History Characters / MagicTheGathering

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Her deadpan snarking and funny quotes kept her popular long enough to get her own card a ''decade'' after the set she originated from was released

* EvilIsSexy

* AwesomeButImpractical: her card, maybe; her head, definitely. It's not entirely clear how she manages to fit her gargantuan head boomerang through doors.

* NauseaFuel: She has ''no skin on her throat''. It's just a tad disturbing.

* DarkChick: Sorry dude.

* FanNickname: "Robot Nixon", since he's a head stuck to a mechanical body.

The White Praetor.

The Blue Praetor.

The Black Praetor.

The Red Praetor.

The Green Praetor.

* Meaningful Name: Sarkhan comes from the word "šarkan" which means dragon in the Slovak Language

* Villain Protagonist: How he was portrayed in Test of Metal.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Worshipped as a god by the natives of Zendikar. [[GodIsEvil Before they knew its true nature of course.

* ObfuscatingStupidity[=/=]ObfuscatingInsanity: She appears to be a delirious, insane religious lunatic, but she's actually a rather clever [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative bitch]].

* TheChessmaster
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Although exactly what his end goals are nobody knows.
* HiddenAgendaVillain

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=15255 "As the invasion drew closer, Urza's means began to resemble Phyrexia's end.]]

* GameBreaker: +1/+1 counters for everybody! Or a Serra Avatar token. In his Ajani Vengeant guise, he also gets the power to do a one-sided Armageddon.

* FoeYay: With Chandra.
* GameBreaker: Of all the cards, Jace, the Mind Sculptor is the one most players would like to see banned.

* GameBreaker: Her MIDDLE ability is Demonic Tutor.

* FoeYay: With Jace
* GameBreaker: Chandra Ablaze's last ability is a more limited (but 100% free) version of Yawgmoth's Will.

* GameBreaker: In addition to his first ability giving you two mana, no questions asked, he also has a third ability which gives everything +3/+3 and trample, making even Eldrazi Spawn a threat.

* GameBreaker: [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=217825 She makes all your artifacts, creatures, and lands indestructable.]]

* GameBreaker: His -4 ability, considering he comes into play with 7 loyalty counters.

* BeyondTheImpossible: "You control target player during that player's next turn."

* GameBreaker: See BeyondTheImpossible.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Restart the game? Start the game with creatures already in play? Your opponent's creatures? Hey, it could happen.

* CCGImportanceDissonance: Despite being one of the most powerful beings--perhaps ''the most'' powerful--in the whole Multiverse, Yawgmoth never obtained his own card (although, that'd be like printing a card of {{God}} in, say, Top Trumps). He is, however, related to the (in)famous pair of [[GameBreaker powerful cards]], [[http://magiccards.info/us/en/171.html Yawgmoth's Will]] and [[http://magiccards.info/ud/en/75.html Yawgmoth's Bargain]].

'''Emrakul, the Aeons Torn'''

One of the three progenitors of the Eldrazi.

* AwesomeButImpractical: At 15 mana? Yeah.
* CursedWithAwesome: You can't play him from your graveyard. Nor can you cast spells like Giant Growth on him due to his protection from colored spells.

* GameBreaker: Even if you just discard him, you can reuse all your other game-breaking cards. If you cast him, you get a free extra turn.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Worshipped as a god by the natives of Zendikar.
** Before they knew [[GodIsEvil what]] [[EldritchAbomination he]] [[CompleteMonster was]], of course.

** It ''does'' have a Yawgmoth's Bargain/Spellbook combo, but the combo involves Yawgmoth's Bargain, so do you ''really'' need anything else?

** His card also allows this. And it works whenever Squee's in the graveyard, whether sacrificed, milled, or discarded. GameBreaker potential?

* OlympusMon: The original five Elder Dragons are the ancestors of all dragons.

* MindRape: [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=195297 Jace, the Mind Sculptor's fourth ability]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He betrays his fellow planeswalkers and gives in to Yawgmoth once he has reached Phyrexia.]]

* EvilTwin: with Red.

* BodyHorror: Anything with "Pay X life..." in it, anything Yawgmoth does, a lot of black auras.

* TheMario: Black is somewhat TheMario; oddly, black has no enchantment or artifact removal.

* BodyHorror: Anything with "Pay X life..." in it, anything [[spoiler:Yawgmoth]] does, a lot of black auras.

* {{Homage}}: Her design, as well the designs of her servants, owe much to SilentHill.

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: Sacrifices himself to save Karn at the end of the ''Scars of Mirrodin'' block novel.

Phyrexia was originally a dying, swampy plane designed by a dragon planeswalker. Later came [[BigBad Yawgmoth]], which alongside the members of his civilasation that were banished alongside him after a series of events in his homeworld, turned the plane into a world of seven layers that can best be described as {{Hell}}. The Phyrexian civilasation was a well structured, organised dictatorship that had a vicious, semi-religious philosophy that declared that flesh was imperfect and should be replaced by metal in a various manner of BodyHorror, turning the altered creatures into unrecognisable monstruousities. [[AveMachina Worshipping machines]] (but only those made by Yawgmoth; the rest are heretical mockeries), the phyrexians tried to take over Dominaria, but were ultimately defeated and their plane destroyed.

* KilledOffForReal: The current story team seems ''very'' intent on making sure he never makes a comeback. While ''Scourge'' features a scene showing him wounded, but alive, but that's since been [[RetCon retconned]] with at least two {{Take That}}s in the ''Time Spiral'' block (Windgrace states that he has confirmed Yawgmoth as dead, and Urborg is known as the Tomb of Yawgmoth), and the leaders of Phyrexia are now explicitly the Praetors.