Island

The 2001 World Championship Decks were released by Wizards of the Coast as a commemorative product, allowing players to own exact replicas of the decks used by top competitors during the Magic: The Gathering World Championships in Toronto. These cards feature distinct gold-bordered backs and facsimile signatures of the players, making them ineligible for standard tournament play but highly valued as historical snapshots of the competitive meta during the Invasion block era.

The card illustrations for these basic lands were sourced from the Invasion expansion, designed to evoke the set's thematic focus on the Phyrexian invasion of the plane of Dominaria. The art direction emphasized a gritty, high-fantasy aesthetic that contrasted with the more traditional depictions of nature found in earlier sets. Upon release, the championship decks were well-received by players as an accessible way to study professional strategy and own cards that were otherwise difficult to obtain in their original, tournament-legal printings.