For Halloween this year I'm going as a Phyrexian sleeper using the art of Phyrexian Unlife as inspiration. I'm gonna use pailing base makeup for the sickly look and black liquid eyeliner to blacken around my eyes with streaks as if I'm crying glistening oil. Some more liquid eyeliner out my ears and from my fingernails will turn me into a sleeper awakening, simple and terrifying.
@@AetherHub I'll send pics, and it helps that a car crash left me with a right hand that normally makes people shudder. No joke, many times people who've known me for years suddenly notice my hand and freak.
A small note: Yawgmoth did not discover the cure for phthisis (I doubt he was even trying, assuming he was even capable which I'm not sure), a healer named Xod did. Yawgmoth immediately stole the credit and later turned Xod into a mindless beast of a Phyrexian. As for Gix, the main reason he became Yawgmoth's servant is because he was so easy to control. He wasn't that bright or capable but he is extremely predictable and aggressive. I love The Thran, one of my favorite novels of all time.
"Better to live in shame than die in glory" - Gix I would love to see Gix come back in the body Norn promised Tezzeret. Her Darksteel enforcer and honorary Father of Machines.
You know what would be funny? Having Gix come back, and overpower the other praetors. Just to make a sick joke at Elesh Norn expense that, no matter what she does, she still isn't on par with the old phyrexians that worked directly with Yog. Having her submit to Gix but at the same time ressent him and force a mirror story of that Yog and Gix had, but this time, she would play the role of Gix. We know that Jin and Vorin doesn't give much of a fuck about who rules the phyrexians, Urubrask just want to be left alone. Only Sheo and Elesh care about authority and power, so having a third "force" pop in and pull the rug from under Elesh would be veeeery interesting.
That would be a fantastic twist, no doubt. But seeing what they did to Ertai in Dominaria United and how War of the Spark ended, I really wouldn't expect anyone up there to respect the old lore.
Honestly, while Gix returning due to the machinations of Elesh Norn would be awesome, i'd personally prefer to see the Patriarch return but thats mostly because of my fondness of the storyline from Onslaught block
I am a big fan of Gix. I wanted a card for my deck but it used to be the size of a piece of paper or something like that. Gix is a standup guy, just trying to make the universe better.
@@raydelmartinez2905 In apocalypse the lore discloses his true power: Urza's 9 titans all piloting Urza's OP power armor to invade and destroy old phyrexia for good. They failed. Yawgmoth himself steped on dominaria only losing to the Legacy Weapon because he simped Rebbec too much and got distracted by white mana thinking it was her. The irony being he never shed his emotions completely.
@@livanbard Right, at that point Yawgmoth was effectively a god transcending the power of pre-Mending Planeswalkers due to having merged with Phyrexia itself. It's kind of funny that for all his planning, inculding betting that Tevesh Szadt would betray the 9, Urza's grand plan still failed.
@@kclane2682 Yawgmoth took control of Urza and Garrard. Made them fight to the death. Then when the outcome wasn't what he liked he revived Garrard and made them battle again. I believe Urza won 3 times. Finally Garrard was able to cut off Urza's head. So in short he could easily control even the most powerful pre-mending planeswalkers.
Yep. Revive him. A powerful and cool character like him should stay in the story. Only thing is I don't see Elish being able to control him. I doubt she could battle Urza to a "standstill. " I say standstill but he was actually winning until that sleeper agent betrayed him.
@@AetherHub hey I got a message about a give away from you, and if this isn’t you, I think someone is using your channel on telegram as a bot. The whole interaction felt very off.
Anyone know how the Thran got to Phyrexia? I know only Planeswalkers, Eldrazi and Maret Liege can travel the Blind Eternities. And Urza turned people to stone when he had to take them to new planes.
