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i don't know, your opponent 2-for-1ing themselves to counter your uro and you replaying it next turn and drawing a card sounds pretty good to me. at least in any kind of fair matchup. which isn't that uncommon because of all the astrolab pile midrange decks
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TheKingofSprings posted:Not even close, Uro looks real lovely in any format that has Force of Will though lol. I've seen Uro run in Bant miracles, BUG control, lands, loam, and Stryfo pile so I don't know what you are talking about. It's not a good target for FoW.
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My next dumb jankbru is gonna be golgari dreadhoard. It will be powerful, and a good deck.
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Feb 28, 2020 00:13
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knox posted:I've been fascinated by the art of Magic since seeing it in comic book store windows as a kid and it still has the best art, though I never played many if any traditional/D&D/card type of games. Really feel like learning the game and teaching my brother/family, they play board games occasionally that I have zero interest in and I think Magic would be a lot of fun. Spent some time on the main website reading the basic rules and checking different cards as much as I can. I would like to have some physical decks to be able to play with, though I'd probably learn the game through free video game if that's a decent idea? the art stopped being good a while ago
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Feb 28, 2020 00:48
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It's swung back around quite a bit lately imo. Like it's a long ways away from the paintings of the old days and a lot is digital now, but there are some legitimately stunning pieces in the past few sets.
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Feb 28, 2020 00:57
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kalvanoo posted:the art stopped being good a while ago av/post combo proves it to be true
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Feb 28, 2020 01:00
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See Seb McKinnon
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kalvanoo posted:the art stopped being good a while ago Oh, please.
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Count Bleck posted:Oh, please. their av is ice age sulfurous springs
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Feb 28, 2020 01:01
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Count Bleck posted:Oh, please. its crap
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Elyv posted:their av is ice age sulfurous springs Realistically I shouldn't be surprised.
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the art isn’t as bad as the period from roughly RTR through Shadows, which was dire, but it’s not as good as it was during the period ice age-Urza block and probably never will be again
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Feb 28, 2020 01:12
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At some point the art direction became “hmm... can you make it look more like bad cgi? And maybe a little more forgettable. I want my eyes to slide right over the top half of the card without stopping.”
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Seb's current Kickstarter just announced that if he breaks 700k he'll be doing a collaboration piece with Rebecca Guay so uh yeah there is still plenty of good art in magic Framboise fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Feb 28, 2020 |
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Feb 28, 2020 01:29
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Squinky v2.0 posted:At some point the art direction became “hmm... can you make it look more like bad cgi? And maybe a little more forgettable. I want my eyes to slide right over the top half of the card without stopping.” This was Origins. Such a terrible set in every way.
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Feb 28, 2020 01:32
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fine i'll rephrase: the art direction sucks now
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Feb 28, 2020 01:34
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kalvanoo posted:the art stopped being good a while ago Did they give up on that hardcover art book series? I know I haven't seen one for eldraine.
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kalvanoo posted:fine i'll rephrase: the art direction sucks now This is the correct take. Being story-focused makes so many of the pieces so same-y, just highlighting the same characters ad nauseam The flip side of that is that it's also true that the last few sets starting ~Ixalan have indeed had some of the best work in years
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sit on my Facebook posted:This is the correct take. Being story-focused makes so many of the pieces so same-y, just highlighting the same characters ad nauseam Everything old is new again; remember when all the cards featured the crew of the Weatherlight? Like they were just commissioning character portraits and attaching them to random carts.
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ShaneB posted:This was Origins. Such a terrible set in every way. origins is absolutely the bottom of the barrel in terms of art but i feel like any survey of recent catastrophes in MTG illustration has to bask in the richness of BFZ block. every part of it sucks as much as possible. like even the expeditions... it is basically impossible to tell what colors most of them make at a glance, let alone what lands they are, exactly
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kalvanoo posted:fine i'll rephrase: the art direction sucks now I think they've turned it around recently. Battle for Zendikar and Oath of the Gatewatch were dire (in many ways) but I actively disliked looking at most of it.
