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| {{otheruses3|Mirrodin (disambiguation)}}
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| Originally created by the [[golem]] [[Karn|Karn Planeswalker]] as '''Argentum''' as an existing but desolate space, '''Mirrodin''' is a plane in the ''Magic'' multiverse.<ref group="note">According to [[Will McDermott]], Karn created the fabric of the world itself; but, the space it occupies existed prior to his creation. He chose to transform the empty plane rather than attempt to create a fully artificial world.</ref><ref>{{Cite MTGS|author=Will McDermott|date=January 5, 2006|URL=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showpost.php?p=731253&postcount=172|title=Ask the author(s)}}</ref>
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| ==History==
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| When [[Karn]] ascended to being a [[planeswalker]] during the events of the [[Apocalypse]] on [[Dominaria]], he left that world to create a perfect metallic plane he called [[Argentum]] which became known as [[Mirrodin (plane)|Mirrodin]]. However, being that Karn had always been powered by the sleeper agent [[Xantcha]]'s Phyrexian "heart," he inadvertently dripped a small amount of the corrupting [[Phyrexian oil]] on his perfect world before leaving it in the care of [[Memnarch]], who found the oil and simply wiped it up with his hand. That began to corrupt him, and combined with his use of [[blinkmoth serum]], began to change his body into a metal/flesh hybrid. Memnarch spent much of his time fighting the [[mycosynth]] that the oil produced, which attempted to reach Mirrodin’s mana-rich core. After Memnarch's fall, nothing prevented the mycosynth from acquiring its power source and over time the Phyrexians were reborn.
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| ===Pre-Mirrodin Cycle===
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| The first inhabitants of Mirrodin were the [[Accorders]] and [[the Vanished Ones]].{{Citation needed}}
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| ===Mirrodin Cycle===
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| To oversee his plane, Karn left one of his creations, [[Memnarch]], a sentient golem version of the [[Mirari]], as the steward of Mirrodin.
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| Karn left one of his creations, [[Memnarch]] (a [[golem]] created from the [[Mirari]]) in control of the plane when he went out to explore the [[Multiverse]]. Unfortunately for Argentum, Memnarch was driven mad by [[Phyrexian]] [[Glistening oil|oil]]<ref>According to Will McDermott ([http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showpost.php?p=724665&postcount=155 source]), the original idea was that it was [[Phyrexian]] oil ([[glistening oil]]), which was the final (though unfinished) weapon of [[Yawgmoth]], destined for the [[Phyrexian Invasion|invasion on Dominaria]].</ref>
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| that Karn accidentally left in Galdroon Palace, Karn's home on the plane. After being infected, Memnarch was a being forever changed and wished to become a planeswalker like its creator. Memnarch transformed Argentum into Mirrodin, essentially a gigantic terrarium with its own food chain and environmental systems, built to supply organisms that could potentially yield sparks. Once Memnarch found such a being, he would take its spark and implant it into himself to achieve planeswalker status.
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| At some point, [[mycosynth]] arrived on the plane, a product of the oil, changing metal to organic material, including Memnarch himself. Soon thereafter, Memnarch discovered [[blinkmoth serum]], or lymph, which greatly diminished his decaying sanity, and he became addicted to the substance. Though Karn wished to intervene, Memnarch blocked him from his own world, thinking in his madness that Karn was already there.
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| The outer sphere of Mirrodin had a circumference of 1400 kilometers, with a diameter of around 450 kilometers.<ref>According to Will McDermott. [http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showpost.php?p=1143941&postcount=30 Source]. For comparison, the diameter of Earth's moon is 3476 kilometers.</ref>
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| Mirrodin had five suns (also called moons by some of the plane's inhabitants; it is also notable that each different satellite was regarded with its own folklore by the peoples of Mirrodin), one for each color of mana, though the green sun was absent until late in Mirrodin's history. The names of the moons are: [[Bringer (Moon of Mirrodin)|Bringer]], the [[Eye of Doom]], [[Ingle]], the [[Sky Tyrant]] and [[Lyese (Moon of Mirrodin)|Lyese]].
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| Across the surface of Mirrodin, there were five [[Lacunae]], one for each [[color]], in each different landscape on the artificial world.
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| ====''The Fifth Dawn''====
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| [[Glissa]], [[Bosh]], and [[Slobad]] and the [[Kaldra Champion]] journeyed deep within Mirrodin's core to confront the insidious Memnarch. However, with a single spell, Memnarch seized the [[avatar]] and turned it on Glissa and her companions. Kaldra's avatar relentlessly pursued Glissa into the [[Tangle]], destroying everything in its way. Finally, at the [[Radix]], Glissa's destiny became clear. As rage and despair overcame her, Glissa's body called forth a great column of [[green]] [[mana]] from Mirrodin's core, annihilating the avatar in the process. That mana bcame the fifth sun of Mirrodin. Memnarch was then deactivated by Glissa. Mirrodin was thereafter guarded by Glissa, Slobad and [[Geth]].
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| ===Scars of Mirrodin Cycle===
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| After the events of the [[Fifth Dawn]], much of Mirrodin’s population disappeared, returned home by Memnarch’s soul traps. And slowly and methodically the Phyrexians began taking over Mirrodin’s surface. These events are played out in the sets [[Scars of Mirrodin]], [[Mirrodin Besieged]], and [[New Phyrexia]].
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| After the events of the Fifth Dawn, much of Mirrodin’s population disappeared, returned home by Memnarch’s soul traps. The remaining inhabitants finally began to identify themselves as Mirrans.
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| ==Locations on Mirrodin==
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| * The [[Glimmervoid]]
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| * [[Mephidross]] (location of the [[Black]] Lacuna)
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| ** [[Ish Sah]]
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| * [[Mirrodin's Core]]
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| ** [[Panopticon]]
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| * The [[Oxidda Chain]] (location of the [[Red]] Lacuna)
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| ** [[Kuldotha]]
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| * The [[Quicksilver Sea]]
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| ** [[Lumengrid]]
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| ** [[Medev]]
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| ** The [[Pool of Knowledge]] (location of the [[Blue]] Lacuna)
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| * The [[Razor Fields]]
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| ** The [[Cave of Light]] (location of the [[White]] Lacuna)
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| ** [[Taj-Nar]]
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| * [[Rey-Goor]], the Black Bayou
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| * The [[Tangle]]
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| ** The [[Radix]] (location of the [[Green]] Lacuna)
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| ** [[Tel-Jilad]]
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| ==New Phyrexia==
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| {{Main|New Phyrexia}}
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| ==Notes==
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| {{Reflist|group=note}}
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| ==External links==
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| *''[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Multiverse/planes.aspx?plane=mirrodin Planes of Existence: Mirrodin]'', [[magicthegathering.com]]
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| *'''(Flash)''' ''[http://www.wizards.com/magic/#/planes-of-the-multiverse/mirrodin/ Planes of the Multiverse: Mirrodin]'', [[magicthegathering.com]]
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| *[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/137 Part 1]
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| *[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/138 Part 2]
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| *[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/139 Part 3]
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| *[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/140 Part 4]
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| *[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/141 Part 5]
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| [[Category:Planeswalker Saga]]
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