

This identity allows for tons of focus on spellcasting with a big emphasis on removal and card draw. This makes a Grixis commander’s color identity black, red, and blue. When it comes to Grixis, this means the enemy colors red and blue with black, an allied color for each of them to connect them. This plane was divided into five shards, each representing a sequence from the color pie. The next five got their names from the Khans of Tarkir tribes, but I’ll leave those for another time. The names for the first five of these spawn from the five shards in the plane of Alara, introduced in, you guessed it, Shards of Alara. The same thing applies for 3-colored combinations. It’s a far easier and more comfortable way to refer to them. We all know that all the 2-color combos in Magic are named after the Ravnica guilds. Kess, Dissident Mage | Illustration by Izzy

What Is Grixis and Why Choose It in Commander?

What Is Grixis and Why Choose It in Commander?.When a deck is designed to amass an army of devastating Demons, assembling a group of four Demons at once is a rather easy feat to achieve, especially when you have access to mana cost reducers like Heartless Summoning and Herald of Slaanesh. Though this card draw provides solid value, the most notable appeal of this spell is the fact that during your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you immediately win the game.Īs Commander is a singleton format in which no more than one copy of each card is allowed in a deck, this means that any four Demons in your deck will enable this card. One of the few cards in Magic that specifically references Demons and incentivizes the use of a large number of creatures of the type, Liliana's Contract is a five-mana enchantment that causes you to draw four cards and lose four life when it enters the battlefield. If there's one card that should go in every Demon-tribal commander deck, it's Liliana's Contract.
