The Phyrexian Praetors: A Twisted Color Pie

the most vile curse to plague the Multiverse since the time of urza is that of the pharexians a wicked twisting of Flesh and metal which aims to bring all to heal under the banner of completion of those that Rose from the decay of Meriden to form new forexia there are but five whom have come to represent the factions within the foraxian horde those being the preyators what is fascinating about the prayers is that they are an amalgamation of the color pie and pheresis with each Prater representing one of the five colors this concept has more than thematic undertones and in fact in some Twisted way it dictates the motivations of each this concept is something I could not ignore and I desired to learn more about it with what we've seen in the past year we can be confident that the prayers are putting into motion a great plan and in order to understand what the future of the Multiverse holds we should then aim to learn what we can of these beings before we get into that though I would just like to say a special thank you to my newest Patron Jared Larkin with that said let us begin with perhaps the most intriguing of the prayers Ellis norm and her machine Orthodoxy when it comes to phyrexia there's always a level of religious undertones to their cause but no prayer exemplifies this concept more than Ellis norn and her machine Orthodoxy a fanatic group who see their leader as high priestess pheresis as the religion and the godhead being that of the father of machines a seed held by Khan after his corruption during the Turning of Meriden eventually Elish norn would Ascend in her own right appointing herself the title of mother of machines Ellis noran is also the face of structure when it comes to new forexia as well as before she forcibly United all under her Banner each of the five prayers vied for control and their own version of the future for their kin now with all under her firm control she has begun to make moves to spread her vision across the Multiverse and bring All Flesh to completion as we are told succinctly on the card Elish norn Grand cenobite The gitaxians Whisper among themselves of other worlds if they exist we must bring forexia's magnificence to them as you can see the parallels between white and that of Elish norn are quite obvious of course it's white Twisted into a sort of pure yet vile version of itself due to the refraction influence but the lines are clear for one the religious angle of her and her Orthodoxy are something we see in white quite often as white turns to Dogma as a way to find some greater guiding principle that one can work towards this in turn creates hierarchies and structures by its very design which again is all too white in her own way she is found Purity in corruption and fashioned a sort of new truth from that of the oil the messaging is one that isn't overtly evil that of uniting all under Perfection and yet we know all too well what the consequences would be in her mind the forexian way has opened her eyes and through that Vision she wishes to indoctrinate the Multiverse I find this sort of motivation in a villain so gripping in some Twisted ways she believes her vile actions are a blessing to those who rely on their flesh yet we know all too well the suffering that follows in her wake Jin gataxius is an interesting case in that it believes that completion is simply not a step far enough in its mind the pharexians should accept nothing less than the great synthesis even seeing the father of machines as an imperfect being this philosophy is directly displayed in the horrific figure that is Jin cataxius as flesh is all but forgotten on its body its voice that of grading metal it is through this prayer's great skills and Ambitions that the pharexians have even been able to make progress on other planes and is the one who has discovered a way to complete Planeswalkers without removing their souls allowing the pharexians to reach new worlds gin gataxia sees themself as the final form of what the forexians can achieve and through experimentation with both magic and Technology True Perfection can be achieved in a way this process really has no end and I believe Jin cataxius would work away in its Labs until the end of time for the simple pleasure of it all we can glean this concept from the card's synthetic Destiny which reads to Jin gataxius Perfection is not a goal but a process gin gataxius is blue if the soul of the color were to be removed which is fitting for the pharexian is not but a soulless version of what it once was blue is a color that can care for little else but progress but when any morality is Stripped Away it becomes something else entirely it turns from Focus to obsession this Predator sees no one else and no other end than that of its mission I find it very fascinating that there seems to be a lot of parallels between foraxians in general and that of blue both share the idea of finding this Perfection a concept that's always Out Of Reach it's almost as if the forexians are each finding their own shade of blue that of the pursuit of something beyond the Mortal form it began with when it comes to Blue foraxions it is then the purest form of this idea as we see with jingataxius's unwavering hand of iteration of course it is pushed Beyond any reasonable bounds and this is what makes it so villainous the Mantra of shouldered and those that follow her is simple all believers shall kneel to the praitters the father of machines and most of all to her those that resist will be forced to do so the black aligned prater's ideal goal for that of the forexians is one of pure domination nothing less children has shown herself to be cunning and ruthless in all things a trait that has allowed her to seize a position as the Prater of black Manna even among the seven equally capable things even after her to be that the hands of Ellis norn she has been a vital tool in the invasion of dominaria planting sleeper agents across the plain allowing her to have eyes and ears everywhere two shouldered the subjugation of the Multiverse is a mere inevitability her confidence echoing out from the card for axian rager resist if you must it makes no difference as with miradin your world will bow to forexia once again we are witnessing a color boiled down to its simplest form in a way a removal of the soul of the color said another way the removal of the fleshy Humanity that