Burgeoning – MTG Proxy Stronghold

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Burgeoning

Green mana

Mana value: 1 · Color identity: Green

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent plays a land, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

The first vine shows the others where to grow.

Flavor text may vary by printing.

Card format legality
Commander
Legal
Modern
Not legal
Pioneer
Not legal
Standard
Not legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Not legal

Format status describes the underlying Magic card, not eligibility of this printed product for sanctioned play.

Updated

Card rulings 1
  1. Playing a land will trigger it, but putting a land onto the battlefield as part of an effect will not.

Updated

Burgeoning lets green decks put lands from hand onto the battlefield whenever an opponent plays a land. In multiplayer games, that can move several lands into play before your next turn, creating a substantial early mana advantage for just one green mana. The enchantment is especially productive when your opening hand contains enough lands to keep accepting those opportunities.

Landfall strategies can turn the extra entries into more than mana. Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait can draw cards from the lands entering, while Tireless Provisioner can produce additional resources. Life from the Loam helps replenish the supply of land cards in hand, allowing Burgeoning to remain relevant after the lands from your opening hand have been used.

The trigger cares about an opponent playing a land, not every land entering under their control. A land put onto the battlefield by a fetch land or ramp spell does not create the same trigger. The land you put into play through Burgeoning also follows its own entry conditions, so a land that normally enters tapped still does so.

Balance the acceleration against the need for action. Emptying a land-heavy hand quickly is powerful only if the deck can draw or cast something worthwhile afterward. Burgeoning fits lists with high land counts, reliable card draw, or land recursion that returns cards to hand. It is less impressive when you frequently have no spare land to put into play when the trigger resolves.

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