Zendikar is a dangerous world of lethal risks and priceless rewards. From the perspective of its inhabitants, it is a hostile place that seems to be actively trying to kill the creatures that have the audacity to live there.

The danger is unrelenting: precarious terrain, cunning predators, natural disasters on a massive scale, and the Roilthe unpredictable ripples of change that wash through the landall present a constant challenge to survival.