Character Profiles

Teferi can bend time, but his hardest lessons came from people forced to live with his solutions. Recovering his preserved spark and finding Zhalfir did not make protection, consent and responsibility the same thing.

Urza built Karn as a tool; friendship made him a person. Mirrodin's fall, Venser's gift and the cost of healing Ajani and Nissa leave him responsible for a future he must face without a spark.

Jace's gift for understanding minds became a temptation to control lives. His history runs from Vryn and the Gatewatch through compleation, the Echoverse and a final choice whose consequences continue through Tam.

Chandra's fire is spectacular, but her real power is a refusal to accept that people can be reduced to strategy or obedience. She acts quickly, loves fiercely and keeps learning how freedom requires responsibility as well as defiance.

Nissa hears worlds as living systems rather than scenery. Her fierce bond with Zendikar grew into care for an entire Multiverse, even as exile, compleation and the loss of her spark forced her to rethink what belonging means.

Liliana spent centuries treating attachment as a weakness others could exploit. Her bargains won youth and power but made freedom another form of debt, until chosen loyalties forced her to risk the life she had protected at every cost.

Gideon could make his body nearly invulnerable, but his story is about learning that strength does not make one person responsible for carrying every danger alone. He built alliances instinctively and ultimately treated another life as worth more than his own.

Nicol Bolas combined an elder dragon’s power with patience measured in millennia. He treated planes, nations and people as components in plans designed to restore the supremacy he believed existence owed him.

Ajani’s magic strengthens the identity and courage of others. His life moves from an outcast’s search for his brother’s killer to patient mentorship, then through the horror of compleation and the difficult responsibility of surviving what Phyrexia made him do.

Elspeth searched the Multiverse for a home safe from the Phyrexians who haunted her childhood. Every refuge failed, yet each loss clarified that belonging was something she could defend and create rather than a perfect place she might someday find.

Koth fought for Mirrodin long after the plane was lost. Zhalfir gives its surviving people refuge, not a restored metal world, and turns his resistance leadership toward the harder work of living after war.

Tamiyo's curiosity connected worlds, until compleation made her stories weapons against home. The Wanderer ended that attack; a living memory reached Nashi, but neither it nor a later echo restored his mother's body.

Wrenn survives by joining with a tree strong enough to share the fire trapped inside her. Each partnership has its own voice and number, making her power a continuing negotiation between movement, restraint and trust.

Vraska's struggle against oppression carried her from assassin and pirate to guildmaster. Her love for Jace later demanded resistance to his plans, leaving her to carry responsibility alongside grief.

Urza built Dominaria's answer to Phyrexia across generations, artifacts and lives. His success cannot be separated from the people and places he treated as components, including a sanctuary that became fuel.

Freyalise crossed from the Ice Age into the Phyrexian war and the temporal crisis as a fierce protector of elven peoples. Her decisions could be severe, yet she ultimately spent her old planeswalker power to keep Dominaria from coming apart.

Venser approached the impossible as an engineering problem, from teleportation to the wounds in time. Curiosity drew him into older planeswalkers’ crises; compassion ultimately made him give Karn the future he could no longer keep.

Jaya lived long enough to become a legend, disappear inside other names and return as a mentor. Her fire was matched by a refusal to perform solemn heroism when a sharp joke and an honest warning could serve better.

Lord Windgrace distrusted machines because he had watched them turn land and living people into fuel. He nevertheless joined Urza against Phyrexia, then bound his final power to Urborg so protection would outlast his body.

Nahiri can shape stone, metal and entire landscapes, yet her hardest material has always been memory. Millennia spent guarding Zendikar made devotion inseparable from anger when allies failed to answer its need.

Ugin studies threats beyond ordinary combat, but even a spirit dragon cannot make containment permanent by intention alone. His return to Tarkir brings an answer to the storms and consequences his prison could not contain.

