#unfinity

[peoplegettingreallymadatcards]

[mtg-cards-hourly]

It Came from Planet Glurg

A sludge with a grudge.

Artist: Marco Bucci TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[reuxben]

Here’s our MTGinktober for “Camp,“ starring Spike, Tournament Grinder; Vorthos, Steward of Myth; and Lord Windgrace! Don't make me tap, untap, and then once again tap the sign.

Click this post’s Source link for this piece’s Making-Of.

More MTGinktober here.

Daily art updates on Instagram, Twitter, and Bluesky.

Reuxben

[gay-little-izzet]

Due to some accidental psychic projection (hello @jacebeleren), I remembered that I drew THIS six months ago and never posted it. So here!

Alien Vraska my beloved 💚

[markrosewater]

Feedback on Unfinity

I’m about to write this year’s “State of Design” article, and I’m interested on your feedback of Unfinity. What did you like? What did you not like? Tell me all your thoughts. 

[incorrect-mtg]

Flavor Text Highlights - Unfinity

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Cool - Lila, Hospitality Hostess

As far as Lila was concerned, all courtesy should be common.

Funny - Questionable Cuisine

May contain soy. May contain a deep void, chillingly hoarse and howling without voice. May contain gluten.

Funny - Information Booth

“Sir, this may be the information booth, but I cannot answer ontological questions. It would be arrogant to assume I could describe the true nature of reality. Also there’s a line.”

Worldbuilding - Night Shift of the Living Dead

At the Astrotorium, even the dead make a living wage.

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[mtg-art-daily]

Information Booth

Since the majority of the park's business model is based around aimless wandering, this is not where Myra stations her best people.

Artist: Gaboleps

[niuttuc]

Thoughts on last week’s B&R?

It is incredible how many individual small decisions that make sense in isolation can come together so bafflingly stupidly when you look at the whole picture.

They wanted to make a new un-set. Why not! Unstable was well-received and having an actual functional draft environment and cohesive creative worked great for it!

Un-sets are a testing ground for stuff magic isn't quite ready for yet. Plus people loved the delivery on Contraptions in Unstable, so we can explore more of that space!

Alright, we have figured out attractions, playing close to the chest with something very similar to Contraptions, but since we want to still try some out there stuff, we discussed with our printer and we think we can make stickers work!

Stickers are fun! We tried to put the test runs on and off cards and sleeves a couple times and it didn't leave residue, so it should work great! It's wacky, and there's no way we'd try that in black border magic.

Alright, we got a solid thing going on, people are having fun! But people are reluctant to try silver border cards... Wouldn't the set do better if people felt like they were allowed to play with the cards? Plus, to make a cohesive draft environment, most of them aren't too weird anyway.

OK, we can make this work, we'll just make the ones that don't break the rules too much legal in commander, just have to be careful about the cards not being too good in Legacy. We don't have the budget to test for legacy, but we'll be safe, we know what we're doing! Plus, what's the worst that could happen, at worst we ban a card.

We can't mix borders within printing sheets and it's too late to rework the printing sheets for the set... We'll find a workaround, that's fine.

Attractions and stickers are the first mechanics of their kind, but they're the main mechanics of the set! If we don't make them legal, we'll only have a handful of cards legal, and would be disappointing. It's fine, our Rules Managers can make it work, that's the biggest challenge.

What a fun lighthearted set this was throughout the design and testing process! I'm sure people are gonna love it!

Oh, the glue for our stickers went out of business... Well, we'll delay the set until we can replace it, I guess, bummer.

Alright! It releases literally the same day as another product, but it's still the same fun, wacky set, can't wait for people to see it!

...

Over 50 cards get banned in vintage, half the legal cards from the set. For the sheer logistical implications of the mechanic, and a couple outliers. The entire concept of Unsets is once again in jeopardy.

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Sacred Foundry (Borderless Ver) by Cliff Childs

[some-tiny-dragon]

This is a combo I call "Mr. Bones Wild Ride"

[alradeck]

Unfinity! Labeled as Umbrella. I try to shamelessly sneak in my fursona whenever it's feasible because I'm shameless and basic. (i've another card coming out that has her hands in it)

These were all done right at the start of the pandemic. I never posted much about my issues on tumblr, so long story short I got Covid early on and had it wreck my everything (it dropped my lung diffusion to just above needing supplemental oxygen to live and scarred the crap out of my right lung) Most of these cards were done like... a month or so into healing and since I was kinda house-bound anyways they were fine. But Prize wall was done during the first bad pneumonia and daily dying that all I remember are getting it constantly sent back to me and asking to add more items and render more things out. I'm happy how it turned out in the end but it's uhhh not my favorite card, lol.

It does have slap bracelets in it though. What prize wall wouldn't have slap bracelets?! Squirrel squatters (top one) is probably one of my favorite cards i've done.

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Opening Ceremony

"Oooooh!" —The crowd "Aaaaaaaaah!" —Also the crowd

Artist: Greg Bobrowski TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[reuxben]

Here’s our MTGinktober for “Camera,“ starring Meet and Greet "Sisay;" Svega, the Unconventional; and Questing Cosplayer! Questing Cosplayer, Nerdlington Post--Sisay, can we get a wave here, Sisay, a wave, Sisay, right here, how about a wave, Sisay?

Click this post’s Source link for this piece’s Making-Of.

More MTGinktober here.

Daily art updates on Instagram, Twitter, and Bluesky.

Reuxben

[alphamecha-mkii]

Overgrown Tomb (Borderless Ver) by Cliff Childs

[mtgsmash-or-pass]

[hyde-the-toad-bard]

Reading through Ursula K. Le Guin's novel *Changing Planes*, I think of how such places might work in magic: the gathering. A plane where everyone shares dreams could create a lotta cool drama, or a plane where genetic editing has gotten very out of hand. Strangely, there is one plane that we kinda have already seen in magic.

In the chapter *Great Joy* we see a plane that has been entirely commodified. Whole islands dedicated to all the different holidays from a very US evangelical perspective.

While not the same, we have seen an entire set dedicated to a theme park in Unfinity, but while a plane spanning theme park is cool, I wonder how much darker Thunder Junction would have been if it more heavily referenced something like Westworld, and it's entirely identity was essentialy a tourism city.