What does Grixis mean in MTG?

Grixis is a world of death, darkness, undead, hatred, envy, and a lot of other bad things. It is dominated by demons, horrors, necromancers and other forms of undead.
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What is a Grixis deck MTG?

Grixis Delver is what is known in R&D as "disruptive aggro," a deck that tries to apply pressure early and then follow it up with disruption, such as counters and discard spells. The plan usually falls apart when the opponent has good ways to remove your early pressure and can keep up with your disruption.
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What does Jund mean magic?

Jund is a midrange deck named after the shard Jund from Alara block. Jund established itself early in the Shards of Alara/Zendikar standard season as "the deck to beat" and remained a strong deck throughout the season. The principle behind Jund is to generate card advantage while putting pressure on the opponent.
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What is Sultai in MTG?

The Sultai Brood is a decadent and merciless clan that lurks in ancient palaces in the steaming jungles of Tarkir. After striking a deal with the demonic Rakshasa, they employ necromancy to fuel their schemes of dominating the other clans.
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What does golgari mean?

Golgari - black & green. Gruul - red & green Abzan Infantry from the plane of Tarkri (Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)
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What is Izzet in MTG?

The Izzet League is a blue/red guild from the plane and city of Ravnica. Introduced in Guildpact, the guild is also featured in Return to Ravnica, the Izzet vs. Golgari set and Guilds of Ravnica. Izzet basic lands from Guilds of Ravnica.
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What is Jeskai?

Jeskai is a color combination typically exemplified by efficient decks that combine efficient red and white removal with blue counterspells and a few creatures to tie it all together. And in Khans of Tarkir, you get exactly what you expect.
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What does dimir mean?

Background. House Dimir is a guild of secrecy, manipulation, and underhanded deals.
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What does Izzet mean?

İzzet is a Turkish given name for males and a surname. Outside of Turkey the name is sometimes written as Izzet. It is used in many countries.
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What is the strongest color combination in Magic?

Blue and black tend to combine to make up the most value-iest of combos. In most formats, this pair is a control deck, with solid black removal and blue card-drawing overpowering traditional decks through card advantage. A nice, big bomb or even just a few blue flyers can finish the job once the dust has settled.
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What is Grixis control?

The Role of Grixis

Grixis plays a very similar role in the format to Jund and Abzan. At its heart, it's a control deck looking to dismantle the synergies of the linear decks and disrupt the combo elements of the combo decks.
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What is the best 3 color combination MTG?

MTG basics: Tri-color pairings
  • Grixis (Blue-Black-Red) ...
  • Jund (Black-Red-Green) ...
  • Naya (Red-Green-White) ...
  • Abzan (White-Black-Green) ...
  • Jeskai (Blue-Red-White) ...
  • Sultai (Blue-Green-Black) ...
  • Mardu (Red-White-Black) ...
  • Temur (Green-Blue-Red) Image via Wizards of the Coast Magic: The Gathering.
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What is Naya MTG?

Naya is a glorious tropical jungle-plane peopled with perfect specimens of the human, elven, leonin and minotaur races. Naya boasts the most varied forms of life of all the shards. It seems like a paradise, but that is a deceptive view. Naya tremors with peril.
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What is mardu MTG?

The Mardu Horde are fearsome warriors that live for the heat of battle and thrive on the rocky wastes of Tarkir. The clan's main encampment is at the cliffs where an ancient dragon died.
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What is Bant MTG?

Bant is one of the five shards of Alara. It is primarily white-aligned with green and blue as secondary colors. It is inhabited by humans, aven, rhoxes, the semi-intelligent leotau mounts, and the angels that watch over the plane.
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What is gruul MTG?

The Gruul are a loose affiliation of savage clans who squat in Ravnica's alleyways, abandoned zones, and overgrown ruins. Many Gruul warriors and shamans have come to occupy the Rubblebelt, a broken thread of war-ruined land and settlements that begins near the outskirts of Ravnica's Tenth District.
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What is Orzhov?

The Orzhov guild is ruled by the Obzedat, a council of ghostly autocrats who have maintained their wealth and power even as they've shed their mortal forms. Members of the Obzedat have managed to cheat mortality, maintaining their consciousness (and their greed) beyond the threshold of death.
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What is green White called in MTG?

Selesnya (green-white) Orzhov (white-black)
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What does Goldfishing mean in MTG?

Goldfishing (or playing against a goldfish) is the practice of playing without an opponent as in drawing a starting hand and proceeding to continue to play until an opponent who does nothing to stop you from accomplishing the gameplan is defeated.
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What does Janky mean in MTG?

Jank - Unplayable cards, or cards that are cheesy. It can also be used to simply mean bad. "My deck is pretty janky."
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What is a Hatebear deck?

Hatebears decks seek to employ efficiently-costed creatures with additional effects to slow down and disrupt opponents while they continue to develop a board state or assemble a game-winning combo.
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What is blue red in MTG?

Also, while the two colors both make use of spells, how they use those spells tend to be very different. Blue is the slowest color, red is the fastest. Blue is the most reactive while red is the most proactive. The essence of what makes them enemies pulls them in very different directions.
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Who is Boros MTG?

The Boros Legion is the guild of righteous law and fierce justice. The most formidable military force on Ravnica, the Boros are efficient, self-assured, and zealous in the pursuit of their ideals.
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How does Izzet epiphany work?

The original Epiphany will be at the bottom of the stack with two Galvanic Iteration triggers on top of it. The first Iteration resolves, putting a second copy of Epiphany on the stack on top of the other Iteration trigger. So the stack will be original Epiphany, Iteration trigger, copy of Epiphany.
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