Gutting of Phyrexia
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| Era | War with Phyrexia | ||||
| Date | 4206 AR | ||||
| Location | Phyrexia | ||||
| Sets | Apocalypse | ||||
| Characters | Bo Levar, Daria, Freyalise, Guff, Kristina of the Woods, Taysir, Tevesh Szat, Urza, Windgrace, and everyone on Phyrexia | ||||
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The Gutting of Phyrexia was an event on Phyrexia during the Phyrexian Invasion of Dominaria.[1]
Description
The Gutting of Phyrexia was one of the most pivotal and dramatic events of the Phyrexian Invasion of Dominaria, marking the near-absolute destruction of the plane of Phyrexia plane and the source of legend for the Nine Titans — a coalition of powerful planeswalkers assembled by Urza for a final assault against Yawgmoth’s empire.
Urza, having long sought to end Phyrexia’s threat, created massive war machines called Titan Engines to protect the Nine Titans as they ventured into Phyrexia’s lethal environment. These suits were heavily armed with mana cannons, falcon engines, and Thran-inspired designs meant to crush Phyrexian horrors by the hundreds.
The Titans entered Phyrexia carrying soul bombs — devastating weapons powered by the essence of living beings. Urza had long struggled with the moral implications of these weapons, ultimately seeking a solution by recruiting Tevesh Szat, a planeswalker known for his cruelty. Urza anticipated Szat’s eventual betrayal, planning to use his powerful soul to fuel the soul bombs.
As predicted, Szat turned on his comrades, killing Kristina of the Woods and Daria. Urza swiftly activated the kill rubric in Szat’s Titan Engine, draining his soul into the bombs and revealing to the other Titans that he had engineered this treachery. The revelation horrified his allies, but the mission continued.
However, as the war dragged through the nightmarish spheres of Phyrexia, Urza’s resolve wavered. Shaken by the death of his old friend Barrin, seduced by the terrible beauty of the plane, and haunted by the glee with which his companions wrought destruction, Urza fell under Yawgmoth’s influence. He dismantled the master soul bomb — the device that would have triggered a chain reaction across all the bombs — and slew Taysir using the kill rubric when confronted about that fact. Urza then abandoned his cause and submitted himself to Yawgmoth.
The remaining four Titans — Freyalise, Bo Levar, Lord Windgrace, and Commodore Guff — discovered Urza’s betrayal. Determined to complete the mission even without the master switch, they manually detonated the soul bombs across the plane. The resulting devastation shattered the first seven spheres of Phyrexia, leaving its once-terrifying empire a smoldering ruin.
In the aftermath, Guff revealed a bitter truth: though Phyrexia was gutted, Yawgmoth had already departed, carrying his essence to Dominaria through a portal in his inner sanctum. The destruction of his plane meant little, as Yawgmoth would soon make his final move to claim the world he had long sought to conquer. Yawgmoth's sanctum itself would later be destroyed by a wave of magma pouring in through the same portal, leaving the entire plane a gutted, broken shell.
The Gutting of Phyrexia thus stands as both a devastating blow to the Phyrexian Empire and a grim prelude to the horrors that would soon befall Dominaria.[1]
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References
- ↑ a b J. Robert King - (2001) Apocalypse, Wizards of the Coast.