First Spirit Halloween Opens Up in New Phyrexia’s Bustling Downtown

Last updated on September 7, 2026

The Dross Pits (Ft. Spirit Halloween) | Illustration by Martin de Diego Sádaba

This is a fictional piece of satire; the characters and situations described are not meant to be taken literally. Just have fun with it, folks!

It's still almost a full month from October, so naturally the Halloween decorations are starting to come out. One particularly toxic area of New Phyrexia is getting in the spirit early, and every mite, rebel, and Gitaxian-modified apendage monster in town is lining up to get their costumes and 30-foot tall inflatable Blightsteel Colossus from the plane's first-ever Spirit Halloween.

Getting in the Spirit

This Spirit Halloween is temporarily replacing the Phyrexian Arena in The Dross Pits for this holiday season. It'll be neighboring the flesh-melting acid pool in downtown New Phyrexia, in the same shopping center as Yankee Candle.

This particular location will feature outfits tailored to the citizens of the plane. Some of the costumes on display include:

• Skrelv costumes of all sizes
• Big-pecs Vorinclex
• Mommy Elesh Norn
• Pet-sized Massacre Wurm fits
• Ghostface

As an opening day special, Spirit Halloween will be accepting 2 life instead of normal payment for any and all purchases.

Note that the New Phyrexian government has issued a warning that anyone dressed as Urabrask for Halloween will be captured and experimented on punished by law.

Phyrexian Pushback

Mountain | Illustration by Muhammad Firdaus

Not all inhabitants of New Phyrexia are pleased with the news, especially after the backlash that followed from the plane's first Starbucks opening up in The Surgical Bay.

“I dunno man,” said one rebel we had the chance to speak with. “First Elesh Norn starts turning everything into teeth, now we've got Chipotles on every corner. It's just not the Mirrodin I grew up in anymore.” He followed up by yelling “For Mirrodin!” and was promply skewered and dismembered by a Phyrexian tooth monster.

While it is true that New Phyrexia has broadened its commercial horizons and there's a faint whiff of pumpkin spice in the unbreathable corrosive air, the plane is in desperate need of the commerce following the mass eradication and compleation of basically all living matter on the plane.

New Phyrexia isn't the only plane to adopt this sort of commercial expansion either. This comes just weeks after the news that other Spirit Halloweens will be opening up across the multiverse. Other confirmed locations include:

• The Azorius district of Ravnica
• Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
• The Blind Eternities
• New York City
• The Underworld of Theros
• The Island of Wak-Wak
• Next to the Chrysler dealership in New Capenna

Whether you agree that these locations need a Spirit Halloween or not, you'll certainly know where to find it if you plan on going. Get out to the one on New Phyrexia while you can, before it's converted into the plane's first Dollar General this November.