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Is Elesh Norn evil?

Type of Villain
Elesh Norn is one of the main antagonists of the Magic: The Gathering block Scars of Mirrodin and, ultimately, one of the main antagonists of the overall recent story arc, as she became the dominant praetor of New Phyrexia.
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Why is Elesh Norn scared of Elspeth?

Meeting Ashiok

She tried to attack Ashiok when they conjured a figure of Elspeth Tirel wearing Norn's armor. Enraged, Norn vowed she would kill Elspeth - but even the exiled Urabrask knew that this meant Norn feared her.
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Who kills Elesh Norn?

Elesh Norn, legless and broken, tries to escape through a portal, but Karn gets his revenge. Karn's magic destroys Norn by disintegrating her metal, leaving her corpse to burn to nothing.
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Is Elesh Norn the leader of phyrexia?

The leader of New Phyrexia and the self-proclaimed Mother Of Machines, Elesh Norn is the main villain of the Phyrexian Invasion arc of Magic: The Gathering.
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How does Elesh Norn work?

Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines is one of the most talked about cards from the new set for commander potential. It's a wildly powerful card with massive stats for a 5-mana creature. It pulls double duty as a value engine that doubles your ETB abilities and a stax piece that shuts off your opponents' ETBs.
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What Does Elesh Norn FEAR?!? | Magic: The Gathering Lore

Will they ban Elesh Norn?

MTG rules committee member Toby Elliot says “the RC has had no discussions about banning” Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines, despite previous worries about the card's impact on the Commander format.
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What did Ashiok do to Elesh Norn?

Ashiok used their nightmare-inducing powers to influence the dreams of Mirrans until they decided to see what they would do to a Phyrexian. They then tested that on Elesh Norn herself, making it appear as if her glistening oil failed to properly compleat a Mirran woman.
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What does Elesh Norn want?

Now as the dominant praetor, Elesh Norn seeks to make the multiverse into a singularity. This means compleating all life into Phyrexians and having all life under her rule.
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Who is the most powerful Phyrexian?

With Vorinclex and Jin-Gitaxias off-plane, Elesh Norn is the natural leader of New Phyrexia and can execute her plan of unity and perfection, completing the Grand Work.
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Who killed Yawgmoth?

Urza, now a planeswalker himself, would become the greatest force in opposition of Yawgmoth's planned invasion, and over the course of four millennia he would frustrate and ultimately defeat Yawgmoth's plans of domination. Urza crafted a set of artifacts known as the Legacy Weapon to combat Yawgmoth.
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Is Elesh Norn Legion Machinist real?

Elesh Norn, Legion Machinist

The signpost Elesh Norn card for the set was leaked in September 2022, but has been deemed fake by the community due to a number of reasons: The key art of the set is not usually used on actual cards, which was already released by Wizards.
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Can I sacrifice a creature before it dies to Elesh Norn?

Is it possible to use Skirsdag Flayerability to sacrifice a human and desroy Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite before Elesh Norn's -2/-2 destroys the Flayer? No. There is no time when Elesh Norn is on the battlefield, the flayer is alive, and a player has priority.
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Who killed sheoldred?

Sheoldred was killed off by Elesh Norn for contesting her rule, Tamiyo was tragically killed while in front of her adopted son, and Lukka got chewed up by Vadrok, who is one of my favorite cards in all of Magic: the Gathering.
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Is Ashiok evil?

Type of Villain

Ashiok is a humanoid Planeswalker and a villain from Magic: the Gathering.
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Who is the father of machines?

Slowly losing his mind, Karn became the Father of Machines and the leader of Phyrexia.
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How did Phyrexians get to Kaldheim?

After Norn took control of New Phyrexia, Vorinclex was transported from his home of New Phyrexia to the plane of Kaldheim through the Planar Bridge.
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Which Praetor is the best commander?

All Phyrexian Praetors Ranked as Commanders!
  • #8. Urabrask, Heretic Praetor.
  • #7. Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger.
  • #6. Sheoldred, Whispering One.
  • #5. Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider.
  • #4. Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines.
  • #3. Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant.
  • #2. Sheoldred, the Apocalypse.
  • #1. Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor.
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Is Elesh Norn the most powerful Praetor?

The white-aligned Phyrexian faction, the Machine Orthodoxy, includes many cenobites as lesser priests and hierarchs, and the praetor Elesh Norn is the highest-ranking of such clergy—hence "Grand Cenobite."
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Who was the first Praetor?

Gix, the first known Phyrexian Praetor, received the subtype for his printing in The Brother's War: Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor.
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What did Yawgmoth want?

He took control of that plane and became its god, naming the world "Phyrexia," but his true dream was to return to his home plane of Dominaria and turn its inhabitants into "perfect beings" under his rule.
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Is there a real Phyrexian language?

Phyrexian was first introduced in 2010. It's a language spoken in-fiction by a loathsome species of cybernetic monsters on the plane of Phyrexia. Publisher Wizards of the Coast has never completely explained how it works.
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Was Urabrask killed?

Urabrask is the only Praetor not to be explicitly killed during March of the Machine, with it noted that he was conscious despite having lost all his limbs.
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Why did Yawgmoth create the Phyrexians?

Yawgmoth gave Phyrexian organisms a purpose: to thrive, to grow beyond the confines of Phyrexia and into the rest of the Multiverse. Over hundreds of years, Phyrexia evolved priests and acolytes who extolled and worshiped Yawgmoth, as well as demons and abominations of infinite variety to kill for him.
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How did tezzeret get his arm?

At the age of 19, Tezzeret performed the ritual that severed his right arm and replaced it with a solid etherium arm of over ten kilos worth of the metal, a dream he had fostered for an entire decade since he began to steal from his father.
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How did tamiyo become a phyrexian?

Tezzeret then used the Planar Bridge to kidnap Tamiyo and take her back to New Phyrexia. Afterwards, Tamiyo was compleated by Jin-Gitaxias, becoming the first Phyrexian planeswalker.
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