Fiery Personalities

The new Chandra was spoiled today by Mike Flores over on dailymtg. I definitely have a few altered ones already under my belt, so I thought I'd post a few.

My first attempt from 2009.

The finished the second one in Korea that same year.

Nova, a herald to Galactus.

Firestar, one of Spiderman's Amazing Friends.

And my personal favorite, Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.

Transformyrs

The new Transformers movie comes out today. To commemorate the occasion we have this older addition to a friend's cube. It was featured in a Jeremy Froggatt article several months ago, but never here on the blog. Hope you like!

Kenny Mayer

This is Kenny Mayer:


This is Kenny Mayer on Nacatl:


Kenny is a long-time SCG Open competitor and friend. He likes attacking and turkey sandwiches. His most recent claim to fame is battling a Zoo Battle of Wits deck to a top 32 finish at SCG Charlotte.

Quiet Please

Way back in 2009, the first high dollar card I completed was Library of Alexandria.


I've definitely improved in the past three years, but this one has some little details I can still appreciate.

Gurufication

The Guru trend in altering has been around for a few months now. It's all done by porting the backgrounds of the famous Guru lands onto non-Guru cards. Here's two I finished at the beginning of the year.



Recently I just so happen to have been commissioned to do a few cards that are perfect for Gurufication. Here's a hint: they rhyme with 'boxes'.

Table!

In honor of a complete day of cubing yesterday, here's some special cube cards. A friend asked me to work these up a few weeks ago (text is printed, pics are painted). These are draftable cards that trigger special effects before the draft even begins.


The first allows you to switch teammates in a team draft. The second claims the table for your team because well, we're lazy and we're not moving. Happy cubing and see you in Baltimore!

Know What They Want

I found a lot of success in paying attention to my target audiences. Magic players aren't just card players. Many are huge consumers of video games as well. Here's a few video game alters from the past two years.

BioShock's Little Sister

Street Fighter's Guile

Final Fantasy VII's Red XIII

Pokemon's Charizard