#mtg*

[katjohnadams]

Magic is Just Like That™

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Artist: Greg Hildebrandt TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[mtg-art-daily]

Swords to Plowshares

Artist: Terese Nielsen

[reverseratatouille]

no more jace hate, jace hate is over, jace hate is closed and never coming back

[mtgtips]

Magic the Gathering tip: mana rocks imply the existence of mana rolls

[fire-700]

Excuse me but if YOU wouldn't ask her original design out for dinner that's on you. I personally feel like this is a downgrade from Horror/Lovecraft Monster to Fucked up Humanoid.

I'm not saying she's up there with the Xenomorph, Predator, Pyramid head, Slenderman, Ridley, Godzilla, Sonnie's monster and Medusa, but she could kill me any time.

that "is elesh norn conventionally attractive" post has reminded me to be angry about how her design has been gradually shifted to be less monstrous and more feminine over the years. the inhumanity is the reason the original concept art by richard whitters and the art for her first card by igor kieryluk make her so character design so compelling.

she's not a woman, she's a flesh construct that's vaguely woman-shaped. this is the glistening oil's blind attempt at recreating a symbol of holy purity.

by the next time we see her on a magic card, kieryluk's design has already been watered down into a more typically feminine shape. she looks like she could have at one point been an ordinary woman here. the gore texture has been removed to make her midriff look like a normal, albeit red, woman's tummy. her limbs are practically normal, and if she's still 8 feet tall in this pic she doesn't look like it.

art of elesh norn from promotional material for all will be one, and the art of her actual card in the set. her flat torso plate has been completely resculpted to more cartoonish womanly proportions, including breasts. her thighs are inexplicably curvy (with flesh, presumably).

WHAT I'M SAYING is that elesh norn WASN'T conventionally attractive, we just got frogboiled into her design being more like that.

[littjara-mirrorlake]

Vague article ideas I have brewing:

Black mana philosophy in Undertale/Deltarune

An essay about green mana, somewhat in the vein of my black mana essay but focusing on complicating widespread misconceptions, like "green is just about nature" or "green philosophy is inherently traditionalist"

The gameplay dynamics and strategies of playing infect in commander

A Vorthos review of New Phyrexian mechanical design, SOM-MOM

Are there any of these that people would be particularly interested in?

[foldbaron]

Get those cards together, an all-new TCGplayer themed episode of Everything Is Content is heading your way next week as Liam O'Brien, Ify Nwadiwe, Emily Axford, and Matthew Mercer take it to the table in Magic: The Gathering, Commander on December 3rd! 

[fleshengine]

Dude idk the only other elemental blasts are blue and null

Nothing makes sense in mtg

i love counterspell. "i cast fireball!" no you dont

[liulyam]

whoa are they gay or something

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Sol Ring

The relic had been kept for years in a place of power, of community, and of friendship—distilling magic from the light of love.

Artist: Lauren YS TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[wielderofmysteries]

UGH THE ENDING OF AGENTS OF ARTIFICE GOES SO HARD WHY IS THIS THE BEST MTG NOVEL EVER

[space-wizards]

He's much cuter with his mouth closed, that's for sure.

Mark, I think Loot is not very cute. His design is somewhat… strange. What do you think?

Let's do a poll.

[dailymtgflavortext]

When the Vulshok taught him the word for "home," he knew it was what he had been fighting for.

-Resistance Skywarden

[mtg-art-daily]

Growth Spiral

Cyclical and spiral patterns are the specialty of the Gyre Clade, which seeks to revitalize the cycles of nature.

Artist: Seb McKinnon

[victusinveritas]