Quicksilver Sea
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The Quicksilver Sea was a large body of liquid metal on Mirrodin. After the Phyrexian conquest of the plane, it was drained into the Surgical Bay.
Description
Though the sea resembles mercury, it is an otherwordly liquid.[1] The Vedalken Spires, islands of solid metal, probably tin, arise from the sea in strange formations. The vedalken live in a massive structure called Lumengrid, located somewhere near the shore of the Quicksilver Sea, while their Neurok servants dwell in settlements of tin on the shore nearby. The Blue Lacuna, located beneath the Pool of Knowledge, was in the general area of the Quicksilver Sea.
In the Quicksilver Sea was a spot where the liquid simply refused to flow - a large, circular space where the "floor" was the silvery sea bed and the "wall" around the space was quicksilver suspended as though by a forcefield. Within this spot stood the Titan Forge, a huge device for creating towering metal colossus after colossus.[2]
With the Phyrexianisation of Mirrodin, the waters of the Quicksilver Sea have been modified. Glistening oil has been mixed with the liquid metal, creating a fluid that quickly corrodes away living organisms and artifacts, their spare parts later used for the creation of new things. Despite this, members of the Progress Machine have built an "underwater" laboratory that is designing sea monsters.
After the Phyrexians made nine layers, the former surface of Mirrodin became a wasteland known as Mirrex. The Quicksilver Sea was transplanted to the fifth layer, becoming the Surgical Bay[3][4]
The Surgical Bays
The Surgical Bays are the blue-aligned fifth sphere of New Phyrexia, initially designed as a reservoir of glistening oil before Jin-Gitaxias drained the quicksilver oceans above into it; as it was originally known as the Fourth Sphere, it began as Kraynox's oil sphere before Jin-Gitaxias took over.[5] Sterile laboratories rise from islands in the middle of the sea of quicksilver and glistening oil. Even breathing the spray of the sphere's fountains can begin phyresis.[6] Mechanical eyes appear in all places and on most Phyrexians to observe all who enter and reside in this sphere. Painful and inhumane experiments are conducted here to further Phyrexian knowledge though no real substance is gained. Jin-Gitaxias and the Progress Engine reside here.
The Fathom Ward, an "underwater" installation, holds the last doses of blinkmoth serum.
In-game references
- Represented in:
- Associated cards:
- Depicted in:
- Island (Mirrodin, #291)
- Island (Mirrodin, #292)
- Island (Mirrodin, #293)
- Island (Mirrodin, #294)
- Island (Scars of Mirrodin, #234)
- Island (Scars of Mirrodin, #235)
- Island (Scars of Mirrodin, #236)
- Island (Scars of Mirrodin, #237)
- Referred to:
- ^† Scryfall does not record flavor text for digital cards. See Alchemy: Phyrexia/Flavor text
References
- ↑ Magic Arcana (October 06, 2003). "Mirrodin Environments: Blue". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Monty Ashley (March 31, 2011). "Sketches: Titan Forge". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Jay Annelli. (2022.) Magic: The Gathering - The Visual Guide, KBB
- ↑ Grace Fong (January 31, 2023). "Planeswalker's Guide to Phyrexia: All Will Be One". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/planeswalkers-guide-to-phyrexia-all-will-be-one
- ↑ Seanan McGuire (January 14, 2023). "Assault on New Phyrexia - Episode 3: Inconceivable Losses". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
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