Throne of Eldraine - Art Previews

Happy Sunday MTG peeps,

Absolutely beautiful arts previewed by Wizards of the Coast lead designer Mark Rosewater (MaRo) at San Diego Comic-Con yesterday (Saturday, July 20, 2019) evening for the upcoming Magic: the Gathering set ‘Throne of Eldraine’.  The theme for this card set has been described as “Camelot meets Grimms' Fairy Tales”, with a high-fantasy medieval world filled with knights and castles along with Magic's take on the genre of fairy tales.  The set releases on October 4, 2019.

Latest article from MaRo posted after the SDCC presentation right here :
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/project-booster-fun-2019-07-20

For up-to-date news on this new set, please tune in to MTG Realm on Tumblr, where we endeavour to post very fresh and hot out-of-the-oven previews and spoilers.

 

Throne of Eldraine products include a variety of sealed products : Planeswalker Decks, Booster Packs, Booster Display, Bundle, Prerelease Pack, Theme Booster, Brawl Decks, and Collector Booster.

Art of Ravnica

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Happy Friday MTG peeps,

As it Friday, we suggest you would be well served by getting out of the scorching heat and head to your local gaming store.  We are going to OMG! Games here in Barrie, Ontario this evening to see what exciting new decklists have been created with the release of the Magic: the Gathering Core Set 2019 the other week.  We also will bring along some very cool Ultra PRO random draw giveaways.

The big news yesterday evening was this announcement from publisher VIZ Media.

The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Ravnica, scheduled for publication in January, 2019.  This is an art book that will explore the vast and vastly powerful, the City of Ravnica.  

James Wyatt, Magic creative writer at Wizards of the Coast partnered with VIZ Media have produced a number of lovely hardcover art books featuring the incredible images and lore of Magic: The Gathering.  Here is the list of previous 'The Art of Magic: The Gathering' publications -

• The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Zendikar (2016)

• The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Innistrad (2016)

• The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Kaladesh (2017)

• The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Amonkhet (2017)

• The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Ixalan (2018)


• The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Dominaria (2018)

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M19 Art Previews

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Happy Saturday MTG peeps,

On Friday, Wizards of the Coast had another treat for Magic: the Gathering players.  Specifically the Weekly MTG panel on Twitch with Blake Rasmussen (Content Manager), Paul Cheon (Game Designer), Bill Rose (VP R&D), and Charlie Cateeno (Director R&D) sat down to discuss a variety of relevant and interesting items.

Of note for us here at MTG Realm was some art previews for the upcoming Core Set 2019.  Here are the six very lovely (and intriguing) artworks now -

• ‘Generic Burn Spell’, artwork by Chris Rahn

• ’Satyr’, artwork by Sidharth Chaturvedi

• ‘Leonin’, artwork by Jakub Kasper

• ‘Nicol Bolas Spell’, artwork by Svetin Velinov

• ‘Cool Horse creature’, artwork by Alayna Danner

• ‘Tezzeret’, artwork by Josh Has

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MTG Ravnica Concept Arts

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Happy Friday MTG peeps,

This is our second post today, following up on the previous coverage of the big ‘Announcement Day’ post earlier.  In this post, we wanted to keep separate the concept art provided to Magic: the Gathering fans during the video posted.  

Wizards of the Coast Senior Art Director, Dawn Murin, showed off some very lovely concept art for the upcoming sets of Guilds of Ravnica, and Ravnica Allegiance.  Please do check out the video for the brilliant commentary from above linked video.  She indicated that WotC was very cognizant of the familiarity that fans have for this setting, and that is was of importance to deliver upon those expectations, while tempering it with something new and exciting.

Autumn on Ravnica
These images are showing a changing of the foilage colour with the changing of the season to autumn, along with all that one would expect from this season.

