#old phyrexia

(Phyrexian Negator by John Zeleznik)

CR16 NE Medium Aberration (Phyrexian)

(The negator is another iconic creature, although one whose card is simply not up to snuff nowadays- the balance of power has tipped so that its astronomical drawback is not worth the creature you get. Still, the obliterator is clearly a riff on it- and got its own, incredibly aesthetically boring riff later- and even then it's simply too fabulous a design not to use. Can you say "xenomorph"?

Lorewise, these explicitly saw most usage in the leadup to full invasion- perhaps, in a hypothetical Phyrexia campaign, this could be the final boss of the second act, before the REAL invasion force finally arrives.)

CR16 NE Medium Aberration (Phyrexian)

Negators are perfected assassins of Phyrexia, designed to eliminate key targets with compleat efficiency. They are singleminded in this pursuit- one infamous document stated simply "It exists to cease." Indeed, a negator's heart is terribly stilled- they are not known to experience any emotion but the satisfaction of a job well done and the desire to achieve so.

Negators, being stealth operatives and assassins, are rarely used once a full-scale invasion begins, although they are often deployed just in the leadup to it. Each negator is given all Phyrexia knows of its target, and is simply placed as close as Phyrexia can get it without garnering attention and sent to kill. Negators are surprisingly skilled at stealth and disguise, able to walk as a hunched figure through whatever streets it may need to to reach its target, and are surprisingly eloquent and skilled actors when they need to lie. Once it makes its kill, however, a negator rarely makes time for stealth. Such negators will begin a return to Phyrexia (such that they might possibly be reset, reprogrammed, and reused), but generally lack the precautions of one who has yet to make a kill. These assassinations are its purpose; it seems some higher part of it shuts off once it is done.

ok so there's two phyrexias. there's the old phyrexia and the new one.

both have something in common - the glistening oil. basically everyhting it corrupts becomes part of Phyrexia.

old phyrexia is. well. old. and run by the man-turned-god Yawgmoth, the Father of Machines. basically he was a bastard who lied a lot and tried to take over dominaria. this phyrexia is characterised by machine body horror. this bitch of a place was defeated by urza's legacy weapon

urza made a robot who we all love called karn. out of his trans friend's heart. by the by, that trans friend was a phyrexian. and the heart is leaking oil.

karn's fine, he's a planeswalker and they're immune (except from when they aren't). but he makes a plane of artifacts called argentum, and makes a guardian for it, memnarch.

the thing is, some of the oil leaks from his body onto argentum and corrupts memnarch, turning him mad. memnarch renames the plane to mirrodin

after memnarch is defeated by glissa sunseeker, slobad and geth (and maybe others idk), the oil stays. it corrupts the heart of mirrodin and starts churning out phyrexians. but these ones are weird in another way, they're each focused on a colour.

there's a whole war between mirrans and phyrexians, phyrexians win. karn got corrupted, then uncorrupted

there's now a bunch of spheres. one for each colour plus a few more

the machine orthodoxy is white, run by Elesh Norn. religious flesh palace! run by dogma

the dross pits are black, run by Sheoldred. they're the old-phyrexia aesthetic, with an emphasis on grafting things onto the self to become stronger. geth is here, he's phyrexian now

the progress engine is blue, run by Jin-Gitaxias. he's obsessed with knowledge and they do pointless and cruel experiments

the tangle/vicious swarm are green and run by Vorinclex. he's a social darwinist running wild and free. glissa is here as his second in command

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