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RySenkari posted...

He would eventually trick a planeswalker named Dyfed into creating a portal to Phyrexia for him, and would bind himself to the plane ruling it as its god and taking sick patients there in order to mutate them into his own personal army

Like to me this is a clear lynchpin moment that sets Yawgmoth ahead of most of this bracket (and massively ramps up his power)

When put in this situation how many even think to want to do this? Like this is above and beyond "this dude liked torturing innocent people" this is a guy wanting to enslave and corrupt an entire plane or universe or whatever you want to call it so he could use the sick from that plane and mutate them into his soldiers to spread misery to other planes of existence. At some point you have to think "well what evidence did character X show that they would even think to attempt that if put in a similar situation" and that's why I question whether it makes sense to scale people up to Yawgmoth willy nilly.

There is a special kind of ambition there that very few in this bracket possess. And at that point his power scale isn't really that nuts-- its really after that point he becomes super strong. Everything to that point is in theory doable by fairly low power scale people.