lorstarcutter:

These are all really incredible artists! Are you a fan of Svetlin Velinov at all?

I admit that I had to look up the name, but I definitely am a fan. Specifically, I find  Thundermaw Hellkite’s art to be as amazing as it would be to cast the thing, Door to Nothingness’s art to be jaw-dropping, and I’m grateful for the new art of Anger as I never was a fan of the baby-like thing on the old one.

Magic’s art was part of the reason I started playing the game. My friends started trying to introduce me to it, and it’s art was the first thing I noticed about the cards. I think if the art had been of less quality, if most of the cards had cheesier art, I would have been turned off. Instead, the art is incredibly professional, realistic, and often gorgeous, and that lent an additional legitimacy to the game that made me take it more seriously when it came to deciding to get into it. There are so many great Magic artists, it would probably be easier to list which artists I don’t like than list all the ones I do! It was definitely hard to pick just 5 for this.