Vorinclex

Vorinclex (Phyrexian: lornScs, IPA: [vornχlx]), called The Voice of Hunger, was the Green-aligned praetor of New Phyrexia.
==Description==
Vorinclex stood twelve feet tall and his body was a raw pinkish-red color. Across his shoulders he had a ruff of patchy fur in a dozen different hues swirled together. Vorinclex's long and muscular arms ended in massive, curving talons with and two additional spindly arms extending from his chest. His bone-colored head was a skull-like face flanked by razor tusks and broad, spined antlers.
A social Darwinist, he wished to make New Phyrexia a place hostile to sentience, which he despised, and based solely on the roles of predator and prey, of which only the strongest will survive. He ruled the Vicious Swarm as its apex predator. Although he was relatively intelligent, he preferred making decisions with primal instinct and solving issues with brute strength and sharp fangs.
==History==
Vorinclex created new varieties of predators to infest the Tangle, and compleated many elves — Glissa among them — and turned them into predatory creatures. Beyond this, however, he didn't care for anything else except for his next meal, and, unlike the other praetors who plotted against each other and Karn, Vorinclex appeared to be satisfied. Being the most content of the praetors, Elesh Norn was able to manipulate him easily once she took over New Phyrexia.
===Kaldheim===
Vorinclex was sent to Kaldheim through the Planar Bridge on Norn's orders. The process he undertook destroyed his organic components, leaving a corpse of metal and bone; a curious stag sniffed it, allowing him to rebuild himself. To undermine or take over the plane, he ambushed the planeswalker Tibalt and infected him, forcing him to cause "a distraction" in exchange for an antidote, much to the sadistic pain mage's delight as he had already been planning to cause some chaos on Kaldheim anyway. He stalked the woods of Bretagard where he compleated people and animals until Kaya and the Omenseekers fought him. The god Alrund revealed himself, too disgusted at Vorinclex, and the praetor fled, melting into some oil-suffused metal and escaping, possibly to another of Kaldheim's realms.
In the cover of the chaos Tibalt brought to Kaldheim, Vorinclex invaded the sanctum of Esika and mauled her to near death. Taking a tyrite sample, he concluded his mission, and a portal to New Phyrexia opened, welcoming him once more. He returned to New Phyrexia in Norn's throne room in a similar state to how he arrived on Kaldheim. The sample was later used to seed Realmbreaker, the New Phyrexian Invasion Tree.
===Phyrexia: All Will be One===
Vorinclex now delegates most of his responsibilities to the compleated elf Glissa. She was an indispensable help when designing the Hunter Maze.
When a contingency of planeswalkers led an assault on New Phyrexia, a healed Vorinclex was found playfully sparring with Glissa in the Hunter Maze. Their fight was interrupted by Lukka and Nissa, who attacked them. Vorinclex was severely wounded by Nissa, but a compleated Lukka put Nissa on the run, and Glissa ordered Lukka to capture the elf and compleat her for Norn's plans.
===Invasion of the Multiverse===
Vorinclex's Copper Host invaded the Multiverse along with the other Phyrexians, while he stayed back with the other praetors to supervise Realmbreaker. When Elspeth Tirel arrived to help Koth, Chandra, and Wrenn in their attack, Elesh Norn in despair broke off one of Vorinclex's horns to throw it at the archangel planeswalker.
===Possible death===
When Zhalfir was switched with New Phyrexia, Vorinclex met the invading force head-on, forcibly dismounted Teferi before he was decapitated by either Elspeth Tirel or Shella, an Askari knight. However, due to being able to regrow his body (as shown by recovering from his near-destruction using the Planar Bridge to Kaldheim), his ultimate fate remains to be seen.
==Trivia==
*Less dexterous than the other praetors, Vorniclex wrote Phyrexian star-shaped secondary radicals like the diacritic seen on s as spirals, similar to old Phyrexians.
*Of all the New Phyrexian praetors, Vorinclex is the only one to be consistently depicted with eyes.
* is unclear on whether Vorinclex was killed by Elspeth or Shella. The Magic Story Podcast credits Shella with the kill.
==Planes visited==
Despite Vorinclex not being a planeswalker, Vorinclex could travel between planes using the planar bridge, though at the cost of his organic components being destroyed.
*New Phyrexia
*Kaldheim
==Gallery==
File:VorinclexConcept.png|Original concept of Vorinclex by Richard Whitters.
File:Vorinclex MTGA avatar ONE.png|Magic: The Gathering Arena avatar.
== Story appearances==
Title	Author 	Publishing date	Set 	Setting (plane) 	Featuring
 	Roy Graham with contributions by Jenna Helland	2021-01-07 	Kaldheim 	Kaldheim 	Inga Rune-Eyes, Hras, Asi, Kaya, Toski (mentioned), Sarulf (mentioned), Hakka, Vorinclex, Alrund
 	Roy Graham 	2021-01-20 	Kaldheim 	Kaldheim 	Tibalt, Vorinclex, Narfi, Koll, Halvar, Harald, Varragoth, Koma
 	Roy Graham with contributions by Jenna Helland	2021-02-03 	Kaldheim 	Kaldheim 	Hakka, Arni, Fynn, Inga Rune-Eyes, Sigrid, Kaya, Tyvar Kell, Alrund, Halvar, Varragoth, Vorinclex, Cosima, Harald, Koma, Niko Aris, Esika
 	Langley Hyde 	2023-01-14 	Phyrexia: All Will Be One	New Phyrexia 	Nissa Revane, The Wanderer, Lukka, Rothga, Vorinclex, Glissa Sunseeker
 	K. Arsenault Rivera 	2023-03-24 	March of the Machine 	New Phyrexia 	Karn, Elesh Norn, Koth of the Hammer, Jin-Gitaxias, Chandra Nalaar, Melira, Elspeth Tirel, Vorinclex, Wrenn
 	K. Arsenault Rivera 	2023-03-28 	March of the Machine 	Capenna, New Phyrexia, Zhalfir, Theros	Giada, Atraxa, Heliod, Kaya Cassir, Ajani Goldmane, Elspeth Tirel, Teferi Akosa, Koth of the Hammer, Chandra Nalaar, Elesh Norn, Vorinclex, Jin-Gitaxias, Melira, Nissa Revane, Karn, Wrenn, Eight
==In-game references==
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==References==
Category:Deceased