Phage
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| Name | Phage, real name Jeska |
| Birthplace | Aphetto, Otaria, Dominaria |
| Lifetime | 4305-4306 AR |
| Race | Zombie |
| Sources | Onslaught, Legions |
Phage the Untouchable (whose name is Greek for "Eater") came into being when the Cabal Patriarch used his killing touch on Jeska. Due to a combination of her planeswalker spark, the "death touch" of the Cabal Patriarch, and the intervention of the Numena Kuberr, Jeska was cursed with a touch that would rot anything that it touched. Because of this, the only fabric that she could touch was silk, and she could only touch inorganic items like stone and steel. Also, the only person that she could touch without killing was the Cabal Patriarch, with whom she wound up fathering her child, the living incarnation of Kuberr.
Each person that she killed formed the seed of a Deathwurm inside of her, and when touched by Ixidor's dream magic, she sent deathwurms out into the world, once again becoming Jeska. In order to save the land from being completely destroyed by the deathwurms, she pulled them back into herself, damning herself to a life as Phage. One wurm survived, the one that contained the essence of Nivea, Phage's first kill, and that wurm consumed Ixidor, so he could rest with his love forever.
Phage's existence ended when Kamahl intervened in her battle with Akroma, and by one swing of the Soul Reaper, he killed Akroma, Phage and accidentaly also Zagorka. The essence of the three women blended into a new being - Karona, goddess of magic.
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Quoted or referred to:
- Akroma's Blessing
- Blood Celebrant
- Cruel Edict (10th Edition)
- Doomed Necromancer (Onslaught)
- Goblin Turncoat
- Graveborn Muse
- Infest (Onslaught)
- Righteous Cause
- Smother
