Thread about the best by the best.
God-Tier MTG Artists
Juan Cox
Logan Kelly
While it is a bit more CG that I usually like, Villeneuve makes really striking portraits.
Scrapper Champion is also really good.
Bentley Evans
>Woman Soldier
>Token creature
The jokes write themselves!
Lucas Cook
Ir's a goddamn shame that the eternal witness playmat is only from a GP. I'd order a signed one on Nielsen's website in a heartbeat
Zachary Carter
Looks like the containment thread has been archived...
Joshua Martinez
do not engage
Dominic Flores
Johannes Voss is my favorite. He could have literally only drawn Gift of Orzhova, and he still would be, but his other stuff is nice too.
Brandon Carter
>Amazing art
>Shit card with generic effect
R&D fucked up mang. What a waste
Meanwhile powerful, played cards like BBE get a granny and a big eyed moe elf before having a good art on their third attempt.
Dominic Collins
Daniel Lopez
get off my lawn you damn kids
Noah Lee
the foglios were cancer, with phil being the far worse of the two. all of his characters look so samey, with the jagged teeth and fucking polka dots goddamned everywhere.
Liam Young
Post good looking lands. Bonus points if they're 25 cents or less.
Joseph Nguyen
Adam Barnes
Rk Post
Jeremiah King
every land from khans, all my decks have foil khans lands showing the changing state if the plane
Jordan Gutierrez
My nigga.
Ryan Rivera
Tyler Gomez
Carter Garcia
Sebastian Cook
Feel free to interrupt my chain.
Liam Martinez
I like this one.
Jackson Adams
I love any artist that draws stuff that make you uneasy or scared. Worldbuilding has been ruined by creating world that look inviting and adventurous. The best world so far have been perilous for humans. Just staying alive is a minute by minute struggle.
Carl Critchlow is my man. Kev Walker is good too. A lot of good artists.
David Sanchez
All the Lorwin ones.
I enjoy both concepts.
Jonathan White
Especially this one.
Tyler Morales
Mirage has some great lands too.
Logan Sanchez
As does Odissey.
Landon Thompson
Angel Howard
Onslaught lands are also great.
Luke Collins
Breathtaking
Joshua Campbell
Robert Campbell
Evan Gomez
Jace Cruz
I love Black, can you tell?
Jonathan Brooks
Ah I see you are also a person of refined taste.
Jack Gutierrez
Joseph Collins
Levi Lewis
I mean, you aren't wrong.
Brandon Cook
Thomas Moore
I usually love Nielson but that looks so fucking bad.
Christopher Ortiz
Connor Ramirez
That land isn't actually real.
James Gomez
You what? If I'm not mistaken it's also featured in a Rudy video.
Landon Anderson
Kamigawa.
Cameron Wright
Not a basic but I love this one.
Nicholas Collins
Obvious one.
Lucas Baker
Last one.
Leo Phillips
One of my favorite plains. Great artist.
Logan Howard
Step aside edge lords; top tier plains coming through!
Luis Turner
Step aside edgelords; top tier plains coming through!
Easton Clark
Jacob Perez
Levi Carter
This is the stupidest art ever.
To quote
>The Eldrazi are an ancient race native to the Blind Eternities that have neither physical form nor color alignment. Their nature is ceaseless hunger, so they travel between planes devouring the mana and life energy until the plane’s destruction.
Nah, lets have this nigga meditate in front of a sea. This pisses me off more than them having genders
John Bailey
I'd take an entire plane of Foglios over the current mandatory art direction
Landon Phillips
Its an old April Fool's joke. Arabian Nights didn't have basic lands except for Mountains, so as a joke a while back they announced they were releasing that set's other basics.
Thomas Bennett
Yeah, I read about it after posting that, you're right.
Camden Cruz
Yeah, Kaja was decent, and a lot of their work has very inconsistent styling. There is a talented artist who went too far making her work whimsical and silly.
Leo Ross
Link to these?
Adrian Wilson
I hate that they haven't reprinted the EURO/APAC lands ever.
Charles Miller
Let's hope Dominaria looks like this and not like Time Spiral.
Ryan Gray
Rebecca Guay is the only artist I need.
Juan Powell
That Ron Spears Swamp looks fucking GOOD, where is that from?
Brandon Bennett
Nathaniel Butler
Robert Clark
>tfw the likes of Tucker, RKF and Spencer aren't coming back for Dominaria
It hurts.
Daniel Thompson
At least they won't end up Like Quinton Hoover, forced to make horrible crap to fit the style guide.
Samuel Powell
Ya, the promo fucking sucks. Pack art is 10/10 though
Cameron Turner
Objectively the best creature art in the game
Dylan Edwards
i've always liked val mayerik
Nolan Garcia
That does look rather good.
I'm fond of D. Alexander Gregory myself. His stuff still looks like traditional art.
Jace Wright
Briarhorn is goat
Jayden Peterson
RKF is the shit
Ayden Howard
I don't think it's meditating, it just finished killing some dudes. It's even dropping the ashes of what used to be a guy into the sea
Cameron Sanchez
Jayden Perry
Yikes
Caleb Garcia
It's a shame Dandan looks like ass on a real card, its printing was too dark to really see the fish.
Christian Barnes
Seb is my favorite
James King
That reflection though
Anthony Garcia
I really like this plains artwork, a shame it's so underrated.
Cooper Baker
Rob Alexander is the only right answer
Isaiah Torres
Jason Chan is fantastic- I love Pact's art, its probably my favorite counterspell next to swan song or abjure.
Carson White
Drew tucker is a god
Adrian Miller
>pact negation is best counterspell
>when FoW exists
Gavin Butler
I think I love everything Igor does, but Elesh is absolutely beautiful.
Samuel Long
Chanheads unite
Owen Campbell
>cuombajj witches
How far we've come.
Luis Jenkins
I love everything about this piece.
Adrian Hall
I wish Ian Miller illustrated more cards so we MTG's past could have been inundated with whatever wonderful acid trip horror land he had in his head.
Also great that he apparently didn't know what an Ankh was...
Aaron Scott
>dat kimono slip
Is this the lewdest official MTG art?
Adrian Allen
I adore the use of shadow on his Black Vise. It looks blacker than black.
Isaac Wright
no, that title goes to Victor the Enthralling.
Angel Clark
invocations were such a waste
Christian Green
The invocation border is the actually the ugliest thing ever put on a magic card. It doesn't help that they are all totally fucking unreadable. The fuck were they thinking.
Jason Morgan
still mad
Elijah Perez
S o m a d
so much amazing art completely wasted...
Aaron Clark
>those eyes
Isaac Morgan
>The art direction for Amonkhet invocations was flippin' excellent, all of the invocation art has consistent style and mood.
>The art direction of the actual cards in Amonkhet was "Make it as ugly as possible."
Why would Wizards do this...
Justin Reyes
Voss have some great arts.
Noah Wilson
>Fuck, where did I drop my keys?
Christian Mitchell
APAC
It's not only expensive, it's so scarce that you can barely buy one even if you'll pay a high price.
Gabriel Cooper
Daarken is one of the best of the modern cgishit artists.