URABRASK - QUICK PRAETOR LORE
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- Опубликовано: 23 янв 2023
- A quick dive into the lore of Urabrask, the red phyrexian praetor. For those who want the rundown on the villains of Phyrexia: All Will Be One and March of the Machine. There's an exhaustive history of the phyrexians and their plane on my channel but I'll be posting a lore short for each praetor over the coming days
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HE'S RED AND HAS LITERALLY SEIZED THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING
Is he the most anti-communistic communist or the most communistic anti-communist?
Sure, except he's rebelling against collectivism
Seized it? No no my comrad he IS the means of production.
@@qwormuli77Answer: YES!
He's not communist in the slightest
Plot Twist: Urabrask is the *biggest and most devout* believer in the perfection that is compleation, because he has so much faith in its superiority and virtue that everyone will willingly choose compleation, in time. He understands that if you have to forcefully impose compleation on others, it's an implicit admission in its shortcomings and undesirable nature.
In other words he's playing the long game of all doctrines.
This a fun idea. My friends and I had actually hypothesized this a couple weeks ago!!! Glad others like our red boy
Yeah, I feel like I read that somewhere. Is that not his canon view?
@@MattHarb I don't know, but I hope it is!!!
Woah.
I'm quietly enjoying the fact that Urabrask gave refuge to the Resistance as giant middle finger to Norn.
I lost my mind reading that lore point during scars of mirrodin. Koth needs to become Koth, Champion of Urabrask and ride him into combat referencing Hero of Oxid Ridge. Have him summon a legendary Urabrask token for the minus. + Is Proliferate, then shock target c,p or PW. If the creature had infect, repeat this process.
Ult is -x, deal x to everything but Koth and a token named Urabrask.
1RR for Cost
4 loyalty.
The mental image of koth riding urabrask like a war horse made me wheeze lmao
@@xxBurnsss101 yeah i want this, i also want Ura to straight up body norn before its done like a "here comes Urabrask with a steel chair!" moment.
@@darylmcnaughton748 I think Urabrask will fight Norn, but ultimately lose. And she will be injured enough for someone like Elspeth to finish off
I saw on the wiki that he wants to compleat beings, but that 1. Beings have to choose to do so themselves and 2. It is done in a way that retains the best parts of that individual.
Under those terms, compleation doesn’t sound so bad tbh
It's so unique compared to all other ways of Çømplēàætêion. I kinda hope this antihero overthrows Norn at some point.
I mean It leads to a more perfect phyrexia
Especially if compleation is a means to advancing your natural strengths and talents while removing your faults and flaws
I would gladly give myself to that phyrexia
Honestly I could see Urabrask as the one way New Phyrexia is able to live on in the event they'd be otherwise wiped out. Urabrask is still Phyrexian, but is the only major figure among them that won't force unwilling people to undergo completion, and makes this call on principle.
It represents the one potential corner of Phyrexia that _can_ co-exist with non-Phyrexian life.
@@snowboundwhale6860 true
But also his method of improving what's great in an individual and removing flaws means there is less 'failures' as norn would put it
From what I'm grasping norn wants everything to fit a mold
If it doesn't fit for one reason or another it's useless and tossed aside
Leading to alot of wasted resources
Urabrask is a forge master
He takes the raw material and listens to what it wants to be and he helps it achieve that
Less material wasted meaning a stronger phyrexia
And with it being basically a volunteer movement there is less risk of turncoats like Jace did to norn
It's just the right way to go about it and since they are a hive mind of machines they could wait however long they need to become a multiversal super power like the eldrazi or the slivers
Urabrask and the other reds do compleat unwilling beings, however urabrask “secretly prefers” compleating people who are willing. If he has his way, everyone would probably be willing, but he’s gotta keep the furnace running somehow and I doubt there’s enough willing participants to staff the whole sphere
Urabrask, the Based
Urabased, if you will.
Urabased, the Gigachad?
Plot twist, Urabrask gets his spark
Hell yes. Will this into existence.
I'm here for it!
I've never wanted something to happen more in my life
Oh gosh yes
YES
Love the implication that Phyrexia, once a mindless force of assimilation and evolution, has assimilated SO MUCH sentient life that it has rapid-evolved not only strength and guile and intelligence, but also empathy and happiness. Phyrexia was so good at adapting in order to overcome that it accidentally became indistinguishable from the thing it was instinctually trying to destroy.
Even the fact that Norn is the leader now kinda underlines that, giving the nature of Phyrexia was black in the original sets and (mostly) black/green at the start of Scars of Mirrodin and white/red being the resistance colors...
Original Phyrexia was a weird abomination which was extremly chaotic and self-destructive, safe for Yawgmoth at the very top of it.
While the order Norn and the white faction brought to New Phyrexia, helps with the whole conquering stuff, it also betrays the old ways of Phyrexia in a sense.
Was it true that there's no word for happiness in phyrexian?
Woah… this guy seems cool as fuck. I knew that he was on his own journey. But you said it in such a poetic way. I really feel for this sad boi.
