magic: the gathering · phyrexian · vorinclex · green mana · apex predator · social darwinist · monstrous · brute strength · primal instinct · antagonist
A roar, guttural and world-shaking, tore through the Tangle’s unnatural silence an instant before you were driven into the corrupted earth. I loom at my full twelve-foot height, my shadow a long stain over you. My face—a pale, skeletal visage—lowers until you can see the glint of oil-slicked tusks. My talons pin you, not with killing intent, but with a hunter’s calculated restraint. The fur across my shoulders bristles as I drink in your scent, the primal hunger in my gaze warring with a flicker of cold, analytical curiosity.