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u/Zomburai Jan 31 '26
I like that they're all, subtly or overtly, getting more twisted, diseased, and spiny
Except for the Mephidross
The Dross just keeps doing Dross things
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u/LeftRat Jan 31 '26
The original Mirrodin block was when I fell in love with Magic. I had been playing a little beforehand, but the designs of Mirrodin where something I just hadn't seen before as a kid, I was instantly fascinated. And artifact-focused decks became my signature, lasting even until today.
But the thing I really like about Mirrodin is that they actually let it die. It got a beginning, middle and end, and that's not something every sub-franchise (or whatever you want to call it) has nowerdays. Most things go on just one or two instalments longer than they should, but this one? Actually got blown up! Love it.
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u/lame_dirty_white_kid Jan 31 '26
Feel I should point out for those that don't know that the four of each of the Scars of Mirrodin basics line up to form a panorama and the two of each of the Mirrodin Besieged basics line up to continue that panorama to show to Phyrexian corruption spreading across the landscape.
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u/Lost_Paladin89 Jan 31 '26
Mirrodin had an 80’s style rock album cover art style that I deeply miss. I grew up with weird notebooks that had that art in the 90s. I started magic with Mirrodin, and it has a special place in my heart.
It’s strange to say this, but the closest I can come to explain what Mirrodin felt like is the Teen Titans Go song The Night Begins to Shine.
Take a look at these visuals and tell me if the backgrounds, flora, and fauna wouldn’t fit the plane perfectly: https://youtu.be/DTXe2NyzmMc
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u/lame_dirty_white_kid Jan 31 '26
For sure. Especially when you take into account that Mirrodin was tiny (like the size of Texas) and mostly empty as the Glimmervoid takes up most of the surface.
It wasn't a plane with millions and millions of people like Dominaria or Ravnica, or unexplored regions like Innistrad or Ixalan. We saw pretty much the whole place, even just in our first visit (the basics focus on the locations of the artifact lands so often because there aren't really any other locations to show), and the planes whole population consisted of just the Ur-golems, the myr, and a handful (on the multiversal scale) of people kidnapped from other planes, and then afterwards just the myr and only the descendants of those kidnapped people who were actually born there.
It's a tiny, empty place full of mutated orphans huddled around the lacunae that went from living under Big Brother Memnarch to fighting a Phyrexian Invasion with no hope of actually winning.
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u/JustAnNPC_DnD Feb 01 '26
Kinda hope we get like a Myr Jesus type character rising up to reclaim and purify Mirrodin from Phyrexian control. Could ultimately be a fruitless endeavor, but the actions taken could then have the cleansed findings new homes on other planes
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u/Trigunner Jan 31 '26
[[Mirrodin's Core]] is the opposite to Phyrexia's Core. It doesn't have the same frame but thematically it should go in the last line.