When Yawgmoth was rising to power as a leader of the Thran, a planeswalker named Dyfed showed up. She opened a planar portal to an artifical plane who's creator had recently died. Yawgmoth wanted a safe place to heal and compleat people = this pocket dimension was meant to be that. Eventually, Yawgmoth betrayed Dyfed, stabbing her in the brain and placing her body in a machine that literally scrambled her brains nonstop while her planeswalker body tried to repair itself. Yawgmoth tried to find an organ in her body that allowed her to planeswalk but never did. He expanded his operations on both sides of the planar portal. The coalition of forces that moved to destroy Yawgmoth and the Thran, plus a final ironic act of Rebbec, ended the war. Doomday weapons Yawgmoth deployed were turned against the Thran city of Halcyon. Yawgmoth and his troops fled to Phyrexia. Rebbec pulled the powerstone shard out of the corpse of her husband Glacian, finally realizing how evil Yawgmoth was, and placed the shard on the pillar that controlled the planar portal, sealing Phyrexia away for 5 thousand years. Urza and Mishra reopened that portal when they took the 2 halves of that powerstone shard, the mightstone and weakstone as they came to know them. The Phyrexians did learn to create other planar portals during those 5000 years, and learned how to overlay an artifical plane (Rath) onto a real plane. But afaik, Yawgmoth never became a legit planeswalker. These recent sets of cards with corrupted planeswalkers are our first legit Phyrexian planeswalkers as far as we know. Just consider the damage one planeswalker, determined to spread the influence of Phyrexia, can do. One drop of glistening oil is all it takes to subvert an entire plane. One planeswalker could hit the entire known multiverse up in mere hours.
Excited to watch this, but commenting because someone is impersonating you in some of the comments on your videos. They commented on my comment on saying something about a gift. Seemed like a pretty obvious hoax, but it might bear warning people regardless
Given that Phyrexia All Will Be One packaging got released, here's to hoping Atraxa gets more lore since you know....an angel compleated personally by Elesh Norn and 3 other praetors.
@@AetherHub I'd have to agree with you for the time being since initial lore for Atraxa was something about being a note worthy angel that put up a good fight before being captured I think? In the next set she could have some screentime but at this point there's gonna be a lot of legendary creatures.
Yo wait did you say f***ing at like 3:23 - 3:27 or was that "bucking the establishment"? Checked subtitles and it just says "one. The Establishment..." Im not a Karen, I just have never heard you cuss on the channel so it caught me off guard
@Aether Hub no no you're all good buddy was just checking. Surprised you responded, thank you! Love your content man, thank you for keeping us up to date on the lore its so appreciated ❤️
Wait... Gix is a 3/3 and Xantcha is a 5/5?? But in the novels, Gix could stand toe-to-toe against Urza and Xantcha was terrified to death of Gix? Something doesn't add up. 😅 Also, Yawgmoth's immortality and power was because he was bound to Phyrexia... why did he so badly want to invade Dominaria when naturally, he would lose his immortality if he left his plane. 😅😅😅
He was going to link them together. Basically having a tunnel open between A and B makes it so A will always be powering him while hes in B cause its become an "extension" of A.
He had conquered many planes. Those are lost with time, but the one he never seemed to be able to fully grasp was Dominaria. Dominaria was always the prize he wanted. Even before becoming immortal on Phyrexia.
I wonder if the gate watch will just seal Phyrexia inside a metal plane instead of destroying them. I realize it's to late for containment but since tamiyo is compleated, if they save her and karn, can't they just make a new plane with karn and lure all of Phyrexia there and then have tamiyo moon seal they shit while Chandra ignites? That kind of sounds really dope imo.
Plus, not that I know for sure, but I doubt New Phyrexia is the only place Phyrexia has spread or controlled. As mentioned in this video, the Phyrexians have visited countless worlds. We know they visited Zendikar in ages past to get the Kor for Rath, that they once nearly overwhelmed whatever the name of the plane that New Capenna sits on, and that recently they've been on Kaldhiem and Kamigawa. And as we learned on Mirrodin, where there is one drop of oil, there is the potential for outbreak.
You need a pre-mending planeswalker to create an artificial plane. Karn doesn’t have near the power anymore to pull this off as the average planeswalker is just a powerful wizard
For Halloween this year I'm going as a Phyrexian sleeper using the art of Phyrexian Unlife as inspiration. I'm gonna use pailing base makeup for the sickly look and black liquid eyeliner to blacken around my eyes with streaks as if I'm crying glistening oil. Some more liquid eyeliner out my ears and from my fingernails will turn me into a sleeper awakening, simple and terrifying.
That’s actually an amazing idea. I would love to see the final result. Good luck. Really cool idea!!!
