Best mtg art?

>>51480977
Bump, as someone who doesn't play magic I still like to peruse the art.

>>51480977
Holy shit, card name?

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What is the artist trying to convey here?

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>>51480977
Nearly everything by Mark Tedin.

>>51484528
The road to hell is paved with fluffy bunnies.

And yet I really do love it. Classic M:tG art has so many of these "What the FUCK?!" moments but most of them are beautiful in their surrealism. And that's not counting the pieces that are just weird and beautiful while not caring whether or not they fit into a broader aesthetic, because they didn't and weren't meant to.

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There's a site called magic-ville that has some nice scans of card art.

>>51484851
Indeed
>the art for Dark Heart of the Wood is LITERALLY a dark heart in the middle of the wood

And I really like Susan van Camp and Margaret Organ-Kean

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Speaking of old art, I'm a fan of Drew Tucker and his kinda abstract, I'd almost say "smudgy" style.

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>>51485685

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>>51485705
They brought him back for a bit in Shadowmoor and it was great.

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>>51485669
>abstract
Say no more

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>>51485751
mmm bby

The modern preference towards depicting concrete things is good for establishing the setting, which is great because I love the lore, but there's something about weird shit like that that gets me feelin feelings.

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>>51485751

Harold McNeil is unironically my favorite MTG artist

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somebody talking about mark tedin?

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>>51484528
The artist says the bunny corresponds to some traditional demon, but I bet he felt like mimicking hieronymus bosch that day.

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>>51485901
I'm under the mostly uninformed impression that old illuminated stuff copied by monks often had bunnies, snails and other stuff that ate their gardens depicted as threatening monsters fighting knights in the margins. Sort of as a joke, because its a snail, but also because they were fucking annoying and if they ate too much crops people could starve.

Also this is a dope magic card art

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Some non-card MTG art

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>>51485572
>tfw you will never be a Boros ambassador that meets and marries her to solidify relations with the Gruul.

why live.

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rk post is a god

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Let's not fprget Quinton Hoover too

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>>51480977
DESUS VULT

>>51487743
If you live in/near Texas, he comes to all the DFW events, I got a bunch of tokens made by him

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>>51485751
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>>51485439
I can't believe we have to deal with 99% of shitty photoshop brush art because of "muh immersion" and "muh realism" when we had a golden age with art such as these.
Fuck young people

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Living wall is still a favorite for me. I pulled one in one of my first boosters back in the day, immediately starting making a horror nightmare deck. A kid even traded me two Recurring Nightmares for a Crush of the Wurms, still got them in a legacy deck.

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>>51488214
Oracle's Insight is my personal favorite from Theros, but whoever came up with the night-sky motif for the gods and Nyx was pretty genius.

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>>51488224
this was the same block that produced this monstrosity

>>51488249
That art is actually kinda weird. Blown up it looks better than on the card, because the little details that get lost in the murky water come out more, so it looks less like a featureless piece of plastic.

>>51488112
>golden age
terese nielsen still draw her trippy art for mtg.

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>>51488224
Theros block got me back into the game after my longest drought

couldnt find this one in a decent size without the stupid border.

New artists that i like
William Murai for them chins
Johannes Voss for pretty girls face closeup

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>>51488330

Beautiful foil, shit card

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It isnt from magic, but damn it should be.

What would the card be for this.

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>>51488330
>>51488249
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>>51488214
please stop
painting something that is beautiful doesn't make the art beautiful. it makes it realistic and illustrative but also boring and unimaginative. each of these are just "dude it's like huge and cosmic and shiny you know, use that brush to be sure it's blurry and set opacity to 0.02%"

>>51488494
Art can be valued for it's aesthetic merit alone.

>>51485858
shame about the nazism

>>51488494
Yeah fuck new mtg art right? tey're all digital arts right?
like look at this guy, how dare of him painting digitally with his digital hands in front of people using digital paints on digital canvas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zdKceNf8Oo

>>51488494
stop liking what i don't like.jpg

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>>51488494
hey man, im just postin some quality recent art in a mtg art thread. i aint tryin to stop you from your "old school" art circle jerk.

everyone knows that both the old and the new had some garbage art. its not just one or the other.

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Still one of my favorites. I remember how everyone lost their shit when this new art was previewed.

>>51488640
fuck yeah this thing, I was screaming at how well the empty flesh looked

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I really like Chris Rahn too.

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>>51480977
Killer bees. :^)

>>51488387

Unholy Council XBBB
Sorcery

Target player loses X life, then draws X cards.

>>51489398
would be fine at XBB

>>51488111
>MFW I finally notice he has 3 arms

>>51489426
>he

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>>51489398

>>51489408

Quite possibly, but I wanted to be on the safe side. Maybe as an uncommon instead of a rare.

Behold, the only type of MTG thread that isn't shit!

>>51489434

Well, shit me naked. Shows what happens when you haven't paid attention to M:tG since Lorwyn.

>>51489446
it's such a shame you lose all the cool details when the art is on the card and tiny

>>51489446
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>>51488330

I see what >>51488494 is talking about.

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Step aside, lesser art pieces. The king is here.

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>>51489817
I remember a version of this that said "that cunt pays". Is it a mandela effect ?

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I really prefer this Dark Ritual. Urza's is dank as well but I like the happy, mysterious feeling of the Masques one as opposed to the grimdark satanism of the other ones.

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>>51489446
Just noticed where he's getting his blood from

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>>51490279
I prefer Sandra Everingham myself

>>51490043
That's what the one posted says.

>>51490495
no i mean "that cunt pays"
and that's it.
no "the cost", which sound silly
you pay "the price" but not "the cost"

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>>51490495
>>51490043
>>51489817
got it

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>>51489817
These are great.

>>51488494
If the dude posted it, he liked it. If he liked it, it's decent art.

You don't have to like it. You can even tell us why you don't. But god fucking dammit never tell someone they're wrong for liking art. It's asinine, and completely misses the point of art in the first place

>>51489446
He turned her into a vampire! I just got that right now

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The Reserve List needs to die. And 90's art needs to come back.