Mirrodin thrives!
As the different factions among the Mirrans work towards their separate goals though, a dark corruption spreads through the shadows...
A new and darker threat rises from the core of the world, a threat named New Phyrexia!
As the Green sun rises and the rule of Memnarch is ended new powers must rise to fill the vacuum even as mysterious beings who some call 'Planeswalkers' enter the Vault of Secrets in search of the creator of Mirrodin, Karn.
But they are unimportant. Also unimportant is the strange oil that sometimes bubbles up. Although, it does make for interesting experiments.
But, even now, whispers at the edges of sanity begin to tell of the advent of the Father of Machines...