A History of Phyrexians
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- čas přidán 22. 04. 2021
- The mechanized horrors on a ceaseless quest for "compleation" have been a part of Magic: The Gathering since the game's earliest days - but if you're new to things, or just want a refresher on their impact over the years, come along as we take a look at a History of Phyrexians.
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My favorite Phyrexia Phact is that the first attempt at sleeper agents failed because they were all identical and arrived all at once
...Well I think they figured it out now.
Also the fact they had no physical sex, because biological reproduction was not considered relevant to phyrexia
I like to imagine them talking like the aliens from galaxy quest.
How to make a video on the phyrexians without getting demonetized for talking about eugenics.
Spice8Rack did an HOUR and 15 minutes long video about Eugenics
@@ryanadams0922 and boy howdy it was a great video
Spice8rack's analysis was definitely awesome
@@Benjamintheartteacher except for the people who support eugenics
Simple: you don't talk about eugenics, but rather merely point to another video that was already demonetized for talking about eugenics.
Because Phyrexians take to (mechanical) heart the adage "waste not, want not".
Calling Yawgmoth a 'Misguided Doctor' might be one of the most generous descriptions of anything ever, haha
I guess it's quite off topic but does anyone know of a good website to watch newly released tv shows online?
@Emmanuel Grey thanks, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :) Appreciate it!!
@Santiago Cassius No problem xD
Define misguided, because it seems that most of his works turned Complete
Well yea Adolf Hiler was a "Misguided artist with incidental public speaking skills and excessive patriotism" ^^
One of the best magic games I ever played was my blue/green infect (Phyrexian) deck vs. my opponents red artifact (mirrodin) deck. The game ended after 14 turns, I took exactly 21 damage and lost, with my opponent at 9 poison tokens and I had enough infect monsters/proliferate abilities to ensure he died twice over next turn. I wasn't even mad, just impressed he'd managed to use 4 artifact 'bombs' to stack counters and last ditch nuke me. Frankly, it was the most cinematic thing I could've hoped for.
That's beautiful :)
Something I've always remembered from one of the MTG books was the internal phyrexian politics, where we get the phyrexians' point of view. It was so alien, and yet so understandable. I wish we had more of that. Reading a paragraph of a robot demon meditating in a pool of oil, contemplating his religion is an experience that new magic simply can't deliver anymore.
Pretty please tell me the book? Or at least your best guess? I love the game, and have always wanted more direct access to the lore than just the wikis, but didn’t know which books to start with.
Also I’m definitely not watching this video all the way through right now lol.
@@Numbabu Artifacts Cycle II: A Magic: The Gathering Omnibus
Also, what's your username from, if I may ask? A friend of mine changed theirs to that same name before cutting contact.
@@cinderheart2720 thanks! It’s not from anything as far as I know. It’s just a fake name that sounds like “none of your business” my account is called that cause it’s the name I made this Gmail account with. I used it because I didn’t want a real name of any kind attached.
There are literally 100s of accounts with this name just on CZcams, so it’s a common enough phrase.
@@Numbabu Ah, alright.
@@cinderheart2720 this line was used in Moana cartoon btw xD
Phyrexians believe in a Steel Flower; it is beautiful and perfect, no imperfections. But it's delicacy, it's life, the thing that makes it so beautiful has been replaced with cold, unloving metal. They're so freaking cool.
woah sick quote
So THEY'RE the bastards who first created the BLACK LOTUS!! No wonder Urza thought they should be destroyed...
Sounds more like the new phyrexia ideal, old phyrexia sough to make everything one with Yawgmoth.
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My first memory of MTG is getting destroyed by my cousin's infect deck so phyrexia has always been one of my favorites parts of the game
No joke same for me. I was sitting there trying to get to a Plated Slagwurm while they infected the hell out of me
I have positioned various people with ezuri claw of progress irl I happy that get regular size ezuri
Yeah, but I miss Mirrodin. Some of the greatest artifacts ever crafted are from that plane, and it all got either destroyed, or corrupted!
