, which is usually not a loss.
Polliwalop An instant-speed one-sided bite, and you need not worry that its power is relatively low because damage is calculated as double.

190	191	192

2.5	4.0	4.5

Ratings:

Rust-Shield Rampager Probably the most awkward offspring creature this time; an extra 1/1 that cannot be blocked by power 2 or less sounds a bit awkward, but the main body is still quite good against token decks.
Scrapshooter A 3-mana 4/4 body is good, and optionally destroying something on entering and drawing a card is quite good.
Season of Gathering Pump up to five creatures and rush in, destroy all artifacts or enchantments, draw a large number of cards; every option is strong, and it is worth investing in green for it.

193	194	195

2.5	1.5	2.0

Ratings:

Stickytongue Sentinel It can be used to re-trigger enter-the-battlefield creatures, or you can return a land to hand and replay it, effectively giving you one extra mana.
Stocking the Pantry If you have a steady way to put counters, you can consider playing it.
SunShower Druid Just a creature that puts one counter on entering, used to fill out the deck.

196	197	198

3.5	3.5	3.0

Ratings:

Tender Wildguide A mana dork that can optionally grow, and you can have two of them; if you are green and want to ramp, take it!
Thornvault Forager A mana dork that can conditionally produce any color; if your deck has a key Squirrel to find, it rates even higher.
Three Tree Rootweaver A mana dork that can produce any color.

199	200	201

3.0	3.0	2.5

Ratings:

Three Tree Scribe A 2-mana 2/3 body that is above average, a card that goes with the blue-green theme of re-entering creatures over and over.
Treeguard Duo On entering it pumps the team and attacks while staying untapped; in a go-wide deck with creatures that have trample or evasion, it has a chance to be a one-hit kill.
Treetop Sentries A defensive creature, and the condition to draw a card on entering is not hard to meet.

202	203	###

3.0	2.0	None

Ratings:

Valley Mightcaller Since it needs to be raised, the earlier it enters, the stronger it is.
Wear Down Sorcery-speed removal; barring surprises it should be a sideboard card.