Phyrexian Family Tree EXPLAINED! (Yes It's GROSS) | Phyrexia: All Will Be One Lore

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Moral of the Story: If you make a Phyrexian, give it just enough individuality to be more effective. If its too much, throw it into the reprocesor and start again.

"The greatest of grandfathers, yawgmoth" sounds like a card for march of the machines with an elder artificer typing

A few more branches on the tree: -Karn was born not just of oil, but also by his heartstone, coming from Xantcha, who also ultimately stems from Yawgmoth. -Karn was built by Urza and Barrin. He effectively had two fathers with an egg(heart) donor. -Barrin had a daughter with Rayne. Said daughter, Hanna, was effectively Karn's half-sister. -Urza's Bloodline Project may have steered Rayne to Barrin, and even shaped her own lineage; it was never fully confirmed tho it was suspected. Just something to consider. -While Harbin may not have been Urza's son (still up in the air), he was still of Urza's heritage given he'd at least be Mishra's son. Harbin is either Karn's half-brother or cousin. By extension, Jarsyl is in the mix, and more pertinently to the present moment, Jodah. ...at this point, I'm not sure which has ultimately inflicted the more complicated family history upon themselves involving robots and genocidal maniacs, Urza, or Marvel's Hank Pym.

I have this feeling that this big ass Phyrexian insect that spawns little minions and is too scary to confront alone will survive the dross pits easily

You can also tell that alot of these new gen phyrexians are more emotional and humanlike by how theyve lost there artifact creature typing

Small correction: Karn’s Glistening Oil actually came from Xantcha’s heartstone, which was used to make him in the first place.

And with this lore, Ixhel may be my first favorite phyrexian after Urabrask.

I'm calling it now, Ixhel will meet Urabrask and gain red in her color identity. She'll rebel against the machine orthodoxy and gain her own planeswalker spark.

Pretty sure Vish will be fine on his own especially when he still seems to have the memories and cunning of Geth

Teferi: So what does that make us? Elish Norn: Absolutely nothing! Which you'll soon be.

Ixhel is most likely prone to personal choice due to the lack of blue mana influencing her. Blue is often associated with control. She’s obviously still obedient to the mom and grandma, but she’s more likely to do things of her own volition. She’s doing things to impress them, but she has a creative fluidity they lack. Where she saw her spawn as a “gift I put thought into to impress my mom”- Atraxa (and likely Elesh) can only see and focus on the fact it was made from an individualistic thought process. The creativity without prompting is disturbing to them. Heck if Urabrask had participated Atraxa probably would’ve ended up hard to control. Potentially more wild and aggressive. I think the mana that prompts the creativity/free will of this family tree is the green mana. Green is associated with strength AND creation. While the colors that align with full phyrexian loyalty are black and white- the color combos of the two most important figures in Phyrexian genealogy, Yawgmoth and Elesh.

I can't help but consistently wonder, what would Yawgmoth think of New Phyrexia

I never knew that Atraxa didn't have red in her CC because Urabrask refused to participate in her creation. I wish WotC would put more effort into getting the lore of sets out there.

I'm starting to think that Sheoldred is starting to "wake up" a little, much like Urabrask, though she may just be done with Norn's first among equals shtick.

I would LOVE a twist of a resurgence of Yawgmoth, who had “horcruxed” their consciousness into the oil of the legacy weapon. Imagine a Karnmoth that can escape using a spark! But then again, I like the idea of perished characters that have a legitimate legacy that evolves to become its own thing too.

My fear for the future of the Phyrexia story is that time travel will simply reset all event an dbring back our beloved planes walkers. My Hope is that this growing individualism amongst the phyrexians is a new contagious nature that begins spreading beyond just the red aligned and we end up with a phyrexian civil war. I can imagine that the completion of the palneswalkers isn't as perfect as they think and all of them will rebel with the possible exception of Ajani just to give us an emotional gut punch. My bigger wonder is if now is the true time for Emrakul to make herself known and what an eldrazi corrupted phyrexian would end up like. 😰

I'm really glad you touched on the concept of oil lineage since that's a really cool part of Phyrexian lore I wish they elaborated upon more! More thoughts: -Oil transmits memory, not just heredity -It's possible that the oil Karn dropped came from Xantcha's heartstone, making her the last common ancestor of the New Phyrexians -Jin-Gitaxias is also a known Phyrexian parent -Germs and newts are created from repurposed flesh too, and grow into core-born Phyrexians I'm glad they're finally showing the diversity of Phyrexians as people, too. Ixhel's story I especially loved as an example of a Phyrexian being a person and an exploration of the generational trauma that Norn's tyranny and Atraxa's forced compleation imposes further down the line.

Hoping Ixhel goes good guy and teams up with grandad Karn

So that's why Atraxa is called the greater unifier. I always thought she was the boss due to all the mana colors and wondered why Elesh Norn and other praetors were more mention than her.