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Phyrexia: All Will Be One

Facts
Placement
Plane
New Phyrexia
Other
Symbol description
The Phyrexian symbol bisecting a circle
Design
Mark Rosewater (lead), Doug Beyer , Ari Nieh , Bryan Hawley , Graeme Hopkins , Ken Nagle , Sydney Adams , Zac Elsik
Development
Adam Prosak (co-lead), Erik Lauer (co-lead), Oliver Tiu , Reggie Valk , Daniel Holt , Ken Nagle, Carmen Handy , Patrick Sullivan , Mark Gottlieb , Michael Majors , John Penick , Annie Sardelis , Andrew Brown
Themes and mechanics
Oil counters , Proliferate , Poison counters , Rebels , Spheres
Keywords/​ability words
Corrupted , For Mirrodin! , Toxic
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Phyrexia: All Will Be One is the ninety-fifth Magic expansion. It was released on February 10, 2023 (pushed back from February 3).

Set details

Phyrexia: All Will Be One contains 271 cards (101 commons, 80 uncommons, 60 rares, 20 mythic rares, 10 basic lands), and includes randomly inserted premium versions of all cards. The regular cards include 5 Phyrexian Panorama Full Art basic lands (#262-266) and 5 Phyrexianized Full Art basic lands (#267-271). Alternate card frames have a different card number than the original version. The Bundle basic lands are #272-276, the dark frame treatment cards from the Universal promo pack are numbered #277-281, the Bundle promos are #282-283 and the Buy-a-Box card is #284. Black-and-white "ichor" showcase cards are numbered #285-297, while the borderless versions are #298-324. #325-329 Phyrexian language planeswalkers. Cards with a borderless manga treatment for select characters and planeswalkers reimagined as Phyrexians ("What if") are #330-344. The Oil Slick Raised Foil cards of the Compleat Bundle are #345-369. Borderless dual lands are #370-374. Extended artwork cards are numbered #375-403. The Standard legal Jumpstart rares are #404-413. The different treatments for Elesh Norn are #414-21 and Step-and-compleat foil cards are numbered #422-489.

The mega-mega cycle of Praetors are available in all three booster types, with Richard Whitter's borderless concept art. Each have the collector number and set code of their original printing.

On October 14, 2022, three months before the release of Phyrexia: All Will Be One and even before the start of the spoiler season of the previous set, several Showcase cards from ONE were shown off on Reddit. These revealed the step-and-compleat foil treatment and several mechanics. A week before previews started, almost all rares from the set were found packaged in Dominaria Remastered packs and subsequently spoiled on Reddit.

Storyline

This is the third part of the four-set Phyrexian story arc where the fate of Dominaria — and the Multiverse — is set to unravel. The Phyrexians grow ever stronger, as Elesh Norn inches closer to her plan to conquer the Multiverse. We view Phyrexia from their point of view. They are antagonistic with each other. The Planeswalkers who gathered to stop the Phyrexians on Dominaria lost — badly. Now, every plane of the Multiverse is in Phyrexian sights with their plan to invade them all. The only hope that remains is to take them out on their home turf, destroying the Phyrexian's means to Multiverse invasion. The risk that some of the heroes fall to Phyrexians is high, but the stakes for everyone else are even higher. Planeswalkers team up and head down into New Phyrexia to end the threat of invasion once and for all.

Five of the ten planeswalkers printed in the set are compleated, a disastrous casualty rate in preparation for the finale. The cards that represent the Story Spotlights in Phyrexia: All Will Be One are:

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Marketing

Phyrexia: All Will Be One is sold in regular 16-card Draft Boosters (one card being a marketing card), Collector Boosters, Set Boosters, Jumpstart Boosters, the Phyrexia: All Will Be One Bundle and two Commander decks. A special Compleat Edition of the Bundle contains 12 Set Boosters, 40 foil basic lands, and a Compleat Edition booster with 2 Oil Slick Raised Foil Mythic Rare cards and 10 Oil Slick Raised Foil Land cards. The Compleat Edition released on March 3, 2023. All products feature art depicting Elesh Norn.

Japanese anime-styled art, like from War of the Spark, is used to depict ten compleated planeswalkers, though only five are canon characters.

Events

Store Championship events are officially replacing Game Day beginning with Phyrexia: All Will Be One.

Promos

Tokens and markers

Phyrexia: All Will Be One features 12 tokens, 1 emblem, and 1 markers.

