A Planeswalker's Guide to New Phyrexia: The Quiet Furnace    •
Boards   • Print Author Image  This section describes the Quiet
Furnace, the Phyrexian faction associated with red mana.  "What
is our purpose? To reforge. Nothing more." —Urabrask the Hidden
Mountain | Illustration by Tomasz Jedruszek  The vast majority
of red-aligned Phyrexians dwell in the so-called Furnace Layer,
a relatively new, interstitial layer between Mirrodin's outer
surface and inner core. This layer's creation was one of the
first steps in transforming Mirrodin into New Phyrexia, built
from the ancestral memory embedded in the glistening oil.
Effect of the Red Sun  In its original incarnation, Phyrexia had
access only to black mana. It did encompass concepts beyond
those central to black mana, such as hierarchy and flame, but
without access to the vital red mana behind those concepts, its
core ethos was unified and unchallenged. Access to all five of
Mirrodin's mana-rich suns has led to diversification and
disunity, damaging the Phy