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Zendikar

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Zendikar Infor­ma­tion
Zendikar’s three-letter abbre­vi­a­tion is ‘ZEN’ mak­ing it the last set ordered by its short­ened name. This set will have 249 cards. The rar­ity dis­tri­b­u­tion will be 15 Mythic Rares, 54 Rares, 50 Uncom­mons, 101 Com­mons and 20 Basic Lands.

Design Team

  • Mark Rose­wa­ter (lead)
  • Doug Beyer
  • Graeme Hop­kins
  • Ken­neth Nagle
  • Matt Place

Devel­op­ment Team

  • Henry Stern (lead)
  • Aaron Forsythe
  • Mark Globus
  • Erik Lauer
  • Devin Low
  • Matt Place
  • Mike Turian
  • Steve Warner

Sched­ule

Release Date: Fri­day, Octo­ber 2, 2009
Pre­re­lease Events: Sep­tem­ber 26–27, 2009
Launch Par­ties: Octo­ber 2–4, 2009
Pre­views start on magicthegathering.com Sep­tem­ber 7, 2009
Pre­views on other domains (estimated) Sep­tem­ber 11th, 2009

Time­line

  • March 19th, 2009 — Rumors sur­face that Zendikar is the real name for ‘Live’ code-named block.
  • March 25th, 2009 — Wiz­ards con­firmed that Zendikar was the next block.
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