In this case an elf and the plain of Mirrodin is mostly machine and all organic life is part matellic since everything including the very ground en even the air is filled with metal.The other dude was something else, but Phyrexia got him and tore him apart limb from limb and reconstructed him (this process is called phyresis, their way of 'improving' life)If the elf survives the process he will pr