Jin-Gitaxias

Jin-Gitaxias
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Race	Phyrexian
Birthplace	Mirrodin
Lifetime	Mending Era

Jin-Gitaxias (Phyrexian: aEDn,Gyts, IPA: [ʤiʔn ɢytx]) is the blue-aligned praetor of New Phyrexia.

Description

When the Phyrexians infected Mirrodin, it was a world of five suns. The five praetors each rose under the influence of each sun. Jin-Gitaxias was influenced by blue mana, so he looked for things with knowledge. He grabs everything he can and improves on it. He is cold, brutal, and believes he is the smartest of the praetors.

Jin-Gitaxias' enormous body is made of chrome, with clawed arms and a curved spine. Exposed ribs and pointed vertebrae are displayed like metalwork. His face and mouth are monstrous and bird-like, with too many sharp points and long, flat teeth. His voice sounds like metal grating against metal.

Obsessed with perfecting Phyrexia to its highest potential, he is the author of a revisionist philosophy known as "Great Synthesis", which takes some liberties with Phyrexia's core religious philosophy to make progress easier. For instance, he sees the original Father of Machines as ultimately imperfect (the same applied to the later leader), and discards the term "evolution" when applied to Phyrexia as he feels it is an inappropriate term to describe what is going on (as well as to distinguish his views of perfection from those of Vorinclex and Glissa).

Living in what was once the Lumengrid, he tends a huge variety of newts that grow in vats attached to nearly every place in the facilities. His interest in perfection and natural curiosity leads him to explore the occult, and it is implied he can make use of White and Black mana. Using Sheoldred's necromantic prophetic visions, he has the access to many creature designs he can turn his newts into via his knowledge of various forms of magic.

He hates Vorinclex and considered Karn too incompetent to rule. He once captured Tezzeret, and brought him before Karn. Although Elesh Norn is aware of his machinations, Jin-Gitaxias appears to keep at least a neutral relationship towards her for the moment.

Neon Dynasty

Kaito Shizuki and Tamiyo confront Jin-Gitaxias in Otawara.

As creatures without souls, Phyrexians cannot innately develop planeswalker abilities. In her bid to take over The Multiverse, the praetor Elesh Norn challenged Jin-Gitaxias to find a way to turn planeswalkers into Phyrexians. With the aid of Tezzeret, Jin-Gitaxias arrived on Kamigawa, believing the plane's dual-realm nature would help further his studies.

There, he began working with the Hyozan Reckoners and the Futurist Tameshi in the Towashi Undercity. Having long coveted the secrets of planeswalking, Jin-Gitaxias began performing experiments on Kamigawa's kami, believing their ability to pass between Kamigawa's two realms made them perfect test subjects. Through these experiments, he successfully devised a way to compleat a planeswalker without removing their soul. Kaito Shizuki and Tamiyo eventually discovered his base, beginning a confrontation, during which the Wanderer cut him in half. However, his body was recovered by Tezzeret and rebuilt on New Phyrexia, where he compleated the kidnapped Tamiyo into the first Phyrexian planeswalker.

Phyrexia All Will Be One

At some point Jin-Gitaxias began to perfect the Glistening oil itself as to be more virulent, weakening Melira's healing abilities. He was also able make it more able to proliferate through organic beings, lessening the time needed to compleat those infected.

After agreeing to fulfill her end of their bargain, Norn sent Tezzeret to Jin-Gitaxias to attach him to his new body. After the successful operation, Tezzeret was now bound to a body made of Darksteel. When he tried to planeswalk away, he learned that the praetor bound him to the same material that Karn was. Jin-Gitxaias revealed he intended to warp the darksteel into blightsteel using a corrupted version of the Reality Chip. He then opened a secret compartment containing one of Urabrask's scrapchiefs signifying he knew about Tezzeret's intentions. After the Scrapchief willingly granted control of himself to Tezzeret, he broke free from his containment and attacked Jin-Gitaxias. The praetor slew his assailant but Tezzeret escaped before he could be further experimented upon.

Planes visited

As a powerful Phyrexian, Jin-Gitaxias can travel to other planes using an improved form of the Planar Bridge.

