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Anything made after 9/11 sucks. Ravnica, Super Smash Bros. Melee, etc.
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Star Man posted:Anything made after 9/11 sucks. Ravnica, Super Smash Bros. Melee, etc. Your post.
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Feb 28, 2020 05:33
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Elephant Ambush posted:LOL shut up idiot it is actually related to magic: the gathering, making it a lot better than whatever we've been talking about for the last day 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 Yeah, I agree with this pretty much.
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Feb 28, 2020 05:33
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Star Man posted:Anything made after 9/11 sucks. Ravnica, Super Smash Bros. Melee, etc. all college freshmen... seems about right
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Feb 28, 2020 05:49
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Bust Rodd posted:
Send me your dredge list! End this terrible art chat
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Feb 28, 2020 09:10
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I really like the Ixalan art myself. Especially the actual creature art.
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Feb 28, 2020 09:13
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Hi friends. This thread is generating a lot of reports in the past few days and I would like that to stop being the case. I realize this is a difficult ask, but please stop being so god drat salty about Magic.
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Feb 28, 2020 09:19
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There's a pretty convincing leak, I won't post the image as I'm on my phone but it's a playsrt of Thalia, Guardian of Thraben.
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Feb 28, 2020 12:50
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Bust Rodd posted:
Honestly this art seems like a deliberate homage to some of the weirder stuff from ice age era magic, and I'm here for it
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Feb 28, 2020 12:59
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BizarroAzrael posted:There's a pretty convincing leak, I won't post the image as I'm on my phone but it's a playsrt of Thalia, Guardian of Thraben. before anyone gets excited, it's just another Secret Lair https://www.instagram.com/p/B9F-bRknQxj/?igshid=2vfgyemmlb99
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Feb 28, 2020 13:15
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Lone Goat posted:before anyone gets excited, it's just another Secret Lair Is this the first play set secret lair?
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Feb 28, 2020 14:04
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Nah, the trippy Serum Visions was the first.
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Feb 28, 2020 14:06
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Sickening posted:Is this the first play set secret lair? Nope. Serum Visions got one.
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Feb 28, 2020 14:07
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unironically bring back kaja foglio
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Feb 28, 2020 14:19
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I’mma let you finish but Tony DiTerlizzi is the best MTG illustrator of all time
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Feb 28, 2020 14:27
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:I’mma let you finish but Tony DiTerlizzi is the best MTG illustrator of all time Not sure if I agree for absolute favorite, but up there. The 2nd ed Planescape manual is elevated by his illustration.
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Feb 28, 2020 14:32
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I don't get this SL, it's a playset of a staple which means tournament players, but it's all foils so bad for actually playing. And the art isn't as good as Serum Visions.
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Feb 28, 2020 14:53
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Goa Tse-tung posted:I don't get this SL, it's a playset of a staple which means tournament players, but it's all foils so bad for actually playing. And the art isn't as good as Serum Visions. Step one is getting them to admit the foils are hot garbage. I hope Rudy is hoarding them in his basement until we get the announcement they will be reprinted annually That's universal as it get rights? Is there anyone reasonable that follows that alpha investment bullshit? I haven't met them yet PleasantDirge fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Feb 28, 2020 |
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Feb 28, 2020 14:58
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Lone Goat posted:before anyone gets excited, it's just another Secret Lair None of those new arts look any better than the original. People have to stop buying this poo poo. DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:I’mma let you finish but Tony DiTerlizzi is the best MTG illustrator of all time Top 3 for sure.
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Feb 28, 2020 15:46
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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 this, basically. the quality of the art itself lately has been great but it's still generally too explicit. it's obviously an art direction problem, where the artists are being told what chandra should look like, as opposed to being allowed to decide what she should look like, or even what a planeswalker would be. i'd much rather the cards present diverse and even conflicting representation of the subject matter than having everything be homogeneous (and in my view, sterile). i liked their serum visions secret lair thing, so obviously they're aware of this on some level at least. my guess would be that their marketing chuds want to develop a coherent brand in order to sell toys and other poo poo. all that said, i'm probably in the minority here, since my favorite mtg artists were the foglios, margaret organ-kean, drew tucker and quinton hoover.
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Feb 28, 2020 15:58
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I miss Quinton Hoover so much, I loved the style he had
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Feb 28, 2020 16:00
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There is a weird amount of really terrible CGI in the newer sets, I don't get how it makes it into the finished product. They also seem to have like 5 slots for good, interesting art (hushbringer, some seb stuff, etc) and the rest ranges from bad to on
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Feb 28, 2020 16:11
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Lone Goat posted:I miss Quinton Hoover so much, I loved the style he had The original regeneration art is still one of my absolute favorites.
