Giant Growth is an iconic card. It's been around since 1993, and been reprinted nearly every year since. Like Lightning Bolt, it's very simple and memorable, exemplifying its color. However, unlike Lightning Bolt, which has one or two signature pieces of art that players associate with it, Giant Growth has had an array of very different art over the years. To the MTGS community, I ask--which version of Giant Growth is your favorite?
Those are easily my top 2, but deciding between them was harder. In the end I cast my vote for Matt Cavotta's illustration, much because it shows that the bear grows because someone uses magic to make it grow, and because we can see how huge it is compared to the other bears after the spell. On another day, I might have voted for DiTerlizzi's illustration. I really like them both.
If I was to consider how good the card as a whole looked, rather than just the illustration, Joel Thomas' full art illustration would have been a contender. Your question was about the art itself only, so it is not.
The illustration by Noah Bradley is kind of cool, I like it.
Joel Thomas deserves a shout-out for channeling Attack of the 50-foot Woman, but my vote also goes to Matt Cavotta whose art has captured the magic-induced growth this card should represent.
I know there's nothing to reference size here, but I've always loved the Ice Age bug giant growth. I think the image and coloring is gorgeous. I've always gotten this "sample observation" vibe from it, as if we should be remarking at this abnormally large specimen (and if that was the idea, it could've surely been pulled off more evocatively). But I dunno, it's just really pretty, and sometimes that trumps concept for me.
The body language and faces of both the mouse and the dragon, the dichotomy between the two, the gorgeous scenery, it's one of the perfect Magic cards. It's one of those that captures the concept so serenely, it wouldn't benefit from flavor text. I'm shocked it isn't winning in a landslide.
I wouldn't think less of somebody for picking the original, chillingly scary version, or the comically effective shadow of a giant, tossing of citizenry version.
The rest I dislike. The Matt Cavotta version in particular belongs to the same school of art as the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt.
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I like baby fowl.
I love DiTerlizzi's interpretation because of its fanciful style. It has a timeless, whimsical quality, like it's a scene of a fable about talking animals. It doesn't show the process of getting bigger like so many others because the viewer should be able to infer that mice shouldn't get that big! It also makes for a neat twist on the original Sandra Everingham piece.
I enjoy the Noah Bradley art, I like how it works really well with the flavor text as well
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Versions by artist:
Sandra Everingham
L. A. Williams
DiTerlizzi
Terese Nielsen
Joel Thomas
Jim Murray
Matt Cavotta
Noah Bradley
Those are easily my top 2, but deciding between them was harder. In the end I cast my vote for Matt Cavotta's illustration, much because it shows that the bear grows because someone uses magic to make it grow, and because we can see how huge it is compared to the other bears after the spell. On another day, I might have voted for DiTerlizzi's illustration. I really like them both.
If I was to consider how good the card as a whole looked, rather than just the illustration, Joel Thomas' full art illustration would have been a contender. Your question was about the art itself only, so it is not.
The illustration by Noah Bradley is kind of cool, I like it.
The body language and faces of both the mouse and the dragon, the dichotomy between the two, the gorgeous scenery, it's one of the perfect Magic cards. It's one of those that captures the concept so serenely, it wouldn't benefit from flavor text. I'm shocked it isn't winning in a landslide.
I wouldn't think less of somebody for picking the original, chillingly scary version, or the comically effective shadow of a giant, tossing of citizenry version.
The rest I dislike. The Matt Cavotta version in particular belongs to the same school of art as the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt.
I like baby fowl.