Forest
Zendikar 248 • common
- Set
- Zendikar
- Collector number
- 248
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Véronique Meignaud
- Market price
- $1.88
What it does
(tap: Add green mana.)
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Released in October 2009 as part of the Zendikar expansion for Magic: The Gathering, this card features the distinctive full-art design that became a hallmark of the set. Zendikar was conceptually centered on the theme of exploration and high-adventure landscapes, leading the design team to prioritize immersive, sprawling art. This specific Forest, numbered 248, was one of several landscape illustrations commissioned to evoke the untamed, primordial essence of the plane's environment.
The art was created by French illustrator Véronique Meignaud, who is noted for her ethereal and textured approach to digital painting. Her contribution to this set departed from traditional fantasy realism, opting instead for a saturated, painterly aesthetic that emphasized the wild, overgrown nature of the forest. Upon release, Meignaud's full-art lands were widely praised by players and art critics within the community for elevating the visual standard of basic land cards, becoming some of the most recognizable and requested basic lands in the game's history.
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