@@AetherHub I'll send pics, and it helps that a car crash left me with a right hand that normally makes people shudder. No joke, many times people who've known me for years suddenly notice my hand and freak.
@@MagetaTheLionHeart
I have 6 toes on my right foot. You ain’t alone
A small note: Yawgmoth did not discover the cure for phthisis (I doubt he was even trying, assuming he was even capable which I'm not sure), a healer named Xod did. Yawgmoth immediately stole the credit and later turned Xod into a mindless beast of a Phyrexian.
As for Gix, the main reason he became Yawgmoth's servant is because he was so easy to control. He wasn't that bright or capable but he is extremely predictable and aggressive.
I love The Thran, one of my favorite novels of all time.
"Better to live in shame than die in glory" - Gix
I would love to see Gix come back in the body Norn promised Tezzeret. Her Darksteel enforcer and honorary Father of Machines.
Damn that would be cool
You know what would be funny? Having Gix come back, and overpower the other praetors. Just to make a sick joke at Elesh Norn expense that, no matter what she does, she still isn't on par with the old phyrexians that worked directly with Yog. Having her submit to Gix but at the same time ressent him and force a mirror story of that Yog and Gix had, but this time, she would play the role of Gix. We know that Jin and Vorin doesn't give much of a fuck about who rules the phyrexians, Urubrask just want to be left alone. Only Sheo and Elesh care about authority and power, so having a third "force" pop in and pull the rug from under Elesh would be veeeery interesting.
@Materwelonz..shut
That would be a fantastic twist, no doubt. But seeing what they did to Ertai in Dominaria United and how War of the Spark ended, I really wouldn't expect anyone up there to respect the old lore.
I love that Gix looks like an op phyrexian negator/obliterator. Really seals the flavor text on obliterator imo.
Some of the best magic content I’ve watched in years, whenever I need lore info I go straight here keep up the amazing work
Wow such high praise. Not sure I deserve it but I’m grateful you think so highly of the content 🥰
Honestly, while Gix returning due to the machinations of Elesh Norn would be awesome, i'd personally prefer to see the Patriarch return but thats mostly because of my fondness of the storyline from Onslaught block
Man the Patriarch would return 100% as an undead zombie.
I am a big fan of Gix. I wanted a card for my deck but it used to be the size of a piece of paper or something like that. Gix is a standup guy, just trying to make the universe better.
Wow this guy was matching pre-mending Urza's power, that's crazy 😧
Makes you wonder how powerful Yawgmoth was at that time if Gix could match Urza.
@@kclane2682 True
@@raydelmartinez2905 In apocalypse the lore discloses his true power: Urza's 9 titans all piloting Urza's OP power armor to invade and destroy old phyrexia for good. They failed. Yawgmoth himself steped on dominaria only losing to the Legacy Weapon because he simped Rebbec too much and got distracted by white mana thinking it was her. The irony being he never shed his emotions completely.
@@livanbard Right, at that point Yawgmoth was effectively a god transcending the power of pre-Mending Planeswalkers due to having merged with Phyrexia itself. It's kind of funny that for all his planning, inculding betting that Tevesh Szadt would betray the 9, Urza's grand plan still failed.
@@kclane2682 Yawgmoth took control of Urza and Garrard. Made them fight to the death. Then when the outcome wasn't what he liked he revived Garrard and made them battle again. I believe Urza won 3 times. Finally Garrard was able to cut off Urza's head.
So in short he could easily control even the most powerful pre-mending planeswalkers.
I just remembered that Xancha sacrificed herself alongside Ratepe to defeat Gix. Great recap.
Exactly. Kinda rushed over the event itself (trying to focus on Gix specifically).
I was so hopeful you would make the halloween specials, great way to close spooky season 🖤
Ever since I read the first Artifact book, I've been in love with Phyrexia and artifice. I absolutely love this new set
Fascinating. Thank you for making this ❤️
Of course. As always I’m glad you enjoyed it!!
Great video, didn't know much about this topic, learned a lot. Very interesting guy and backstory.
Favourite upload Friday
Enjoy friend. I just wanted to get this out for the spooky season 🎃
Reminds me of arcane series, with the hexcore, separation of classes, the sicknesses,and modern advancements.
