On August 8, 2024, multiple Oracle updates arrived on Gatherer for the release of Bloomburrow, detailed below.
Note that as always, Scryfall does not control or issue errata, we just reflect it from the official source. We’re just noting what we’ve seen that’s changed.
Enters the battlefield errata
The phrase “enters the battlefield” has been shortened to just “enters”. This affects all new cards in Bloomburrow, and errata for this has been issued to several thousand cards.
For example, Baleful Strix up to now has had the following ability:
When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.
With Bloomburrow, that text is being shortened to the following:
When Baleful Srix enters, draw a card.
There are some notable exceptions:
- The phrase “leaves the battlefield” has not been changed.
- The phrase “enters or leaves the battlefield” has also not been changed.
- Some cards will still use “enters the battlefield” when they care about control, e.g. “enters the battlefield under your control” doesn’t appear to have been changed.
Paw symbol & Phyrexian mana symbol
Bloomburrow introduced a new paw symbol, {P}, as a resource on modal spells.
One card, Rage Extractor, features the nonspecific Phyrexian mana symbol. This used to be {P} but has been renamed to {H}.
First and second main phases
Cards that referred to your “precombat main phase” or your “postcombat main phase” now refer to your first or second main phase instead.
These cards were affected: o:"first main phase" or o:"second main phase"
Energy fixes
Some cards, notably including the recently released Suppression Ray and Wheel of Potential, received errata to fix an error where you could choose an arbitrary value of X and pay no energy.
Other template changes
During our sweep we saw other template changes we aren’t certain occurred with Bloomburrow specifically:
- “As long as it’s not your turn” became “During turns other than yours”
- “As long as it’s your turn” became During your turn”
- “Protection from all colors” became “Protection from each color”