I went to prerelease this weekend and greatly enjoyed the new set.

What I want to know is: Was Bloomburrow part of an elaborate scheme on your part to get Squirrels back in Standard?

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did my first ever pre release event today and just wanted to pass on my props to everyone who designed Bloomburrow because it builds decks and plays so nicely in a sealed format

Glad you enjoyed it.

Wazzzaaaaap, Mark da Shark,Just wanted to send kudos and share my excitement about so much of Bloomburrow! It's gonna be my first prerelease in a long while, since M20, I think, as well as there's so many things to love about it. I've been a big fan of Doug Beyer since Kaladesh, glad he was the lead designer on this set. Also super pumped to be getting both a revisit to the Heroic mechanic in Valiant, one of my favorite mechanics from Theros, and the amount of rabbit typal support. My Cadira commander deck is gonna go through a major redesign when the set is properly out. Hope you have a lovely day!

I’m glad you’re so excited. I can’t wait to hear all the prerelease stories.

When/if: a single set split into two draftable packs. There is some overlap (land cycles, equipment, colorless artifacts, etc) but one pack is Team X (Bolas let's say) which is 3 different archetypes in his colors and the other packs are Team Y (Ugin let's say) which are 3 archetypes in colorless, white, black. All the cards together make a single set, but you would draft Ugin packs with Ugin packs, and then only play against players who drafted Bolas packs.

We did this in Mirrodin Besieged. The set was split in Mirran and Phyrexian, and you chose which side to play when you played in the prerelease.

Any chance we could see creature tokens be more readily available? one per every few packs isn't nearly enough to actually obtain and use even half of the tokens present in sets nowadays. I'll finish a limited event, even a prerelease, and only leave with a couple tokens and it's depressing

We’re exploring options to get more tokens into players’ hands.

I believe that ask about gifts being optional was asking if you believe some players will think it is NOT optional, due to the cards just saying "Gift X". I don't think the asker thought it was mandatory.

We’ll have to wait until the prerelease to see if there’s confusion. I don’t anticipate confusion.

the simic guild symbol sticker from the Return to Ravnica prerelease guild kit has been on my family's sliding glass door for over a decade now, serving as a way to make it obvious whether it is open or closed to birds and humans alikei just though maybe you'd get a kick out of hearing that : )

I do.

my son(8yrs) has started to play commander with me and my friends and has shown quite a talent for the game once he learns how the cards in the deck interact.

He is very excited for Bloomburrow as it will be he will be attending the prerelease event with all of us but he was curious to know if the set will allow him to build a very Kindred style deck from it that will focus on the more specific animal types with support? ie otters and bats?

Each of the two-color ten draft archetypes are built around an animal, so if you just draft say Rabbits, you will have a cohesive deck. There is a bit of typal, but it is very light, meaning you’ll be able to use it for constructed, but there’s no guarantee you’ll get what you need in limited.So yes, I think he can do sort of what he wants (make a specific animal deck), but not quite how he thinks he’s going to make it. Also, it’s trickier to play just one animal in sealed versus draft.

Went 4-0 at my MH3 prerelease, the format is pretty sweet! Any format that can be kept honest by suiting up a dinky 1/1 flyer with an equipment is a good format to me, shoutouts to Mandibular Kite and Inventor's Axe. Side note, high five to whoever made a minor Impulse Draw Matters theme in MH3 with Unstable Amulet and Laelia! I got like 4 damage off the Amulet in one game!

Glad you had a good time.

"Reprints become legal the day the set comes out."Follow up question: Does this mean the new cards in Modern Horizons 3 will be legal from the pre-release, however the reprints won't be legal until the official release the next week?

I went and did some research. I was incorrect. All cards from a set, which includes reprints, become legal in the formats they enter the day of the prerelease.