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Bitterblossom

Kindred Enchantment — Faerie MV 2

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2008-04-01

    The effect is mandatory. You'll lose 1 life even if you have only 1 life left.

  • 2008-04-01

    The life loss isn't a payment. You'll get a token even if you had 0 life (and another effect is stopping you from losing the game).

  • 2024-06-07

    While it appears only on cards that already have other card types, kindred is a card type and will be counted by effects that refer to the number of card types among cards in a zone.

  • 2024-06-07

    Kindred is a card type that allows noncreature cards to have creature types. For example, Echoes of Eternity is an Eldrazi (although not a creature) while on the battlefield and an Eldrazi card (although not a creature card) in zones other than the battlefield.

  • 2024-06-07

    This cards was originally printed with the "tribal" card type. That card type has been replaced with "kindred". This change does not affect the gameplay function of this card.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Bitterblossom, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Disa the Restless 1 0 —
Sahir, Visitor in Darkness 1 0 —
Silverquill, the Disputant 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 1 deck
  • Jund 1 deck
  • Orzhov 1 deck

Every version of Bitterblossom

13 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Bitterblossom — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.