Sorin protects Innistrad without pretending to be kind. He understands that vampires need living humanity to survive, and his strongest acts of guardianship often grow from responsibility, pride and self-interest at the same time.

Kiora crosses worlds in search of creatures vast enough to answer impossible threats. Her confidence can become recklessness, but beneath every boast lies the promise she made to return and defend Zendikar.

Ob Nixilis once conquered as a human and continued as a demon because victory never cured his hunger for control. Zendikar took his spark; reclaiming it made the plane pay for his imprisonment.

Saheeli turns metal into motion with the precision of an engineer and the delight of an artist. Her greatest work is rarely the machine alone; it is the future people can build around it.

Tezzeret can remake metal more easily than he can escape the bargains that shaped him. Each master teaches him another system to exploit, and each escape leaves him determined that no one will own him again.

Kaya's ghost magic can end an immortal ruler or carry someone through a wall. Returning to Ravnica after the invasion made the harder task personal: confronting grief without making every wrong another assassination contract.

Kaito combines palace training, street instincts, telekinesis and living technology. He travels farther than anyone asked because abandoning a missing friend has never felt like an acceptable ending.

The Wanderer rules a home she cannot reliably remain in. Discipline turns involuntary planeswalking into purposeful intervention, while every return to Kamigawa asks how an absent emperor can still serve.

Sarkhan searched the Multiverse for dragons worthy of devotion, served the wrong one and rewrote Tarkir to save another. He gained the sky he wanted while making himself a man without a past.

Garruk's bond with beasts survived the Chain Veil's corruption, but freedom did not erase its victims. The recovered hunter remains wary of control, even when familiar faces promise a better world.

Huatli commands dinosaurs with a soldier’s precision and preserves experience with a poet’s memory. Seeing worlds beyond Ixalan taught her to question which victories deserve a song—and who gets to choose them.

Scholar, exile and Jeskai waymaster, Narset challenges histories written by rulers. Her search for knowledge now includes the responsibility of leading a liberated people through a crisis that reaches beyond Tarkir.

Ral Zarek thinks like a storm: fast, charged and impatient with anything that cannot keep up. Behind the swagger is a Ravnican who repeatedly chooses his city—and Tomik—over safer worlds.

Ashiok enters dreams to find the shape a victim most wants hidden, then gives that fear a body. No origin explains them and no declared cause limits them; the creation of terror appears to be purpose enough.

Tyvar Kell announces himself like a legend and charges into danger before doubt can catch him. The boast is real, but so is the loyalty: when someone beside him needs a hero, he tries to become one.

Angrath looks like a monster and often fights like one, but his fury on Ixalan came from fourteen stolen years away from his daughters. Freedom is the one treasure he will not negotiate away.

Vivien Reid carries the last echoes of Skalla’s wildlife inside the Arkbow. She protects nature fiercely because she has already watched one world’s false choice between wilderness and progress end in ash.

Kellan began as a lonely shepherd's son who wanted the certainty of a heroic tale. His search for Oko carried him across the new Omenpaths, where experience taught him that inheritance explains power but never excuses how it is used.

Oko treats authority as an invitation to sabotage and identity as material he can reshape. His charm makes every scheme feel liberating until the people around him realise that he has reserved freedom chiefly for himself.

Rowan is a gifted knight and lightning mage who once shared a planeswalker spark with her twin, Will. Grief and impatience make her reach for decisive power, even when protection begins to resemble domination.

Will Kenrith balances curiosity and compassion with a crown inherited in disaster. Where Rowan reaches for force, he builds alliances—slower work that becomes its own kind of courage.

Mabel leaves a life she genuinely loves because danger has reached every home in Valley. With Cragflame in paw, she proves that domestic responsibility and legendary courage are not opposing callings.

Zimone approaches the Multiverse as a structure that can be understood without being made small. Her equations summon living fractals, solve impossible spaces and keep curiosity useful when theory becomes survival.

