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58. Phyrexia (Magic the Gathering) (17.5 points)
Nominated by: trdl23 (1/5 remaining)


Importance: 2
Fear: 8
Snake: 7.5

Phyrexia is a nightmare world, melding flesh & technology into one, a hellish world of 9 spheres each worse than the last. The Dante's Inferno connection is obvious, but it's how Phyrexia reinterprets that old reliable concept that's admirable here. Each sphere is a lurid malformation of real life, reexamining existence through the lens of industrial evolution run rampant, in a world where excess is an unknown word and anything short of bio-mechanical dominance is unacceptable, offspring is produced in cold, unfeeling factories and seen as expendable in this dooming march of so-called progress. It's every nightmare people had of Victorian Era industrial revolution condensed, the roaring of thunderous machines becoming our new language, a maze of steel pipes and steam-stacks replacing our creature comforts for economic greed, represented by the controlling head of Yawgmoth and the governing demon body, raining oil and rusted husks killing off the environment and any sense of freedom, health, or peace. It's a terrifically scary world, a bleak reminder of how easy things can deteriorate if people don't stand up for what's right, all realized in amazing artwork and solidly-thought out writing.

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And it's gonna be a long October, and I don't have reasons to believe, in much of anything, alright
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