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While it would be nice to have a "Phyrexian" card type, it wouldn't make much sense right now.  Most of the past Phyrexian cards had "Phyrexian" in their names.  Other than to create tribal effects (which I would support), adding "Phyrexian" to a card with Phyrexian in its name seems a little redundant.  The cards coming out do not have "Phyrexian" in their titles, but have the "Phyrexian" watermark.  If they are planning on working with Phyrexians in the future (after SoM block) then I could see them making a "Phyrexian" creature type.

Sep 21, 2010 -- 10:24PM, Kingrames wrote:

I'm calling it, there will be a planeswalker of Karn, father of machines.

yep, obvious after this article. Everybody, welcome your new father of machines. Karn, doing what he is good at. Betraying

I have to agree with the "no Phyrexian subtype" argument. I think it's one of those cases where it would reduce the impact of the Phyrexian name. And I think the watermark idea is a perfect way around that issue. As I've been saying in other watermark discussions here lately, I'd love to see other older cards that get reprinted in the core sets to get watermarks showing their origins. They don't need to have any in-game applications, but it would be a fairly easy way to pump up the flavor.