Nashi inherits Tamiyo's love of stories together with the wound left by her death. His journey into Duskmourn forces him to decide whether preserving a memory means holding it forever.

Niko was promised an undefeated life and chose freedom over perfection. Their mirror magic traps threats, protects companions and proves that a missed target can be a deliberate step toward a better future.

Ruby enters the Wilds looking for her missing brother, not for a place in anyone else’s legend. Her clear eye for danger, fierce aim and refusal to abandon Kellan make her the grounded heart of his first adventure.

Quintorius is an earnest loxodon scholar whose spirit magic makes history answer back. A difficult road into Lorehold and a newly ignited spark taught him that discovery matters only when living communities retain the right to interpret what is found.

Alquist Proft solves crimes by building ordered possibilities inside an exacting mind. His confidence can exhaust allies, but his refusal to confuse reputation with evidence makes him invaluable when Ravnica wants a convenient culprit.

Etrata understands hidden routes, controlled fear and the lethal economy of Ravnica’s secrets. Being framed for Zegana’s murder forces her to trust a detective—and to prove that capability is not the same thing as consent.

Annie Flash tried to exchange the Freestrider life for family and ordinary work after Akul wounded her nephew. Oko’s offer puts the old thunder rifle back in her hands, but protecting Kellan matters more than settling the score.

Loot is a child found inside the Fomori vault above Tarnation, carrying an instinctive awareness of planes and the paths between them. Everyone who calls him a key reveals whether protection means care or possession.

Helga’s augury arrives through ripples, drawings and possibilities she struggles to explain. Dismissed by Pondside and wounded by Glarb’s teaching, she finds courage among companions who treat uncertainty as insight rather than failure.

Winter has survived more than a decade inside the House by learning its rules and refusing unpaid loyalty. His knowledge saves travellers, but the bargain he makes with Valgavoth proves that survival without trust can become another form of captivity.

Sita Varma races as Spitfire to escape the future her father designed for her, but the Ghirapur Grand Prix teaches her that freedom becomes real only when she uses it to protect somebody else.

Pia Nalaar helped dismantle the old Consulate, then brought the same practical defiance to an interplanar race where two younger women needed a mechanic, a mentor and a mother who knew when to let them choose.

Sami captains the battered Seriema with nerve, invention and a habit of protecting every stray who crosses their airlock, even when the rescue makes the next escape nearly impossible.

Tannuk is the Seriema's steady first mate, a former Kav Memorial Navy pilot exiled for saving lives in a culture that treats every fragment of its ruined home as sacred.

Haliya arrives in Sothera certain that the Bright Sum justifies her order, then learns that honour begins where obedience stops excusing cruelty.

Alpharael follows grief toward a holy death, but the instant he chooses life turns him into the Endstone's favoured route through Sothera.

Mm'menon follows impossible data after the Uthros Combine rejects their conclusions, finding in Tezzeret the dangerous patron willing to investigate.

Syr Vondam teaches Haliya that duty serves the Bright Sum, then becomes the proof that even its finest knight cannot turn love into arithmetic.

Reen seeks stillness at Point Prime while recording every dead person on her body, only to discover that ritual cannot separate penance from the violence she still performs.

Kadrik deserts a life they never wanted, saves a stranger on impulse and learns that being made for one function does not forbid loving another.

Farakatolar leads a recovery team into a structure beyond Kav understanding, where devotion to her ruined world becomes the lever an ancient trap uses against her.

Geldan enters Uthros for one last corporate favour and meets a horror that turns her hunger for ownership into worship.

Ghan hunts an Eldrazi-tainted device through space and time, resisting the chance to restore his lost partner so he can repair the damage already spreading through the Weft.

Tam begins as a fragment made to serve Jace's perfect world. Friendship, guilt and choice turn her into her own person; his final gift makes her a planeswalker without making her his replacement.

