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Theme Deck Review Compendium: Invasion “Spectrum”

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Spectrum

A “five colour Green” deck featuring the Domain mechanic.

Official product information webpage (archived)

The decklist and card images can also be found on Moxfield, MTG Goldfish and mtg.wtf.


Quirion Trailblazer by Rebecca Guay

Reviews

Abe Sargent

The Kitchen Table #122: The Casual Player’s Preconstructed Deck Primer

I like the Invasion five-color deck. It features three different split cards and fun stuff like Fires of Yavimaya and Ordered Migration. Opponents need to be afraid of Global Ruin as one of its rares, because that card can win you games.

Ertai’s Lament

Invasion: Spectrum Review (Part 1 of 2)

While it’s fair to say that Spectrum hedges its bet somewhat rather than going all-in on domain, it does have a fairly intriguing idea of how to synergise with that subtheme. If you’re going to go ahead and build up all this mana to try and hit domain anyway, its logic argues, why not take advantage of the ramping and play a bunch of fatties?

Invasion: Spectrum Review (Part 2 of 2)

Hits: Solid ramping/fixing suite helps make the five-colour dream a reality

Misses: Timidity in going all-in on the domain mechanic- instead piling in fatties to bloat the back-end of the mana curve- throttles the deck

OVERALL SCORE: 3.60/5.00

flourishingmusic79

Magic The Gathering – Invasion Theme Deck – Spectrum – Deck Analysis

M:tG Precon Decon

M:tG Precon Decon – Invasion Part 4: Spectrum

Viewer comments:

An Armageddon variant which is easy to build around to break it’s symmetry… in a precon? Yes please! A weird inclusion here, really, but personally I’m a sucker for nasty stuff like this!

@ReubenAotearoa

Prince’s Precons

Invasion – Spectrum Analysis

While Spectrum doesn’t have as many domain cards as we’d probably prefer, all the ramping you’ll be doing will still be of great help to the cadre of big late-game beaters the deck has provided you with in their stead.

Invasion – Spectrum Gameplay

PROS: Good ramping and color-fixing suite to help you hit all of your colors, monstrous fatties on the back end offer fantastic offensive pressure, versatility of split cards and scalability of what domain cards you do have capitalize greatly on your five-color manabase.

CONS: High number of expensive spells on top of the variety of colors makes mana screw of any kind a near-guaranteed death sentence, removal is inconsistent and conditional, paucity of domain spells takes away some of the fun and leaves the deck feeling unnaturally plain.

Troll and Toad

Customer review at Invasion Spectrum Preconstructed Theme Deck (MTG):

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

this deck is pretty good. you need to get a lot of mana out fast because this deck has a lot of heavy creatures, some cost 8 or 9.

Anon

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

With some slight mods and an extra global ruin this deck will be your competitions worse nightmare. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing the gapeing jaw of an opponent who has to sac every land but one while your sitting there with 5. i added a Honden of each color from the BoK set and my friends now have built side decks just to compete! add a “last stand” for some serious fun.

Croz

Tribal Flames by Tony Szczudlo

Unboxings

Doctor Alzheimers Academia Magica

German language channel

Magic Vintage Unboxing 12: INVASION (2000) Themendeck SPECTRUM

flourishingmusic79

Magic The Gathering – Theme Decks Revisted – Spectrum (Invasion)

Any reviews or other relevant content I’ve missed? Drop a comment! Always happy to discover new sources.

Also if you had this deck, played against it, or otherwise just wanted to share your thoughts then go for it too. 🙂

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