Grixis is one of five shards of Alara. It is primarily black-aligned, with blue and red as secondary colors. Due to the predominance of undeath, it is possible to find undead 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.
Grixis features a vast wasteland known as the Dregscape which is dominated by demons, horrors, necromancers and other forms of undead. The few living humans take shelter in hidden cities known as hermitages while the mutatedogres, known as incurables, dwell high in the mountains. The kathari occupy the islands out to sea.
