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| The '''Invasion block''' is the sixth [[Block (sets)|block]], consisting of the [[large expansion]] ''[[Invasion]]'' ([[Image:Invasion symbol.gif]]) and the two [[small expansion]]s ''[[Planeshift]]'' ([[Image:Planeshift symbol.gif]]) and ''[[Apocalypse]]'' ([[Image:Apocalypse.gif]]). The block came out in 2000-2001.
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| This block was centered around the idea of multiple colors working in synergy, with an inordinately large amount of gold cards. Many mono-colored cards in the block also played to the multicolor theme, either in bonuses granted by other colors or off-color activation costs. In this way, ''Invasion'' was a precursor of the later [[Ravnica block]].
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| [[Keywords]] introduced in this block: [[Kicker]].
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| Themes present throughout the block included multicolor strategy, [[tribal (theme)|tribal]] themes, [[Domain]] cards, [[Gating]] cards, and [[Kavu]] creatures.
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| ==Mega cycles==
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| There are two four-card mega cycles in the ''Invasion'' block, each started in ''[[Invasion]]'' with two cards and finished in ''[[Apocalypse]]'' with two more.
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| * '''Gold counterspells''' {{-}} Each of these multicolored spells has {{U}}{{U}} in its casting cost and includes a [[counter]]spell effect: <c>Absorb</c>, <c>Undermine</c>, <c>Suffocating Blast</c>, <c>Mystic Snake</c>.
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| * '''Mutations''' {{-}} Each of these multicolored spells has {{G}} in its casting cost, destroys or disrupts resources, and creates a number of 1/1 [[Saproling]] creature [[tokens]] equal to the resource's converted mana cost: <c>Aura Mutation</c>, <c>Æther Mutation</c>, <c>Death Mutation</c>, <c>Artifact Mutation</c>.
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| ==Development codes==
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| On the development codenames for the Invasion block, MTG.com columnist [[Mark Rosewater]] writes:
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| {{cquote|Invasion block codenames were cities with Chinese names. I believe this theme was picked by [[Mike Elliott]] because it fit our recent hard-to-spell kick. The original choices were actually so complicated that we had to change them.
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| <ref>{{MTGref|mr33|Codename of the Game|Mark Rosewater|Monday, August 12, 2002}}</ref>}}
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| ==Theme decks==
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| {{Main|Invasion block/Preconstructed theme decks}}
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| ==Sets==
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| {{Invasion block}}
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| ==References==
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| {{reflist}}
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| {{sets}}
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| [[Category:Invasion block|*]]
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