Through its engaging themes and approachable woodland world, Bloomburrow looks uniquely poised to be a MTG smash-hit, giving entrenched fans that classic Magic fantasy feel while bringing in a whole host of new players at the same time
While we have had numerous versions of Sanguine Bond, such as Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, or the standard legal variant of Enduring Tenacity, this now allows for the combo to be standard legal
A 2 mana 1/1 isn't exciting but when it holds off their 2/1 or wastes their turn as they are not going to Terminate it and then suddenly grows or taps to draw cards then it is all good
They asked Mark Rosewater and artist Christopher Rush if they could have a unique card created for the event
Its that good of a card, Field of the Dead is banned in Modern, Pioneer, and Standard when Core Set 2020 was around
Retribution of the Meek was a rare and Austere Command (while way more flexible but more expensive) was a rare, so paying four mana to destroy all creatures with power three or greater seems fairly reasonable
