Unfortunately, I don't give WotC the benefit anymore.
This probably is exactly as it looks. Extus makes a Blood Avatar, the Kenrith Twins prevail over it. That's it.
The way they do previews now, it doesnt matter in their philosophy that story or other surprise elements are revealed. They have already done this before.
I wouldn't go criticizing the artwork. There are a lot of artists whose skills revolve around hyper-realistic imagery to the point it's hard to differentiate between what's art and what's not. A lot of artists on TikTok demonstrate that and it's believable majority of the time.
Interesting choice to put into the archive. Not sure what impact it will have on historic but anything is possible.
'buster
Normally, that is the fallback. Art is very very subjective to the person.
HOWEVER, in this case, Microsoft Paint shapes overlayed on a cut and paste real picture should NOT be a style that WoTC accepts on its Magic Cards.
Unfortunately, it appears to be the style of that artist. Take a look at the Harmonize.
Done by the same person and just as terrible. I'm trying not to be mean, (edited: actually I don't mind it. This is flat out embarrassing art, the artist and WotC should be ashamed) but this goes beyond subjective art like/dislike.
So exactly how long ago was the transformation of Mirrodin into New Phyrexia. Because before then, the Phyrexians were considered gone right?
Kasmina's story makes no sense to me.
An ANCIENT cabal, (yet we, nor any other planeswalker has mentioned this?)
Is this ancient like older than the Mending?
A shadowy cabal that find pre-spark walkers and brainwashes them into her organization?
This seems so sketchy. Where did this come from and what are they preparing for? Are they the good guys? Sounds more bad guys (like the Syndicate)?
We need a lot more information
This probably is exactly as it looks. Extus makes a Blood Avatar, the Kenrith Twins prevail over it. That's it.
The way they do previews now, it doesnt matter in their philosophy that story or other surprise elements are revealed. They have already done this before.
Normally, that is the fallback. Art is very very subjective to the person.
HOWEVER, in this case, Microsoft Paint shapes overlayed on a cut and paste real picture should NOT be a style that WoTC accepts on its Magic Cards.
Done by the same person and just as terrible. I'm trying not to be mean, (edited: actually I don't mind it. This is flat out embarrassing art, the artist and WotC should be ashamed) but this goes beyond subjective art like/dislike.
Looks like our bad guy is someone called Extus
Saw this in the Wizards Card Gallery
A noteworthy possibly exclusion is OG Jin-Gitaxis
Kasmina's story makes no sense to me.
An ANCIENT cabal, (yet we, nor any other planeswalker has mentioned this?)
Is this ancient like older than the Mending?
A shadowy cabal that find pre-spark walkers and brainwashes them into her organization?
This seems so sketchy. Where did this come from and what are they preparing for? Are they the good guys? Sounds more bad guys (like the Syndicate)?
We need a lot more information