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like, check this poo poo out: 1) what is happening in this art? where are they? what angle are you looking on this scene from? 2) what type of card is this? creature, enchantment, instant, sorcery? 3) what color is this card? hurr durr devoid, very clever. what color of mana do you need to cast this?
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:1) what is happening in this art? where are they? what angle are you looking on this scene from? Without looking: 1) Sliver Eldrazi is killin' a whole lotta dudes. They are on a waste. I am flying by on my tiny helicopter that's currently turning. 2) Creature, 3-4 mana? 3) Devoid with red?
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No idea what that card is so I'll guess just from the art: 1.One creature is being returned to hand, the other is taking 2 damage. I'm somehow floating 12 feet in the air. 2. Instant 3. Blue and red.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:like, check this poo poo out: Look if there was ever one set where the art should be incomprehensible using it on a set of HP Lovecraft ripoffs is art well spent Draw whatever reasoning from this statement you would like
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Feb 28, 2020 02:41
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Seb McKinnon is a meme. Who you're really looking for is Anastasia Ovchinnikova, James Zapata, and Victor Adame Minguez
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Feb 28, 2020 02:48
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i like a lot of that artist's recent card art honestly http://www.artofmtg.com/artist/victor-adame-minguez/ he's the one who did the jace puppet edit: seb mckinnon is genuinely good lmao what does calling him a meme even mean
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There's lots of good artists now and lots of terrible, terrible art in the Ice Age->Saga era even if I think Saga had the best usage of story/style guide: each phase of urza's life corresponds to a color, and the style changes depending on era, which then influences the colors in a really robust manner. That they're definitely never doing against since we're back to weatherlight crew style art direction. On topic I looked up Drew Tucker's artwork on scryfall when Seb unveiled that stretch goal and there's actually several really fantastic pieces. Comparing the two pieces https://scryfall.com/card/arn/60/city-in-a-bottle is just brutal. Like no offense to the technically proficient artwork in the vintage masters piece, but wow, it's so sterile.
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Spiderdrake posted:
City in a lamp.
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When did this: Become hotter than this? 
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Yeah old magic art was consistent high quality, unlike that new stuff
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Elyv posted:Yeah old magic art was consistent high quality, unlike that new stuff That's a celestial prism and there's no way it can be anything else because there are no other details. I don't know what you're talking about. TVsVeryOwn posted:When did this: They're both GILSs (grannies I'd like to sacrifice). Orange Fluffy Sheep fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Feb 28, 2020 |
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The art has gotten way better recently, but yeah everything from Origins up through the most recent Innistrad block was just awful for the most part.
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Elyv posted:Yeah old magic art was consistent high quality, unlike that new stuff old art is diverse, not high-quality; as a result of that diversity there are some really fun, funny, creative, or evocative pieces that seldom show up in the current game (especially outside of poo poo like lairs) and also some weird dogshit and vague racism
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No. 1 Apartheid Fan posted:old art is diverse, not high-quality; as a result of that diversity there are some really fun, funny, creative, or evocative pieces that seldom show up in the current game (especially outside of poo poo like lairs) and also some weird dogshit and vague racism 
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Feb 28, 2020 04:52
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OMG arguing about art is one of the dumbest things anyone could ever do lmao
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Elephant Ambush posted:OMG arguing about art is one of the dumbest things anyone could ever do lmao as opposed to all the smart, important stuff people should be discussing in the magic: the gathering thread
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No. 1 Apartheid Fan posted:as opposed to all the smart, important stuff people should be discussing in the magic: the gathering thread LOL shut up idiot (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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The art seems fine? It has smoothed out as the direction has gotten more boring and conventional; the average quality of a card is probably higher than anything pre-2009/2010 but really great or really bad art is few and far in between. I'm definitely nostalgic for some of the more distinct art from the sets that I grew up with - it'd be cool if they could get DiTerlizzi or even like Andrew Robinson to do a card every now and then - but calling it outright bad seems overblown.
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