Riot's lore has stolen a LOT of ideas from MtG lore. I'd say "most" of their ideas but that might be a stretch.
Love your content!
And I appreciate your comment 🥰
Yep. Revive him. A powerful and cool character like him should stay in the story. Only thing is I don't see Elish being able to control him. I doubt she could battle Urza to a "standstill. " I say standstill but he was actually winning until that sleeper agent betrayed him.
Urza would draw 3 cards before he would let a standstill happen.,
Spooky character for spooky season! cool video!
Happy Halloween 👻
@@AetherHub hey I got a message about a give away from you, and if this isn’t you, I think someone is using your channel on telegram as a bot. The whole interaction felt very off.
@@AjaniGoldmaneFFXIV Don't trust that thing, it's a bot or spammer trying something. Report it any time you see it in the comments too.
When talking about Urza's allies besides Xantcha, there was also her lover Ratepe.
I just read that book recently. Think it's my favorite. Multiverse lore is crazy thick in that book.
Did you get most of your information from the book The Thran?
Anyone know how the Thran got to Phyrexia? I know only Planeswalkers, Eldrazi and Maret Liege can travel the Blind Eternities. And Urza turned people to stone when he had to take them to new planes.
When Yawgmoth was rising to power as a leader of the Thran, a planeswalker named Dyfed showed up. She opened a planar portal to an artifical plane who's creator had recently died. Yawgmoth wanted a safe place to heal and compleat people = this pocket dimension was meant to be that. Eventually, Yawgmoth betrayed Dyfed, stabbing her in the brain and placing her body in a machine that literally scrambled her brains nonstop while her planeswalker body tried to repair itself. Yawgmoth tried to find an organ in her body that allowed her to planeswalk but never did. He expanded his operations on both sides of the planar portal. The coalition of forces that moved to destroy Yawgmoth and the Thran, plus a final ironic act of Rebbec, ended the war. Doomday weapons Yawgmoth deployed were turned against the Thran city of Halcyon. Yawgmoth and his troops fled to Phyrexia. Rebbec pulled the powerstone shard out of the corpse of her husband Glacian, finally realizing how evil Yawgmoth was, and placed the shard on the pillar that controlled the planar portal, sealing Phyrexia away for 5 thousand years. Urza and Mishra reopened that portal when they took the 2 halves of that powerstone shard, the mightstone and weakstone as they came to know them. The Phyrexians did learn to create other planar portals during those 5000 years, and learned how to overlay an artifical plane (Rath) onto a real plane. But afaik, Yawgmoth never became a legit planeswalker. These recent sets of cards with corrupted planeswalkers are our first legit Phyrexian planeswalkers as far as we know.
Just consider the damage one planeswalker, determined to spread the influence of Phyrexia, can do. One drop of glistening oil is all it takes to subvert an entire plane. One planeswalker could hit the entire known multiverse up in mere hours.
Yawgmoth sure liked a good eye-liner back in the day.
Excited to watch this, but commenting because someone is impersonating you in some of the comments on your videos. They commented on my comment on saying something about a gift. Seemed like a pretty obvious hoax, but it might bear warning people regardless
Thanks for bringing this to my attention! Removing the spam comments as much as I can. As well as making a community post about it!!
@@AetherHub thanks mate. I appreciate you taking care of us. Also thank you for the fantastic content. It's a real joy.
Perfect timing, I was looking for lore on Gix ever since his card was spoiled!
Haha glad I caught you with this video :)
Bro, spooky BRO lore time
Nah. Norn would never ressurrect someone who could challenge her.
I wish the title would have swapped 'COMPLETE' with 'COMPLEAT'. That would have gone with the Phyrexian theme a little better.
Fine fine. You animals win!
Oh wow! Did I do a thing? I’m sorry, didn’t mean to offend
Time after time i think what os The diference of the Yawgmoth ideal modification vs what they do in esper.
Let's hope Phyrexia never visits there to start giving them ideas...
Given that Phyrexia All Will Be One packaging got released, here's to hoping Atraxa gets more lore since you know....an angel compleated personally by Elesh Norn and 3 other praetors.
