Forage

Complexity in Bloomburrow

Hi Mark. I love Bloomburrow's design from veteran perspective! It's such a novel way to do a 10 color pair faction set. However, from a new player's perspective, I hope it won't be too overwhelming since the mechanics so far spoiled include Landfall, Storm, Flashback, Threshold, Gift, Offspring, Expend, Prowess, Forage, Food/Treasure, Valiant, 10 Typal themes, Pawprints, and Classes. Was there concern about complexity creep or do you think the 10 typal motif will facilitate learning the mechanics in the set (I'm not sure what you would call this phenomenon where, counterintuitively, adding more complexity simplifies cognitive processing, like adding hyphens to phone numbers)?

Most of the mechanics are put into a specific animal two-color pair, so you don’t end up playing the majority of these mechanics together. They are also on the simpler end of the spectrum.

Bloomburrow Colors Expend Factions Flashback Food Forage Kindred / Typal Landfall Mechanics Prowess Threshold Treasure Valiant

Exclusive Mechanics Question

We've seen very few cards as of yet, but are the following mechanics exclusive to their faction: Valiant (Mice), Thresold (Rats), Expend (Racoons), Forage (Squirrels)? Or can we expect to see at least a little of (some of) them in more colors?

Those four mechanics are unique to one animal archetype.

Colors Expend Factions Forage Mechanics Mouses Rats Squirrels Valiant

Concern about Complex Mechanics

I don't like how weird Magic is getting with mechanics lately. Collect evidence, commit a crime, now gift, forage, and pawprints. What happened to just making new keywords and ability words? Has wotc run out of design space?

All of the mechanics you listed, save paw prints, *is* a new keyword or ability word.

Ability Words Collect Evidence Design Space Forage Keywords Mechanics Wizards of the Coast

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