Coolest bit of mechanical flavor is that as the Phyrexian forces "Proliferate" they can make the "Battle" last longer.

Wow true 🤭🤭 That's cool

The Battle's hit points being counters is dumb

@Myojin of Night's Reach I mean it's the only practical way of keeping track. Only other way is for that number to be how much damage you have to deal to it in one turn like a creature. Other than that, the only way to keep track of a changing total (That's not life) over more than one turn is with counters.

​@Myojin of Night's Reach iipp😊i 🎉❤😊😂😂

You're not wrong, just don't know how they would do it another way as fluently though.

No credits? This is some great work y'all. That mirroring avenged got me all choked up

what makes me a little sad is that it is the same thing as "You are already dead"

If Innistrad is being featured, I really want an Unruly Mob reprint with flavour text along the lines of "here we go again."

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PLEASE

phyrexian human horror- one-ruly mob 1 colorless and 2 phyrexian white for a 1/3 whenever a phyrexian enters the battlefield or a non-phyrexian creature enters the graveyard incubate 1

Did Tamiyo and Anissa not tell Norn about Emrakul?

So cool that the ability in Realmbreaker mimics the original World Tree

"Everyone and their mums packing Praetor tribal 'round here." "Like who?" "Commander players." "Who else?" "Commander players Mums."

The team that worked on Elesh Norn's walk at 12:42 did the most amazing job! If this were a full movie and we had a little breathing room to take it in, that would be one of the most memorable poses ever!

breathing room is what mtg´s storytelling needs.

@Gonçalo Ferreira and product line

i cannot express how much i love Borborygmos and Fbltph's showcase art

As a casual M:TG observer that looked cool. The presentation was well done.

I wish this battle had been spread over one more set but i have to say flavor wise this is def one of the coolest sets ever! That video was amazing!

The art in this set is the coolest I have ever seen. Wasn’t hyped for this set. Am now hyped x1000

same

Damn I’m so sad urabrask is gone, really liked his character, would have been a great plot twist for him or one of the praetors to get a spark( if that’s even possible)

While the actual story depicts him chopped into fours, the card has him just left limbless, but alive. If anything, that could mean he's the last living praetor, albeit trapped within a phased out new phyrexia.

I believe they're closing Phyrexia's arc for good. That's why all praetors will die.

@Trevor Jamieson Well he wouldn’t be the last left unless Elesh kills Shelly too

@LethaL Norn Killed Shelly.

Specifically, The Ajaninator

Can we appreciate how awesome the Voice Over people were on this! Becca & Riley kill it.

Pretty sure I heard Lady Danger and Joe Johnson as well

@Brian Sterling I was gona say, it sounds like Joe Johnson

What a great way to present the set! Please! More like this!

Im actually a bit upset about how safe this set seems to be ending 🤣 it feels like this whole ordeal is going to end up being a good thing because now the planes are connected, all we lost were a few throw away characters because all of the main characters were somehow uncompleated. I'd hoped for more than a War of the Spark 2 level event.

So if it helps, Vorinclex, a praetor of New Phyrexia, invaded Kaldheim and in the process infected Tibalt, wounded Esika, and compleated numerous people and animals. The wiki says “the outcome of this interaction has yet to be revealed”. So maybe there’s a possibility they’ll be back? Source: trust me bro (Kidding, MtG Wiki fandom page: “New Phyrexia”, under “Forays to Other Planes”, first and second paragraphs)

The art in this set is a chef’s kiss. Just perfection 👏🏻

Dang seems like the good guys win again, I really wanted phyrexia VS The Eldrazi! The biggest game to hunt!

Very nice production. Can't wait for the new set.

Zilortha's flavor text deserves a nod.

Yup it is bad ass.

