All of the negativity in this thread is making me wonder whether my partial color blindness is making the art look better to me than it does to "normal" people. I still think it looks amazing and wish I could afford a playset.
Depends.
I could *definitely* see red-green colorblindness actually enhancing this art.
As I said before, I do like the piece- just not how saturated and overbearing the colors are.
Veronique's other lands are amazing, but this one is stylized in a way that doesn't jive with me.
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It's the frame that ruins it for me. Hell with most of these. The vibrancy in the art matches Zendikar, and then there's this dull brown frame and barely-opaque text box that just do no justice whatsoever. I imagine they'll be pretty shiny though.
Not all of these are great but the amount of vitriol hurled at them by the typical entitled petulant user base of MTGS is really something else to behold
Not liking the frame or that the text box is solid rather than see through are perfectly legitimate and sensible arguments but this whole "WotC must think we are dumb" or "these are disgustingly disguting and vomit-inducing" is just so indicative of why most people have a negative opinion of the typical MtG player
Especially the whole "why can't this just be a bland and boring shoreline? How insulting" is moronic... This is the plane of ridiculous landscapes and you want them to have basic land art style on the pimpest of pimp carda they've made for a Standard set EVER? Are you sure WotC is wrong about the intelligence level of the average user? Those kinds of comments make me think that they aren't.
I notice you always use the word "entitled" when people dislike things. What exactly am I entitled to, other than the freedom to judge artwork on cards and speak my opinion?
I don't think I've ever seen you make a comment that isn't one of approval. You pretty much like whatever is thrown your way. Lol.
I certainly do not like everything
I just am capable of nuance, a concept foreign to most users on here
For this very piece I said it was a great concept but the colours are too strong. So does that mean that I like it or I don't?
All of the negativity in this thread is making me wonder whether my partial color blindness is making the art look better to me than it does to "normal" people. I still think it looks amazing and wish I could afford a playset.
Depends.
I could *definitely* see red-green colorblindness actually enhancing this art.
As I said before, I do like the piece- just not how saturated and overbearing the colors are.
Veronique's other lands are amazing, but this one is stylized in a way that doesn't jive with me.
It's not even that. I have difficulty distinguishing between certain shades of purple, pink, and blue, so the entire art probably looks different to me than everyone else. For example, the "pink water" that other people are talking about looks blue and white to me.
I'm not going to like all the art all of the time but wow, not using a clear text box is a big minus for the wholes series. Just look at tha game day languish. That is a pretty card. They should have just have tried to copy the Champs Mutavault.
I don't understand all the hate for the art. It looks as if a sun is setting, based by the colors, and the colors of the horizon is coloring the water. I love it, and if I pull one I will keep it forever and ever.
It's just like that old expression, "There's no accounting for taste, except for jar75 because he's wrong."
lol! Idk if it was called for or not but who cares that was funny :p. Art is fine in my opinion, they are all sweet. Wonder how many total will be in print...
Eh, the DCI promo of Path to Exile is the best magic art imho. There is something to a stained glass look with the story that the card is telling makes it absolutely breath-taking.
Easily the best looking expedition land so far with steam vents #2. Love the colors, even though I don't like the text boxes this one at least meshes well enough with the art with the white-ish background where the others have have a lot of dull yellow and gray boxes. Can easily enough tell what land it wants to be since water is prominent instead of just friggan hedrons across dull landscapes.
Everyone else is free to hate since they don't like pink or w/e but I think its wonderful and one of the least generic ones so far.
Eh, the DCI promo of Path to Exile is the best magic art imho. There is something to a stained glass look with the story that the card is telling makes it absolutely breath-taking.
It's alright, but this is just stunning and the Valakut promo looks almost real.
Eh, the DCI promo of Path to Exile is the best magic art imho. There is something to a stained glass look with the story that the card is telling makes it absolutely breath-taking.
It's alright, but this is just stunning and the Valakut promo looks almost real.
Eh, I've never understood the reality as art trend in the last 150 years. We all ready have photography. Different strokes for different folks I suppose.
Eh, the DCI promo of Path to Exile is the best magic art imho. There is something to a stained glass look with the story that the card is telling makes it absolutely breath-taking.
It's alright, but this is just stunning and the Valakut promo looks almost real.
Eh, I've never understood the reality as art trend in the last 150 years. We all ready have photography. Different strokes for different folks I suppose.
When you can find a way to take a picture of Valakut, I will buy that argument. The thing is, with fantasy works, there aren't photographs. All you have is the art you are given and your imagination. That is why I think Valakut looking almost real is amazing, because it shows an actual, inspiring version of a fantasy landscape.
