Bloomburrow is the animal-folk set, and two years on it has quietly become the most expensive in-universe Collector Booster box of the modern Play Booster era. That is not because the singles are strong; it is because the Japanese raised foil anime cards found a collector audience well outside competitive Magic and the set went out of print with that demand still running. This page covers every Bloomburrow sealed product, what is actually driving the price gap between Play and Collector boxes, and whether either is worth buying now.
- Play Booster Display
$191.53
- Collector Booster Display
$1,299.99
- Collector Booster Display Case
$6,969.96
- Play Booster Display Case
$1,057.71
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| Release date | August 2, 2024 |
| Set code | BLB (BLC Commander, SPG Special Guests) |
| Set size | 261 cards in the main set plus 20 seasonal basic lands; roughly 400 with variants |
| Booster types | Play Booster (36 packs per box), Collector Booster (12 packs per box) |
| Chase cards | Japanese raised foil anime cards, Imagine: Courageous Critters showcases, winter seasonal basics, Three Tree City |
| Status | Out of print; Standard legal, rotates February 2027 |
| Play Booster box (Sep 2026) | $135-$220, typically $190-$205 |
Thirty-six Play Boosters of 14 cards, with the standard Play Booster distribution and a Special Guests or List card appearing in roughly one pack in eight, so four or five per box. Bloomburrow shipped in the original 36-pack Play Booster configuration, which Wizards reduced to 30 packs starting with Aetherdrift in 2025, so a BLB box holds six more packs than any Standard set released since. It was a strong limited format with ten creature types across five color pairs, and it drafts well enough that stores still run it. Launch retail was around $130-$150. Boxes now sell for $135-$220 and recent sales cluster near $190-$205, or roughly $5.30-$5.70 per pack, which is a genuine increase over release pricing and unusual for a two-year-old in-universe set.
Twelve Collector Boosters of 15 cards. This is the outlier. BLB Collector boxes opened around $230-$260 and now trade between roughly $815 and $1,500, with the market centered near $1,250-$1,375. The driver is the Japanese raised foil anime treatment, which is Collector Booster exclusive, prints exclusive artwork found nowhere else, and has attracted buyers who do not otherwise play Magic. If you see a Collector box priced like a normal 2024 set, check whether it is real before you celebrate.
Nine Play Boosters, a foil promo, 40 basic lands drawn from the seasonal cycle, a spindown die and a storage box. Bundles run $45-$70 and are a fine low-commitment purchase, though the seasonal lands are the main reason to want one.
Four decks: Animated Army (Gruul, Mice), Family Matters (Jeskai, Birds), Peace Offering (Bant, Rabbits) and Squirreled Away (Golgari, Squirrels). Each holds a 100-card deck, a foil face commander, a Collector Booster Sample Pack, tokens and a deck box. They run $35-$75 sealed, and Family Matters carries a premium because Bria and the Bird commanders saw real Commander play.
Two 60-card preconstructed decks, tokens, Arena codes and deck boxes, aimed at teaching two people to play. It trades at $25-$45 and is the cheapest legitimate entry point to the set.
Six Play Boosters, a year-stamped foil rare or mythic, spindown and deck box. Expect $30-$50, a little higher than peer sets because Play Booster demand for BLB has held.
Six boxes per case for both configurations. For Bloomburrow Collector product specifically, buying case-fresh is worth paying up for, because the sealed-to-opened price gap is now large enough to make resealing profitable.
The Japanese raised foil anime cards sit at the top. They carry exclusive artwork, a physically raised foil texture, and they appear only in Collector Boosters. They are the single biggest reason BLB Collector boxes cost what they do, and they behave more like a collectibles market than a Magic singles market.
Below them, Imagine: Courageous Critters is a 24-card showcase reimagining Magic characters as Bloomburrow animals, including a Jace and a Liliana that both became sought-after Commander collectibles. Showcase Woodland frames cover 42 cards in a fairy-tale storybook border, and Field Notes gives the eight Calamity Beasts a naturalist's-journal treatment. The seasonal basic lands are 20 full-arts split across four seasons at deliberately uneven rates, with winter the scarcest at about a tenth of the pool, and full winter sets trade at a premium.
On plain singles, Three Tree City is the set's most valuable regular card and sits around $30, with Maha and The Infamous Cruelclaw beneath it. Ten Special Guests cards appear in roughly one Play Booster in 64, and the Sword of Fire and Ice from that slot is the highest-value non-showcase pull in the Play Booster pool. There is no numbered serialized run in Bloomburrow.
Bloomburrow is the rare in-universe set where the sealed price has actually gone up, and it deserves a more careful answer than most. The Collector box has already made its move. At $1,250-$1,375 you are paying a price that assumes the anime-card market stays where it is, and the median box does not contain that much value; the distribution is top-heavy and most boxes disappoint. That is a collectibles bet on a single treatment, not an expected-value purchase, and it is exposed to the same reprint risk as anything else if Wizards revisits raised foil anime in a future set.
The Play Booster box is the more sensible buy. At around $195 you are paying above launch for a set that drafts well, is genuinely out of print and is a few months from rotating out of Standard, though you are at least getting 36 packs rather than the 30 a current set gives you. Singles value in a Play box still sits below box price, as it does for every print-to-demand set, so buy it because you want to draft Bloomburrow rather than because you expect it to keep climbing. If you want exposure to the anime cards without a four-figure ticket, buying the specific singles you want is cheaper and more certain than opening for them.
Bloomburrow Collector product is now the most attractive in-universe reseal target in Magic, and it should be treated with the same suspicion people apply to high-end licensed sets. A genuine Collector box arrives in tight shrink with an even factory seam and no residue, no tool marks and no give when you press the corners. Any box described as "opened to verify contents" or sold without shrink is worth nothing above the price of its packs.
Never buy loose BLB Collector Boosters from a seller you cannot identify. Weighed and mapped packs are a live problem here because the raised foil cards are physically heavier than ordinary cards, which makes sorting easier than usual. Counterfeit sealed boxes of high-value Magic sets exist; check print sharpness on the box art, the placement of the set symbol and the collector information panel. The safest purchase is a box pulled in front of you from a sealed case at a shop that will take a return.
Local stores sometimes still have Play Booster boxes at old shelf prices, which is the single best value in this set right now, so check the card shop directory before ordering online. Card shows are a good venue for Commander decks and seasonal land sets. Online, use these searches:
A Play Booster box holds 36 packs of 14 cards. A Collector Booster box holds 12 packs of 15 cards. Bloomburrow shipped Play and Collector Boosters only, in the 36-pack configuration used before Wizards cut Play Booster boxes to 30 packs with Aetherdrift in 2025.
The Japanese raised foil anime cards are Collector Booster exclusive, use artwork printed nowhere else, and attracted buyers from outside Magic. That demand, plus the set going out of print, pushed boxes from roughly $250 at launch to $1,250 or more.
Yes, until February 2027. Bloomburrow rotates out of Standard at that point along with Murders at Karlov Manor, Outlaws of Thunder Junction and Duskmourn.
No. There is no numbered serialized run in Bloomburrow. The top pulls are Japanese raised foil anime cards and the Imagine: Courageous Critters showcases.
Twenty full-art basics split across spring, summer, autumn and winter at uneven rates, with winter the scarcest at roughly ten percent of the pool. Complete winter sets sell at a premium.
Play Booster boxes at around $195 are for drafting and are the better value. Collector boxes above $1,200 are a bet on the anime-card market, and the median box does not contain that much in singles.
Prices in this guide were last reviewed 2026-09. Live eBay listings above update daily.