Grove of the Dreampods

Plane — Fabacin

When you planeswalk to Grove of the Dreampods or at the beginning of your upkeep, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Whenever chaos ensues, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (3)

DemonDragonJ on Drawing Cards During Upkeep Versus …

4 years ago

There are plenty of cards that allow a player to draw additional cards, beyond their normal card draw each turn, and, in this thread, I wish to focus on triggered abilities that cause players to draw cards.

Some cards have abilities that cause their controller to draw cards that trigger during that player’s upkeep step, while others trigger during that player’s draw step, but, in recent years, there have been more instances of such abilities triggering during draw steps (i.e., Well of Ideas or Overbeing of Myth) and less of such abilities triggering during upkeep steps (i.e., Bringer of the Blue Dawn, Honden of Seeing Winds, or Arcane Denial).

That makes me wish to ask several questions: what is the difference between drawing a card during one’s upkeep and drawing an additional card during one’s draw step, why does WotC have two different variations on that ability in the first place, and, most importantly, why have there been more instances of that ability triggering during the draw step, rather than during the upkeep step, in recent years? I prefer such abilities to trigger during the upkeep step, because nearly every other ability triggers during that step, and, as far as I am aware, there are very few abilities that trigger during the draw step, apart from additional card drawing, so everything would be easier and more uniform if the upkeep step was the universal (or near universal) step during which abilities triggered. Also, WotC could have saved many words on Panopticon if they had used the same template that they used on other planar cards, such as Quicksilver Sea or Grove of the Dreampods.

What does everyone else say about this? Why did WotC have two different variations of this ability, and why has one become more commonplace, recently?

legendofa on The Rabiah Scale

8 years ago

The 1s and 2s, Ravnica, Innistrad, and Zendikar, already have a return block, so I'm not thrilled to see them so low. I would like to see a fleshed-out Regatha or Segovia before them, but those are 6 and 8, respectively. And I still want to see some of the Planechase planes before those, Fabacin (Grove of the Dreampods), Azgol (Lair of the Ashen Idol), and Xerex (Stairs to Infinity, not in T/O database yet) in particular. "What's special about Fabacin?" "It's where dreampods grow." "What are dreampods?" "They only grow on Fabacin, making it special." "So, what's so special about Fabacin again?"

Valla (Immersturm) is shown on Warstorm Surge), and I will forever think Kephalai (Aretopolis) should have been incorporated into Theros. How many classical Greek planes are there, anyway?

legendofa on Next Block Plane is...

8 years ago

Is anyone else still waiting for them to revisit some of the Planechase planes, like Fabacin (Grove of the Dreampods) or Azgol (Lair of the Ashen Idol)? Or have they said they're not going to do those, and I missed that announcement?