Heralding a return to Phyrexia after 12 years, it’s safe to say that Phyrexia: All Will Be One is one of the most anticipated MTG sets in recent memory. Promising monumental story moments, including the Compleation of 10 Planeswalkers, Phyrexia: All Will Be One is undoubtedly a big deal. Subsequently, all eyes have been on it over the holiday period, despite Dominaria Remastered actually being the next set. Helping to fuel this Phyrexia: All Will Be One’s overwhelming popularity has been the steady stream of tantalizing leaks. These leaks have recently been everywhere, providing MTG players with unconfirmed details about the upcoming set. So much so, that the major story moments from Phyrexia: All Will Be One have already been spoiled!
In this article, we’ll discuss major details from the Phyrexia: All Will Be One story, so consider this your official spoiler warning. If you want to learn about the story as Wizards intends, the set’s story chapters begin on January 12th, 2023. This follows a Building Worlds video that will explain the themes of the set while leading into the story.
Leaks Galore
During the First Look Livestream for Phyrexia: All Will Be One, weekly MTG host Blake Rasmussen dropped a bombshell reveal. Shortly before showing off the set’s 10 Planeswalkers, Rasmussen explained that “five of them will not walk away un-Compleated.” As you can imagine, this tidbit of information caused no end of speculation amidst the MTG community. At the time, only
Koth, Fire of Resistance
Koth, Fire of Resistance
+2: Search your library for a basic Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Koth deals damage to target creature equal to the number of Mountains you control.
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever a Mountain you control enters, this emblem deals 4 damage to any target."
was shown to survive the set, leaving the fate of nine Planeswalkers in peril. For better or worse, however, shortly after the First Look Livestream, a majorly significant leak would reveal three more characters’ fates. Accidentally posted to BiliBili and Weibo by Wizards of the Coast, it was quickly confirmed that Nissa, Vraska, and Jace were all getting Compleated.
With the fates of four, seemingly five, of the ten Planeswalkers confirmed, much of the story’s impact was already ruined. This, however, did little to quell the rampant speculation that was happening across social media. Throughout the holiday break, players such as u/thisnotfor offered no end of suggestions about who will be getting Compleated. After undoubtedly hours of painstaking research, u/thisnotfor claimed, “these planeswalkers will be Compleated because it makes a perfect zig-zag.” Somewhat remarkably, this wild theory took the community by storm, and even more surprisingly, it was almost right!
As the mercifully quiet holiday break drew to a close, leaks for Phyrexia: All Will Be One suddenly started appearing everywhere. Flooding social media, it appeared that rare sheets for Phyrexia: All Will Be One was being mixed in with Dominaria Remastered Booster Boxes. This led to almost all of the set’s rares being spoiled in a matter of days, revealing key story details. This includes, of course, the fate of the surviving Planeswalkers since each of those cards is a rare.
The Compleat List
Following Wizards’ official spoilers for Koth and Kaito, it was not long before leaks revealed the rest. At first, The Wanderer’s survival was confirmed via
The Eternal Wanderer
The Eternal Wanderer
No more than one creature can attack The Eternal Wanderer each combat.
+1: Exile up to one target artifact or creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of that player's next end step.
0: Create a 2/2 white Samurai creature token with double strike.
−4: For each player, choose a creature that player controls. Each player sacrifices all creatures they control not chosen this way.
, who is quite the midrange bomb. Following this, recent leaks revealed that both Kaya and Tyvar also survive Phyrexia: All Will Be One.
Similarly to The Wanderer, Kaya, appearing as
Kaya, Intangible Slayer
Kaya, Intangible Slayer
Hexproof
+2: Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.
0: You draw two cards. Then each opponent may scry 1.
−3: Exile target creature or enchantment. If it wasn't an Aura, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 1/1 white Spirit creature with flying in addition to its other types.
is incredibly expensive, costing seven mana (3WWBB). Providing life drain, card draw, and a powerful exile ability, Kaya, Intangible Slayer, is poised to be an absolute menace thanks to their Hexproof passive. Tyvar, on the other hand, is a much more aggressive Planeswalker, costing only three mana to cast (1BG). Appearing as
Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste.
+1: Untap up to one target creature.
−2: Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
, Tyvar passively offers creatures taste for their abilities. Furthermore, Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler also lets you untap creatures as a +1, or -2 for a mill and reanimation effect.
Thanks to this trio of leaks, we now know the five Planeswalkers that survive Phyrexia: All Will Be One. This, in turn, gives us the full list of who gets Compleated throughout the set’s story. The list of who does and doesn’t get Compleated throughout the set is as follows.