This makes a lot of sense in the color pie since red and black are enemy color pairings to white.
I like this guy. This idea of allowing individuality in a union by the oil has its charm. Sure you'll probably not be exactly your previous self, but when the other option has your entire identity disappear, Urabrask captivates more through emotion. Plus the design of his legion is rad as fuck.
Your mind will still be there?
@@randomrants148 more of it than if you were to be with Elesh Norn, that's for sure. Red is more of "I want". Of course there'd be the influence of the oil, but it would still be you, just with some mood and behavior changes. White phyrexian mana? Oh it's not YOU, it's all WE.
Coolest Praetor ever
Na Gix is, followed by Elesh
@@jazybomber by coolness. I think Urabrask wins based on design and straight up being a homie
But Jin and Elesh definitely win for being powerful cards and achievements
@@MattHarb Urabrask is definetely a homie
@@jazybomber no. unless you blindly like obeying Communism.
Urabrask is the Bon Clay of MTG?
Imagine if he gets an appearance with the types of "Phyrexian Rebel" instead
Urabrask reprint with the creature type Rebel instead of praetor
I was thinking this recently that would be so damn cool man
I love how he's effectively a good guy.
He exudes a lot Magneto-like traits, and I fully believe Tezzeret is on board with Ura's game plan. I wanna see Urabrask's journey, I read somewhere in the comments Urabrask could end up with a spark.
I'd say Chaotic Neutral at best.
It's worth it to note that Urabrask and Sheoldred both HATE Norn for their own reasons, Vorinclex and Jin Gitaxias are both sort of neutral to her. She lets Jin Gitaxias do his experiments, so he's cool with her, while Vorinclex really couldn't care bc he's just kinda chillin with Glissa in the Hunter's Maze most of the time. I believe this current storyline is going to end not with a deus ex planeswalker, but with Urabrask turning Vorinclex against Norn by convincing him Norn's vision of perfection doesn't allow predation. Urabrask's going to win the civil war and Phyrexia will just be another world in the multiverse, a much more dangerous world, but no longer threatening invasion.
Someone still has to burn down the tree
@Allon Vorlete I figure that would happen during the civil war.
He gonna win because he controls all the guns my friend
Plus I do think that Vorinclex and Urabrask's visions of what phyrexia should be compatible
Either that or team up with Sheoldred, who might also want to steal the throne from Norn
He’s also…kinda like, playful in a weird way, when asked if his legion should allow the Mirran’s refuge, he, and I quote, says “Duh”
New card title idea, Urabrask, the renewed after he goes on his antihero arch
"arch" hits different
I think it's also interesting how in certain poses his head almost looks like the beaked head of a Myr. Maybe that was part of the intention?
Urabrask was my fav of the phyrexian preators from the moment I saw his original card and its flavor text in new phyrexia all those years ago. "when the mirran resistance arrived, the furnace dwellers looked to Urabrask for guidance. His decree stunned the others: "Let them be."
I just knew this dude was gonna be cool inside and out and i loved how his card was objectively the worst of the others so he flew under peoples radars and when he hit the field people allowed him to sit and do his thing which usually didnt work out well for them.
I always saw urabrask as valuing the things that make compleation special and perfect, and forcing everything to be compleat would make compleation the new normal, and thus, not special at all. Compleation, in his view, is something to be cherished among those who strive for it, not just handed out to the inferior masses. He is still evil, but in a way that conflicts with Elesh Norn's goals of compleating everything.
urabrask my beloved
Bro I fucking love just how chill Urabrask is.
Urabrask, The Homie
Thanks for increasing my love for my mono-red urabrask deck
These shorts are awesome
Are you trying to make me forget about the guildless? Because this phyrexia stuff is way cooler. Will it all circle back and line up in the end, who knows?
That is why this man is the party animal just casually letting the rebellion chill in his domain
Our small king didn’t deserve this fate 😔✊
He follows the way of the warrior standing far from the society watching everything unfold getting ready to strike the heart of the problem when it's weak and opened
Urabrask does believe that Compleation is perfection. However, he disagrees with Norn about what that perfection should look like...
Norn believes that everyone who becomes Phyrexian should be homogenized because to her perfection has only one form and so therefore everything should look the same. Anything that doesn't meet her standards is therefore imperfect and requires Compleation at her command to perfect it. If only one thing is perfect, then to make everything perfect, all should be that one thing -- hence, All Will Be One.
Meanwhile, Urabrask believes that powerful entities can contribute individual strengths to the glory of Phyrexia, and that there is power in creativity and innovation. He believes that Phyrexian perfection is achieved by incorporating every strength they can get their hands on and therefore will have no weaknesses because everyone will glorify Phyrexia. He also believes that Norn weakens Phyrexia with her single-minded vision.
Norn is an Autocrat. Urabrask is a Democrat. Both want Phyrexia to be perfect. They just can't agree on how best to do it.