Would love it if the climactic set of the upcoming war against New Phyrexia was named: "Mirrodin Restored."
Now that you’ve officially been disappointed that there was no Phryxians in Strixhiem, here is the complete history of Phryxia.
I have some doubts about there being no Phryxians in Strixhaven. What about the Mage Hunter creatures? In the plot of the set we are never told where they came from, but somehow the Anti-school faction has an army of these monsters given to them. Inhumane creatures that almost seem like they are DESIGNED for a specific purpose of fighting mages. They have very spiny Phryxian look to them, and they are horror creatures in black mana.
@@dalancer The weird thing is how much the Hunters (and that one Avatar creature) resemble Eldrazi more then anything. I do hope we get more backstory on them soon.
@@dalancer Yeah, this seems to be an eldrazi influenced plane.
Perfect zero/100
Just because they aren't in Strixhaven doesn't mean they aren't on the same plane as Strixhaven (Archavios, I believe)
While I have no love for Phyrexia, I have much love for Myr. And, since Mirrodin is now called New Phyrexia, I am being towed along.
Here's to hoping the Myr can break free of servitude.
My friend had a Myr battlesphere deck and schooled me with it soo many times. Love the creature type.
I personally like the myr look in the first iteration of Mirrodin
Myrs are a wonderful tribe, but I am sorry... I am partial to the Phyrexians and must ask you stand by for compleation
i love the myr as well, but the myr were made by the pyrexian corrupted memnarch. so its not like they were not always servants
I'm hoping Kemba survived!
Phyrexian Unlife was the first phyrexian card I've ever seen and it's picture has been carved into my brain permanently. The image seems falsely simple, but the longer you look at it, the more disturbing details you see. The worst one I think is a look of total despair and terror the person on it gives you.
Looked up card, can confirm.
The story for New Phyrexia actually notes that Venser's journal is left behind. The same one that Koth got angry over for it having Phyrexian portal designs in it. Hoping they call back to that, but with Wizards who knows if they bother with a consistent story.
One of the mirran resistance cells might be holding onto it for now. They might be working on the notes in the great furnace. Which could have the red praetor leave them alone so they could complete something he could not.
Elesh Norn is iconic but after learning more about the lore, Urabrask takes it. Sheltering natives and hating the other factions anyone?!
Would love you to do a more in-depth video about the praetors, such an interesting piece of the magic story.
This is so weird. Yesterday I found your channel and watched about 4 vids. I scrolled through and looked for a video on the phyrexians and was like “surprised they don’t have one”. Come back today. Boom it’s there. Magic arcanum can read the minds of its viewers.
Surprised you didn’t mention Atraxa, but perhaps you’re saving her for the lore video
Yep yep!
@@MagicArcanum Very excited for that to come out!
Yeah one of my favorite cards
My favorite poem of all time comes from an old phyrexian card 'Phyrexian Hulk' "It doesnt think, it doesnt feel. It doesnt laugh or cry. All it does from dusk til dawn, is make the soldiers die" and this was also my first experience with the phyrexians in the card game.
Great video. I love the Phyrexians as villains, they're creepy, threatening, and manage to still raise philosophical questions. If I had the power to make WotC release a single product from all of their lines, it would be a Phyrexian supplement for DnD. I've absolutely adored getting Ravnica and Theros and I've appreciated the Plane Shift articles even if all they did was leave me wanting more, but the absence of the nightmare engines of Yawgmoth leaves a hole in any MtG campaign I might try to run.
Phyrexians! Finally, the original big baddies of the story! (And maybe the best returning big bads???)
Edit to answer the end video question: Sanguine Guard. Back in high school with kitchen table magic, the first strike and regenerate combination slowly cleared a lot of boards for me.
Imagine Phyrexias meeting the slivers ..... that would b the end of everything X_x a new race of Phyrexian/sliver ......
@@marioortizveliz5221 There’s actually speculation that that could be the case because of modern horizons. If you look at some of the art it looks like there are slivers with the mirrodin art style. Is the first liver really the first sliver of all, or is it just the first sliver on mirrodin???