Jadzi sees futures as a storm of possibilities rather than a script. Captured for the secret of Arcavios's creation, she chooses the death that reveals it—and makes that knowledge part of Jace's defeat.

Emrakul warps life, thought and matter until a world resembles her presence. Sealed within Innistrad's moon by her own design, she returns when Tam offers an artificial Multiverse ready to be pruned.

Abigale is a deaf owlin poet whose precision makes her the group’s clearest observer. Her words advocate, organise and occasionally judge, but never treat communication as decoration.

Sanar treats every medium as an invitation and every crisis as material for invention. His restless creativity frustrates tidy planners but gives his friends options when familiar methods fail.

Kirol is an athletic vampire historian who charges toward ruins, arguments and endangered friends. Beneath the confidence lies a struggle between family expectations and a life chosen freely.

Lluwen leaves Lorwyn for Strixhaven but still expects every community to judge his worth. Friendship helps him turn defensiveness into leadership when Arcavios begins losing its future.

Dellian Fel studies the threshold between life and death because he crossed it himself. His resurrection made him a planeswalker but left an unexplained hunger following every answer.

Jilesa pursues recognition with sharp language and sharper confidence. A false professor exploits that ambition, teaching her that withheld scrutiny can turn talent into someone else’s tool.

Rootha’s control over wild magic cannot quiet the memory of failing during the Phyrexian invasion. Sharing her Living Flame finally separates artistic responsibility from impossible perfection.

Killian grows from a cutting duellist into a mentor who strengthens others. At the Forum of Amity, he turns a dangerous contest into shared civic practice.

Dina understands life through exchange, growth and decay, yet refuses to turn that philosophy into a command. Her hardest lesson is allowing a student to leave magic.

Eula protects rebuilding crews after invasion destroys her expected future. A Strixhaven scholarship opens another world, though family ambition travels with her through the Omenpath.

Maralen was shaped from Oona's power but built a conscience of her own. Her rule depends on accepting change without mistaking inheritance for destiny.

Rhys accepts an unnatural lifetime to guard Maralen from Oona's return. Keeping his promise nearly kills his friend and finally allows both of them to become free.

Ashling once feared the destruction bound to her Shadowmoor nature. Her new pilgrimage teaches her to cross the aurora with memory intact and guide others through change.

Morcant treats the Pendulum Year as an opening for conquest. She weaponises beauty, obedience and captured daylight until the outsiders she exploits expose her control.

Eirdu embodies Lorwyn's light without ruling its people. Its return answers Isilu's expanding night and restores movement between two necessary halves of one world.

Isilu embodies Shadowmoor's night and the autumnal pull of its wild magic. Woken by strangers, it spreads darkness until Eirdu restores their shared rhythm.

Brigid trades legendary rebellion for the practical defence of Goldmeadow. Her two natures show how courage can become trust in daylight and caution at night.

Sygg has exchanged piracy and trade for teaching along the Wanderwine. The moving aurora makes his peaceful present vulnerable to memories that belong to another self.

Cerys restores her uncle's neglected work and falls in love through letters. Saving Rhain requires the forbidden flower that exposes her to Lorwyn's transforming light.

Rhain hides a fatal illness while falling in love through letters. Cerys's rescue brings a meeting, but no safe future.

Arlinn Kord turns a life divided by lycanthropy into a form of leadership, defending Innistrad by treating instinct and humanity as responsibilities that can strengthen one another.

Olivia Voldaren combines appetite, spectacle and precise political timing, using Innistrad's eternal night to make a stolen relic and a coerced marriage look like rightful rule.

Giada is guarded by the Cabaretti as the source of new Halo, but her bond with Elspeth lets her reclaim the right to choose her own safety, purpose and angelic family.

Urabrask opposed Norn's compulsory unity without rejecting Phyrexia itself. His rebellion offered the Mirrans an opening, not a restored homeland, and ended in the public violence his rival used to enforce obedience.

