A Mirran Review of Phyrexia: All Will Be One 

What's your favourite Mirran in the set?

On the additional clothing worn by Mirrans now, my assumption would be that it used to be hot as you said because Mirrodin had 5 suns, but with the Monumental Facade covering the original surface it is in fact colder now. That and after being at war with Phyrexia for years a sort of arms race led to them being more heavily armored. Seems reasonable enough to me.

I am so gratified that someone out there loves Myr as Myr deserve to be loved. Thank you, sir, for your kindred spirit.

Ngl, just keep making videos that involve you talking about stuff and I'll be satisfied. Don't worry about schedules or whatever.

I enjoyed that we had Lukka as a "everyone hates this guy" character. he's so oddly compelling to me, and it really is just perfect that he essentially compleated himself.

I think the mirrans being, in their vast majority, aurioks and vulshoks is largely due to white and red being the color pair for the rebels on this set. The only creatures that aren't either phyrexians, white or red in this set are the 3 myrs, the legendary Juggernaut, the Sylvok battlechair, Thrun, Melira, and Blade of Shared Souls. There simply aren't many survivors left.

the way I understand the bladearms Nahiri thing is that she can alter her body with lithomancy since she's made of metal now, or something like that. I agree with you that the bladearms look silly, though, I think adding more blades and more arms would've looked better

Blade arm Nahiri proves that not all of Phyrexia's evolution can be considered progress...

The weird thing about the Lukka & Nissa story is that it does a really good job at showing him being slowly mentally converted, and the confusion that comes with that, while both he and Nissa make actively terrible decisions in the story.

As a huge fan of tribal decks. And a humongous fan of Myr... This guy is definitely going in my all myr/phyrexia commander deck.

The Blinkmoth serum was also used in creating Dark Steel in older Mirrodin sets.

After watching the last video on New Phyrexia and the Myr speech, I was lowkey imagining some myr rebel cards. I know it's very out there given their origin, but a myr rebel force purely built on the idea that they reproduce en masse to fight against Phyrexia's antithesis of myrdom sounded inspiring, if not very believable.

27:15 the fact that you had such a visceral, emotional reaction to seeing a Phyrexian design is actually a good thing! Phyrexians take all you love and destroy them

15:28 ikr?! Especially considering that both the plates AND blinkmoths have proven to be very corruptible themselves! (From Ichorplate Golem and Inkmoth Nexus)

I think the blade arms are supposed to show that she can shape-shift her body through her lithomancy abilities. I don't think her arms are permanently swords, she just had them in that configuration for this one moment, likely right before she went into battle or something. Also, are you all forgetting Nahiri's Stoneblades? She's already done this before. Think of Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchenist and his sword arm. It's not always a sword, he just uses alchemy to change it into a sword sometimes when he's fighting.

YES! The blade-arms are horrendous! I still cry inside when I see them. My soul was crushed when I read the story, Phyrexia as an idea is just way too terrifying.

Look at you absolutely churning out content!!

"Who's that, Papa?" "Well, m'boy. That's Silver. The man who really loves Myr. "

re: Clothing - I always thought that clothing styles were slim on Mirrodin from their resident's partially metal skin. Reduced snagging on oneself, etc. Five "suns" makes the hotter theory make sense, too. Anyways, for the resistance, I can see increased clothing as a last resort between them and spilled oil.

Issues with the story in recent sets is really that they aren't able to take their time as much as they used to. With a single set to tell such a big story with so many characters and moving pieces, a lot has to be cut for simplicity's sake and so they can move on to the next big set piece. With both this set and Dominaria United, I wish we had gotten two sets so that we could really flesh out characters and plots. Have Dominaria United and Dominaria At War showing the people of the plane getting together to fight the Phyrexians, and then the full scale battle for the next set. Hint at Ajani's sleeper agent mode for the first set, and the big reveal for the next. Then for Phyrexia, have Phyrexia Part 1 and Part 2. Part one tells the story of half the strike team getting together and bringing the Sylex to the seedcore, only to see that they're too late; basically this set itself, but slower and more detailed. Part 2 would be everything that Nissa has to do and her time on the plane. Get a really good look of how she got compleated and how the big, dramatic reveal at the end of Part 1 came to be.

I think they're mainly Vulshok and Auriok because those were the last/least compleated sections of Mirrodin by the end of the war.

This format of video is great! Would love more of these magic card and lore rants sprinkled inbetween your bigger videos As someone who finds magic as a small side hobby, the way you give out lore with each card is amazing

Thinking about proxying several shapeshifters with myr artwork for a myr deck. And that myr tutor will definitely be fore a myr battlesphere

Very happy to find someone else who loves Nahiri, and hates the blade arms as much as I do!

I don't even play Magic anymore, but I'm gonna get myself a copy of the Resistance Skywarden just because Ogre Resister has my favorite flavor text of all Magic.

Content like yours are among the better parts of this community, thank you so much for making it.

Legendary Myr, baybay!!

