Talk:Zendikar

Notable cards

• Iona, Shield of Emeria was played as both lock and finisher mostly in Legacy, but also in Standard and Extended.
• Vampire Hexmage was half of the powerful Extended combo (the other half being Dark Depths), also played in Standard vampires decks.
• Bloodghast is another vampire that saw widespread tournament play due to easy recursion from the graveyard, e.g. to fuel Dread Return.
• Halo Hunter is a demon that kills angels, but was widely panned by the magic community for the fact of it being a demon, and thus being unable to handle Baneslayer Angel, a card which haunted the Standard tournament scene at the time.
• Lorthos, the Tidemaker is a legendary Octopus which takes the theme as far as it gets, with converted casting cost and power/toughness all being 8, and an ability which costs another to tap eight permanents. There are actually eight instances of eight on this card.
• Spreading Seas appears to be a very inconspicuous card, but saw widespread tournament play due to its ability to significantly limit the color capabilities of multicolored decks which emerged from the previous Alara block, and later was able to deal with non-basic lands from Zendikar block such as Manlands that followed in Worldwake or cards such as Eye of Ugin.
• Warren Instigator is closely related to the powerful Goblin Lackey, a card that was once banned in Extended. However, while Warren Instigator is able to put two Goblins into play on the same turn, the larger costs proved him to be slower and thus less dangerous.
• The cycle of enemy fetch lands see significant play in all formats.