the thing about this card is that in New Capenna, devils are just, like… a type of person. they’re a racial category. like usually “diabolist” is used when devils are like otherworldly summoned beings but in New Capenna specifically theyre just Dudes. like imagine if there was a word for “guy who summons and commands Italians” like theres someone walking around calling himself a Sicilianist
I refuse to believe that Emmara Tandris is tall and thin. You’re telling me the priestess of cultivated plenty isn’t a thick little shortstack with thighs for days? Unbelievable.
IM SAYING!!!!
though Emmara was still described as thin back then, she was originally SHORT !!!!!!!!!!!! SHE WAS SO SMALL SHE HAD TO TILT HER HEAD TO LOOK AT JACE AND LILIANA (WHO ARE BOTH 5'10) !!!!!!!!!!!!
Phyrexia from the outside is body horror. Phyrexia from the inside is dystopian, reproductive horror.
this is about Phyrexia forcing reproductive control on its own people.
Not a coincidence that TWO different instances of phyrexian tokens in some way represent weaponized children. (Germs and Incubators). Imagine having the only method of bringing new life into the world available to you turned into literal, actual ammunition. (See Mortarpod from Mirrodin Besieged)
