Autochthon Wurm

Across the face of Ravnica there are hundreds, if not thousands, of different sources of terror for the everyday Ravnican populace. Rakdos butcher cults, the rampaging hordes of the Gruul, and the terrifying genetic manipulations of the Simic are only a few among the many concerns that a Ravnican citizen must hold above their heads each day. But among all of these horrors, there are few as titanically destructive as the autochthon wurm, a wurm of incredible size and strength almost entirely unmatched in all of the massive world of Ravnica, which has been tamed and serves at the behest of the Selesnya Conclave.   Force of Natural Disaster Under its own circumstances, the autochthon wurm rarely ventures to the surface of Ravnica, instead spending the majority of its time in tunnels of its own creation beneath the earth. Here the wurm lives, sleeps, and eats, feeding on any creature which is too slow to move out of the way of the wurm’s considerable bulk. The wurm must search for creatures of a size large enough to stampede city blocks to sate its appetite, or else remain roaming constantly without the chance for rest, or else it risks starving as it sleeps. When the wurm does breach the surface, it runs riot over large portions of the massive city sprawl which covers all of Ravnica, destroying any buildings which stand in its way. This destructive power is terrifying to everyone except those who name themselves a member of the Selesnya, which tamed the beast centuries ago, and have had dominion over it ever since.   Cherished Member of the Guild For the Selesnya Conclave, the autochthon wurm does not represent a threat to livelihood or life itself, but is instead an honored and revered member of their guild. Few other members of the Selesnya have been with the guild for as long as the wurm, whose definite age is unknown. When it first rose to the surface millenia ago, the wurm was half the size it is now, and presented a threat so unique that several guilds worked together in collaboration to try and defeat it, in an ultimately futile show of unification. In the end, when the Selesnya finally arrived on the scene, they were able to use their druidic magic to sway the wurm back beneath the ground, directly underneath Vitar Yescu, the enormous tree-home of the Selesnyan Conclave. Here it rested, and was eventually tamed by the same magic which led it to sleep.