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CardName: Bloom of Arborea Cost: GGG Type: Legendary Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: You may play two additional lands on each of your turns. Whenever you play your third land in a turn, you may transform Bloom of Arborea. Flavour Text: Back side: CardName: Yin, the Explorer Cost: Type: Legendary Creature - Elf Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Rules Text: Trample, hexproof Whenever Yin, the Explorer deals combat damage to a player, you may search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Planescape Rare
Bloom of Arborea
 You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.
Whenever you play your third land in a turn, you may transform Bloom of Arborea. Trample, hexproof
Whenever Yin, the Explorer deals combat damage to a player, you may search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. 3/3
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No connection to Arboria that I can see
Different Arborea, Planescape has its own, which is the home plane of the elves, while the Eladrin are basically the "high elves".
https://planescape-campaign.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/arborea
Since Legends was based on D&D (many of the eponymous legendary creatures based on characters from actual campaigns) it stands to reason that Arboria was a not-so-subtle reference to Arborea, but I wouldn't actually suggest tying yourself to close to that particular interpretation of the plane either. The card is both not that strongly evocative of the plane and not a well-designed card.
If the Elves from Llanowar and Krosa and Wirewood, from Lorwyn and Shadowmoor and Kaladesh, the Devkarin and the Silhana and Simic elves all share a creature type... why wouldn't the high elves?
An elf is an elf; unless of course your elf is yourself; make way for mister ed.
Aaanyway. Wow, this is hard to transform. That ability is optent on turn 1; but by turn 3, are you likely to have 3 lands in hand?
Assuming you find it worth saving your land up for; you get... more land! And a hexproof War Mammoth! Somewhat underwhelming a reward.
I was goofing. Definitely agree that this should just be a elf; different sub-races should all be the same type for mechanical synergy
I can see the argument for just calling it an elf.
I also agree that the 2nd side of this feels a bit underwhelming.