Fly By Wire
TagraNar
Fly By Wire
Invasion was worse than Onslaught, it ruined mono colour decks.
Ruined mono-color decks? O_o While the block pretty much made you play multiple colors, that was the fun of it, and mono-colored decks still exist today. No, it ruined nothing. Mark (one of the writers and developers at Wizards) called Invasion block one of the four Golden Ages (or somesuch) of Magic. No, Invasion block rocked, and it's been said that it saved Magic.
You wouldnt happen to be talking about Mark Rosewater, Gleemax's unwilling slave would you?
Invasion, as a set was good actually, Apocalypse, was just bad, It pushed the multicolour envelope to the breaking point, and was just overpowered with a really bad storyline (Urza running around in a gaint robot), even you have to admit that the multicolour creature combo cards were broken (Im talking about the so called "merfolk goblin" and the "Elf Knight"
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The "Merfolk Goblin" was simply a cheaper, more color-intensive Tim. The "Elf Knight" was from Invasion. And I hardly think a 2-color White Knight without First Strike is broken. Perhaps you were thinking of Gaea's Skyfolk? The "Elf Merfolk"? Broken? Hardly. Good? Quite. Were there broken cards in Apocalypse? Perhaps, yet no card in the entire Invasion Block sans Fact or Fiction has warranted a banning or restriction in any Sanctioned Format. I don't know about you, but that tells me that Invasion was definately not overpowered. While Invasion was legal (before Dr. Teeth), no one deck ruled the format. There were a good 5-7 Tier 1 decks easy. Fires came closest to being the best, but even it had weaknesses.
Onslaught, on the other hand, was ruled by Goblins. You either played Goblins, you played MWC, or you lost. There's no two-ways about it. Onslaught was both a boon and a curse for Tribal decks. The problem was, Goblins just got so much speed and power from the Block, they outshined all the other Tribes. Not to mention that Goblins have had incredible Tribal Support since the beginning of the game, and only got better as time went on. Other Tribes didn't really get too much support other than Zombies and Elves before Onslaught.