The Invasion block expansions encouraged decks of three or more colors. It was fresh and fun. Since then, other expansions have also pushed massively-multicolor decks, but they seem to be just rehashing much of the same innovations that Invasion introduced, so the whole concept has gotten stale from my perspective. But Invasion was great and remains a favorite block of mine.
I believe these two decks were Standard legal at the time of Invasion block, but I never meant them to be competitive. Instead, I made the decks to play with my favorite cards from the block and also as an experiment in designing two decks to be competitively balanced against each other. My brother and I played these decks against each other quite alot five years ago during a trip to the Philippines. The Crosis deck seemed to be a little better at the time, so I eventually retooled the decks to help the Rith side a little.
Fun decks to play. This was also around the time that I decided Rod of Ruin is perhaps my favorite Magic card of all time, so both of these decks sport foils.
Greatest flavor text ever?
The Rith deck (white-green-red):
2x Rith's Charm
2x Thunderscape Battlemage
2x Flametongue Kavu
1x Aggressive Urge
4x Thornscape Familiar
4x Penumbra Bobcat
4x Sunscape Battlemage
4x Shackles
2x Eladamri's Call
4x Armadillo Cloak
4x Fleetfoot Panther
3x Ancient Spider
1x Rod of Ruin
1x Treva's Ruins
2x Geothermal Crevice
2x Rith Grove
2x City of Brass
9x Forest
7x Plains
The Crosis deck (black-blue-red):
2x Crosis's Charm
3x Quicksilver Dagger
4x Lava Zombie
4x Doomsday Specter
1x Spite & Malice
2x Thunderscape Battlemage
2x Flametongue Kavue
4x Nightscape Familiar
4x Ravenous Rats
3x Nightscape Battlemage
4x Stormscape Battlemage
3x Rushing River
1x Rod of Ruin
2x Geothermal Crevice
2x City of Brass
2x Dromar's Cavern
2x Sulfur Vent
6x Swamp
4x Island
5x Mountain
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