Of all the MTG lore videos I have watched this year, you have made my favorite 5

I’m always thrilled to see another video from you!

I would love to have a review of all myr cards from you!

Just found your channel tonight watched all through your , before all will be one phyrexia stuff. I’m hooked I love the way you explain things I’ve never been into the lore for magic the gathering, you got me hooked on it and interested in reading the books. I like how you read out the random cards flavor texts and add your own bit of characterization to the voice. Looking forward to your further content and informed lore videos heavily keep up the great work

Hey man, found you about a year ago and absolutely love what you do. I really enjoy someone else fanboying over Myr as much (maybe more) as I do. Please keep up the good work and don't feel pressured by deadlines or that kind of stuff.

Nothing like building a cube and listening to you ramble about myr in the backround

Finally, a commander that makes my Alpha and Omega Myr even better!

31:50 (ish) - I think it was alluded to once in the main story but also expanded upon in the Cinders short story by Cassandra Khaw, is that while Urabrask isn't sending his forces to wipe the Mirrans out, individual phyrexians including those from the furnace layer will attack resistance fighters in some circumstances (and vice versa - they are competing over resources after all). They way the main story described it was that they had a sort of agreement with Urabrask where he would tolerate their existence on the furnace layer, but not necessarily allow them to establish proper settlements, etc., and that basically some small scale conflict is always going on, whether with other colour Phyrexians or the red ones. To be clear, the red Phyrexians do want the Mirrans to be completed - see Slobad's motivation in the Cinders short story - but are just much less aggressive about it than the other Phyrexians are, and more willing to be patient/allow resistance deserters to come to them. Plus some of the Phyrexians are more beastly / less logical, so if a Mirran encountered one, even if it's a red Phyrexian, they'd probably still have to defend themselves against it.

29:00 yes it has been confirmed that she just shapeshift her arms

Take your time good to have you back

I'm honestly very surprised Sarcomite Myr didn't show up in the set, this would've been the perfect place to sneak it in given the W/U artifact theme in the set

Your enthusiasm for the Myr had inspired me to make a Myr deck! Urtet shall be my commander! I have only one othet 5-color deck, my Sliver deck, and I rarely find a want these days to play it with how linear and simple it is. Even an infect deck feels more fun than a Sliver deck. So, Im excited to have a new 5-color deck to try out and my first artifact-centric deck! The Myr shall triumph!

Great video, I think you hit the nail on the head in discussing the many flaws in the lore. Keep the content coming! 👍

I was eagerly awaiting for your video on that guy. Because I knew you had to do it.

Digging into the cards was very entertaining. Surprisingly. I'm newish to MTG & only familiar with s#*t lore, so love hearing about the history of the cards & how MTG continues to f#€k up flavor too! Would love you to dig into other sets too!

When this card was announced I was incredibly excited, and I cannot wait to get one and see what I can do with him!

personally love the shelf being on the wall, I feel like your lemon grab belongs in jail now though. mate your channels already an established success freaking well done!

His love for the Myr is so wholesome and sweet, I love it lol

29:48 the same reaction everyone will have when guildless 3 comes out

You deserve at least 10 times the number of subscribers you have

man your content is great

As you weep for Nahiri, I wept for Tamiyo

I’m really hoping maybe we get some massive myr help save the day thing in the block. Maybe the phyrexians missed most of them or something idk. I just want my little guys to be important

Re: Myr Kinsmith Affinity's a helluva drug

A Silver Myr video day is a good day. Totally agree on the mite/myr thing in the new set, seemed weirdly forced (though I blame you for making me biased here ha).

man this guild less episode was the best so far

Well after your video I Myr stan. So more Myr pls!

More please I need more

29:18 "If my arm is a blade, this fkn sucks!" If I may introduce you to Chainsaw Man...

So happy to be hear yes I put hear because if wizards can do compleat, then I can do hear

I'd love it if there was an implication that the mites were made out of repossessed myr. Perhaps a cycle of uncommon myr that enter with 3 oil counters. You remove a counter and tap to add mana and when the last one is removed you get some effect and make a mite. It would heavily imply that to the phyrexians the myr have their use but only to a point.

I agree with you about white phyrexians. I'm not sure I like the move from porcelain being their material to bone. I really thought the aesthetic of the original ones were incredibly unsettling, especially since they had those masks. The new ones, the red sinew showing is a good design choice, but putting teeth everywhere? No thanks. I want the cracked porcelain back. Maybe give a few that use bone, but they overdid it.

For the record I care a lot more aboot Mirrodin lore than any planeswalker.

I'm of the mindset that, with the Phyrexian invasion of all of reality, we might end up seeing Myr all over the multiverse in the aftermath.

Finally, a good Myr Tribal deck.

