MTG Salvation

I need that legacy weapon art that’s the third depiction of phyrexian yawgmoth

Merry Christmas Obeka players since we finally got last chance reprint the only one left that needs a reprint is final fortune

Who is this product designed for? I just don't understand it. Is it something like a masters set?

There are some good cards there, though it's a bit of a pity that we didn't get any planeswalkers. No Jaya, Teferi, or Liliana?

I dislike the new Yawgmoth, Thran Physician art. There's no allure, no dark charm or evil sex appeal; the face looks too old, too worn, too different, and it doesn't feel at all like the same man. He has the look of a creepy old mortician, not a tall, dark, handsome charmer who'll steal your wife when your back is turned.

Greg Staples did a fine job on Urza, though. He does cool things with lighting, and I think his style is just naturally suited to drawing more haggard-looking faces.

Both Legacy Weapons look good--I think I like the promo one better, however. Yawgmoth looks utterly vast against the sky, just as he was in the Apocalypse novel.

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I dislike the new Yawgmoth, Thran Physician art. There's no allure, no dark charm or evil sex appeal; the face looks too old, too worn, too different, and it doesn't feel at all like the same man. He has the look of a creepy old mortician, not a tall, dark, handsome charmer who'll steal your wife when your back is turned.

that new art is likely during the time he got exiled after the republicans lost and the eugenicist champions were blaimed

I don't think so. Yawgmoth was exiled at age 30, came back to Halcyon to heal Glacian at age 35, and was sealed away in Phyrexia just eight or nine years later. By the end of The Thran, he's no older than 44. He's this handsome, charming, seductive figure throughout, who steals not just Rebbec's heart, but the hearts of the whole city.

This new Yawgmoth art certainly looks evil, and frightening. But he also looks a good deal older and blatantly more creepy than he should at this point in his career.

Human Yawgmoth is supposed to be sexy, dammit. Sexy and evil. And the original Mark Winters art captures that perfectly. (The Winters art depicts Yawgmoth in his first years after returning to Halcyon from exile to cure Glacian. We see the research on his table pertaining to the power stones he is studying at that point.)

And as I mentioned, I think it's just Greg Staples' style. His faces tend to look more careworn and weathered, which works well in many of his illustrations. It just doesn't work here.