You would THINK but I’m starting to think it was just a plug for Commander players
@@AetherHub I'd have to agree with you for the time being since initial lore for Atraxa was something about being a note worthy angel that put up a good fight before being captured I think? In the next set she could have some screentime but at this point there's gonna be a lot of legendary creatures.
No mention of gix's severed hand and forearm!
I'm just waited for hazoret to get conpleated
So a Phyrexian kills Gix…just like Wormtongue and Saruman
Yeah in a way just like that!
🧿🙏💙
If I'm not mistaken, it's pronounced as "thai-sis"... which is an actual term for Tuberculosis.
Yo wait did you say f***ing at like 3:23 - 3:27 or was that "bucking the establishment"? Checked subtitles and it just says "one. The Establishment..." Im not a Karen, I just have never heard you cuss on the channel so it caught me off guard
Deff. bucking lol. Sorry if I’m fudging the words a little lol
@Aether Hub no no you're all good buddy was just checking. Surprised you responded, thank you! Love your content man, thank you for keeping us up to date on the lore its so appreciated ❤️
Should've titled it Compleat Story 😆
I’ve done that so many times with these Phyrexian videos. I thought I played it out lol
@@AetherHub never xD
@@AetherHub your judgment is sound
Guess who’s first, first again!
GRATS ! Hope you have a good Halloween buddy
@@AetherHub Happy Halloween!
Wait... Gix is a 3/3 and Xantcha is a 5/5?? But in the novels, Gix could stand toe-to-toe against Urza and Xantcha was terrified to death of Gix? Something doesn't add up. 😅 Also, Yawgmoth's immortality and power was because he was bound to Phyrexia... why did he so badly want to invade Dominaria when naturally, he would lose his immortality if he left his plane. 😅😅😅
He was going to link them together.
Basically having a tunnel open between A and B makes it so A will always be powering him while hes in B cause its become an "extension" of A.
He had conquered many planes. Those are lost with time, but the one he never seemed to be able to fully grasp was Dominaria. Dominaria was always the prize he wanted. Even before becoming immortal on Phyrexia.
I didn't think Gix was a demon. Is that official?
COMPLEAT Story
"artifice over humanity"
...and, you know, the 20+ OTHER races on Dominaria...
Humanoidity lol
@@AetherHub Thanks for humoring me. I am just so weary of the human-centricity.
I wonder if the gate watch will just seal Phyrexia inside a metal plane instead of destroying them. I realize it's to late for containment but since tamiyo is compleated, if they save her and karn, can't they just make a new plane with karn and lure all of Phyrexia there and then have tamiyo moon seal they shit while Chandra ignites? That kind of sounds really dope imo.
As cool as that would be I thought emrakul was the reason they sealed her into the moon so would it work again with someone who is actually resisting
Plus, not that I know for sure, but I doubt New Phyrexia is the only place Phyrexia has spread or controlled. As mentioned in this video, the Phyrexians have visited countless worlds. We know they visited Zendikar in ages past to get the Kor for Rath, that they once nearly overwhelmed whatever the name of the plane that New Capenna sits on, and that recently they've been on Kaldhiem and Kamigawa. And as we learned on Mirrodin, where there is one drop of oil, there is the potential for outbreak.
@@danielkubicek1323 can't see phyrexians wasting an opportunity to infect. Pretty sure they had sleeper agents on recent sets.
You need a pre-mending planeswalker to create an artificial plane. Karn doesn’t have near the power anymore to pull this off as the average planeswalker is just a powerful wizard
I always thought it's pronounced Gix
Clearly it's pronounced 'Gix'
@@kenthehobo no it's actually gix not gix
You show Kaladesh and Mirrodin when talking about Thran and Phyrexia...
We have 0 images in MTG on Than cities of culture. We may be getting some in BRO but until then Kaladesh is the closest comparison.
So yawgmoth is orochimaru lol
It's pronounced like Thigh-Sis
Gross! You used a 30th anniversary card! Sorry, thumbs down for that one bud. 👎🏽 Fail.
Highest quality photo 🥲
@@AetherHubit’s ok, he’s taking out frustration on you but it comes from a pain that has nothing to do with Magic
You’re doing fine
When do you start talking about Compleat??? Or did you misspell complete???