All 10 Grixis Lands in Magic Ranked

Crosis's Catacombs | Illustration by Kasia ‘Kafis' Zielinska

Hello planeswalkers! Do you have a favorite color combination? One of my favorites is the terror of the undead Grixis (). This grimy group of nightmares provides an escape into some dreadful MTG playstyles. To make your Grixis decks and dreams come true, you’ll need the right lands to support these nefarious desires.

If your goal is to bury your opponents and raise the undead with bomb Grixis cards like Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh, these are the Grixis shard lands that can support those decks.

What Are Grixis Lands in MTG?

Xander's Lounge | Illustration by James Paick

Grixis () represents the color shard of blue, red, and black. Grixis lands can produce all three colors or search your deck for a basic land of each of the three colors. These lands are quite important to ensure your mana base is effective and helps to mana-fix your decks.

We won’t look at dual lands that provide two of the three colors, or lands that can produce the five colors, or generic fetches like Fabled Passage.

#10. Castle Sengir

Castle Sengir provides all the colors a Grixis deck may need, but at a steep cost. This land leans toward black mana since it only costs 1 mana to produce it. Unfortunately, if you need a blue or red mana, it costs you 2 mana. This highly inefficient mana production is only useful if you absolutely need some mana-fixing. This card was unique but still bad when first printed, and it doesn’t compare to the newer Grixis lands.

#9. Grixis Panorama

Grixis Panorama is the least valuable of the Grixis fetch lands, but it can still provide value for mana fixing. This land can produce a colorless mana if you need it urgently, and it can fetch a basic land in the Grixis color shard. The large downside of the Panoramas is that they cost 1 mana just to fetch a land that comes in tapped. This mana fixing is valuable, but the painfully slow speed of this land rarely into most curves.

#8. Maestros Theater

Maestros Theater is the most straightforward of our Grixis fetch lands. It doesn’t have the cycling upside if you’re mana flooded like Seething Landscape does, but it doesn’t cost you anything to fetch like Grixis Panorama.

#7. Seething Landscape

Seething Landscape is the premier Grixis fetch land. You can sac this land to find any of the basic lands in the Grixis shard you need in the early game. If mana isn’t what you need, you can ditch this card for a draw instead. Still, it only provides a single basic land and has a harsher mana cost than Xander's Lounge.

#6. Sulfur Vent

Sacrificing a land for some mana can seem shortsighted and inefficient at times. Sulfur Vent however, can sacrifice itself for 2 mana. This sort of speed can sometimes jump you ahead of the curve and give you major advantages. This land can provide each of the Grixis colors, albeit in different kinds of scenarios, and ramp up your curve nicely.

#5. Crypt of the Eternals

Crypt of the Eternals provides the ability to tap for each of the Grixis colors, at a slight cost. This land isn’t as good as a Crumbling Necropolis, but it provides the mana fixing you may need at the cost of 1 mana. It also doesn’t enter tapped and can provide a lifegain trigger. All of these traits add up to a solid Grixis land for many different builds.

#4. Crosis’s Catacombs

Crosis's Catacombs provides the blue-black-red Grixis mana you need and comes in tapped, though with a pretty substantial extra hindrance. To play this tri-land, you need to return a non-lair land to your hand. This will undoutedly affect your curve, but it can actually be beneficial with lands like Temple of Deceit or Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital. Don't play this just for fixing; it's more of a mini-combo piece than a truly great tri-land.

#3. Crumbling Necropolis

Crumbling Necropolis is our “No frills, just give me the mana I need” kind of card. This tri-land enters tapped, but then it produces all the Grixis colors you desire. This is a solid establishment card for any game if you can get it onto the battlefield within the first two turns.

#2. Oscorp Industries

Oscorp Industries is an interesting land that works with discard and mayhem decks. If you discard this land, you may play it with mayhem and lose 2 life. Why bother with this circuitous life loss tactic instead of just playing the land? Well, mayhem allows you to gain the benefit from some spell or effect that requires you to discard without the downsides of losing a card or a land. You can play a card like Thrill of Possibility to draw and fix your mana pool for your turns going forward.

#1. Xander’s Lounge

Xander's Lounge provides everything we need in a land for our Grixis decks. This tri-land is a great early play to support your curve. A Xander's Lounge on turn 1 can lead to great early plays on turn 2 like Psychic Frog, Kalain, Reclusive Painter, or Expressive Iteration. If you draw this land in the later rounds, it has the upside of cycling if you don’t need the mana. This land should be rostered in every Grixis deck.

Wrap Up

Crumbling Necropolis | Illustration by David Alvarez

Grixis has one of the largest selections of lands that can produce or search for each of the three colors in the shard. Lands are only a part, albeit the most important part of your mana supply. Knowing which lands to roster is crucial to building great decks. Now that you know which lands to target, get out there and build an absolutely terrifying Grixis deck!

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