The Phyrexian Praetors: A Twisted Color Pie

Amazing video as always man. Awesome job 🎉

I know it's more of a different area but I wonder what your views on Gix compared to the other Praetors

Ngl I love this concept and what it shows and how every color can become vile and twisted without certain limits in place to keep them in check.

What is a PRAY-tir/tor/ter? PREE-tər. It's pree-tor. Preeeeeee. Not pray/prey/proh/vel-VEE-ay-tor. Velveeta. But trust me, me Eeenglish good.

What i found really cool is that urabrask helped the resistance, and its simply cause of his color identity he doesnt agree with norn cause he wants people to be independent which is a red trait he might want people to join him but out of their own choice, if he was real i would join him simply cause he values freedom.

No Atraxa? Waaack

It would be interesting to see a colorless Phyrexia

You put a lot more thought into this then Wizards did when they were actually writing the Preators during the last sets lol

Sobriety tip: take a shot whenever dice try uses "that of" correctly in a video.

The Phyrexian story and the flavour had a lot of potential but ultimately fell apart in an underwhelming whiff of stereotypical Marvel story tropes and “cinematic” moments which otherwise had little meaning

I still wish Urabrask had survived. The red praetor having Phyrexia at least be a neutral presence in the multiverse would be a cool change, even if only temporarily.

I wonder how this applies to multi colored pairings?

Phyresis twists and pushes the Magic Colors to their finest, most 'pure' form; White's sense of Order, Blue's desire for Knowledge, Black's unrelenting hunger for Power, Red's disregard of virtually all but Self, and Green's belief in Survival of the Fittest.

Urabrask was destined to be against his own people solely because Red's identity disagrees with Phyrexia's goal of Compleation.

It is interesting, with the hindsight of March of the Machines, to see how each of these Praetors turned out. But I think, in a way that is even more indicative of Phyrexia, is Atraxa. Atraxa perhaps symbolizes Phyrexia best by being 4-Color Non-Red, called The Colors of Growth due to lacking Red's potentially self-destructive capability. Given the Phyrexian goal of Compleation of the Multiverse (and thus Growing Out), this feels more fitting to their philosophies as a whole than that of Domain, or all 5 Colors of Mana.

I sort your vidoe by popularity to re find this. I missed it because it doesnt have Praetor pic in thumbnail 😂

elish norn: all will be one under phyrexia

jin-gitaxsis: there is always improvement in perfection

sheoldred: you WILL submit to phyrexia

vorinclex: only the apex predator will survive in the vicious swarm

urabrask: idk man do what you want🗿

I like Jin-Gitaxias & Urabrask the most, they both seem like they would be interesting characters to talk to. Well, and also because I think (out of the five) they're the hottest ones

Vorinclex’s hands-off approach was summed up in Mycosynth Fiend - “I wish I could take credit for it, but nature progresses on its own”.

He’s probably the most passive of the Praetors - not actively doing anything to make new phyrexian creatures or build up armies, nor interested in taking the credit for what is created.

WHAT WAS THE MUSIC YOU WERE PLAYING WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE WHITE PHYREXIANS PLS TELL ME!!!

Something im curious about is if the new Phyrexians are still aware of where Phyrexia came from, do they know who Yawgmoth was? And are there any of the original phyrexians left?

Each color leans hardest into their what they represent to show how that works toward the idea of Phyrexia like the white faction using order and control to complete their idea of Phyrexian why urabrask being red the color of chaos breaks from that mold because it is chaotic not to want the other colors completion

I like how Vorinclex is clearly uninterested in all those schemes and politic games. He's just doing his things (makes me think of the tyranids of Warhammer 40k) and could have been a good father of machines: Phyrexia would be a brutal and dangerous treat, savage and animalistic apex predators, but not interested in the multiverse until it's a perfect killer engine. It could have been an ironic take, black and white mana made Phyrexia into a cult, and green could have made it into a deeply visceral desire to be the best life form.

