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Bloomburrow Instant-Speed Tricks


This is a list of all the instant-speed tricks in Bloomburrow. Each color is sorted by converted mana cost.

  • There are no creatures with Flash at Common. Each color except Red has one at Uncommon. (Blue technically has two, but Eddymurk Crab comes into play tapped when played during an opponent's turn and so cannot be used as a surprise blocker.) There are no instants that produce creature tokens for the player casting them.
  • Each color has at least one playable instant-speed removal spell at Common that costs two to three mana (Sonar Strike in White, Dire Downdraft and Run Away Together in Blue, Savor and Nocturnal Hunger in Black, Take Out the Trash in Red, and Polliwallop in Green). Additionally, each color except Green has two such removal spells at Uncommon. Be aware of this when drafting and playing Auras and combat tricks.
  • Special Guest cards are not included since they only occur in one out of 64 booster packs, and only one of the ten Special Guests in Bloomburrow can be played at instant speed (Swords to Plowshares).
Color Mana Cost Card Rarity Type Oracle Text Notes
White Crumb and Get It Common Instant Gift a Food (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a Food token before its other effects. It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.") Target creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If the gift was promised, that creature also gains indestructible until end of turn.
Sonar Strike Common Instant Sonar Strike deals 4 damage to target attacking, blocking, or tapped creature. You gain 3 life if you control a Bat.
Feather of Flight Uncommon Enchantment Flash Enchant creature When Feather of Flight enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has flying.
Mabel's Mettle Uncommon Instant Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Up to one other target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Repel Calamity Uncommon Instant Destroy target creature with power or toughness 4 or greater.
Parting Gust Uncommon Instant Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.) Exile target nontoken creature. If the gift wasn't promised, return that creature to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.
Dawn's Truce Rare Instant Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.
Mouse Trapper Uncommon Creature Flash Valiant — Whenever Mouse Trapper becomes the target of a spell or ability you control for the first time each turn, tap target creature an opponent controls. 3/2
Rabbit Response Common Instant Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. If you control a Rabbit, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Salvation Swan Rare Creature Flash Flying Whenever Salvation Swan or another Bird you control enters, exile up to one target creature you control without flying. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a flying counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. 3/3
Blue Shore Up Common Instant Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. Untap it. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Into the Flood Maw Uncommon Instant Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.) Return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, instead return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Dazzling Denial Common Instant Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}. If you control a Bird, counter that spell unless its controller pays {4} instead.
Run Away Together Common Instant Choose two target creatures controlled by different players. Return those creatures to their owners' hands.
Plumecreed Escort Uncommon Creature Flash Flying When Plumecreed Escort enters, target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. 2/1
Long River's Pull Uncommon Instant Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.
- Eddymurk Crab Uncommon Creature Flash This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. Eddymurk Crab enters tapped if it's not your turn. When Eddymurk Crab enters, tap up to two target creatures. Tapped 5/5
/ Dire Downdraft Common Instant This spell costs {1} less to cast if it targets an attacking or tapped creature. Target creature's owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.
Sugar Coat Uncommon Enchantment Flash Enchant creature or Food Enchanted permanent is a colorless Food artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life" and loses all other card types and abilities.
Valley Floodcaller Rare Creature Flash You may cast noncreature spells as though they had flash. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Birds, Frogs, Otters, and Rats you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap them. 2/2
Spellgyre Uncommon Instant Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Surveil 2, then draw two cards. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Black - Scales of Shale Common Instant This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Lizard you control. Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn.
Savor Common Instant Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
Feed the Cycle Uncommon Instant As an additional cost to cast this spell, forage or pay {B}. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Nocturnal Hunger Common Instant Gift a Food (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a Food token before its other effects. It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.") Destroy target creature. If the gift wasn't promised, you lose 2 life.
Consumed by Greed Uncommon Instant Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Target opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. If the gift was promised, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Downwind Ambusher Uncommon Creature Flash When Downwind Ambusher enters, choose one — • Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn. • Destroy target creature an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn. 4/2
Hazel's Nocturne Uncommon Instant Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Early Winter Common Instant Choose one — • Exile target creature. • Target opponent exiles an enchantment they control.
Red Might of the Meek Common Instant Target creature gains trample until end of turn. It also gets +1/+0 until end of turn if you control a Mouse. Draw a card.
Sazacap's Brew Common Instant Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.) As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Target player draws two cards. If the gift was promised, target creature you control gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
Take Out the Trash Common Instant Take Out the Trash deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If you control a Raccoon, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
Blooming Blast Uncommon Instant Gift a Treasure (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a Treasure token before its other effects. It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") Blooming Blast deals 2 damage to target creature. If the gift was promised, Blooming Blast also deals 3 damage to that creature's controller.
Rabid Gnaw Uncommon Instant Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Then it deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
Valley Rally Uncommon Instant Gift a Food (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a Food token before its other effects. It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.") Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. If the gift was promised, target creature you control gains first strike until end of turn.
Conduct Electricity Common Instant Conduct Electricity deals 6 damage to target creature and 2 damage to up to one target creature token.
Green High Stride Common Instant Target creature gets +1/+3 and gains reach until end of turn. Untap it.
- Polliwallop Common Instant This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Frog you control. Target creature you control deals damage equal to twice its power to target creature you don't control.
Cache Grab Common Instant Mill four cards. You may put a permanent card from among the cards milled this way into your hand. If you control a Squirrel or returned a Squirrel card to your hand this way, create a Food token. (To mill four cards, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard. A Food token is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
Overprotect Uncommon Instant Target creature you control gets +3/+3 and gains trample, hexproof, and indestructible until end of turn.
Pawpatch Formation Uncommon Instant Choose one — • Destroy target creature with flying. • Destroy target enchantment. • Draw a card. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
Peerless Recycling Uncommon Instant Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If the gift was promised, instead return two target permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Galewind Moose Uncommon Creature Flash Vigilance, reach, trample 6/6


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