The Planar Bridge is destroying Tezzeret's body. He uses Norn's fear of Elspeth to demand the promised darksteel replacement, then escapes the procedure's attempt to control him. A resilient new form does not make him free of every weakness.
On Alara, the invasion reaches Tidehollow sooner than he expects. He sends Estel toward Rafiq in Bant with a warning and a chance to live. His reasons mix an old connection to the place with the strategic value of slowing Phyrexia.
In Kamigawa, Nashi confronts him over Tamiyo. Tezzeret answers with violence against the youth's allies before revealing that she lives in a transformed state. He returns to a former Consortium base to rebuild his position. Helping one endangered person does not cancel the cruelty through which he continues to define survival.