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Next block: New Phyrexia, Scars of Mirrodin and Mirrodin Pure?

By ManaNation.com ⋅ August 25, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Print This Post

Today Man­a­Na­tion uncov­ered a new trio of Trade­marks filed by Wiz­ards of the Coast with the US Patent and Trade­mark Office, and they sound like pos­si­bly the names of the block to fol­low Zendikar. They the­mat­i­cally make sense and seem to be inter­con­nected through an artifact-like theme that could eas­ily trans­late into a theme for the next block cur­rently code­named “Lights, Cam­era, Action.”

New Phyrexia, Scars of Mirrodin and Mirrodin Pure - Next block?

We are await­ing a response from Wiz­ards rep­re­sen­ta­tives for any com­ment con­cern­ing this find. We hope to be hear­ing from them soon. The appear­ance of these on the list lends cre­dence to a rumor that ‘Pros­per’ has also been named through stalk­ing the Patent and Trade­mark office as ‘The Rise of the Eldrazi’ but that is also as of now, unconfirmed.

Update: Twit­ter user @mtgcolorpie responded with another likely expla­na­tion for the three names. That ‘New Phyrexia’ is the real name for ‘Pros­per’ and that ‘Scars of Mir­rodin’ is a novel title, with ‘Mir­rodin Pure’ being another unknown spe­cial Wiz­ards release, per­haps a spe­cial set.

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Comments

  1. More than likely, it’s either the names of new nov­els or web­comics, but I would be STOKED if it were an arti­fact block.

    I really don’t see “New Phyrexia” being the third set in Zendikar. There is absolutely no evi­dence link­ing the two together, and I think it would make much more sense for WotC to fin­ish the Zendikar block in the ‘nor­mal’ fash­ion, and then bring us all into this new story arc with the return of the Phyrex­i­ans. I really can’t see Zendikar’s block end­ing with an inva­sion of their entire plane by Phyrexians…

    Rex | September 5, 2009, 10:10 pm | #

  2. That would make sense to be a new block. Mir­rodin was basi­cally a suc­cess­ful Phyrexia, in that it was a self-sustaining plane that merged arti­fice with bio­log­i­cal creatures.

    If this were really a new set, I could see the first tak­ing place on destroyed Phyrexia, right at the onset of the plane finally col­laps­ing in on itself; the sec­ond set could be those Phyrex­i­ans flee­ing to, or pos­si­bly invad­ing Mir­rodin; and the third would be some end-result of this story (if in con­flict, either Mir­rodin or Phyrex­i­ans win the strug­gle; if coop­er­at­ing maybe they com­bine Mir­rodin and Phyrexia; or find a way to sta­bi­lize Phyrexia). It could fol­low a sim­ple Prob­lem, Strug­gle, and Res­o­lu­tion format.

    It wouldn’t be too far fetched to have a Phyrex­ian as a pro­ta­gan­ist either — both Greven and Belbe were Phyrex­i­ans, and were strongly hero­i­cized in the Neme­sis story. Pos­si­bly with their slavedrivers/command gone, the Phyrex­i­ans are just ugly peope try­ing to survive.

    This is all just spec­u­la­tion. Awe­some style.

    ChrisAAMO | October 14, 2009, 1:19 pm | #

  3. I would think that it would be part 3 of Zendikar. The plane seems to have some con­nec­tion to planes that have been ruined in one way or another. There are Hexag­o­nal Lakes men­tioned like in Mir­rodin. http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/57 (Read over the Explorer’s Scope) There’s a god­dess men­tioned named Eme­ria (Sounds a lot like the Serra Angel, Reya (Dawn­bringer) not to men­tion an angel with the same cast­ing cost and a land with the same abil­ity as Reya that looks a lot like a ruined Serra’s Sanc­tum. Finally, they talk about Eldrazi; Ancient crea­tures who were about as pow­er­ful as planeswalk­ers (Like Marit Lage the 20/20 Inde­struc­tible who has a card (Wrath of Marit Lage) that has a sim­i­lar fla­vor text to Eldrazi Mon­u­ment.) All this leads me to believe that Zendikar is in fact an imi­ta­tion plane or an older plane tak­ing energy from other planes (hence the hid­den treasures).

    sweetestsadist | October 27, 2009, 6:04 am | #

  4. The Pyrexian/Urza/Weatherlight sotry­line is being releasead in anthologies.….….could be to bring new player up-to-date for a new phrex­ian story.
    Alter­ni­tivly, Mir­rodin BECOMING a new phrexia, maby link­ing into the ‘ter­ri­ble thing’ Karn realised at the end of Pla­nar chaos, as Mir­rodin was cre­ated by him.

    cosmichands | November 21, 2009, 12:33 pm | #

  5. Right! We never did find out what that thing was that Karn released! If it freaked him out bad enough to send him run­ning, I’d bet it was Phyrex­ian in ori­gin as well.

    Nick | March 7, 2010, 5:56 pm | #

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