Akiri turns survival into a duty to others. Her partnership with Zareth and her confrontation with Nahiri expose the human cost of reshaping Zendikar without listening to its people.

Zareth San hides a serious attachment to Zendikar behind charm and theft. His loyalty to Akiri and suspicion of Nahiri make him both an imperfect protector and an early critic of the promised cure.

Yasova carries the memory of Temur independence and the consequences of trusting Bolas. As grandmother and leader, she protects forbidden knowledge without forgetting that her people must survive long enough to use it.

Naiva protects her twin through courage and fieldcraft, but Bolas exploits the resentment beneath that duty. Her recovery begins when she rejects his imposed hierarchy and trusts Baishya's strength alongside her own.

Baishya connects Yasova's family to Ugin's hidden memories. Her quiet resolve and protective magic make knowledge useful, while her bond with Naiva becomes the means of resisting a dragon who turns intimacy into control.

Avacyn anchors Innistrad's hope in a guardian made by Sorin. Her fall turns protection into persecution and leaves the world facing a harder question: who protects its people when their strongest defender can no longer be trusted?

Basri carries Oketra's ideals through a world that survived her death. His protective magic joins personal faith to shared survival, though hope does not make every proposed restoration wise.

Daretti turns discarded mechanisms into leverage, transport and weapons. His history on Fiora shows how legitimate grievance can become destructive revenge; later improvisation helps people survive far from that struggle.

Samut's speed first served her crop, then a rebellion against the history imposed on Amonkhet. Protecting people meant challenging the deaths they had been taught to desire and helping rebuild what survived.

Calix was made to return Elspeth to the Underworld. Following that purpose took him beyond Theros, leaving a question no command could answer: what remains when the hunt is over?

Xenagos turned a satyr's appetite for experience into a campaign for godhood. His ascent exposed the pantheon's dependence on belief, but divine status did not make him beyond Elspeth's reach.

Domri wanted the city broken open for the wild. His gift for creatures and rise among the Gruul did not teach him the difference between freedom and a conqueror's invitation.

Dovin could detect a machine's failure with extraordinary precision. His career made that talent politically dangerous: he kept improving systems while serving authorities whose purposes deserved the harder inspection.

Tibalt made suffering his craft and conflict his entertainment. On Kaldheim he stole a god's identity; on New Phyrexia, the cruelty he once wielded returned inside a transformed body.

Teyo learned shields to save people from diamondstorms, then found himself defending strangers on Ravnica. His strongest lessons came from trusting an instinct that formal training had made him doubt.

Serra made a world around peace and angelic protection. Its destruction did not erase her example, but the powerstone and surviving faith must not be mistaken for her living return.

Dakkon forged a soul-drinking sword for promised planeswalker power. Dihada granted the power and bound his soul, turning the maker himself into the more valuable weapon.

Dihada turns talent into dependency and bargains into traps. Her history is full of powerful servants; uncertainty about her later whereabouts is not permission to assign every hidden scheme to her.

Tevesh Szat turned loss into a campaign against life itself. Urza recruited him despite his treachery, then made that predictable betrayal part of another ruthless calculation.

Dack turned a gift for understanding artifacts into a life of theft across worlds. Ravnica finally trapped him where skill could not buy escape; an Echoverse benefactor with his name is another person, not his resurrection.

Atraxa once defended Mirrans from Phyrexia. Compleation made that resistance a trophy and her strength an invading weapon, until New Capenna's defenders used their own city to bring her down.

Aminatou sees possible futures and nudges them with intangible moths. She chose an early spark ignition herself, but immense knowledge has not made her choices any less those of a child.

Davriel values comfort and carefully bound demons more than public heroics. Keeping out of other people's causes proves difficult when a quiet life is no longer a convincing disguise.

Grist is one insect and the queen of the swarm that forms her larger body. Crossing to another world means finding local insects and assembling a new shape, not moving an entire hive between planes.

