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* TakenForGranite: In their final duel, Gix zaps Urza with a magical ray that turns him to stone and shatters him. Being an immortal planeswalker, Urza reforms himself in moments.
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* WizardDuel: The climax of the book sees Urza and Gix throw down, pitting their vast magical powers against each other. Urza wins the first bout, forcing Gix to retreat to Koilos, but the second bout is far more even. [[spoiler:Gix almost wins, but Xantcha and Ratepe sacrifice themselves to disrupt his final spell, seemingly killing him.]]
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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Urza once gave Xantcha a crystal that she could break to summon him if she needed his help, but she's been wearing the thing around her neck without using it for so many thousands of years that she forgot what it does. She only remembers the crystal after being caught in a storm with Ratepe for three days and getting stuck in the ocean, at which point she feels very foolish. She then breaks the crystal... and it takes Urza a day to come rescue them, because he himself forgot what the signal the crystal is giving off represents.
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%% * LateArrivalSpoiler: The Thran have become the Phyrexians.
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* TheStarsAreGoingOut: Equilor has very few stars in its night sky because the plane is so old that its stars are dying out. One of them goes into a visible supernova while Xantcha and Urza are visiting the plane, which the locals take as an omen of impending change.
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* LongLived: the people of Equilor live unfathomably long lives. The youngest member of the family which takes in Xantcha and Urza is eighty Dominarian years old and still a toddler, while the adults are so old that they consider Urza--who has been an immortal planeswalker for two thousand years at this point--akin to a child who's barely been weaned.
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* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: During their multiversal travels, Urza comes to believe that Xantcha was deliberately planted in his path by Yawgmoth to lead him astray and lure other Phyrexians to him, and he contemplates abandoning her. Horrified at the thought that she might be unconsciously betraying her only friend and not wanting to be left alone to live out her immortal life in isolation, she gives Urza her heartstone, telling him to crush it and kill her if he truly believes she's untrustworthy. He never does.
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* SonicStunner: Urza's "spiders" are tiny artifacts which produce intense high-frequency sounds in response to the tidal pull of Dominaria's Glimmer Moon. These sounds have little effect on ordinary humans, but they boil the glistening oil within a Phyrexian's veins, causing compleat Phyrexians and sleeper agents alike to die a slow and gory death.
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* FullConversionCyborg: Phyrexians start out as flesh-and-blood newts but gradually replace most of their bodies with machinery. At one point, Xantcha pries the faceplate off a dead Phyrexian priest to show Urza and Ratepe that nothing remains of its original body but its brain.
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* YouAreNumberSix: Newts aren't given proper names, just numerical designators representing their position within a cadre. These designations are subject to change as cadres take casualties and get merged, but Xantcha's cadre had kept the same designations for so long that she and the other newts all became attached to them as if they were names.
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* YouAreNumberSix: Newts aren't given proper names, just numerical designators representing their position within a cadre. These designations are subject to change as cadres take casualties and get merged, but Xantcha's cadre had kept the same designations for so long that she and the other newts all became attached to them as if they were names.names.
* YourMagicIsNoGoodHere: The balance of mana is heavily skewed toward white in Serra's Realm, with black mana being almost entirely absent by design. Because of this, Xantcha's black-mana-powered cyst doesn't work properly while she's here. It churns in her stomach when she tries to use it, the film is much slower to emerge than usual, and when it comes out, it's jet black and caustic instead of transparent: Xantcha can't see through it when she tries to form a sphere, and when she covers herself in her armor, it muffles her hearing and burns her skin.
* YourMagicIsNoGoodHere: The balance of mana is heavily skewed toward white in Serra's Realm, with black mana being almost entirely absent by design. Because of this, Xantcha's black-mana-powered cyst doesn't work properly while she's here. It churns in her stomach when she tries to use it, the film is much slower to emerge than usual, and when it comes out, it's jet black and caustic instead of transparent: Xantcha can't see through it when she tries to form a sphere, and when she covers herself in her armor, it muffles her hearing and burns her skin.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: In Serra's Realm, Xantcha meets a human woman, Sosinna, who confides that she is in love with Keledorn, a male angel. Xantcha assumes that their relationship is frowned upon, since experience has shown her that interspecies relationships being discouraged is the rule in most parts of the multiverse. She's right.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: In Serra's Realm, Xantcha meets a human woman, Sosinna, who confides that she is in love with Keledorn, Kenidiern, a male angel. Xantcha assumes that their relationship is frowned upon, since experience has shown her that interspecies relationships being discouraged is the rule in most parts of the multiverse. She's right.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: In Serra's Realm, Xantcha meets a human woman, Sosinna, who confides that she is in love with Keledorn, a male angel. Xantcha assumes that their relationship is frowned upon, since experience has shown her that interspecies relationships being discouraged is the rule in most parts of the universe. She's right.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: In Serra's Realm, Xantcha meets a human woman, Sosinna, who confides that she is in love with Keledorn, a male angel. Xantcha assumes that their relationship is frowned upon, since experience has shown her that interspecies relationships being discouraged is the rule in most parts of the universe.multiverse. She's right.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: In Serra's Realm, Xantcha meets a human woman, Sosinna, who confides that she is in love with Keledorn, a male angel. Xantcha assumes that their relationship is frowned upon, since experience has shown her that interspecies relationships being discouraged is the rule in most parts of the universe. She's right.
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* WorldInTheSky: Serra's Realm is nothing but a series of islands floating in a sea of clouds.
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* MathematiciansAnswer: When Xantcha wakes up in Serra's Realm after a battle with the Phyrexians to find a strange woman watching over her, she immediately bombards this woman with questions about where she is and what happened to Urza. The woman's answers are accurate, but unhelpful.
-->'''Xantcha:''' How did I get here?\\
'''Woman:''' I don’t know.\\
'''Xantcha:''' How long have I been here?\\
'''Woman:''' Since you arrived.\\
'''Xantcha:''' Where am I?\\
'''Woman:''' Where you are.
-->'''Xantcha:''' How did I get here?\\
'''Woman:''' I don’t know.\\
'''Xantcha:''' How long have I been here?\\
'''Woman:''' Since you arrived.\\
'''Xantcha:''' Where am I?\\
'''Woman:''' Where you are.
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* Catchphrase: Xantcha is fond of saying "Waste not, want not", a Phyrexian maxim that she tends to use as a curse.
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* Catchphrase: {{Catchphrase}}: Xantcha is fond of saying "Waste not, want not", a Phyrexian maxim that she tends to use as a curse.
