Jin-Gitaxias is the blue-aligned Praetor of New Phyrexia and resides in what used to be the Vedalken city of Lumengrid. His personal mission was to perfect the Phyrexians, leading a philosophy known as the “Great Synthesis.” Jin-Gitaxias was cold and focused on the pursuit of knowledge, believing himself the smartest of all the Praetors.
Within Elesh Norn’s plans to take over the Multiverse, she asked Jin-Gitaxias to explore ways to compleat a planeswalker. Jin-Gitaxias focused on the plane of Kamigawa to aid in his research, as its dual nature of the spirit realm and physical realm was unique among the planes. Using the planeswalker Tezzeret’s abilities, Jin-Gitaxias traveled to Kamigawa where he began to experiment on the spirits there, known as Kami.
Jin-Gitaxias would be successful in his experiments, finally devising a way to turn a planeswalker into a compleated Phyrexian. Shortly after his discovery, the planeswalkers Kaito and Tamiyo would discover him and his lair. A fight ensued and ended when the planeswalker known as the Wanderer arrived, and aiding Kaito and Tamiyo, they cut Jin-Gitaxias in half. Unfortunately, his body would be recovered by Tezzeret and returned to New Phyrexia along with Tamiyo, who they had successfully kidnapped. Jin-Gitaxias would be rebuilt, allowing him to compleat Tamiyo and make her the first planeswalker to succumb to compleation.
Leading up to the Phyrexian invasion of the multiverse, Jin-Gitaxias was responsible for perfecting the glistening oil used by Phyrexians to compleat organic material, making it more effective and reducing the effectiveness of the Mirran elf Melira’s healing abilities.
When the Phyrexian invasion of the multiverse began, Jin-Gitaxias directed the movements of his army called the Chrome Host in the attack of many planes. When Elesh Norn’s plans began to go awry, with the arrival of Elspeth the Archangel and the attack on New Phyrexia by the Zhalfirin forces, Jin-Gitaxias lost his patience with Elesh Norn’s leadership. Attacking Elesh Norn with a war machine containing experimental newts, he would be overwhelmed by the Zhalfirins and fall into the vat containing the newts and was eaten by his own creations.
PLANESWALKER & LEGENDARY CARDS
ARTWORK APPEARANCES
FLAVOR TEXT APPEARANCES
"Forswear the flesh and you will truely see."
- Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur (Culling Dais, Double Masters)
"See how gratefully this world accepts our blessings"
- Jin- Gitaxias, Core Augur (Inexorable Tide, Modern Masters)
"A mind may be steeled against madness, but all battlements fall in time"
- Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur (Psychic Miasma, Scars of Mirrodin)
"I despise Vorinclex and his slobberings about 'evolution.' Only I know true progress"
- Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur (Xenograft, New Phyrexia)
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