The fearsome, powerful land of Grixis of Magic: The Gathering. Led by the Planeswalker, Nicol Bolas, this Black, Red, and Blue deck is not one to be sneezed at. It takes all of the best assets from Black, Red, and Blue and puts them all into one deck. Burning, discarding, creature control, and big creatures is what people should expect when they play a Grixis deck. For Grixis, the main principal of the deck is an ability called "Unearth." Unearth allows the player to resurrect a creature at a very low mana cost. The creature gains haste and is able to attack and use abilities on the turn it was cast. At the end of the turn, you have to exile it. Now people may say that unearth sucks. It's understandable. Why would you want to exile a creature after one turns use when you could get it back some other way? Well there is a card called Kederekt Leviathan that will wipe the field when you play it. Now if you for some reason lose control of the situation and Kederekt Leviathan gets destroyed, then you can unearth him and wipe the field again! Not so bad now, huh?
Another common ability of Grixis creatures is Deathtouch. With Deathtouch, whenever the creature deals combat damage to the other creature, the other creature will die, no matter how strong it is. It's pretty self explanatory how useful Deathtouch can be. But now look at this card, Pestilent Kathari. It has the ability to gain First Strike, along with Deathtouch! A combo like that means that unless the other creature has First/Double Strike too, then your creature is immune to combat damage and will kill anything it touches without dying itself. That makes an amazing defender.
Here is a link to my very own Grixis deck: http://www.mtgfanatic.com/Decks/ViewDeck.aspx?ID=106223&Page=1&PageSize=25.
You can buy these cards at the website I have posted, which is www.mtgfanatic.com.
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