Not sure I would say they are the same since they lost Yawgmoth.
@@marioortizveliz5221 Fairly sure the sliver queen was being used by Yawgmoth's allies in the event leading up to the Rathi overlay.
Congratulations to Nicole on the change in last name!
Same :)
Woop woop!
Oh also Ashiok learned about the Phyrexians when they were torturing Elspeth in Theros Beyond Death and promptly planeswalked away afterwards, I think Ashiok may show up in the near future again!
We've gotten a few hints.
- Karn retrieved the Golgothian Sylex from Dominaria, with the express intent of taking it to New Phyrexia and detonating it in the planet's core. He only put that on hold because the Gatewatch said "But, um, Bolas is launching his endgame in like THREE DAYS so let's do that first."
- In the wake of War of the Spark, Tezzeret is on the run. He's notably worked with Phyrexia in the past. He also has a planar bridge on him.
- Ashiok found out about them, like you said.
- And ofc Vorinclex ended up on Kaldheim.
Something big is going to happen.
@@DragonSilverlight That's just what they said before the Eldrazi arrived...
Its more probable to see Thezzeret. Probably thank to him and his portal is that Vorinclex got to Kaldheim for example.
@@francopensalfine7494 And just look who’s in the new set, and what happened to Tamiyo
Atraxa is my favorite Phyrexian. To begin with, I already had a "thing" for Angels. And Atraxa is a "Phyrexian Angel." A legend, no less. Which makes her a very handy COMMANDER.
Here's the link to the Yawgmoth video in case you missed it: czcams.com/video/U6LnVOV1SX8/video.html
Edit: Gotta say, I'm amazed at how many people are challenging my use of "compleat" in the thumbnail, when I take the time to explain it in the video and even put Phyresis on screen as an in-game example of how the Phyrexians use it to describe their version of perfection. It's a real word, friends, I promise! :-)
Also, yes, Nicole got married, and we talked about that briefly in "So I'm Making A Card Game," so make sure you go back and watch that too, my little Lore Mages!
Seriously watch this video! Spice 8 rack does an amazing job portraying yawgmoth
Yeah, he really does
@@Raziel555666 he explains the history well but he really misses the mark on eugenics part. Lots of miss attribution to other parties which in the grand scheme of yawgmoth as a character is fine cause it doesn’t really affect him but it def is an oopsie when it comes to the real life analogues he draws to him.
hell ya spicy boy does a great job!
I recommend the Artificer cycles for reading! Spices video made me try and hunt down my copies.... had to rebuy them at a much higher price today than many years ago.
The video i have been waiting for. Thank you Ryan and Nicole for the wonderful video as always!
Same, but what happened to Nicole lettson?
@@thebestlife1341 We covered that in the last video! 😉
New Spice video today too! #VorthosEmpire
When?
I literally said "Oh fuck yeah" when I saw this in my subscription feed
Hopefully, we're going to see a confrontation that makes War of the Spark look like a slap fight.
You were right. I'm a year in the future, and the New Phyrexian invasion has begun. And yeah, the War of the Spark already looks like a friendly skirmish loll.
I have waited for this video for so very very long; I started during the era of the Rath Cycle and this brings back so many great memories!! THANK YOU!!
Am I the only one who thinks that Ryan, and Spice could do a co-lab in regards to the phyrexian story? :)
Definitely
That would ve awesome
Can't wait for the lore on the Phyrexians. as a fan of magic that has regular wikidives to learn the lore, the phyrexians is definitely the one topic i've always wanted to learn the most about.
The mustache is expanding!
It's compleating his face!
Soon it will consume all!
Well met, Loremages.
i started playing magic 19 years ago in the invasion block and i since i found your wonderfull channel i have waited for this!
Thanks and keep up the good work u 2!
man I was waiting for this video for so long! I’m also waiting for a massive Phyrexian type change and actual Phyrexian tribal support 😭
_LONG LIVE PHYREXIA, PRAISE THE FATHER OF MACHINES AND ELESH NORN’S MACHINE ORTHODOXY!_
I love how Ryan can recite all this material with mostly a straight face.
