I'm curious about it. Are there hard numbers quoted in text about how long it takes to turn someone into a Phyrexian and furthermore, how long it took to turn Mirrodin into New Phyrexia? Are we talking years or months? I'm guessing months - I would doubt it would be days.
Mirrodin to New Phyrexia was the work of decades possibly centuries or millennium depending one what time frame you're asking about. As for people to phyrexian, it depends on amount of exposure, a light wound could take days or weeks while it was said that being tossed into the quicksilver sea, after it was phyrexianized, resulted in instantaneous transformation.
We don't know precisely how much time transpired between Mirrodin and Scars of Mirrodin blocks, but I think you're misunderstanding exactly what happens.
Compleation is generally a very quick process, it's replacing organic body parts with mechanical ones. That's quick and easy, relatively.
Whats unclear is how when exactly when the transition takes place. Presumably, the oil itself is only the first stage of an infection which drives the host mad and makes them a Phyrexian in their mind if not their body, possibly functioning like the mycosynth and turning organic matter mechanical.
As for the change, Mirrodin was actually the middle stage of the transformation to New Phyrexia. Karn (or Jeska, based on Will McDermot's comments on this forum a decade ago) accidently brought the phyrexian oil with them to Argentum long ago. Back then, Argentum was only populated with golems. The oil corrupted Memnarch, leading to the entire plot of Mirrodin. It also helped create the Mycosynth, which is what causes all those metallic growths on the creatures of Mirrodin. It's not hard to compleat a plane of creatures that are themselves already part artifact.
Argentum was created maybe a few centuries ago, with the gap between Mirrodin and Scars of Mirrodin being somewhere between 20 to 100 years (Venser throws a wrench in that, as it's unclear how he hasn't aged since time spiral, although there are theories).
The very end of the onslaught books when he picks up the oil and it vanishes into his hand.
Also based on the timeline of Mirrodin vs Dominaria time can't move at the same pace because at least a millennium passes from its introduction to the close of its story.
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Compleation is generally a very quick process, it's replacing organic body parts with mechanical ones. That's quick and easy, relatively.
Whats unclear is how when exactly when the transition takes place. Presumably, the oil itself is only the first stage of an infection which drives the host mad and makes them a Phyrexian in their mind if not their body, possibly functioning like the mycosynth and turning organic matter mechanical.
As for the change, Mirrodin was actually the middle stage of the transformation to New Phyrexia. Karn (or Jeska, based on Will McDermot's comments on this forum a decade ago) accidently brought the phyrexian oil with them to Argentum long ago. Back then, Argentum was only populated with golems. The oil corrupted Memnarch, leading to the entire plot of Mirrodin. It also helped create the Mycosynth, which is what causes all those metallic growths on the creatures of Mirrodin. It's not hard to compleat a plane of creatures that are themselves already part artifact.
Argentum was created maybe a few centuries ago, with the gap between Mirrodin and Scars of Mirrodin being somewhere between 20 to 100 years (Venser throws a wrench in that, as it's unclear how he hasn't aged since time spiral, although there are theories).
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Wow, didn't know that. When was this confirmed?
The very end of the onslaught books when he picks up the oil and it vanishes into his hand.
Also based on the timeline of Mirrodin vs Dominaria time can't move at the same pace because at least a millennium passes from its introduction to the close of its story.