SECRET ORIGINS OF PHYREXIA (Before Yawgmoth) | Magic: The Gathering Lore

Wanted to do a little spooky speculation for October. Many players dont know the origins of Phyrexia. Hopefully we learn more in Brothers War!

The fall of the Thran empire and the creation of Phyrexia takes place thousands of years before Urza and Mishra were even born. There’s no reason to think The Brothers War would shed any light on pre-Yawgmoth phyrexia.

I don’t want to Phyrexia to be a place that was created by Yawgmoth, I want to be a place that was found by him. The implication that it is something from somewhere else long ago that was left over. That there were horrors in the distant past so immense that their very ashes are enough to destroy everything we know. I like that mystery.

Considering that by the start of the brothers' war, Phyrexia was already Phyrexia, sadly I don't think we're gonna get much insight on its true origin in this set... but maybe we get to know more about Gix, at least!

Wonderful work. One thing you missed is Phyresis was originally developed to be a vaccine for a disease destroying the Thran known as Phthisis. Yawgmoth went a little too far on the development of it, resulting in the Oil we know and love today. I believe Yawgmoth used oil from Pre-Phyrexia to complete his design, though it's been many years since I've last read the novel. Bonus: Phyresis is a card from Mirrodin Besieged and Phthisis is from Time Spiral.

So canonically bionicle is set in the first sphere

Great choice of subjects my man. Your work is next level.

Just off the top of my head, but perhaps the creator died because an artificial/artifact plane wasn't able to create mana to sustain them? In some of the old books, mana was everything to a planeswalker, they had to constantly consume more just to survive. There is Serra's Realm, but that was (obviously) a white mana plane. Maybe Phyrexia was just colorless at first, and that's like trying to live on only eating boiled potatoes. It was making a LOT of mana for him to consume, so he was just sitting there not realizing he was slowly dying of malnutrition. And when he did there was a sudden surge of unused mana building up there, which is why it was able to draw someone's attention so soon. But Yawgmoth wasn't a planeswalker (yet), so he wouldn't have relied on mana and could live there just fine. And by the time he became one, he had turned it black.

The Phyrexians are my favourite! I'm so happy that we're getting more Phyrexia stuff.

As someone who just got into mtg and found out the preator & phyrexia, this was great fill in for some of the things I didn’t know!

Just got back into magic after years being away...only doing mtg arena but new phyrexia was my first real block that I knew what I was doing and the story is one of my favorite so glad there going back to it and can't wait to see the cards

I love the Thran book. Great video editing.

A dark world with 9 spheres/levels that brings pain, death, and corruption of life that was originally ruled by a dragon? Sounds like Phyrexia was heavily inspired by Paradise Lost and Dante.

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A mirrodin White artifact deck was my first MTG deck loved my luxodon and cat cards miss that world

Personally i wouldnt be surprised if he just died by pretty mundane reasons like: - He use too much power to make the plane and died on the spot. - In his obsesion to make the plane he died of exhaustion. - He was mortally wounded somewhere else and escaped to his plane but died. or my favorite... - He just fell some stairs and broke his neck.

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Bringing back Urza and Mishra (albeit using time travel) really makes me wonder if they want to bring back Yawgmoth. I wouldn't be surprised to see a plot where Elesh Norn tries to resurrect him in her own body, or turn herself into a being like Yawgmoth became. Alternatively, there was that novel where Karona interacted with a weakened Yawgmoth. Her meeting him was declared not-canon and that Yawgmoth was dead, but it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to retcon the retcon.

Nice job

GREAT VIDEO!!!!