It’s a practiced skill.
guessing this is nicole's wedding gift?
A good way to look at it, yes!
Congratulations to the new Mr. and Mrs. Letson! ;)
Wait, so Ryan's facial hair is off the market now?? :(
Phyrexian Scriptures is one of my favorite cards ever printed. Art is gorgeous. Flavor is spot on. Sagas are awesome. And a board wipe! Count me in
Just finished watching the history of Yawgmoth video, and now I'm almost finished with this one. I'm beginning to understand why some of my favorite cards, are also some Magics' scariest cards. I've been playing this game now for 10 years, just got back into it after a four-year hiatus, and I never bothered to really look into the lore of sets and characters that much. I'm so glad I decided to start learning about Magic lore through this and Yawgmoth's lore videos. I would be lying if I said I didn't want to create decks, even if they were 'bad', and give them their own lore based on the lore from the original cards, sets, and characters within. Based on that description, why not just play DND? I like DND, but I like the idea of creating a world in front of me with the possibility of different stories to emerge. Typing that out last sentence honestly makes me realize that Magic and DND are very similar beasts in terms of function, but not in terms of how they are played. To sum up this pastebin of a comment, thank you for helping me to better appreciate and enjoy my favorite game.
I have no idea why this didn't pop up on my sub feed when it came out, I have it set to give me a notification every time yall post a vid. Love the work yall do, hope you're doing well in quarantine
I feel like this has been the most requested topic for your videos for years now. Congrats on scratching this one off the bucket list!
Thanks!
I remember asking you for a video like this months ago... you delivered and it's awesome, thanks a lot buddy, keep it up 😊
Thanks Ryan (and Nicole)! Have always been curious about the phyrexians but never had the time to read up on them. Hopefully you can...complete...the series on them soon!
I didn’t know how much I needed this art of the cards comparison and contrast video for Phyrexians. Thank you 🙏
Love the lore series! So glad to see another episode ❤️ keep up the great work and effort!
Thanks for the video, I've started playing Arena about a year ago, and I really like the story and flavor on the cards. I see Phyrexians being mentioned a lot and it's great to learn more about them.
Glad you enjoy it!
I just got into Magic and these guys are my favorite part of the lore. Setting up a page in my collection binder dedicated to them.
Love it guys! I started playing Magic in Scars of Mirrodin block.
Me too! I know Breya is officially from Esper, but shes the Commander of my Myr tribal deck and I love all the adorable little robots, both Mirran and Phyrexian
Zombie Cyborg Alien Eugenisists. It's like you used a random spooky monster generator and made some of the coolest villains of all time.
Thanks for the upload Arcanum Crew. You guys keep my spark going while the hasbro machine has been quashing it.
Normal people, looking at another: You complete me, happy Valentine's Day.
Me, looking in the mirror: Another day of Great Work. You compleat me!
Can I like this comment and dislike it at the same time?
Let's get that Return to Phyrexia set going already
I can now die happy. Finally thank you so much for covering them.
I'm here post kamigawa neon dynasty. With the return of gin gitaxias, you were correct with the return of tez and the planar bridge. The fact the phyrexians now control the planar bridge, AND tamiyo the planes walker really gives me some serious dreams of what lies ahead. Tamiyo still controls the seal that imprisoned Emrakul (Emrakul forced her to do this without her knowledge), what if the now compleated tamiyo released emrakul. Maybe then ugin, with the help of the remaining gatewatch free and partner with Nicol bolas in one last effort to save the multiverse. I mean I'm sure I'm way wrong, buttttt that'd be sick af.
thanks a lot! been waiting for Phyrexians for a while!
Love the reference to spice. Their video was stunning. Great content as always on this video.
I started playing magic back in Mirrodin Besieged sothe phyrexians have a special place in my heart for being one of the things that got me in to magic!