6:49

New Phyrexia and Ikoria casually comparing sizes of their monsters

🎉

The text is nice, but Zolortha isn't... 8/8 without trample for this size.🥲

MtG sets used to come in blocks of three, giving plenty of time to absorb, appreciate, and digest the story. Now, we are lucky to get two consecutive sets that follow a common story - and this current story, with the AMAZING buildup in ONE, feels like such an anticlimax for an enemy that has dotted magic's history for more than 25 years. I liked the characters that got compleated, but they should have stayed dead or gone. It's tragic, but makes the story more impactful for the heroes to experience the losses proportional to the biggest, baddest villains MTG has ever seen.

Love the use of the soul parry phrase to add more flavour to an allready impressive set.They pulled out all the stops on this one, including the kitchen sink.😃😃😃😃 ❤❤

Phyrexians: Invade the Multiverse Teferi: *Flips uno reverse

Nothing so perfectly encapsulates how rushed MtG's story is than saying 'the battle for the multiverse has begun' at 9:52 and then showing Elesh Norn's death less than 4 minutes later.

honestly 😭, they could have had a few more sets to fully depict the story… They’re running out of source material 💀

It is a game after all, and frankly ... we knew these things would happen the immediate moment we get to see the card reveals One can call it rushed sure ... but then one has never actually looked at magic cards during reveal season before "Oh, who is this mysterious entity on Innistrad?" "Emrakul, I mean we knew this was likely what the fate of Innistrad was gonna be when Innistrad revealed itself as a plane the first time around but its nice that all of these 'clues' weren't so much clues as much as a game mechanic since you know, we knew from the other cards immediately what happened with Emrakul" You can extrapolate this to literally 'all' of MTG's storylines - the only difference is that we have had years worth of buildup ever since the defeat of Nicol Bolas, and we got confirmation about this once we saw Vorinclex on Kaldheim ... its hardly been rushed if you go back and actually look at the stuff that built up towards it

@ArgentumEmperio Yes yes, your essay in refute of my single line quip is duly noted.

@SniperDave dude are u only here to stir some kind of commotion x) relax and stop that very passive aggressive attitude, it really does not help anybody, not even yourself xD be more appreciative of how much work goes into all of these cards and this product that we are able to enjoy. some people these days really cannot be satisfied with anything.

GAme of Thrones level bulidup to 2 pump chump resolution

I only wish that story wise, they stretched out the invasion to 2 parts/sets. Seems kinda silly how they keep saying “the invasion begins” when we already know it ended and who won Either that, or a mini set for all the side stories of the phyrexian invasion released first, then the main set where the invasion’s climax concludes released a few months later

Can we please get a animated series for MTG I would pay ALOT just to see that!

By alot you mean monthly Netflix sub

The cinematic was absolutely amazing. Please, we need a movie or a series like it.

I love this set! the ideas of mix two legends, although I reeeeally dislike cards make with 3d characters and backgrouds, they are suuuuuper akward

If you look at the teferi planeswalker background, its just the flip side, well flipped and pasted teferi on top with a shader for the background. Don't know how to feel of this, just thought it was worth a mention.

@N'Zeezoo Stupid III wow i did not see that, it look wierd. The one I really dislike it is rankle and torbran, looks like videogame picture. What I enjoy the most about magic it is the art, so I hope they dont continue along this path

I am actually excited about this set. Here's to hope it's limited is fun. (:

Se ve increíble el SET

How can you make such a good video? I really enjoyed it

Seeing the multiverse being invaded is so HYPE! UNLEASH BOLAS

This set looks so 🆒 ❤❤❤!!!!!

Maybe, the cinematic and the cards will bring the closure that we are wanting 😊 I like how MTG's plot is never finalized through only one media - it's always many: the web stories, the cards, the cinematic, Arena... Counting the hours for the wrap up 🥰

Remember we’re also gonna be getting the Aftermath story after this set

So hyped about this

Can't wait to watch this, this set seems so fun and interesting!

Really hope to see some Amonket cards in this set

There are some! A simic Naga cleric just got posted

@Aes ooh

great reveal video. keep this format!

Jesus this cinematic was crazy. And the cards are great too. Awesome job.

