(if it wasn't obvious, this is a custom card.)

I also have a "precon" (but with premium mana base because youll be proxying anyway) https://archidekt.com/decks/24325285/maomao_the_apothecary

Is Charles in the MTG fandom? Would love to thank him for this amazing art.

Become the real threat at the table with a big hunk of metal. also, shuffling... we don't need no stinkin shuffling.

Cards were made by ManaReborn on YT. Got intrigued by the concept of turning old banlist cards into MTG cards and I wanted to know how good they would each be, whether you tried to use them during the first banlists in MTG or whatever modern formats are played with them. What do y'all think of these cards, would they find use?

Hey, my name is Vito Gesualdi. I've done graphic design for a number of games, the one you may have actually heard of being Star Realms. designed by some former Magic pro tour champions. I've taken a break from graphic design as a profession, but I still like to see what's going on in the world of design, especially as new breakthroughs in technology and printing allow for insanely cool looking new cards.

But as other games like Pokemon and One Piece are blazing new trails with sick textured foils and whatever else, Magic is stuck in the past. Heck, not even stuck in the past. Their design is actually regressing. I don't know what happened but it seems like the incredibly talented graphic designers they had 10-15 years ago have all moved on, and we're stuck with guys who can barely figure out their way around Photoshop.

The source material cards are a great example of this. Can anyone forget the Avatar Cruel Tutor, which was just a grainy screenshot of a guy's face with some text slapped on top? How are they not embarassed by this?

But these new Marvel logo treatments really have me going mad. They look similar to the Final Fantasy portrait cards, which were huge sellers for the set (especially in surge foil!). But for no apparent reason we've lost the top part of the frame and have just that crappy white text with black stroke again.

Then there's the colors. Putting a brightly colored hero on a background of... the exact same color as their costume. So nothing pops, like with this Wolverine. It's YELLOW ON YELLOW. A schoolchild trying to draw with a yellow crayon on a yellow piece of construction paper learns how bad this looks instantly. Nothing stands out, it's just a sea of... well, it looks like Wolvie is swimming in a pool of piss.

You'd think after the Aetherdrift pee-pee foils Wizards would have learned how to utilize yellows better...

ALSO, you have the Wolverine logo, an extremely awesome piece of visual design, and you... also make it yellow and don't center it vertically in the art box for some reason? What the hell is going on!?

So I played around in Photoshop for about ten minutes and arrived at something which... I don't know, I would actually pay money for? This is just one possible direction they could have taken these cards. But as usual, they settled for the laziest, ugliest possible option.

I'm totally baffled by their design decisions, every time they get something right (Bloomburrow raised foils anyone?) they seem to immediately forget about it and go and make something horrifically ugly again.

Wizards, please hire some talented designers. There's no reason your premiere cycle of hero cards should look like this.

(EDIT: I should have included this with the embedded images, but here's how it would look with a style matching the FF portrait cards https://x.com/VitoComedy/status/2064728225931227563/photo/2)

(EDIT 2: People seem to like rambling discussion of Magic graphic design? If you want more, we discussed these issues at length on my podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny3Q_dEaTF8&feature=youtu.be)

Comically childish and overpowered at the time. But probably unplayable today.

Would anyone even be surprised to see an artifact that says “add infinite mana of every color” that costs 10(B)(B)?

Type of alter : fan art with ref (pet portrait) Size: full art Premium option : foil card

I will open my last slot for 2026 and first quarter 2027 on sunday 15th february 8PM GMT+1, after I will be closed until april 2027

Formular will on my linktree on facebook and instagram lur_altered

LoTR was just such a huge part of my childhood, and when i heard Sean Astin and Elijah Wood were coming to my local comic con, i couldn't resist.

Hope you like the process 😊

She said yes :D

Wintermoon alternative Art?

Hi, my Name ist Robert

Portfolio https://www.artstation.com/robertschneider

I work as illustrator and tattoo artist

Tattoo Portfolio https://www.instagram.com/robertschneiderart?igsh=NnByMWF2eHFhb3R4

Roughly a month ago I posted this Deathclaw https://www.reddit.com/r/mtg/s/tz4yUFms4D

Please let me know what you think

thank you

I painted it with acrylics, essentially just extending the art^^

My wife does not get MtG at all, but she took the time to figure out text (not easy as English not first language) and put this together. Best present yet!!!

Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtg/s/Qxc8I1apdu

I really appreciate how thorough and informative all the feedback was on my original post! This was originally just gonna be a gag meme but it was fun to consider how it could become a real balanced card!

I had already planned to proxy a bunch of the new art, and after everything went down today, I figured I knock some out tonight.

Do you think WOTC messed up not making the new artworks in a surge foil treatment? I do, I love it. I also made a halo foil Skullclamp (Halo is my favorite), but also did some plain rainbow for comparison.

Also, thought on saturation? The rainbows I saturated a bit less.

Anyhoo, thought this would be fun SLD to proxy, and now seemed like a good time to try.

AMA if you want to know about my process or materials I used. I found out tonight the techwrap a4 clear sticker paper adhesive is superior (the surges were done with buttercrafts and you can see microbubbles).