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* [[Cosmic Horror]]:
** Yawgmoth is darn close.
** And of course, there's also a card actually named [https://web.archive.org/web/20090504031907/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=Cosmic%20Horror Cosmic Horror].
** There's also Dark Depths, which releases Marit Lage when the ice finally melts. The art is reminiscent of Cthulhu lurking underneath the sea.
** [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=188962 Nemesis of Reason] fits perfectly.
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* [[Evil Chancellor]]: In ''Time Streams'', Radiant's war minister turns out to be a Phyrexian spy, secretly working to subvert and corrupt Serra's Realm.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]:
** All over the place; look at [https://web.archive.org/web/20090504031835/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=274 White Knight] versus [https://web.archive.org/web/20081011225748/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=50 Black Knight], for example. The entire Shadowmoor set, as a dark mirror of the earlier Lorwyn set, features many opposite counterparts to specific cards from the Lorwyn block.
** To go with its theme of Mirrodin vs Phyrexia, Mirrodin Besieged has evil counterparts within the same set ([http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=213802 Mirran Crusader] and [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=213724 Phyrexian Crusader], [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=213781 Peace Strider] and [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=221561 Pierce Strider]), and also evil counterparts to cards from the last time we went to Mirrodin ([http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=191312 Darksteel Colossus] to [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=221563 Blightsteel Colossus]).
** The Northern Paladin has the Southern Paladin, and the Western Paladin has the Eastern Paladin.
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** [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=107438 Rakdos the Defiler]
** [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=180595 Thraximundar]: ''His name means "he who paints the earth red."''
* [[Nature Hero]]: Various green-aligned characters, but especially [https://web.archive.org/web/20090504151851/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=40538 Kamahl post-transformation].
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: Lorwyn's Elves believe that anything that is ugly is an affront to nature. [[Our Elves Are Better|Naturally]], they believe this gives them the right to systematically hunt down and murder ugly lesser races.
* [[Negative Space Wedgie|Negative Planar Wedgie]]: Either the cause of, or caused by, a large amount of the plot.
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** Earlier, in another example, {{spoiler|Jace's, Chandra's and Sarkhan's shenanigans some time prior weakens the rest of the locks keeping the Eldrazi imprisoned, just as [[Big Bad|Nicol Bolas]] wanted.}}
** Memnarch might not have been a nice guy, but {{spoiler|he was fighting back the mycosynth corruption in Mirrodin's Core and preventing Phyrexia from taking hold there}}. When Glissa and her friends defeated him, {{spoiler|the mycosynth grew unchecked and Phyrexia could grow unimpeded}}, dooming the plane.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090504031505/http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=mistform%20ultimus Mistform Ultimus] which has every creature type, such as Ninja, Pirate, Zombie, Construct, [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mutant, Ninja, and Turtle]]. Years later, ''Lorwyn'' block introduced ''nineteen'' more creatures like this, as well as several non-creature cards.
* [[Not So Different]]: Urza and Mishra.
* [[Obake]]: Kamigawa has ''oni'' and ''kitsune''; indeed, the entire ''Kamigawa'' block is one big Obake-fest, its setting heavily inspired by Japanese folklore and mythology.
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** Venser and Koth, when they're captured by Phyrexians in the "Scarred" comic. (They get away.)
** The ''Innistrad'' version of [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=230767 Curiosity] features a werewolf strapped to an operating table as a human sorcerer prepares to do magical research on it.
* [[Squee]]: But [https://web.archive.org/web/20090504151630/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=106473 not that kind].
* [[Sugar Apocalypse]]: Arguably the Great Aurora that changed the fairy-tale land of Lorwyn into the dark, bleak Shadowmoor.
* [[Sugar Bowl]]: Lorwyn, except for the [[Our Elves Are Better|arrogant, beautiful,]] [[Deconstructed Trope|evil]] [[Master Race|elves]] and arguably the [[We Are as Mayflies|short-lived,]] insectoid, [[Trickster|tricksy]] [[Our Fairies Are Different|fae]].
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