Precautionary Testing
The custom card that went with the piece commissioned from Novaloux aka LittleFreckles. I don't actually have a lot to say about the card itself. After a couple of solid designs, this one lapses right back into lacking an identity. I struggled to mechanically represent what...
Memory Extraction
A custom MTG card designed using that piece I just gushed about. This is another time where the art was commissioned specifically for the card. At the time, Magic the Gathering Standard was in the middle of the third Ravnica block, which would later culminate in...
Enigma, Mentalist Battle-Mage
This is the card I designed around the unveiling of Symbiote Enigma's "Combat Mode" (later dubbed "Perfect Bond"). In truth, it's not the first version of the card. Though the core concept never wavered, the original mechanics were quite different. Instead of transforming into a creature...
Symbiotic Homunculi Cards
As I said in the last post, the idea for these cards actually came before the art did, and the art was commissioned specifically to place on the cards. The initial black mana card to serve as a "baseline", explaining what the mechanic was. Though...
Intimidating Presence
Yet another attempt to turn commissioned art into custom magic cards. I remember being very proud of this design, taking inspiration from Blink of an Eye in the Dominaria set: Though that seems laughable now. Then again, it is also likely the most solid design I...
Enigma, Intrepid Explorer // Enigma, Newly Reborn
This custom card was pieced together through the art commissioned from Croft, again back in June of 2018. Though a more powerful card than my previous attempts to make a Planeswalker, I too find that this one, with the benefit of hindsight, is less interesting...
Enigma, Adept Investigator
Another attempt to turn commissioned art into an MTG card. This was around the time I started realizing that the skill set I had given Enigma, when combined with the profession I had chosen for him, would necessarily involve incorporating Black into his color identity. And...
Enigma, Seeker of Truth
With the piece of art from GrandTaurus in the previous post came my first foray into crafting custom Magic: the Gathering cards, which would grow to be a running theme for much of my art going forward. Fun fact: I'm 90% sure "Seeker of Truth" is...
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