Vorinclex's History
Vorinclex, called The Voice of Hunger, was the Green-aligned praetor of New Phyrexia. Vorinclex stood twelve feet (with him likely being far taller due to his pronounced hunch) 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. His shoulders were furred as well.
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 would survive. In spite of this general aversion to intelligence, he was capable of strategic thought, like when he herded
Kaya to counter her evasion tactics or when he blackmailed
Tibalt to do his bidding.
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.
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.
With his return, Vorinclex began delegating 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 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.
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.
When Zhalfir was switched with New Phyrexia, Vorinclex met the invading force head-on and breaking through Teferi's time magic. Towering over the knocked down Teferi, Vorinclex was ambushed and decapitated, presumably without hope of survival, as the Phyrexians were deactivated with the death of Elesh Norn, and the swapping of New Phyrexia and Zhalfir.
