Three Tree City – Bloomburrow
Date Reviewed: December 27, 2024
Ratings:
Constructed: 4.25
Casual: 4.50
Limited: 4.25
Multiplayer: 3.88
Commander [EDH]: 4.50
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale: 1 is bad; 3 is average; 5 is great.
Reviews Below:
This card was #4 on my Top 10 list.
Three Tree City is, in effect, a Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx for creature types. Nykthos is notorious for being kinda vicious with the right set-up, and Three Tree City is definitely not far behind. While it only tracks one creature type, it’s very flexible within that type, and it lets you go for what will be most efficacious in a given turn. This is a very big boon for the tribe-focused decks that can either generate crazy number of tokens or just bodies (like Elves, actually), and while this is far from the most busted land ever printed, this is still a very powerful one that can enable a healthy number of decks.
Constructed: 4.5
Casual: 4
Limited: 4 (Bloomburrow was a good set for this effect to shine)
Multiplayer: 3.75
Commander [EDH]: 4.5
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This card was not on my Top 10 list, but I did have it under consideration.
Three Tree City’s effect has been seen in numerous forms over the years, and it’s almost always very powerful – you don’t even have to reach the level of the famous (and famously banned) Urza’s Saga variants before you get things that define formats. We saw this with Gaea’s Cradle and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, both of which depend entirely or largely on having lots of the most fragile card type in play and both of which are insanely powerful nonetheless. Three Tree City was truly set up to shine in every way, though: while it requires that all or most of your creatures be the same type, it can go in any kindred deck you want it to, changelings are well established in Magic by now (and I wouldn’t be surprised if we get even more in the return to Lorwyn), and there are plenty of creature types well placed to use a massive burst of mana on demand.
I also think I kind of love the concept of a pretty, cosy little town from Magic’s cutest plane (and one of my new top three) tapping into a power that springs from a humble place and grows to exceed that of most of the multiverse’s more cynical corners. It’s possible I was Christmas/New Year babbling in our review of Ocelot Pride, but this time there is most definitely a lesson for all of us.
Constructed: 4
Casual: 5
Limited: 4.5
Multiplayer: 4
Commander: 4.5
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