A hand holding up a deck of cards, the first card is Indestructible Aura from Magic the Gathering

  • Dearth@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Sometimes artists weren’t even given the name of the card. The original art for enlightened mystic was supposed to be for another card entirely

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      3 months ago

      Ah, that’s right. Sometimes the cards were adapted to fit the art afterwards. Ankh of Mishra was supposed to be Ark of Mishra (reillustrated as an ark in Fifth Edition) and Hyalopterous Lemur was supposed to be a Lemure (a shadow-like spirit).