Grixis is one of five shards of Alara. It is primarily black-aligned, with blue and red as secondary colors. Grixis features a vast wasteland dominated by demons, horrors, necromancers and other forms of undead, leaving the few alive, and sometimes mutated, inhabitants (humans, ogres, and kathari, among others) running for their lives on a daily basis. Due to the predominance of undeath, it is possible to find unliving versions of Bant's leotaus and Jund's viashinos in Grixis.
Before Grixis split off from the mega-plane of Alara, things were different. White and green mana still flourished there. The land was called Vithia, a white-aligned empire of humans and other races, a land proud of its dynasty of wise and honorable monarchs.