What incentive do other opponents have to attack a battle? If only the casting player reaps the benefit?

this looks rad! And i know that everyone is tired of Phyrexia - but it would be cool to see some clues left that Yawgmoth is still out there. maybe we can come back to him in 10 years or so, as it was with new Phyrexia

i love this kind of presentation

One art card for Quintorious this time around, please!

I can’t wait to make a new Phyrexia deck

New term unlocked. First we had "Bolt the Bird". Now we have "Bolt the Battle".

Was really hoping they'd free Emrakul from the moon, guess we'll have to see.

Seems like War of Spark feels but with Phyrexians as the villains.

That trailer was gorgeous.

This is one of the best sets yet!

It isn't out yet..

Im so sad that Urubrask is gone! He better get some sort of recognition for his coolness

I'm not sure if he's gone. Just "repurposed". Considering what happens in the rest of the story, I hope he gets to carry the torch of Phyrexia in some shape or form, or maybe even give his power to Atraxa.

​@Justin Andersonatraxa got part of a city dropped on her and died

I wonder how solemnity will interact with battles. Are battles a separate archetype that will count for delirium?

Solemnity doesn't say battles. Delirium will see battle since it's a card type

They also specifically leave out Walkers

ixilan is involved i crave Huatli's return!

I want a clean image of Norn and Elspeth doing the stare down as a background drop.

The mechanic is cool, but the concept of the battle cards doesn't seem to be flushed out. I think they could've went one of two ways: 1. You pay the mana cost to initiate a "battle" with target opponent. If you can get pass your opponent and break through its defense counters, you win the battle and get the flip side as reward. 2. Instead of calling the new permanent a "battle", they could''ve called it an "incubator", like the new incubate mechanic. This way, it makes sense that you can attack it and deal damange to it.

Everytime I see onmath.... I am worried but not for the multiverse

I like that even if/when the Phyrexians lose, we will still have no way of knowing how many worlds they reached... and how many new new Phyrexias may now be out there. and is everyone just going to glide past the fact that they went to the Homelands!? That is kind of a big deal there!

@Joey Joe Joe You're fucking kidding me? They seriously pulled that shit?

@Joey Joe Joe aww... weak... but that cant be true for all Phyrexians, right? Maybe just the white aligned ones? We could always just throw in something about Gitaxian setting up some contingency plans on other worlds, right?

@grim triX New Phyrexia gets swapped with Zhalifir in the multiverse so it's cut off from everything. That all said, yes, there's still tons of oil now across many many planes so someone could always do something with it. If only there were some kind of evil Esper planeswalker just running around unaccounted for, hm.....

@Tony Smith the story is really bad. Makes War of Spark look good by comparison.

I want the art on mirrodin avenged as a playmat.

I want to art of ajani

seems like a solid card and really i just want to keep seeing that art of karn holding norn's head over and over

This set has the best artwork overall gj wizards

The story (at least the main story articles) were kind of a mixed bag for me. I mostly really liked the first eight articles. It was all extremely tense, building up really well to Wrenn summoning Zhalfir - And then, uh. The rest happens? I guess? They kinda just gloss over that part

WotC has been terrible at story since a couple of years back

@Myojin of Night's Reach I haven't actually read the stories for most sets or anything but the buildup to the payoffs seem alright... its just the execution that's awful. Like slowly introducing all the components of Bolas' plan over the years and having one phyrexian per set (from Kaldheim to Dominaria United (I guess Brother's War technically had Gix)) was done well, but both endings were just garbage. Especially this one imo.

​@Myojin of Night's Reach I really wish they did a block for this event. Like 3 sets. 2 of which could have been focused on the beginning of the event amount different planes. The last one could have been the magnum opus of the event

Some people had really low expectations to the story. What Wotc did? They turned it reality. Absolutely awful in so many levels.

Glad zetalpa has yet to be completed. Not many other creatures can stand up to elesh norn and the other praetors.

The set looks great, just wish the story wasn't so rushed and underwhelming.

We finally got the last sword in Sword of Once and Future. i'm getting that along with Etali and Zilortha. Aside from that I'm now curious. What happens to all the beings that were turned into Phyrexians. Will they go back to normal.. or will this be permanent.

