The art of Zaun Warrens from Riftbound TCG

You don’t look at Zaun Warrens—you crawl into it. The moment this Battlefield card hits the table, it drags you underground into something feral and leaking.

Toxic gas floats like ghosts in the stale air. Shadowed beasts lurk on the fringes of vision. And then—at the heart of it all—a fungal bloom glows with an unholy light.

This card doesn’t just show Zaun. It breathes it. It’s hostile. Claustrophobic. And yet somehow, deeply alive.

Illustration Breakdown

The framing tells you everything: we’re looking into the Warrens, not across them.

Two hulking forms crouch in the foreground—likely Chem-Barons’ mutts or spliced scavengers—eyeing the central patch of bioluminescent rot like prey circling a trap.

The fungi aren’t passive. They pulse. Sickly yellows and greens ooze across the cracked industrial walls. Tubes and pipes trace overhead like the skeletal ribs of something long-dead.

There’s no horizon. No light source that isn’t sick with color. Every inch of this image pushes you inward.

It’s a descent—into decay, into risk, into Zaun. That’s what makes Zaun Warrens so effective as a piece of art: it doesn’t just represent danger, it forces you to enter it.

Gameplay Integration

Mechanically, Zaun Warrens rewards conquest with a discard-then-draw effect. It’s clean, tight, and surprisingly thematic.

The Warrens don’t just give you cards—they mutate your hand. You don’t gain resources freely; you sacrifice first. Lose one. Then earn one. It’s transactional. It’s risky. It’s Zaun.

This effect slots perfectly into decks that want to discard—Noxian recursion, Piltover tempo, or even Shadow Isles greed piles. You get selectivity without raw advantage.

And narratively? You dive into the Warrens, throw something away, and come back changed. That’s what makes the mechanic-art connection land so hard: it isn’t generous. It’s opportunistic.