• New Phyrexia
• Kamigawa

Trivia

• In the Webcomic Dark Discoveries, it is revealed that Jin-Gitaxias is a parent after he threatened to feed Tezzeret to his larvae.
• Two of Jin-Gitaxias' minions, Ezuri and Tamiyo, are green-aligned - ironic, given Jin-Gitaxias' hatred of Vorinclex and his Phyrexian faction and ideology.
• Jin-Gitaxias is the primary antagonist of the animated trailer for Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty.
• While speaking the Phyrexian language, Jin-Gitaxias prefers to use complex, compounded words.

Gallery

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  Psychic Surgery by Anthony Francisco.

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  Tezzeret and Jin-Gitaxias.

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  With Tezzeret's help, Jin-Gitaxias arrives in Kamigawa.

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  Jin-Gitaxias, and Tezzeret survey the praetor's kami experiments.

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  Jin-Gitaxias, and Tezzeret confront Kaito Shizuki and Tamiyo.

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  Jin-Gitaxias fights Kaito in his lab.

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  Jin-Gitaxias attacks Kaito.

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  Jin-Gitaxias attacks Kaito.

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  The Wanderer saves Kaito from Jin Gitaxias.

• The Wanderer rescues Kaito and Tamiyo from Jin-Gitaxias' lab.

  The Wanderer rescues Kaito and Tamiyo from Jin-Gitaxias' lab.

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  Magic: The Gathering Arena avatar.

Story appearances

Title	Author	Publishing date	Set	Setting (plane)	Featuring
Dark Discoveries, Part 3	Doug Beyer	2011-05-19	New Phyrexia	New Phyrexia	Tezzeret, Jin-Gitaxias, Karn
Episode 2: Lies, Promises, and Neon Flames	Akemi Dawn Bowman	2022-01-24	Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty	Kamigawa	Kaito Shizuki, Himoto, Eiko Shizuki, Tameshi, Jin-Gitaxias
Episode 3: An Unexpected Alliance	Akemi Dawn Bowman	2022-01-25	Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty	Kamigawa	Kaito Shizuki, Himoto, Mud-Tail, Tamiyo, Nashi, Jin-Gitaxias, The Wanderer
Episode 4: The Break-In	Akemi Dawn Bowman	2022-01-26	Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty	Kamigawa	The Wanderer, Kaito Shizuki, Tamiyo, Kyodai, Light-Paws, Eiko Shizuki, Tezzeret, Jin-Gitaxias
Episode 5: Threads of War	Akemi Dawn Bowman	2022-01-26	Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty	Kamigawa	The Wanderer, Kaito Shizuki, Himoto, Tezzeret, Tamiyo, Kyodai, Risona, Light-Paws, Eiko Shizuki, Jin-Gitaxias
Phyrexia: All Will Be One - A Man of Parts	Reinhardt Suarez	2023-01-17	Phyrexia: All Will Be One	New Phyrexia, Alara, Kamigawa	Tezzeret, Rona, Elesh Norn, Jin-Gitaxias, Estel, Nashi

In-game references

Represented in:

• Jin-Gitaxias
• Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Associated cards:

• Blighted Agent
• Corrupted Resolve
• Impaler Shrike
• Gitaxian Anatomist
• Gitaxian Probe
• Gitaxian Raptor
• Mental Misstep
• Praetor's Grasp (Secret Lair, #1023)
• The Great Synthesis

Depicted in:

• Blue Sun's Twilight
• Cut a Deal (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
• Mirrodin Besieged
• Planar Incision
• Psychic Surgery
• Serum Visions (Modern Masters 2017)
• Shadow of Doubt (Secret Lair, #414)
• Solve the Equation (Secret Lair, #1022)
• Spell Pierce (Neon Dynasty)
• Swords to Plowshares (Secret Lair, #1021)
• Wanderer's Intervention

Quoted or referred to:

• Atmosphere Surgeon
• Breeding Pool
• Consecrated Sphinx (Mirrodin Besieged)
• Culling Dais
• Distant Memories
• Explosive Entry
• Inexorable Tide
• Malcator's Watcher
• Malicious Malfunction
• Noxious Revival
• Psychic Miasma
• Reject Imperfection
• Synthetic Destiny
• Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• The Surgical Bay
• Swiftwater Cliffs (March of the Machine)
• Vraan, Executioner Thane
• Xenograft

Trivia

• The flavor text of Steel Sabotage (Mirrodin Besieged) attributes support for the Great Work to a member of the Progress Engine, whose relationship to Urabrask is unfriendly.