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Originally created by the golem Karn Planeswalker as Argentum as an existing but desolate space, Mirrodin is a plane in the Magic multiverse.^{[note 1][1]}

History

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. 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.

Pre-Mirrodin Cycle

The first inhabitants of Mirrodin were the Accorders and the Vanished Ones.^{[citation needed]}

Mirrodin Cycle

To oversee his plane, Karn left one of his creations, Memnarch, a sentient golem version of the Mirari, as the steward of Mirrodin.

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 oil^[2] 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.

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.

The outer sphere of Mirrodin had a circumference of 1400 kilometers, with a diameter of around 450 kilometers.^[3] 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, the Eye of Doom, Ingle, the Sky Tyrant and Lyese.

Across the surface of Mirrodin, there were five Lacunae, one for each color, in each different landscape on the artificial world.

The Fifth Dawn

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.

Scars of Mirrodin Cycle

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.

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.

Locations on Mirrodin

• The Glimmervoid
• Mephidross (location of the Black Lacuna)
  • Ish Sah
• Mirrodin's Core
  • Panopticon
• The Oxidda Chain (location of the Red Lacuna)
  • Kuldotha
• The Quicksilver Sea
  • Lumengrid
  • Medev
  • The Pool of Knowledge (location of the Blue Lacuna)
• The Razor Fields
  • The Cave of Light (location of the White Lacuna)
  • Taj-Nar
• Rey-Goor, the Black Bayou
• The Tangle
  • The Radix (location of the Green Lacuna)
  • Tel-Jilad

New Phyrexia

Notes

References

External links

• Planes of Existence: Mirrodin, magicthegathering.com
• (Flash) Planes of the Multiverse: Mirrodin, magicthegathering.com
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5