Mirrodin #001 The Glimmervoid Basin (The Contested War Zone) (Patreon)

The golem planeswalker, Karn, sought out to create a silver world of mathematical perfection, devoid of any colored mana, and named it Argentum. He seeded it with a race of golems, and left the golem Memnarch in charge as its steward in his absence.

Driven mad by residual Phyrexian oil, Memnarch sought to become a planeswalker like Karn, and began to transform Argentum into a world that could support life so that he might find a spark to harvest. By his hand, Argentum became Mirrodin, slowly populated by abducted races of elves, leonin, humans, vedalken, and goblins. The subtle corruption of the Phyrexian oil created a fungus-like structure known as mycosynth which facilitated the mutation of these inhabitants, leading to the natural integration of metal into all of the plane’s life. Mirrodin eventually (as all artificial planes do when left alone) balanced its own mana, creating five massive burning sphered of mana known as the ‘Suns’ that circle the plane. As the fifth sun took its place in the sky, events unfolded that led to the death of Memnarch and Karn’s return, and the initiation of the invasion that would transform Mirrodin into New Phyrexia. Prior to its completion, Mirrodin was unique in the multiverse for its metallic-organic life and habitats of razorgrass fields, copper forests, and quicksilver seas.

The Glimmervoid functions as the plane's desert, uninhabited and unexplored, interrupted only by four huge towers that radiate with strong magic. Each is etched with the ancient runes of the ur-golems, a nearly forgotten race of powerful artifact creatures from centuries past. When taken together, the towers are a warning about Memnarch. The Glimmervoid is in the same general location as the Razor Fields, or between the Razor Fields and the Oxidda Chain and the Tangle. The reflective metal surface can be used to send spells in several directions at once.

During the Phyrexian takeover the Glimmervoid became a Contested War Zone. After the compleation of the plane, the previous surface of Mirrodin became the wasteland known as the Mirrex, coming to mostly consist of the Glimmervoid. However, Mirran survivors can harvest the plates to make hexgold, a substance that staves off phyresis.

[All Patrons]Grid & Gridless version of the Mirrodin map

[All Patrons]Grid & Gridless version of the new phyrexia map

[Blood Witch]Glimmervoid Basin

[Blood Witch]Blood Metal

[Star Performer][Ring Master]Phyrexia infection (Blue)

[Star Performer][Ring Master]Phyrexia infection (Green)

[Star Performer][Ring Master]Phyrexia infection (Spike)

[Star Performer][Ring Master]Phyrexia infection (Blood)