Apocalypse (Magic: The Gathering)
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Apocalypse is the name of a Magic: The Gathering
expansion set, released in June 2001. It is the third set of the Invasion Block.
Apocalypse reprised many cycles found in Invasion
, including enemy-colored "Bears" and "split cards." Apocalypse's single most important cycle of cards were the enemy-colored "painlands," which promoted the set's theme, power level, and popularity.
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expansion set, released in June 2001. It is the third set of the Invasion Block.
Storyline
Following Gerrard and the Weatherlight's victory at Koilos and the death of Hanna, Yawgmoth unleashes the Apocalypse on Dominaria by coming to the world himself, and raising the dead from the earth. As this was after a war that lasted a few years, there were many, many dead.Mechanics
- Multicolored Cards - The Invasion Block prominently featured multicolored cards (cards with more than one of the five colors), which had not been frequent in Magic since VisionsVisions (Magic: The Gathering)Visions was the sixteenth Magic: The Gathering set and tenth expert level set, released in February 1997. This expansion continued the Mirage block by using the same setting and mechanics introduced in Mirage. The expansion symbol for Visions is a V-shaped symbol, which is the "triangle of war"...
. Unlike InvasionInvasion (Magic: The Gathering)Invasion is the 21st expert level set, and the first set in the Invasion block of cards of Magic: The Gathering. The rest of the block is Planeshift and Apocalypse. It contains 350 cards.-Set History:...
and PlaneshiftPlaneshift (Magic: The Gathering)Planeshift is the name of the second set in the Invasion block of cards of Magic: The Gathering, along with the expansions Invasion and Apocalypse. It contained 143 cards.-Set history:Planeshift continued Invasion's theme of multi-colored "gold" cards...
, Apocalypse focused on cards with "enemy" color pairings (colors opposite one another on the color wheelColor wheelA color wheel or color circle is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle that shows relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, complementary colors, etc....
) as opposed to "friendly" color pairings (adjacent colors).
Apocalypse reprised many cycles found in Invasion
Invasion (Magic: The Gathering)
Invasion is the 21st expert level set, and the first set in the Invasion block of cards of Magic: The Gathering. The rest of the block is Planeshift and Apocalypse. It contains 350 cards.-Set History:...
, including enemy-colored "Bears" and "split cards." Apocalypse's single most important cycle of cards were the enemy-colored "painlands," which promoted the set's theme, power level, and popularity.