  1. {W} 2/2 Cat creature for Kemba, Kha Enduring.
  2. {W} 2/2 Samurai creature with double strike for The Eternal Wanderer.
  3. {R} 1/1 Phyrexian Goblin creature for Charforger, Chimney Rabble, Churning Reservoir, Gleeful Demolition and Ovika, Enigma Goliath.
  4. {R} X/1 Phyrexian Horror creature for Urabrask's Forge.
  5. {R} 2/2 Rebel creature for Barbed Batterfist, Blade of Shared Souls, Bladehold War-Whip, Dragonwing Glider, Goldwardens' Gambit, Goldwarden's Helm, Hexgold Halberd, Hexgold Hoverwings, Mirran Bardiche, Otharri, Suns' Glory, Sylvok Battle-Chair and Vulshok Splitter.
  6. {G} 3/3 Phyrexian Beast creature with toxic 1, for Goliath Hatchery, Lukka, Bound to Ruin and Viral Spawning.
  7. {G} X/X Phyrexian Horror creature for Nissa, Ascended Animist.
  8. {C} 2/2 Drone artifact creature with deathtouch and “When this creature leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.”, for Kaito, Dancing Shadow.
  9. {C} The Hollow Sentinel, a 3/3 legendary Phyrexian Golem artifact creature for Venser, Corpse Puppet.
  10. {C} 3/3 Phyrexian Golem artifact creature for Incubation Sac and Malcator, Purity Overseer.
  11. {C} 1/1 Phyrexian Mite artifact creature with Toxic 1 and "This creature can't block", for Basilica Shepherd, Charge of the Mites, Crawling Chorus, Indoctrination Attendant, Infested Fleshcutter, Mirrex, Mite Overseer, Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold, Skrelv's Hive, Stinging Hivemaster, and White Sun's Twilight.
  12. {C} 1/1 Phyrexian Mite artifact creature with Toxic 1 and "This creature can't block".
  13. Emblem for Koth, Fire of Resistance.
  14. Poison counter marker.Available only in Draft and Set Boosters

For the Japanese market, six additional tokens with alternate art became available.

Poison counter

Stores in Germany, Austria, France, and Italy can participate in a special Magic: The Gathering play and purchase promotion. Players who participate in a Magic: The Gathering event, and purchase €75 of Phyrexia: All Will Be One sealed product receive a poison counter. The poison counters are green 10-sided dice with a Phyrexian symbol in place of the number ten.

The List

The List introduces the Universes Within versions of the 8 cards from the Secret Lair Drop Series: Street Fighter. The rebranded characters are natives of Dominaria.

Beadle & Grimm's

Behold New Phyrexia, a Beadle & Grimm's product connected to Phyrexia: All Will Be One, was released on February 18, 2023. It consisted of a Phyrexian-themed artifact / deck box designed to look like it originated out of The Fair Basilica, an in-world Phyrexian language translation journal, four matching alloy d10 life counters, 130 Elesh Norn-themed card sleeves and a Limited-print foil Phyrexian language Mental Misstep with art by Erica Yang.

Themes and mechanics

Phyrexia: All Will Be One sees the return of Poison counters and the Phyrexian-flavored Proliferate mechanic. To give a different proliferation gameplay experience to the -1/-1 counters from Scars of Mirrodin block and the +1/+1 counters in War of the Spark, neither of these counters are present, and instead oil counters are used. This would be the first set since the simplified Portal sets to not use stat-changing counters and is the only premier set or equivalent to not have any.

The new Toxic mechanic is a reworking of Poisonous. Instead of giving poison counter as a triggered ability, this is more like Lifelink adding the counters instantaneously (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get N poison counters).

The Corrupted ability word is also new. Corrupted is a Threshold variant for abilities that can only be activated or triggered if an opponent has three or more poison counters.

A keyword ability on equipment is For Mirrodin! (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 2/2 red Rebel creature token, then attach this to it). This is similar to Living weapon.

Battle cry and Phyrexian mana are featured as callbacks to the last visit to New Phyrexia. However, other than for compleated, Phyrexian mana is present only as a cost to activate abilities. Five of the ten planeswalkers printed in the set are compleated.

The set sees the promotion of two mechanics, flashback and affinity, to deciduous status.

Card types

The set introduces the Mite creature type.

Planeswalkers are featured in both Mythic Rare and Rare, with ten total in the set.

Rebel is seen for the first time as a creature type since the Time Spiral block. Four cards with the type represent the small number of Mirran survivors (although Equipment cards with the For Mirrodin! keyword create them as well.) On the other hand, more than 120 cards have the Phyrexian creature type.

Sphere is a new land type, associated with the Spheres of New Phyrexia.

Atraxa, Grand Unifier lists the new card type Battle, as a teaser for an upcoming set.

Counter types

Phyrexia: All Will Be One introduces Oil counters.

Limited archetypes

Cycles

Phyrexia: All Will Be One features the following cycles.

Double cycles

Mega-mega cycles

For each of the visits to Mirrodin in Fifth Dawn, Mirrodin Besieged, and Phyrexia: All Will Be One, a cycle of instants or sorceries has been printed that depict the suns at their dawn, peak, and setting, with a mechanical link to the next cycle. All Will Be One printed the Twilight cycle, showing the "end" of Mirrodin, all of which are X spells like the Zenith cycle from Mirrodin Besieged.

Additionally, the Skullbomb cycle finishes the trio of Spellbomb designs from Mirrodin and Scars of Mirrodin: both modes draw a card, with a colored mode doing more with a greater cost.

Reprinted cards

Functional reprints

Preconstructed decks

Phyrexia: All Will Be One features two Commander decks that are released as a regular part of a set's product line.

Notable cards

Misprints

Gallery

References