It's a shame that the deeply traumatic treat that was Phyrexia was soooo mangled by the recent lore

Boy did we get shafted on the story huh

Now I remember where I heard this music! It's the one that Horror Review channel uses all the time

It's not that every one of them chooses their own version of blue. In my opinion, they add colorless' transcendental nature with its purposeful mind. The oil gives them purpose, and it is through compleation they transcend and through the mana of the blessed sun's they gained themselves. It is the oil mixed with the mana that makes the faction. Now what happens when that mana has no color? What praetor would we get? And I wonder what a wubrgc phyrexian would look like, not with 1 generic mana but with true colorless mana.

Norn: We need to take over everything and I'm top dog.

Urabrask: No, f*** you.

As the heretic was torn asunder... something was wrong. Mana swirled around the praetor of chaos...and in a explosion of fire...he is gone. Yet not completely.

Floating...floating...the praetor looked around trying to find his attacker...but then he sees it.

"URABRASK." A voice spoke all around him. Or rather voices...

"Who are you? Do you desire compleation?" Scalding fire ignited from glistening oil dances across his blades.

"YOU ARE UNIQUE FOR ONE DECENDED OF YAWGMOTH. YOU SAY YOU SERVE FREEDOM. WHY NOT DO SO TRUELY?"

the flames calm themselves and disipate from urabrasks claws and blades unwillingly so. Chained almost.

"...what do you have in mind."

Thousands upon thousands,upon millions,upon millions of nightmarish creatures are revealed. But one atop a prison of white speaks and them alone.

"You shall be the voice of the eldrazi. You will herald chaos,freedom and ruin. You will destroy all those who oppose our will. And your oil shall sire many who are your praxis incarnate."

Urabrask went silent. But then the creature in a sense...smiled.

"Then may they welcome our embrace."

Urabrask then wakes upon a barren plane. He himself is restored. He is reborn as a hunter,while other colors of mana flow,red mana flows strongest. And so... unknown to the dead praetors...

*Urabrask,the father of machines and new herald of both eldrazi and his praxis wakes upon his new canvas.*

You mention Sheoldred's defeat to Norn, what is that about ? Did Sheoldred directly attack her ?

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me

Your explanation of the praetors kinda makes me parallel their ideology to that of the chaos gods from warhammer. Twisted versions of that which they personify.

Wait wants is Gixes beleifs

Amazing. Thank you very much.

Decent overview, but I really don’t appreciate how Gitaxius, Urabrask, and Vorinclex (established as male in the original Mirrodin block) are referred to as “it/they” while Elesh Norn and Sheoldred are “she/her”. Too woke for comfort.

Im relisteninf to this after we got the first “All Will Be One” stories, so I wonder what the Slices, Shards, and Dualities are like when Compleat, as we saw Ixhel, Daughter of Atraxa, begin to turn against the other Phyrexians, and she is Green White Black.

Outside of lore, I'm pretty sure blue has no morality.

Awesome vid Dice
Can I ask whats the name of the music during the Elesh Norn segment?
Does anybody knows?

these guys seem like the mtg borg.. lol.

it seems like here white is filtered through blue.. wonder wht would happen if the roles were reversed... blue were filtered through white... what would change or would things be the same.

Urabrask the based

I know Atraxa isn't a Praetor, but it is interesting to note, that upon her completion, red mana was left out, almost as though red is contrary to perfection or completion.

Urabrask vs Norn, or why the true essence of good is freedom not peace

The phyrexians represent what is left after biological nature is stripped away from a living being and that is a basic calculating machine that only can think in 1 or 0 and can’t see the wider perspective that existence can offer as experienced and perceived by a biological being 🤷

Very nice.

My friend and I made a D&D state block for Vorinclex. He is dangerous and will likely turn you into a Phyrexian after the fight.

Atraxia, is she in this color pie?

I always found phyrexia to be the most interesting plane in magic. I also wonder what Gix represents since he is a pre-mirrodin phyrexian

It's interesting how Phyerxia twisted the color pie. However, I have to wonder how the other colors would function when they are grouped with Colorless?

For Blue/Colorless, I see the very heart of it's philosophy being nihilism.

I don't know what a white/colorless philosophy would be, but I can see a creature white/colorless creature being Friend Computer from the Paranoia table top game.

“The phyrexians are the most evil race in mtg”
Ulamog would like to know what plane your on so he can warp to it creative mode style and absorb you