Survived
- Koth –
Koth, Fire of Resistance
Koth, Fire of Resistance
+2: Search your library for a basic Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Koth deals damage to target creature equal to the number of Mountains you control.
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever a Mountain you control enters, this emblem deals 4 damage to any target." - Kaito –
Kaito, Dancing Shadow
Kaito, Dancing Shadow
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you may return one of them to its owner's hand. If you do, you may activate loyalty abilities of Kaito twice this turn rather than only once.
+1: Up to one target creature can't attack or block until your next turn.
0: Draw a card.
−2: Create a 2/2 colorless Drone artifact creature token with deathtouch and "When this token leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life." - The Wanderer –
The Eternal Wanderer
The Eternal Wanderer
No more than one creature can attack The Eternal Wanderer each combat.
+1: Exile up to one target artifact or creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of that player's next end step.
0: Create a 2/2 white Samurai creature token with double strike.
−4: For each player, choose a creature that player controls. Each player sacrifices all creatures they control not chosen this way. - Kaya Cassir –
Kaya, Intangible Slayer
Kaya, Intangible Slayer
Hexproof
+2: Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.
0: You draw two cards. Then each opponent may scry 1.
−3: Exile target creature or enchantment. If it wasn't an Aura, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 1/1 white Spirit creature with flying in addition to its other types. - Tyvar –
Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste.
+1: Untap up to one target creature.
−2: Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Compleated
- Nissa Revane –
Nissa, Ascended Animist
Nissa, Ascended Animist
Compleated ({G/P} can be paid with {G} or 2 life. For each {G/P} paid with life, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Create an X/X green Phyrexian Horror creature token, where X is Nissa's loyalty.
−1: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
−7: Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 for each Forest you control and gain trample. - Jace Beleren –
Jace, the Perfected Mind
Jace, the Perfected Mind
Compleated ({U/P} can be paid with {U} or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature gets -3/-0.
−2: Target player mills three cards. Then if a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, you draw three cards. Otherwise, you draw a card.
−X: Target player mills three times X cards. - Vraska –
Vraska, Betrayal’s Sting
Vraska, Betrayal’s Sting
Compleated ({B/P} can be paid with {B} or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
0: You draw a card and lose 1 life. Proliferate.
−2: Target creature becomes a Treasure artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color" and loses all other card types and abilities.
−9: If target player has fewer than nine poison counters, they get a number of poison counters equal to the difference. - Nahiri – Card yet to be spoiled
- Lukka – Card yet to be spoiled
More Story to Tell
Despite having the complete list of Planeswalker Compleations, speculation about what’s to come hasn’t stopped. While we know each Planeswalker’s fate, we don’t know which side they’re on or if they’ll survive. Lukka, for instance, is such an anomaly of a himbo that even after being Compleated, players don’t know which side he’s on. “Honestly that new Mite legendary [Skrelv, Defector Mite] makes me think that it’s Lukka’s new bonded creature, and he’s going to do Lukka things with its help i.e. royally f*ck up Norns plans, even if he gets Compleated,” u/Garmond-of-La-Mancha suggested on Reddit. While this might seem outlandish, u/TechnomagusPrime went on to point out this would be very befitting of Lukka’s character. “Lukka’s entire MO seems to be ‘Show up. Join the bad guys. F*ck things up for both sides (but especially the bad guys). Refuse to elaborate. Leave.’”
Additionally, alongside the anomaly that is Lukka, there are some doubts if Compleation even means anything. Introduced in Streets of New Capenna, it appears that the angel-derived substance known as Halo could potentially cure Compleation. While this application for it is unconfirmed, Halo is, at the least, a very effective weapon against Phyrexians. Due to the lingering doubts about Halo and the importance of the Compleated characters, some players are doubting that they’re really dead.
“I’d like to say that this is WotC cycling out the old guard and getting the ‘new gate watch’, the fact that Jace got Compleated is a warning IMO that there will be a cure.”
u/Regal_The_King
“The fact that any Planeswalker got Compleated is a clue for a possible cure. Traditional Compleation obliterates the soul- effectively, the victim is killed and replaced by another being. Planeswalker Compleation corrupts the soul instead (to preserve the Planeswalker spark), which would make more sense to be reversible.”
u/MatsuzoSF
For better or worse, while we know some major details of Phyrexia: All Will Be One’s story, we don’t know the story itself. This should hopefully still make the story chapters an interesting read once they get released later this week. Subsequently, we’ll have to wait and see for how the story plays out.
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