Okay, I feel like a moron right n ow, but I honestly can't find the ninja in the art for Masterful Ninja. The guy that wrote the preview article said if you stare at it long enough the ninja will appear, but I still don't see it.
I thought it could be possible that it was I, the card viewer, looking at a scene through the ninja's eyes. so the card are was from the ninja's POV. but I thought that was too abstract.
then I saw the curtains, and it appeared to me as if there were feet poking out from under one of them (the blue one on the left) but I'm not 100% sure of that.
The creature type is Troll Ninja. We’re being “trolled” there is no creature in the art. Or, there is a face being reflected on the left- most copper pipe elbow.
I'm having a hard time seeing it myself, I really suck at those, "cross your eyes" things.
I think it's like a "watermark". The art has this sort of... extra layer. The shading and lighting seems wrong in some parts of the picture, specially on the left side. Initially, I thought they were brush strokes, like what you see in a water color. But the same blemishes don't appear elsewhere.
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The creature type is Troll Ninja. We’re being “trolled” there is no creature in the art. Or, there is a face being reflected on the left- most copper pipe elbow.
If that were the case, I don't think Blake would've mentioned that he didn't think there was a ninja in the art either.
I was merely mentioning the prevailing theories. And the phrase “didn’t think” does not sound very definitive to me, so who knows for sure but the artist. Also you cannot tell me that the reflection that I brought up doesn’t look kind of like a face. Just sayin’.
Have you ever seen the meme for the 17th Annual Ninja Parade that shows an empty street? Same joke. Any masterful ninja is so good at hiding that you can't see him. And in the article, he kept beating the dead horse over and over to draw your attention to the joke. Just like First Pick not being first-pickable, the picture of the ninja does not, in fact, show a ninja.
I think the shades themselves are the ninjas, I you look at the top of the leftmost curtains, where they attach to the hooks, it looks similar to eyes, cementing the joke that its a "shade". I also love the fact that the room is filled with pumps.
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But maro also said that he's had to cut some corners and outside the box art is one of those things he had to give up.
Yet they're able to have 13 variant cards and full art lands?
Hence the need to cut something out.
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I thought it could be possible that it was I, the card viewer, looking at a scene through the ninja's eyes. so the card are was from the ninja's POV. but I thought that was too abstract.
then I saw the curtains, and it appeared to me as if there were feet poking out from under one of them (the blue one on the left) but I'm not 100% sure of that.
can anybody help me out on this? here is the art.
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I think it's like a "watermark". The art has this sort of... extra layer. The shading and lighting seems wrong in some parts of the picture, specially on the left side. Initially, I thought they were brush strokes, like what you see in a water color. But the same blemishes don't appear elsewhere.
Edit: oh someone already pointed that out and upon further inspection it appears the answer is no
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If that were the case, I don't think Blake would've mentioned that he didn't think there was a ninja in the art either.
I was merely mentioning the prevailing theories. And the phrase “didn’t think” does not sound very definitive to me, so who knows for sure but the artist. Also you cannot tell me that the reflection that I brought up doesn’t look kind of like a face. Just sayin’.
Because the ninja is just that good. That's my theory anyway.
Its like those memes where you see an empty room with a bunch of chairs, and its the "ninja convention"
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All of the contraptions do. But you're right, the regular cards don't. Which is weird considering previous Un-sets.
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But maro also said that he's had to cut some corners and outside the box art is one of those things he had to give up.
Its like the sneaky elephants that hide on the trees. You havent seen them? Thats how good they are!
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Yet they're able to have 13 variant cards and full art lands?
I guarantee a lot more people care about the tokens, lands, and variant cards than some out of the border art.
Hence the need to cut something out.
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