Yanggu began with no memory of his name or family and chose a name from the valley he remembered. Mowu's companionship eventually gave him an answer more useful than recovering every lost detail.

Kasmina's warnings about possible disasters make mentorship an instrument of long planning. She brings promising mages to Strixhaven while her owls watch the paths they take—and threats they may never notice.

Yanling shapes wind and water while searching for her missing mentor, Li Shan. When private journeys bring no answer, she enters GP Aspire alone, hoping a public name will reach someone she cannot find.

Bruse came from Zendikar with a cattleman's stubbornness. On Thunder Junction, the struggle with his herd became something warmer: a protector caring for animals gathered from many worlds.

Ikra abandoned Tasigur for Silumgar, gaining influence beside the new ruler while her former master discovered the humiliating truth of his bargain.

Ishai earned unusual independence through long service to Ojutai. Speaking for the dragon gave her authority, but not a promise of affection.

Kraum was Ludevic's singular success and Selhoff's recurring nightmare. Its flights made the creator notorious while years of work failed to produce another like it.

Kydele serves Kruphix without treating knowledge as comfort. After witnessing Elspeth's murder, she asks why a restored pantheon can still feel like a wrong that victory has not repaired.

Ludevic's reputation joins money, seclusion and forbidden experiment. Stories that he had abandoned research sit uneasily beside the laboratory where Geralf later developed his craft.

Reyhan led the Abzan who had not submitted to dragon rule. Her defence at Dirgur ended her life, but later Abzan leadership still found meaning in descent from her.

Kondo sheltered Gerrard when a foretold destiny made the child unsafe. Raising him alongside Vuel made protection a family commitment before that family was broken from within.

Vial Smasher answered threats with bottled dragonfire and the nerve to break it nearby. Her history must be kept distinct from the life another Tarkir gave Ankleshank.

Breya challenges Esper's dependence on dwindling etherium. Her success brings a new uncertainty: metal made with Jund's wild magic does not behave like the old supply.

Kynaios and Tiro join love for one another to resistance against tyranny. Meletis remembers them as guardians chosen after Agnomakhos's defeat.

Thrasios defends Meletis out of a family debt, then pursues a calling at the ocean's edge. His confidence in Thassa's favour is not the same as proof.

Silas Renn joins Esper's elite inheritance to the Seekers of Carmot. Rapid advancement earns him an extraordinary bodily honour, while the order's larger claims remain claims.

Ravos guides the dead for Athreos while secretly resisting him, hoping one annual reunion can become his lover's return.

Tymna's military career ends in blindness, but her mastery of fate gives her another way to shape events.

Saskia turns solitary mourning into an army's cause, carrying the memory of her massacred village into war against its invaders.

Abandoned as a child, Tana survives through saproling protection and grows into the deadly hunter who feeds her fungal caretakers.

An afflicted ogre from Grixis, Yidris finds relief within the Maelstrom when Bant's knights drive him into its raw mana.

Carth survives a crushed rebellion and binds Dakkon to his vengeance. Escape changes their obligation into friendship, without delivering Dihada's death.

Piru survives an ancient dragon war but not Dihada's later domination. Her death leaves a chasm, not a promised return to life.

Ragavan works beside Kari Zev as an alert accomplice, risking capture and making trouble for their enemies from the deck of Dragon's Smile.

Svyelun endures in Vodalian devotion, where remembered teachings preserve a relationship that no longer depends on direct divine contact.

Tourach's authority survives through the Ebon Hand, whose devotion transforms a dead founder into a feared, remembered divine presence.

Ripley Vance turns command into recruitment, judging a defeated attacker by the courage that made him threaten her fortress.

Asmor survives a demon's demand by becoming its cook, but recording her dishes creates enemies beyond the kitchen that first confined her.

Ferrous answers Ravnica's unrest with stone titans, leaving a military solution whose presence survives long beyond the crisis that prompted it.

