For someone who hasn't played Magic: The Gathering in over a decade, I'm still really invested in it. The whole War of the Spark thing was something I was excited to hear about, even if the only character from my days playing the game that featured in it was Nicol Bolas (my official "best card" I own, though it's the less valuable Chronicles version.)
Anyway, while the War of the Spark was a big deal, the original "holy crap" finale to a long-running arc was the invasion of Dominaria by the planar overlay of Rath, a plan concocted by the evil Phyrexians.
While the hero of that saga, Urza, was depicted in a legendary card that was merely "Blind Seer," the big bad of Phyrexia was a character named Yawgmoth - originally a human, he discovered Phyrexia and allowed it to corrupt him, becoming something like the Phyrexian god-emperor.
We've only had one card, recently, that even showed what Yawgmoth looked like, long after his transformation into a horrible flayed machine-colossus thing.
But there's a card in Modern Horizons - a new set that's basically a mix of crazy mechanics from all over Magic's history (and some, I believe, that never appeared.) It's called Yawgmoth, Thran Physician - depicting Yawgmoth as he was in the ancient, long pre-Urza Thran civilization.
That's all, really. I'm just nerding out.
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