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Zendikar is the first set in the Zendikar block. Prerelease events were held September 26-27, 2009. Release events were held October 2-4, 2009.

Not much is known at the moment about the set, but as the novels and storyline goes, the plane of Zendikar has been alluded to within the planeswalker novel of The Purifying Fire. It is said to be a plane of adventure, many treasures, and potent mana supplies, but mana on this plane works differently than in the rest of the multiverse.

Zendikar is based on the plane of the same name which had not been featured previously in Magic. The plane is littered with large, floating polyhedron-shaped stones called Hedrons, prominently featured in the artwork. Little is known of these Hedrons as not even the people native to the plane know about their purpose. The floating stones however are also an indicator of the fact that gravity is different on Zendikar than on other planes.

Zendikar features special full art basic lands similar to those that appeared in Unglued and Unhinged. The lands will have a regular name box but the large mana symbol in the text box as well as the typeline are conflated into one at the bottom of the card.

Zendikar is centered around lands and players interaction with lands. For example the ability word Landfall signals triggered abilities upon lands entering the battlefield under a players control.

The keyword Kicker returns. It also features the new keyword Intimidate which functions like and replaces fear as it makes a creature with intimidate unblockable except for artifact creatures and creatures that share a color with the intimidating creature.

The set also prints a cycle of enemy pair Fetch lands which support the set in color fixing and give additional landfall triggers.

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Zendikar, setting for the block of the same name, is a plane with powerful sources of mana, which flows differently there. Its landscape is constantly shifting and changing. This process is called The Roil. This makes settlements very scarce and only few outposts of civilization are present. Its riches in mana and other wealth has made it a destination for Planeswalkers to explorer and exploit. The promise of this is also enough to lure in various local explorers and adventurers.

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• Saturday, September 27 - Sunday, September 28, 2009: Zendikar Prerelease tournaments were held.