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** {{spoiler|''Ice Age'' block}}: The world is covered in ice for generations, which eventually melts away to reveal a really lame alternate reality. A decade later, the ice comes back for no adequately explored reason.
** {{spoiler|''Ice Age'' block}}: The world is covered in ice for generations, which eventually melts away to reveal a really lame alternate reality. A decade later, the ice comes back for no adequately explored reason.
** {{spoiler|''Lorwyn/Shadowmoor'' blocks}}: A [[Lighter and Softer|sickeningly bright]] fairy tale world becomes dark and twisted despite the actions of the heroes, then a [[Reset Button]] keeps any of that from having happened.
** {{spoiler|''Lorwyn/Shadowmoor'' blocks}}: A [[Lighter and Softer|sickeningly bright]] fairy tale world becomes dark and twisted despite the actions of the heroes, then a [[Reset Button]] keeps any of that from having happened.
** {{spoiler|''Shards of Alara'' block}}: One world becomes five after a freak accident, each world populated by [[Knight in Shining Armor|knights,]] [[Magitek|cyborg wizards,]] [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombies,]] [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]] and [[Barbarian Hero|barbarians,]] and [[Nature Hero|magic hippies]] who worship [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|Godzilla,]] respectively. Part two: They meet each other.
** {{spoiler|''Shards of Alara'' block}}: One world becomes five after a freak accident, each world populated by [[Knight in Shining Armor|knights,]] [[Magitek|cyborg wizards,]] [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombies,]] [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]] and [[Barbarian Hero|barbarians,]] and [[Nature Hero|magic hippies]] who worship [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|Godzilla,]] respectively. Part two: They meet each other.
** {{spoiler|''Zendikar'' block}}: Real estate becomes voracious. It tells giant monsters {{spoiler|to go screw themselves.}}
** {{spoiler|''Zendikar'' block}}: Real estate becomes voracious. It tells giant monsters {{spoiler|to go screw themselves.}}
** {{spoiler|''Innistrad'' block}}: Humans get caught in the middle of a combination [[Zombie Apocalypse]] and [[Fur Against Fang|vampire-werewolf turf war]] after their guardian angel ditches them. The bad news is, she turns out to be dead. The good news is, she comes back to life.
** {{spoiler|''Innistrad'' block}}: Humans get caught in the middle of a combination [[Zombie Apocalypse]] and [[Fur Against Fang|vampire-werewolf turf war]] after their guardian angel ditches them. The bad news is, she turns out to be dead. The good news is, she comes back to life.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Monopoly]]''}}: Inanimate objects get into the real-estate business in Atlantic City during the Great Depression.
* {{spoiler|''[[Monopoly]]''}}: Inanimate objects get into the real-estate business in Atlantic City during the Great Depression.
** Or: Real estate tycoons decide which properties they ought to purchase based on random walks through Atlantic City, and unseen forces move them across town for no good reason. Eventually, most of the tycoons would rather serve lengthy prison sentences than wander around Atlantic City, since the hotels in town charge astronomical rates and none of the tycoons have an apartment. And a train ticket can cost as much as the entire railroad company.
** Or: Real estate tycoons decide which properties they ought to purchase based on random walks through Atlantic City, and unseen forces move them across town for no good reason. Eventually, most of the tycoons would rather serve lengthy prison sentences than wander around Atlantic City, since the hotels in town charge astronomical rates and none of the tycoons have an apartment. And a train ticket can cost as much as the entire railroad company.
* {{spoiler|''[[Monsterpocalypse]]''}}: [[Humongous Mecha|Giant robots]] backed by the U.N., [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhu]] [[Captain Ersatz|look-alikes]], [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|fifty-foot]] cyborg [[Ninja|ninjas]], [[Kaiju|giant aliens]] [[Horde of Alien Locusts|who see Earth as an all-you-can-eat buffet]], [[Animal Wrongs Group|ecoterrorist-backed]] mutant [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]], and [[Alien Invasion|Martians]] vie for control of the Earth. [[Revenue Enhancing Devices|Collect them all!]]
* {{spoiler|''[[Monsterpocalypse]]''}}: [[Humongous Mecha|Giant robots]] backed by the U.N., [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhu]] [[Captain Ersatz|look-alikes]], [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|fifty-foot]] cyborg [[Ninja|ninjas]], [[Kaiju|giant aliens]] [[Horde of Alien Locusts|who see Earth as an all-you-can-eat buffet]], [[Animal Wrongs Group|ecoterrorist-backed]] mutant [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]], and [[Alien Invasion|Martians]] vie for control of the Earth. [[Revenue Enhancing Devices|Collect them all!]]
** {{spoiler|''I Chomp NY''}}: The guys from above get new monsters, and start trying to protect or blow up [[No Communities Were Harmed|look-alikes of national monuments]].
** {{spoiler|''I Chomp NY''}}: The guys from above get new monsters, and start trying to protect or blow up [[No Communities Were Harmed|look-alikes of national monuments]].
** {{spoiler|''All Your Base''}}: The guys from above put up their own buildings and try to blow the other guy's building up. They also get even more new monsters, except these ones [[Biological Mashup|fit]] [[Combining Mecha|together]].
** {{spoiler|''All Your Base''}}: The guys from above put up their own buildings and try to blow the other guy's building up. They also get even more new monsters, except these ones [[Biological Mashup|fit]] [[Combining Mecha|together]].
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