Magic the Gathering tip: trans rights are human rights
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Which Magic card artwork has always stuck with you?
Terror
Based on the original Alpha artwork by Ron Spencer
This is a very important card to me, and I'm so happy to have been able to adapt it as well as I did. This was one of the first cards I ever got as a kid - maybe 4th Ed, definitely white border - and I was fascinated by the raw emotion that was captured by the artist. A feeling that I didn't have the language to express, one that wasn't really talked about in my family, but one that I would become all too familiar with. Even when I stopped playing Magic, this artwork would always pop up in my head when I was feeling particularly hopeless.
Things are generally better nowadays - I'm getting professional mental healthcare, I have supportive people around me, and I'm learning more about myself and allowing myself the space to challenge preconceptions - but I can't say that I don't still become that creepy little dude cowering in the dark.
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Ancestral Recall
Based on the original Alpha artwork by Christopher Rush
You ever think about your gender so hard you draw 3 cards?
I finished this in June and thought why not
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Healing Salve
Based on the original Alpha artwork by Dan Frazier
THIS ONE SIMPLE CARD completely INVALIDATES Lightning Bolt. Modern players hate her. TOO STRONG FOR THE RESERVE LIST!
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Dark Ritual
Based on the original Alpha artwork by Sandra Everingham
Idk how to feel about this card. I feel like I'd enjoy a storm-like deck, but I hate taking super long turns where my opponents just sit there. I also feel like, when I put this in my deck, it only shows up on T4 or something when it's no longer relevant. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Giant Growth
Based on the original Alpha artwork by Sandra Everingham
We don't see a ton of straight up pump spells seeing play anymore, but I love this funky little (big) mouse.
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Lightning Bolt
Based on the original Alpha artwork by Christopher Rush
I love playing red, I love aggro, and I love bolting face. Definitely the only card in the Boon Cycle that I actually play regularly.
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Arcane Signet
This was the first proxy that I made that wasn't based on pre-existing artwork! Super happy with how it turned out, and it started a love for making pixel art flames.
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Sapphire Medallion
Based on the original Tempest artwork by Sue Ellen Brown
Surely mono-blue can't pull off any shenanigans with cost-reduction effects, right? And making this an artifact surely won't cause any unintentionally strong synergies with other blue cards.
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Ruby Medallion
Based on the original Tempest artwork by Sue Ellen Brown
I play a ton of pauper, and I'm so excited that mono-R is the card advantage color now! I don't have any mono-R EDH decks, but I love burning face and would love suggestions.
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Pearl Medallion
Based on the original Tempest artwork by Sue Ellen Brown
Mono-White needs all the ramp they can get, and this was ~$40 when I made these originally.
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Jet Medallion
Based on the original Tempest artwork by Sue Ellen Brown
This one is super special to me - it was my first non-land proxy I made, possibly even before the Lotus Petal. It also will forever live in my Syr Konrad EDH deck.
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Emerald Medallion
Based on the original Tempest artwork by Sue Ellen Brown
I am so glad that these finally got reprinted in Commander Masters, even if I'll never be able to afford a pack! This cycle also has a special place in my heart because the original artist, Sue Ellen Brown, was one of the first people to like and RT my posts (over on the dumpster fire site).
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Watery Grave
Pixel Art Shock Lands 10/10
Based on the Guilds of Ravnica artwork by Cliff Childs
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