Apocalypse (Magic: The Gathering)

Apocalypse is the name of a Magic: The Gathering 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 Visions. Unlike Invasion and Planeshift, Apocalypse focused on cards with "enemy" color pairings (colors opposite one another on the color wheel) as opposed to "friendly" color pairings (adjacent colors).

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.

Notable Cards

• Spiritmonger - The winning design of Create a Creature sanctioned by Wizards in 1999.^[1]
• Pernicious Deed - A flexable board sweeper that, along with Spirit Monger, popularized some of the first Black/Green mid-range control decks often referred to as 'The Rock'.
• Goblin Ringleader - An uncommonly powerful card drawing spell/creature found many Goblin decks.

External links

• Wizards of the Coast's official page for Apocalypse

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