I would love to see phyrexians in future sets as remnants to this war. Like evolved phyrexians that survived on their designated planes and are just one card show ups here and there. Would you agree?

I was hoping for something more interesting for the plot, big-picture-wise, than just nuking another flavorful villain. What if, instead of victory, the war ended in an uneasy detente, with Elesh Norn in control of many of the planes that were ravaged, but contained there as a source of story intrigue and even, I'm surprised to say, political suspense?

If Batles become a thing in EDH, I recommend Thief of Blood or Vampire Hexmage.

Cant believe they printed a new zilortha before making a paper Version of the first ine

Ah, that explains it. I thought it was a new character.

Que buena exp de commander

Cool looking set

nerding out like crazy on these images of war across the multiverse planes!

The two cards at the end: "Two point Saber combo"

Battles are confusing but seem cool af

It's a planeswalker you give to someone and then "liberate" by beating the shit out of them

@MarineS0n2 seems reasonable enough

The Etali card is insane 💀

Wotc: phyrexia invades and will destroy everything! What we really get: phyrexia invades and are stopped by randos on the streets. No one dies, only phyrxians.

Oh compleat means nothing. Hooray uncompleat!

Well, Lukka dies. Wrenn dies. Karn gives up Venser's spark. Atraxa dies. Tibalt died last set. Tamiyo becomes a force-ghost. Meliria dies. Nahiri is buried under a bunch of rocks on Zendikar. All the praetors die. Millions across several planes die. Vraska and Jace are still both MIA and dealing with the fallout of phyresis/compleation. It beats War of the Spark, but, yes, I was hoping that this would be the end of one of the Lorwyn 5 (or even at least Nissa). Not quite the reset button I was hoping for, but let's be honest--the first time that Phyrexia invaded they were beaten because Urza shot Yawgmoth with a big laser beam. Teferi and Wrenn pulling a temporal inversion and Koth, Karn, and Elspeth kill and unmake Norn is absolutely a more satisfying conclusion, though the whole 'all the phyrexians shut off like robots and the oil is now useless!' aspect of it does feel like a cop-out. At least we're getting an aftermath set.

@Laurent Robitaille It's the getting there that's interesting. Besides, maybe she won't and the image is literally just there to deceive you. Folks are quick to deride WotC for presenting plots too much like Marvel and this is a fairly common strategy they employ in their trailers.

The MtG story in recent years is just a bad copy of MCU. Awful.

Are battles nonland permanents? or is it only affected by things like 'any target'?

Well they are permanents, and they are not lands, so yeah.

Let Ajani be available as a commander you monsters! he's earned it!

My immediate reactions, in order, (1) This looks really cool and fun, (2) I'm worried WotC wants to push sales with power creep because the set looks crazy strong, (3) Battle cards should be portrait-oriented, not landscape, good luck reading the card in your hand without revealing to your opponent you're holding a Battle, (4) I'm concerned that this set won't be fun for draft and/or sealed because the big, splashy cards look crazy good and if the commons and uncommons suck, it might come down to who gets lucky instead of drafting and deckbuilding skill.

0:53 "...what remained of Urabrask heard Elesh Norn say, 'Leave the traitor be.'" Oooh, that clapback was 12 years in the making.

Battles feel a bit too gimmicky to me outside Commander but the rest looks really good :)

Considering most of the flip-sides are bombs; it might be worth it in limited. That being said, I think removal, above everything, is a necessity.

They're pretty much sorceries but better in every way. As far as we've seen, they're all on rate for the sorceries they copy.

@MetalHev ...I'm call them more a cross between Planeswalkers and enchantment/sorceries.

@Dana Bell the whole point is that they do something when they etb. If the front side is bad by itself, the card is pretty much unplayable.

Melira really be out here paying the highest price to free Ajani. My commander and my planeswalker.

