Guess I might be in a minority, but these look awful. What exactly is that picture of in the Zacama? Plus they still have that horrible Owl thing going on so, easy easy pass.
Pokemon have sleeves in all their Trainer boxes. And its cheaper than MTG. Doesnt seem that hard to do on WoTC part. But ya know money, I mean we don't even get a Player's Guide anymore. And now they are going to 8 set boosters instead of 10 draft boosters in the Bundles.
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.
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