As for favourite Phyrexian card, Cant look passed the first mythic I ever pulled in Elesh Norn!
One day I'll have a Phyrexian Commander Deck.
The scorpion god! Most cards that's deal with -1/-1 counters have infect, and there are alot to choose from. I just finished mine, and I highly recommend it. Or you can always make your commander good Ol'Yawgmoth 😊
@@jackstrawFW I just brewed up individual decks for each of the Praetors
As a long time fan of Phyrexia, I'd say your video was spot on, also, my favorite card is the Obliterator, cause aside from being a giant, mechanical eldritch horror, it's maw is full of the teeth and canines of the meat creatures used to make it, truly an inspired design, that wastes not a scrap of inferior flesh!
I'm so excited i've been WAITING for this!
I have waited for so long for this!
Been waiting for this for so long
It doesn't think. It doesn't feel.
It doesn't laugh or cry.
All it does from dusk till dawn
Is make the soldiers die.
-Onean children's rhyme
I know it's a dead card in my urza (yes I know the irony) edh deck, but man the foil version of that card is heckin gorgeous.
One more boom 50
8th Edition Phyrexian Hulk was one of the first MTG cards I ever got and it will forever be my favorite card
One of my favourite cards was phyrexian hulk. Its lore shows that the oil can hold memories of old phyrexia machines while recreating or repurposing the environment. Also a good common on the prerelease.
I've been waiting for this!!
The nostalgia is heavy with this one. Thanks for doing what you do.
Phyrexian Arena is my favorite, specially the one where Gerard cuts Urza's Head.
Tainted Strike is my favorite. Nothing wakes up a Commander game quite like a combat trick for lethal.
Calling it now: They’re going after Kaladesh
oh man...Kaladesh is my favorite plane due to its style/art...can you imagine how the world would look tainted by phyrexians? It would be metal af
@@PhoenixXZY I think it would be AMAZING!
@@PhoenixXZY imagine a phyrexian invasion, dead and murder, everyone in kaladesh fighting for their lives ._.
That would be absolutely amazing, the possibility of a more phyrexian version of the aether would be super cool visualy
Viking bezerkers and valkyries fighting against cyborg zombies and metal Horrors while guitars shread in the background admist war drums and Nordic battle cries.
SIGN ME UP!
Nichols last name change hit me harder than the lore. I always mouth along to the intro and felt the proverbial rug pull out from under my feet
Oh shoot congratulations by the way
Holy hell i've been waiting for this since i discovered you!
YEEES
I haven't watched any of your videos in a minute but damn those ending animations are amazing
Dont let anyone get you down, Scarlett's bath water is amazing
Love the full beard man keep these coming cant wait to watch your strixhaven video
Always look forward to your content!
Happy regards to Nicole!!
Phyrexia isn't a cult, its the only true way to become perfection
Sounds like a cult... I'm in.
it's only a cult if the end goal isnt apparent or visible
Just want to say firstly, I love your hard work you two. And secondly, phyrexians!
Great video!
I squealed like a young boy when I opened an Obliterator from a set booster as part of THE LIST!!
I've been waiting for this story time, finally I was able to achieve perfection!
new phyrexia is easily one of my favorite sets, it's one of the ones i started with when i first got into magic and the art is just so amazing
So wanted this video, thanks!!
Yes! At long last! Thank you Ryan the Loremage! Glory to Phyrexia!
My favourite card was always 'death is no excuse to stop working' which combined with the sacrifice cycle and plaguelord made a pre-made deck phyrexian assault actually competitive. Although dark ritual+negator has always been scary on turn one, nothing's scarier than turn one glistening elf, as far as phyrexians go!
Couldn't help but notice Nicole's change of lastname. Congratulations are in order? :)
Yeah she recently married.
Yes, we explained it in "So I'm Making a Card Game" but the short answer is, she recently got married.
nicole got married, and ryan's designing a new card game..
new start for everyone!