Garth arrives as a stranger seeking revenge, answering magical threats through a broad repertoire rather than one narrowly defined school of power.

Kaldra's equipment becomes an expression of Phyrexian dominance, carrying an older legend into a living weapon with a different bearer.

Ixhel discovers a desire beyond obedience when the life she creates is condemned by the commander who first made her.

Vishgraz challenges the promise that making a body from broken lives is salvation, then receives a freedom his creator cannot yet choose.

Geth purchases influence through binding deals, but his refusal to surrender fully makes him a target of the Machine Orthodoxy.

Slobad's wish to recover lost friendship becomes a Phyrexian offer of reunion, using other people's grief to bring them into captivity.

Neyali leads through loyalty to particular lives, risking herself for companions even when friendship cannot make another person's choice for them.

Otharri answers Neyali's care with action, making the firebird's bond a force that opens cages rather than another demand for obedience.

Belaxis wants to survive, making his lively insistence on a particular life an affront to Ixhel's doctrine of expendable servants.

Reyana's longing for relief leads her away from Neyali, making their bond a conflict of choices rather than a simple rescue.

Elham remains a source of strength after passing leadership to Neyali, treating shared danger as a reason to stand together.

Saheena's loyalty includes the family beside her, making Neyali's decision to spare her companions a matter of particular living people.

Unctus turns an inquiry into surrender, remaking other minds into the material of a network intended to contain overwhelming knowledge.

Malcator makes another ruler's ideal into a standard imposed on creations, with failure answered by further compulsory remaking rather than freedom.

Elesh Norn makes unity mean obedience to herself, turning a promise of perfection into a conquest vulnerable to fear and revolt.

Glissa's history turns a defender into an organiser of predation, preserving formidable agency while directing it against the people she once helped.

Melira turns the difference that made her an outcast into care for others, choosing a final healing without becoming an inexhaustible remedy.

Kemba accepts authority as a service to surviving leonin, giving hope a public name without separating her people from the wider resistance.

Thrun moves from guilty isolation toward care and witness, keeping a lost people's history alive through a child and a surviving community.

Jor Kadeen treats survival as work for a future generation, valuing retreat and preparation over an inspiring but final stand.

Ezuri gives frightened elves a shared purpose, making practical work and hidden refuges the foundations of resistance to Phyrexia.

Chiss-Goria destroys Phyrexian intruders, while Mirrans find protection and encouragement in what the formidable dragon leaves behind him.

Urtet keeps scavenging after Memnarch is gone, leaving useful supplies for survivors without setting out to become their ally.

Vraan turns an assassin's network into political leverage, building authority from the services and secrets he takes from other lives.

Kinzu expands an assassin's reach by turning infected victims into killers, making bodies continue the violence she sets in motion.

Kethek embodies the alliance against Norn without abandoning Phyrexian cruelty, turning defeated enemies into material for her creators' armies.

As altered terrain gains a will of its own, Mondrak's many mouths force living things into Phyrexian assimilation.

An awakened landscape with a will of his own, Tekuthal mocks other beings through silent changes of shape.

In terrain made sentient, individual desires take monstrous forms: Drivnod delights in the screams he draws from impaled victims.

Phyrexia's landscape acquires individual impulses in living form: Solphim's burning inscriptions issue urgent commands that contradict what came before.

An independent presence born from Phyrexia's reshaped terrain, Zopandrel spreads infectious spores while beheading and devouring her prey.

Across Mirrex's stripped landscape, the old world persists in dangerous forms: Graaz still destroys without Memnarch to direct it.

New Phyrexia's reshaping consumes an earlier world's landmarks; Ovika builds himself from Mirrodin's ravaged remains and investigates the plane.

Between the first forge and the copper wilderness, Migloz turns his drilling purpose into a route to a new home.

Too small and defective for the Machine Orthodoxy, Skrelv escapes being stripped for parts despite the purpose he has forgotten.