even black held onto only to reveal the vile and twisted remains of its courts black is a color that does indeed seek power or at the very least seeks to gain the most for itself for black this is a case of self-ambition but for shouldered its dominance plain and simple you see once the soul is ripped from this idea and the pharexian curse takes its place and there's not but the desire to control and enslave a concept that puts you and those Close to You above every other being a true feeling of superiority as if shouldered believed the Multiverse deserved nothing less than subjugation as we can see so far there is indeed a strong tie to the Manna in which these prayers exist within that's why our next prayer goes against the grain even if it believes in some aspects of faraxia Burr brask is by all means unique among the prayers and I believe this Factor tells us a lot about the faraxian curse itself in the beginning irvrask prided itself in what they called the great work an idea that meant finding Perfection through the forge yes or Rask was aiming to make all new in the faraxian image but there was something else there it was really a desire to help the Lost find the right path through faresis and not a decree acted against them in fact when the mirins fled to Urban brask's domain the Prater let them be turning away from them as they were not to be forced to be made anew because of the vision of herb Rask and their methods the red aligned prayer was at odds with the others early on eventually cast out and emblazoned with the title of heretic now herb Rusk aims to shake up the rule of the praeters when we're at the very least create some friction between Elish norn and her end goal what we see with this Prater something interesting and aligns with what I've touched on already with the others the truth of the prayers and the relationship to the color pie is that of stripping away any other misgivings a color might have and yet this very trait is why Arab brass is unlike the others the red Prater values Freedom just as red does and this is not sustainable within a system born of a hive mind even those turned to the fraxian way preach of herb rests desire for freedom and expression as we see declared for all to hear on the card priest of her brask even in new forexia red Mana Sparks glimmers of individualism passion and freedom everything about this quote is at odds with the end goals of the faraxians as they wish to strip everything from the Multiverse and make all one this is why Arab Rask would have inevitably drifted away from the others and why its title of heretic was but inevitability for Warren collects the road to Perfection is found through natural selection well as natural as one could find on a plane of faraxians leader of the vicious swarm this prayer pits all within its control against one another in order to allow the strongest to rise to the top while the weak are left to be consumed in turn creating an organic hierarchy of predator and prey with vorinclex rising to the top simply because the Prater was an apex within this system clex believes that through this vicious cycle the faraxians will be stronger for it in this way it can be hard to find any forward momentum but to voranks the fight is the entire point of it all in the mind of the green Prater pharaxia should be one giant Arena where one can prove their dominance the card unnatural predation explains the single-minded thought process of Warren cleck's best Domination by the strongest that is all that matters in the tangle now as you can see warrenclex almost has a hands-off approach allowing what will happen to happen this of course aligns with green at a fundamental level sure there is the interference with nature and that of phoresis but this is merely the Catalyst for evolution in the mind of warrenclex from this point nature will take its course and breed its own vision for the beings of neopharaxia the challenges of finding One's Own Lane is how nature forms its interweaving of responsibilities so in this way if new foraxia was left alone at least those of the Swarm a natural order would begin to form with the apex predators at the top once again this is a focus on a single aspect of green to the point of near parody of itself just like with all of the prayers we've discussed so far their beliefs are a mixture of the oil and that of the colors they represent which in effect strips everything away except a single core ideal one that becomes an obsession and for warrenclex that obsession is strength as you've noticed there is a running theme when dissecting the prayers and that is color twisted and stripped bare when in their natural environment a color is rather robust and displays many nuanced forms but for some reason the effects of the Pharisees strips away a color's philosophy to a fundamental level and this is seen in how the colors are represented within each Prater white obsessively leans into the single aspect of religion wishing to bring about a holy war against the Multiverse blue is then Perfection taken to its extreme everything is but an experiment to be iterated upon black then is pure dominance and self-fulfilling arrogance then there is red a color because of its stripped-down nature ends up rejecting the fraxian way entirely as freedom is the true goal finally There Is green a color boiled down to mirror displays of strength and the culling of the weak all of these are but grotesque displays of what these colors ought to be as if we're witnessing the flesh torn from each color their soul removed we're not looking at the colors in their natural form anymore but rather the twisting of Something Beautiful into something unrecognizable thank you so much for watching my color study of the prators if you want to learn all about the plane of Meriden before it became nephraxia then check out this video right here also if you want to stay in touch then consider following me on Twitter or joining the Discord I'll have links for everything in the description with that friends I will catch you in the Multiverse bye

Channel: DiceTry

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Keywords: mtg, magic the gathering, color pie, dicetry, praetor mtg, mtg colors, color philosophy, phyrexian invasion, phyrexian lore

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Length: 15min 46sec (946 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 31 2022