A threat so great, even Nicol Bolas (in a web comic) worried about them. Given Tezzeret's minglings before, It would be interesting if he is why Vorinclex was on Kaldheim. Even the description that Vorinclex arrived without flesh amd had to rebuild sounds like the Planar Bridge mode of transport.
As for a favorite Phyrexian card, I'm tied between Crazed Skirge (my first card depicting Phyrexians, and the start of a small Skirge collection in my early MtG career) and Urabrask who I find super fascinating from a Lore standpoint, hope to see again in future Lore, and whose card I own in Foil thanks to a good friend.
Here we are nine months later and Jin-Gataxias appears on kamigawa
I started playing magic during original Mirrodin's release and although back then i didn't know anything about the lore and my English was pretty bad i was still really fascinated about the art. You have no idea how much i am longing for the return of the Phyrexia. I also hope that gatewatch actually fails to stop them.
I do have a couple questions/requests which may or may not be included in your future video that u mentioned about the full story of the phyrexians. (Obviously if u are to answer them in this video just tell me to be patient)
1. Do we know where phyrexian oil come from or who made it?
2. Do we know of the past of some of the more well-known phyrexians like the Praetors?
Thx for all the vids and all the effort and time u put into them btw. Learning the lore of magic is big part of it and definitely what has kept me to the game so i really appreciate it.
My best guess for our next sighting will be the Innistrad sets. I don't see them dropping Phyrexians in the Forgotten Realms, but if they do, it's going to be a wild ride. I think the worst of all possible worlds would be the Phyrexians managing to get their hands on Eldrazi bits, and there's this whole moon full of Eldrazi hanging around over there.
PLEASE do a complete history of goblins next. Ya gotta give some love to the little guys man.
Gah! CZcams didnt even notify me despite clicking the bell.
So excited to see this!
Ive been waiting forever for this type of video i cant wait for the phyrexia lore video i love phyrexia
My “Golos takes you on a tour of New Phyrexia” commander deck approves
Great video! I pulled a few Phyrexian Text cards in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty and wanted to learn more about. I played magic heavily from 1993 - 1996 and remember those Gremlins but never made the connection. I want to check out Mirrodin now. I wish Magic made these stories into comic books!
Phyrexian Rager 's artwork at 18:36 looks like monsters from movie Virus(1999)
I really hope we get more phyrexians after what happened on kahldhiem
There was a "leak" that says jin is coming in the return to kamigawa leading up slowly to the new new phyrexia set early 2023.
@@d3ath18 I wonder if we'll get phyrexians on inistrad? Emrakrul is still on the moon🤷♂️
@@finnmmc sheoldreds top half would fit perfectly into emrakul so we can hope!
@@d3ath18 the only thing scarier than phyrexians and eldrazi are phyrexian-eldrazi!
@@finnmmc IMAGINE EMRAKUL COMBINED WITH ATRAXA
Thanks for the video! Can’t wait for the lore one! I’d be interested in a Kamigawa lore video IF its lore is interesting. If it’s boring then nvm but ninjas and spirits seem like they would be cool.
The thing that worries and excites me is that Tamiyo specifically was compleated. Tamiyo.. you know.. the one who trapped a certain Eldrazi in a moon…. That’s a spicy memory indeed for a phyrexian
Im loving the theory that Tibalt is going to become a phyrexian agent, also makes me think of ashiok after they learned of phyrexians from Elsbeth. I can see Tezzeret getting involved, and who knows, maybe even nicol bolas will become a phyrexian in attempt to regain control and power
I started playing when Scars of Mirrodin released and New Phyrexia is still to this day my favorite mtg set just for nostalgia purposes.
I loved the phyrexians with the Splicers and their creepy golems.
Seeing Vorinclex again makes me want to play mtg after not buying cards for a couple years, but I feel like the game has been constantly devolving into something I don't like, kind of the opposite of what Phyrexia did... Really cool video btw :)
This was such a great video. Hopefully it means we will get to see a Who is Urza in the future!
Post Neon Dynasty I gotta say, good call on Tezzeret's Bridge
Thank you for your wisdom! I learned a lot today