There’s even the original card art for True-Name Nemesis hanging near the ceiling. Leovold, Emissary of Trest makes quite the acquisition, including all five Alpha Moxen and items from other legendary creatures that appeared in Conspiracy: Take the Crown. What’s Yours Is MineĮxpropriate is an absolute treasure hunt for easter eggs. Rousing Read continues where Hard Cover left off, with the wizard now using the power of literature to escape their attackers. The name is a great pun, and the art was referenced the following year in M21. Hard Cover from M20 shows a wizard casting a spell from some sort of tome with the threat of two assailants approaching. Speak of the devil, what’s that on the end of Stingscourger’s stick? #19. It’s a red creature with a bounce ability, something that’s traditionally associated with blue creatures like Man-o'-War. Stingscourger is a Planar Chaos card, where colors were reimagined to do things they don’t typically do.
Karona’s image appears again on Dominaria’s Memorial to War and Dominaria Remastered’s Decimate. They take front and center on Decree of Silence, but their shadowy image looms on the other four Decrees, including Decree of Savagery, Decree of Annihilation, Decree of Justice, and Decree of Pain. Karona, False God was a Dominaria big-bad introduced in Scourge.
The +3/+3 from Highspire Infusion supersizes the construct, which has now reversed positions with the elf. The tiny friend in Highspire Artisan’s hand shows up in another card from Kaladesh. It must’ve been real lonely when Spellgorger got reprinted in M21 but Spellkeeper didn’t.
I dare you to name a better couple than Spellkeeper Weird and Spellgorger Weird, which each make a cameo appearance in the other’s art. Matt Cavotta created both pieces with the same fiery projectiles, and the gangly outstretched goblin arm in both arts ties them together. It’s easy to miss that Raid Bombardment and Unified Will illustrate the same battle being fought from opposite sides. Easter Eggs with References to Other Magic Cards #24. What better goblins to join the party than the two from Krenko's Command, which can be seen hanging out in the background of Krenko’s art. The first was the new goblin legend Krenko, Mob Boss. Karl Kopinski had some fun when asked to illustrate a few cards for M13. Rumor has it the art was meant to pay tribute to Craw Wurm, the original big bad green serpent from Alpha. Drawn to Scaleĭominaria United’s Tolarian Terror might have looked familiar to Magic veterans. Zombie lovers rejoiced, and art lovers immediately noticed the homage to the stained-glass window in Endless Ranks of the Dead. Relentless Dead was such a cool card when it released. I’m not sure what the creative reasons were, but I always assumed it was a riff on the card having retrace. RK Post’s art for Flame Jab depicts a fiery explosion transposed directly on top of the art for Swamp #292 from Lorwyn. Nissa, Ascended Animist mirrors Nissa, Who Shakes the World, Jace, the Perfected Mind mirrors Jace, the Mind Sculptor, and Vraska, Betrayal's Sting mirrors Vraska the Unseen. What you might have missed is how some of the compleated planeswalker art mirrors those characters from another one of their iconic cards.
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Phyrexia: All Will Be One saw the compleation of five beloved planeswalkers (well, four plus Lukka). The skeletal remains of the dragon on Grave Betrayal evokes the image of Seventh Edition‘s Shivan Dragon, giving it new life, so to speak. Shivan Dragon was an early frontliner for players’ favorite creature in the game, but the hype eventually died down on the beloved dragon. Compare Tainted Peak and Mountain #346 from Odyssey for a clear example. Each Tainted land shows a corrupted version of a corresponding basic land from Odyssey, the set preceding Torment. This carried over to the Tainted land cycle, four lands representing each black-based color pair. Torment had a disproportionate emphasis on black cards. There are a lot of fun ones to share with your friends, including some that completely caught me by surprise. I’ll be separating the “in-house” Magic references from ones that evoke outside sources. It might be a subtle reference to another card, a clever nod to some real-world art or location, or even just something completely silly that the artist snuck into their piece.
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