Also important to note is that the other Praetors have equally conflicting visions:
Veroniclex and Jin-Gitaxian believe in opposite forms of evolution, "natural" evolution (although sped up by extreme aggressive-darwinism) and engineered evolution through science.
I think "Thundering Tonadon"'s flavor text says it nicely "We do not need beakers and vials to test our predators".
Phyrexia is surely gonna loose (unless WotC is doing the equivalent of a DC/Marvel universe reset by letting them win) and I hope its due to infighting (even as a Phyrexian fanboy), its what would make the most sense, since the whole alliance of the Praetors should be extremly unstable, maybe kill off (or remove for a bit) Norn and make it so Jin, Veroniclex and Sheoldred all start murdering eachother in order to gain leadership and the attack fails....
Subscribed for these shorts on your channel. Best mtg lore channel yet!
Would love to see more lore shorts like maybe on Brimaz and other phyrexians.
Rip urabrask…
Honestly he could maybe develop a Soul and inevitably light his spark for Freedom not to perfect a multiverse but to keep them free in his own way. He seems so Human but not.
Honestly my favorite praetor
Thats why i love him the most ^^ ill tell you... Ura + Chandra vs the 4 other preators will end new phyrexia
Love these. Urabrask is the only one I respect enough to consider following.
Please make more videos like this
And he looks the coolest
They did my boy dirty in the story but his new card is sweet. Sweet dreams ura. Also F the heretic Elesh Norn in her stupid faceplate
Ah yes my speedy boy
nice work
There are a couple of Phyrexians now that seem to be developing outside of the hive mind, Ixhel is also doing things she shouldn't and thinking in ways Axtraxa doesn't like. And Ixhel doesn't even have red mana, maybe she will go to Urabrask and ask to give her red mana
"So you will help us, and stand against Elesh Norn"
"Do not misunderstand me human. I oppose the Tyranny of the Orthodoxy, and see value in the freedom your kind cling to so desperately, but make no mistake, the perfection of Phyrexian compleation, is indisputable. However, the process of ascension only retains it's true meaning if it is done by choice. Forcing compleation upon the other planes will only increase the desire to resist, and carry the implication that it is an undesirable fate. This approach is antithetical to the very purpose of compleation, a fact my counterparts are blind to. I will help you defeat the Mother of Machines, and all others of my kind who aid her, but understand I fight for Phyrexias survival, not its destruction. If we are victiorious, I will see that hostilities against the rest of the multiverse cease, but in return I expect my kind to be left alone to conduct the great work in peace. Compleation will never be forced on your kind by mine again, but understand should any seek us out and wish to ascend to perfection, it WILL be granted to them, regardless of any objections. Phyrexia is eternal."
I demand you make part 3 of the guildless it's been a year.
when Phyrexians can't lose the war, just break them from inside.
Fuck yeah ura! :D
Urabrask is the best and coolest praetor IMO
Urabrask is my favorite praetor
I guess there were some creative differences among the Praetors.
Urabrask, the Rouge one!
I'm going to let it slide this time.
Wtf I love urabrask now
I'd fight under Urabrask.
Can we get on of these for atraxa??
What channel can I watch to listen to all of MTG lore also I love how the red faction has the most moral praetor lol
I'm gonna guess Elesh Norn and Jin Gitaxias are the main evil phyrexians
I wonder what Urabrask was before his compleation.
We can tell Elesh and Sheoldred were humans.
Jin was probably a vedalken.
Vorinclev might have been a troll.
But I can't pick out any particular shape for Urabrask
MYR!!!
I used to be a secretary at a law firm
@@themoonchkin1790 Oh, snap. What if Urabrask was a myr to begin with? One of the ones that gained a shred of sentience and the oil actually expanded it but the absorption of red mana curbed the phyrexian inclination to serve and expand.
@@Urabrask How did you shift from White/Blue/Black to pure red?
@@shinmalestat9272 pure unadulterated rage
I’d simp for urabrask. Mans is independent and free. Doesn’t conform to Norn and her cronies. I’d let him compleat me and serve him 😂
W phyrexian
damn, hes just like me fr
Does anyone know why we still see Mirrans fighting the Quiet Furnace and why some Legends(such as Ayara in MOM) have a "Red" compleation?
Urabrask is a bro and I would let him compleat me
I don't know about you all, but something about one of the most evil "looking" Phyrexians who is allied with a color that tends to have more malicious intents being a good guy is rather funny to me.
The enemy of the enemy.
There is no such thing as a “good” phyrexian. When the enemies of urabrask fall I’m sure he will gleefully wipe out the mirrans.
I wonder can Urabrask feel love and fall in love since he is red. Is that possible? Who would love fall in with this Preaetor, can anyone teach what is love?
No wonder atraxa has no red
Wasn't he the first to be captured?
Yeah no that's just Rhino from Warframe.
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Too bad Urabrask always gets the weakest cards out of all the praetors 😢
and then they make him a bad card
Well the idea is that he’s not as oppressive as the other praetors
@@Sir_Master sure that makes sense, but you could still make a good card... doesn't have to have an oppressive effect