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Feb 28, 2020 16:27
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Cactrot posted:The original regeneration art is still one of my absolute favorites. There's something to be said for the fact that I can instantly conjure this bold, clean piece of art in my mindseye, whereas if you asked me to do so for the busy, over-directed art of any aura card I've played dozens or hundreds of times drafting in paper or arena since IXN, it's unlikely.
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Feb 28, 2020 16:38
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Maze of ith old school sending a creature crawling through intestines. Vesuvan doppleganger being a super clean and distinctive design. Shivan dragon coming at you right off the side of an 70s arcade machine with almost gross levels of basic colors... I miss a level of abstraction to the cards and worlds. The cohesive art/story design for all that it makes the art look more mature but leaves almost no room to muse about how two different cards co-exist in the same universe or just any wonder about the world of magic.
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Feb 28, 2020 16:51
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At some point the art directors for Magic forgot that their art has to look good and readable in a tiny card frame and not just as a high definition desktop background. Even with the less technically proficient art from Alpha I can still tell what the card is from across the table.
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Feb 28, 2020 16:52
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planeswalker "art direction" is the absolute worst. the same people standing in a pose waist up over and over.
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Feb 28, 2020 16:53
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excuse me but iconic art that is designed to match a card and make the card playable does not match our creative vision of trying to make a magic movie and tv show and videogames and anything else our cold bean-counting hearts can think of besides a card game
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Feb 28, 2020 16:54
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No Wave posted:planeswalker "art direction" is the absolute worst. the same people standing in a pose waist up over and over. That's a really good point, the walkers are never really DOING ANYTHING.
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Feb 28, 2020 16:54
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that's why i really like the whimsical alternate art that they did in eldraine. the sagas are also great, as they show art as it would appear in the world itself instead of the art representing a DSLR photograph of that world. i think the art direction was at a local minimum somewhere around magic: origins, but it started getting a lot better with some of the newer sets.
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Feb 28, 2020 16:57
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ShaneB posted:That's a really good point, the walkers are never really DOING ANYTHING. Vivien is the absolute worst for this, if someone told me that the art description for every Vivien piece was cut and pasted I would not be surprised.
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Feb 28, 2020 17:01
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Owlbear Camus posted:There's something to be said for the fact that I can instantly conjure this bold, clean piece of art in my mindseye, whereas if you asked me to do so for the busy, over-directed art of any aura card I've played dozens or hundreds of times drafting in paper or arena since IXN, it's unlikely. I feel like one of the biggest problems with the CGI-heavy art style is it's not easily parsed on a 2" square of paper. Quinton Hoover's stuff sticks out because a lot of it feels like the art you'd see in a comic book panel and it works at the small size.
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Feb 28, 2020 17:02
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Elyv posted:Vivien is the absolute worst for this, if someone told me that the art description for every Vivien piece was cut and pasted I would not be surprised. Don't be mean to Vivien, Bolas superglued her fingers to her arrow as a prank.
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Feb 28, 2020 17:12
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i remember reading somewhere that because of printing constraints the original art itself had to be relatively small (something like 5x7 iirc), which probabaly contributed a lot to the overall "readability" of it.Whaleporn posted:I miss a level of abstraction to the cards and worlds. The cohesive art/story design for all that it makes the art look more mature but leaves almost no room to muse about how two different cards co-exist in the same universe or just any wonder about the world of magic. i'd say almost the opposite re: maturity. the abstract (and sometimes almost disturbing) art felt a lot more mature to me than whatever the hell every planeswalker holding some kind of flaming orb is supposed to represent.
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Feb 28, 2020 17:14
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When I die and inevitably go to hell, I will have to forever replay a recent game where I got stuck on 2 land against a towering wave mystic who proceeded to mill 1-2 land every attack while I drew CMC3+ spells.
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Feb 28, 2020 17:22
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ShaneB posted:That's a really good point, the walkers are never really DOING ANYTHING. Another point in favour of Angrath being the best Planeswalker, cause he's just always living his best mad minotaur pirate life.
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Feb 28, 2020 17:25
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ShaneB posted:That's a really good point, the walkers are never really DOING ANYTHING.
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Feb 28, 2020 17:43
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Blooming Brilliant posted:Another point in favour of Angrath being the best Planeswalker, cause he's just always living his best mad minotaur pirate life. Uhhh.... I think you will find that Angrath is a loving and devoted dad who is super mad that he can't find his way home to tuck in his minotatur kids.
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Feb 28, 2020 17:46
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Toshimo posted:Uhhh.... Same tbh
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Toshimo posted:Uhhh.... Which is funny because a) it's true, and b) no element of his background has ever been communicated on a card once
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