There are too many loud aesthetic choices that don't mesh well on these. The frames are sometimes fine, always incredibly distracting and sometimes quite incongruous with the card's color (or lack thereof). The fonts are also really jarring, and the heads in the lower-right corner aren't adding anything (though I'm fine with that on a creature). I appreciate the use of 90's aesthetics, but MtG looked very elegant in the 90's compared to this mishmash. I suppose the artistic statement would be something about rejection of what is considered "good taste". Which may work better outside of MtG. I wouldn't mind the Sakura Tribe Elder or Mirror Entity art in the normal or retro card frame though.
But anyway, these are super-overpriced cards that people will mostly just use as cardboard currency based on their theoretical collectability. Some secret lair cards are like that. This group has made a lot of secret lairs at this point, so I guess somebody likes it.
The cash value of these cards is also pretty close to zero, so nobody really needs to think about these cards unless they're one of those who wants to pay 30 bucks for a cycle of lands that are already available for pennies each. And look like that.
The art is *supposed* to be ugly as heck though I'll never understand why. It's just kind of how that brand works for things that do have art. Their plain clothes aren't hideous tho. But we got the cheap end of the collab anyway. The clothing side got this $220 USD shirt
The art is *supposed* to be ugly as heck though I'll never understand why. It's just kind of how that brand works for things that do have art. Their plain clothes aren't hideous tho. But we got the cheap end of the collab anyway. The clothing side got this $220 USD shirt
Taste is subjective and all that, but I think people who do the whole "It was supposed to be bad" just aren't good/talented enough to actually make something good even if they tried.
I think given how the 90s was going artistically and especially in the realm of fantasy and heavy metal album art there is an alternate past where a Hip designer convinced wotc to embrace this kind of thing. Especially that font.
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But anyway, these are super-overpriced cards that people will mostly just use as cardboard currency based on their theoretical collectability. Some secret lair cards are like that. This group has made a lot of secret lairs at this point, so I guess somebody likes it.
The cash value of these cards is also pretty close to zero, so nobody really needs to think about these cards unless they're one of those who wants to pay 30 bucks for a cycle of lands that are already available for pennies each. And look like that.
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Taste is subjective and all that, but I think people who do the whole "It was supposed to be bad" just aren't good/talented enough to actually make something good even if they tried.