Every once in a while, a card drops that doesn’t yell, doesn’t punch, doesn’t tempo-rush you into panic mode—but instead quietly flips the entire rhythm of a deck. The Dreaming Tree is that card.
It’s one of the cleanest, smartest engines we’ve seen in Riftbound Preview Season so far, especially for spell-heavy midrange builds that care about value over brute force.
This is a Battlefield with soft power. But don’t let that fool you—it generates serious card advantage when used right.
Gameplay / Cool Mechanics
Here’s what The Dreaming Tree does:
“The first time you choose a friendly unit with a spell here each turn, draw 1.”
It’s simple, but deceptively impactful. You’re essentially turning your first spell target into a cantrip—no mana cost, just an extra card for doing what your deck already wants to do.
Buff your unit? Draw. Protect it with a shield? Draw. Drop a combat trick in response to a threat? Draw.
The key here is location: the spell has to target a unit on this Battlefield. So it rewards smart board management and positioning. In Riftbound, where spatial decisions actually matter, that kind of targeting constraint makes this more skill-testing than it seems.
This card will feel wasted in decks that don’t consistently cast unit-targeting spells, but in the right build—say, a combo shell with cheap tricks or a tempo pile that stacks buffs—The Dreaming Tree becomes a quiet engine that smooths out your whole draw curve.
Visuals
Eltanar Studio delivers another hit here. The Dreaming Tree glows with purples and cool neon blues, like the spell version of a lucid dream.
A lone mage sits in trance beneath twisting roots, leaves falling around her like memories dissolving into color. It doesn’t look like combat. It looks like becoming.
The visual softness mirrors the effect’s tempo: calm, slow, recursive.
It gives the sense of time bending—not stopping, not rushing, just stretching out so your deck has room to breathe.
Pull Rate & Value Speculation
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Card Name: The Dreaming Tree
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Type: Battlefield
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Set: Riftbound: League of Legends TCG
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Collector Number: 272/298
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Artist: Eltanar Studio
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Rarity: Unknown as of July 17
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Foil Status / Alt Version: Not yet confirmed
We’re likely looking at a mid-rarity inclusion here—Battlefields don’t tend to be ultra-rare unless they anchor major archetypes, but The Dreaming Tree might sneak its way into being a low-key chase card for spell control or value-heavy synergy decks.
If Riftbound leans toward tighter, more interactive metas (as it’s hinted at with these spatial mechanics), this one’s going to age well.
The Dreaming Tree is one of those cards that won’t carry a flashy win condition—but it will make your deck work better, smoother, and smarter.
Keep an eye on it if you like control, recursion, or the feeling of always having one more option in hand.
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