People are crying about how phyresis and compleation could be reversed and it's like Yeah, by the only person in the multiverse naturally immune to it, who dies immediately after curing it in two people, and also by The most powerful time wizard in the multiverse Another planeswalker giving up their spark Kind of a high cost, especially given there could have been way easier cop-outs with Halo.

I really hope we get a new Karn legendary creature! 😭

But he's a planeswalker...

@Darksora you gotta read the story my dude.

@Darksora not anymore. the story explains it.

We have new art for some Showcase like a Niv Mizzet and Kolaghan maybe... Will we be back soon to their planes?

I don't really understand the flavour of battles. You play them by choosing someone else, which means you're attacking, which would supposedly make you the phyrexians for most of them (like Ikoria). So why are the big transformed rewards the defending parties?

Yeah, it should be some kind of reward for the attacking forces.

Marchesa is like, "I am keeping my Throne, you lowly peasant constructs".

NO! How is Phyrexia gonna be dead? I guess there are some remnants, but they are my fav villian.

This is some unreal power creep.

Here we go! I'm pumped

Elesh Norn: i am invincible! My legion will conquers all! Me, holding onto a Desire Driver: you might wanna say that again, otherworldly ceramic lady. I will show you the climax of the highlight to this invasion.

What if Eldrazi invade Phyrexia?

I love seeing Elesh Norn defeated. This is what you get for all the frustration you caused me on Magic Arena during All Will be One! I love the epic events described in this debut. Good guys winning, lost characters redeemed. Wish it could be cinematized, for example as cut scenes in an MtG video games. Also, can't wait to play with Battle cards.

Chandra meeting Nissa breaks my heart😭

So dose the flipped battle go on your side?

Man, this is DOPE

Etali looks SICK

I was staring at "Elspeth's Smite" with sadness. I sided with the phirexians and their vision of compleation since the beginning. I wanted all the planeswalkers dead, that s not a good ending for me. No

Not our mommy die to a sword 😢

@CastielDhira 😁 4 entire expansions dedicated to Phirexia, just to die from a sword hit

still hoping for an Insane Clown Posse set or at least a secret lair! whoop whoop

They got colossal dread maw in the trailer, LETS GO!!!!!!!

you can counter the back fases of battles right?

Imagine if Avacyn came instead, she'd fking drop Elesh....lol but Even so Elesh is fking dope!

Blocks-of-text Cards, a NEW amazing card type .. that is barely anything new. Certainly, the art from the great artists make the story of Nicol Bolas' invasion of Ravnica a joke (but I'm sure it will find a way to disappoint us all, still). Meh, we'll see the full set when it comes out.. but I certainly won't spend a dime.

best mtg lore so far, well done

What Lore? That a huge invasion is going to be stopped by a lot of nobodies? And that Phyrexians will cease to exist just because Wizards didn't know how to write a better story?

Here's an Idea, lol. Proior Engagement. Red - Draw/ Thassa Oracal Like/ Instant. ( 0 ) If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you do not lose the game. Instead put each card in your graveyard on top of your library in a random order, and discard your hand. Draw 2 cards. Shuffle this card into your Library, when you next draw this card, you win the game.

im interested in reading the lore/story of MTG. is there a book or link anyone? thanks

No one gonna talk about the Kozilek looking Eldrazi in 9:54 ??????

I feel like this set could have definitely been spread across maybe another extra set or two. I don’t think we need to do blocks based on single planes again but for an event with such gravity and setting, and something labeled a “war”, the depth of such an event could have been encapsulated throughout multiple sets, allowing more focus onto the impacted planes themselves in a more thorough way and making us feel like this “war” didn’t just happen and immediately get resolved. It makes this whole plan new phyrexia had feel like such a letdown when you compare it to how long it took dominaria to answer to old phyrexia and what it took to get there. With nicol bolas, it made so much more sense why it had to end in a single set, because he’s just one individual with a horde of zombies being guided by someone who was definitely going to betray him. New phyrexia developed just as thorough of a plan but the scope of it was much grander and I just can’t see how they’d want to rush this event in a single set. I know there’s an aftermath set but that doesn’t help make the war feel any less rushed