Been waiting for this

Now I want a legendary Myr or an Anti-Myr in UB colours. "The-Myr" or "De-Myr"

I can always appreciate a good unscripted ramble vid

Since myr have a gensis chamber, untap outlet, and finisher for 3 mana in the command zone, myr are probably one the strongest creature type matters decks in the format behind like elf ball, goblins, and maybe zombies because the artifact creature shell was already one of the strongest things you could be doing in the format already and the core myr package doesn't even get in the way of the artifact shell as long as long as you already have passive haste enablers like thousand year elixir and lightning greaves.

Guildless 3 is becoming this channel's mill vs discard

You take your shelves down to record? You really don't have to do that. The Urtet deck I'm brewing has been able to play well (in testing) in a myriad of ways; ramping into Ugin, Altar of the Brood, Mechanized Production, Cathar's Crusade, Impact Tremors, Second Harvest, Gruesome Fate, etc. He's pretty nuts. I'm also crazy excited for Neyali to put into my Jirina Kudro deck, because I feel terrible for Jirina for having to deal with a dictator for a dad and a twat (Lukka) for a fiance.

I think the energy weapons are a reference to aether weapons which seemed to be a thing they developed at the end of the war and showed up in the last block.

With March of the Machines, perhaps the Myr will spread across the multiverse, and be the artifact creature equivalent of goblins or a poor man’s Sliver in the future.

to be honest... I kinda agree with you when it comes to the depictions of Mirrans. A metal world with 5 suns? No wonder it's so damn hot... on a world that has been artificially deadened, likely cooled due to the furnaces no longer needing to focus on conquest troops while they have their armies assembled and waiting to invade, it's possible the mana suns have been somehow shackled by the phyrexians to funnel mana into their creations.

If you're interested, I highly recommend the Vorthos Cast podcast interview with Seanean Mcguire, where they talk about the process of writing the story under the constraints of plot needs

Nice Vid man!

Top 5 planeswalkers... That sounds like an interesting video, even top 10 and 10 worst

I haven't touched green in such a long time. Urtet will be the first time I will have used thd color.

Just read Urtet’s flavor text in the voice of Gilbert Gottfried. That’s how all Myr sound😂

In regards to their clothes...I mean... in the first mirrodin there were 5 suns. And now the suns are basically blocked by the phyrexian spheres.

We need more myrs

Couldnt find the link to slowly's video!

new upload!

Dude I love your story telling makes me more interested in mtg they need to pay you...

If it makes you feel any better blade arms could be a good defensive option for her to changer her arms into temporarily that still has some offensive capability 🤷

There's a big Loxodon on Roar of resistance.

At the rate we're going, only way we see myr at the rate we should is finding them on some other plane, discovering that, like Yotian Soldier, they were a design that Memnarch got from elsewhere.

Myr Pauper 👀 common 4 mana tutor isn’t bad

Sword arms were cool enough for the T-1000, they're cool enough for Nahiri. Plus her whole deal is shaping metal, it would make sense that she's able to change/remove them.

Maybe its a foresight into March of the Machine?

I wish Urabrask made his own Myrs to serve them while having personality of freedom and emotions. Somebody make that happen, I don't care its fan art I will make it into a custom magic card. I want more Urabrask lore and Myrs for the magic the gathering fans who like them.

So both Nissa and Nahiri have been compleated. The Eldrazi have basically no planeswalkers left. So Phyrexia is compleating the Eldrazi next set we see them. We beat Phyrexia, Nicol Bolas, and the Eldraxi. all we can do now is combine them. Nicol Bolas will be a possible target of Tezzeret wanting Phyrexia to compleate him. But Tenser/Jace will let Nicol Bolas out to fight the Phyrexian Eldrazi. Nicol will probably bing Yawgmouth back to life/time travel for him and then have a Phyrexian civil war break them up and give everyone a chance. Nicol is now free to plot in peace while the Planeswalkers deal with the Phyrexian civil religous war.

care to explain or elaborate more on how all the walkers that get turned you know get turned?

Gendering leonin by whether or not they have a mane is not very based of you Though all this Mirran analysis, even just from bullet points, is really cool :0

There's still 2 more sets in this block, 2 more chances for Praetors' Myr.

See you in G3!

Urtet putting Morophon out of business. Myr tribal players rejoice and hop on the hype battlesphere!

can Nahiri still lithomance while completed? because if yes then lithomancing her arms into swords makes a... twisted kind of sense but other wise it is VERY stupid.

I think the reason the Koreans are wearing more clothing is for the function of protection against the oil, as if they get scratched they’ll be completed unless melira cures them

There aren't more phyrexian myr because as Merlira said, they are often overlooked so the phyrexians mostly overlooked on compleating them

A lot of the Mites look like Hollows from Bleach. Probably the only thing selling me on this set.

I really wish that magic had books more along the lines of the Warhammer 40K franchise. Just so much untapped potential with so many different diverse worlds and amazing stories you could tell with them and they seem to be just stuck on the gate watch and it's upsetting also... Where do you even find MTG novels?

A colorless shapeshifter tutor is why myr kinsmith needs to be 4 mana. If it said “non-brushwagg myr” or smth it wouldn’t matter.