Not bad...I feel like the new arts are a bit on the cartoony side. Aleksi's art has been fine so far. Jason Chan's great too. Whatever, new art, woohoo!
His head only looks small because the rest of him is so big. Look at the picture with the whole crew. Garruk's head is the same size as Gideon's head, but his bicep is the size of Gideon's torso!! Anything looks small when you have something huge next to it! Except for his gut. That's actually huge.
Garruk should choke up on that axe if he's going to balance it on his thigh while he gazes out at the wilderness sprawling before him through a colander.
I am unimpressed by this high-polish nonsense planeswalkers have steadily veered towards. There should be an alternate-art cycle where the planeswalkers are painted by Drew Tucker, Anthony Waters, Ferguson, Shishizaru, and Dennis Detweiler. You'd have to hold the cards directly against your eyes to tell what was going on.
So are all the PWs from M12 going to get their own boxes/sleeves? I like the aesthetics of the box even if I don't like the art. I could see a Gideon box looking pretty sweet.
I love Aleski's Garruk... but I also enjoy this one. Anyways, the rest of the art looks great... interested to see the rest of the PWs art, if any others are new.
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Something's off here. Sorin is confirmed a reprint, yet he doesn't have the new art we've seen here and other places.
Best bet is on that art being used for DOTP12 and they are tie-ins with that product.
Sorin has never been reprinted before, while the Lorwyn five have all been reprinted at least twice; most have been reprinted even more than that. It doesn't really make sense from a marketing perspective to change Sorin's art for M12 when this is the first time he's getting reprinted, since there are still a sizable amount of people playing magic that don't have Sorin yet.
Gideon looks like he has some serious acne scars. Chandra looks AWESOME.
edit: my guess: the planeswalker card art hasn't changed; the attached images are of something to put on Ultra-Pro products and possibly the M12 fat pack or other promotional items
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new art is pretty damn similar to old, could be worse i suppose.
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Looks too vanilla to be a new Garruk, as well. Lorwyn versions confirmed?
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I am unimpressed by this high-polish nonsense planeswalkers have steadily veered towards. There should be an alternate-art cycle where the planeswalkers are painted by Drew Tucker, Anthony Waters, Ferguson, Shishizaru, and Dennis Detweiler. You'd have to hold the cards directly against your eyes to tell what was going on.
Nipple Garruk!
...Please tell me I'm not the only one who immediately saw that
Second art looks awesome!
I agree. We're probably gonna end up with Lorwyn PWs.
Best bet is on that art being used for DOTP12 and they are tie-ins with that product.
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Having seen this and the new Chandra art, (again, the proportions are way off) I miss the old planeswalker art already.
Sorin has never been reprinted before, while the Lorwyn five have all been reprinted at least twice; most have been reprinted even more than that. It doesn't really make sense from a marketing perspective to change Sorin's art for M12 when this is the first time he's getting reprinted, since there are still a sizable amount of people playing magic that don't have Sorin yet.
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edit: my guess: the planeswalker card art hasn't changed; the attached images are of something to put on Ultra-Pro products and possibly the M12 fat pack or other promotional items