Okay, the fetches are not so bad as the shocklands. This is definitely flooded. Not much of a strand, but I can accept it. And mainly, no hedrons!
Still, the art is too colorful, beating even Secluded Glen (where you would expect it with all the fae magic and stuff) with all the bright blue, pink and violet.
One would expect a flying unicorn with a group of winged ponies burst from the waterfall anytime. Yuck.
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Yeah, I am not loving any of the recently spoiled lands.
Adam Paquette's checklands (double-check lands?) are beautiful, especially Prairie Stream.*
Noah Bradley's full-art island is pretty.
The others started out meh and are getting worse and worse. The semi-transparent text box is horrible card design, and the cards themselves are a blurry, garish mess.
Pretty disappointed overall.
* No, not the Prairie Stream in the pop-up preview, Adam Paquette's Prairie Stream.
I hate that the text box covers up a good portion of the artwork on this, "Full art" land. The few chunks of land at the bottom seem to almost be where the eye would naturally wander, following the water all the way down to the bottom of the art box... except you can't see most of that naturally since there's this semi-transparent (nearly opaque) text box covering it up, blurring the artwork underneath by a huge margin. Sigh.
I'll play the hell out of one if I ever come across it, though. Seriously, I love that artwork. Easily my favorite so far. It's dreamy, almost ethereal in presentation. It has no hedrons, but it very much fits the overall aesthetic for Zendikar.
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Depends.
I could *definitely* see red-green colorblindness actually enhancing this art.
As I said before, I do like the piece- just not how saturated and overbearing the colors are.
Veronique's other lands are amazing, but this one is stylized in a way that doesn't jive with me.
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I certainly do not like everything
I just am capable of nuance, a concept foreign to most users on here
For this very piece I said it was a great concept but the colours are too strong. So does that mean that I like it or I don't?
It's not even that. I have difficulty distinguishing between certain shades of purple, pink, and blue, so the entire art probably looks different to me than everyone else. For example, the "pink water" that other people are talking about looks blue and white to me.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
And it barely looks like a strand anyways.
I'm not sure if I would want to buy it as a single though as I would never play with it.
Maybe just frame it and put it on the wall
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lol! Idk if it was called for or not but who cares that was funny :p. Art is fine in my opinion, they are all sweet. Wonder how many total will be in print...
Eh, the DCI promo of Path to Exile is the best magic art imho. There is something to a stained glass look with the story that the card is telling makes it absolutely breath-taking.
Everyone else is free to hate since they don't like pink or w/e but I think its wonderful and one of the least generic ones so far.
It's alright, but this is just stunning and the Valakut promo looks almost real.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Eh, I've never understood the reality as art trend in the last 150 years. We all ready have photography. Different strokes for different folks I suppose.
When you can find a way to take a picture of Valakut, I will buy that argument. The thing is, with fantasy works, there aren't photographs. All you have is the art you are given and your imagination. That is why I think Valakut looking almost real is amazing, because it shows an actual, inspiring version of a fantasy landscape.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Still, the art is too colorful, beating even Secluded Glen (where you would expect it with all the fae magic and stuff) with all the bright blue, pink and violet.
One would expect a flying unicorn with a group of winged ponies burst from the waterfall anytime. Yuck.
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Adam Paquette's checklands (double-check lands?) are beautiful, especially Prairie Stream.*
Noah Bradley's full-art island is pretty.
The others started out meh and are getting worse and worse. The semi-transparent text box is horrible card design, and the cards themselves are a blurry, garish mess.
Pretty disappointed overall.
* No, not the Prairie Stream in the pop-up preview, Adam Paquette's Prairie Stream.
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It is nice, no doubt about it. But it is so bright, violet, blue, pink...
Just looking at it for more than 15 seconds makes me feel just about to puke rainbow. And I kind of expect a flock of flying ponies to appear anytime.
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I hate that the text box covers up a good portion of the artwork on this, "Full art" land. The few chunks of land at the bottom seem to almost be where the eye would naturally wander, following the water all the way down to the bottom of the art box... except you can't see most of that naturally since there's this semi-transparent (nearly opaque) text box covering it up, blurring the artwork underneath by a huge margin. Sigh.
I'll play the hell out of one if I ever come across it, though. Seriously, I love that artwork. Easily my favorite so far. It's dreamy, almost ethereal in presentation. It has no hedrons, but it very much fits the overall aesthetic for Zendikar.
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