There were also some costume updates for the Ravnican Guilds as is showcased below -

• Rakdos Performers

• Rakdos Mages

• Golgari Elf Warriors

• Golgari Shamans

• Gruul Motifs

• Gruul Warriors

• Dimir Spies

• Simic Biomancers

• Simic Supersoldiers 

Amonkhet Art Dump

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Happy Tuesday MTG peeps,

More Magic: the Gathering news updates over the last 24 hours.  Yesterday's post to the MTG Realm blog was titled 'Amonkhet Info Dump', so it is rather appropriate that we have now a number of absolutely stunning pieces of art to become part of the Amonkhet card illustrations or key art.

We direct your attention to a short video, posted in several different languages on the Magic: the Gathering YouTube Channel, which briefly goes over what one may expect at a Amonkhet Prerelease event and is prefaced with some nice details on the backstory / vorthos and a number of images.  We should get to those now - 
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Discover the ancient and powerful civilization of Amonkhet.

The inhabitants of this fertile valley raise monuments dedicated to the glory of their gods and compete for their blessings, but something sinister lurks behind this seemingly organized society.

The train their entire life for a chance to face the Trials of the Five Gods and join the elite ranks of the Worthy and to claim an honored place in the Afterlife (these are mummified). They prepare for the great God-Pharaoh's return.

The 'Cursed' appear to be those who fail the tests / trials and become Zombies who, with other creatures roam the deserts.

Two God Names Confirmed
• Ifnir appears to the black-aligned god, 
• Oketra is the white-aligned cat god.

New and Returning Races
• Jackals 
• Minotaurs
• Zombies

Amonkhet Places
• Luxa River
• The Broken Lands

• Shefet (a desert) 

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Artist Spotlight - Mohrbacher

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Happy Wednesday MTG peeps,

We have for you today, a great post about a great artist - Peter Mohrbacher.  If you are a Magic: the Gathering player, then this name should seem rather familiar to you as Peter has about forty or so MTG cards he has illustrated for Wizards of the Coast so far.  Commander fan favourites like Animar, Soul of Elements, horror trope Innistrad block cards like Grimgrin, Corpse-Born, classic hero / god cards from Theros block to the very latest  Destructor Dragon from Fate Reforged.

Peter Mohrbacher  is an independent illustrator and concept artist living in the Chicago area. Primarily self taught, he has been working in the game industry for around 7 years. More recently he is working primarily on self-owned projects in addition to an online mentoring program aimed at helping aspiring artists establish themselves.  One of his newest projects is Angelarium, a beautifully constructed concept world he has created.  You can help Peter get this project off the ground and soaring in the air over at this page on Patreon.

For now, we have for your eyes some truly amazing Magic: the Gathering pieces we've picked up from the very talented Peter Mohrbacher.  If you happen to find yourself in Kansas City next month for Planet Comicon, drop by Peter's booth! 

Sorry, but we must admit that our crappy camera does these beautiful illustrations no favours at all.

Brimaz, King of Oreskos

Born of the Gods Mythic Rare

Erebos, God of the Dead

Theros Mythic Rare

Mogis, God of Slaughter

Born of the Gods Mythic Rare

Pharika, God of Affliction

Journey into Nyx Mythic Rare

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MTG Wallpaper Wednesday

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Happy Wednesday MTG peeps,

Like many US States around the Great Lakes, our little corner of suburban bliss in Central Ontario got one heck of a wallop of snow.  Should you not have any windows in your domicile, you would still know the snow had come as would hear the endless rev of snowmobiles down the street out front of our place.  Today's a good day to stay indoors, keep warm and organise our Magic: the Gathering collection. For tomorrow's we want to showcase a weird G/W 'Hardened Heroes' build we started to develop with some of our recent MTG Mint Card purchases but for today, we want to make sure everyone is caught up with the latest MTG Wallpapers that have been posted over on the mothersite - click on over there to grab these lovely illustrations / arts all available in the perfect size / resolution for your desktop, mobile device or social media page.

Mardu, (Khans of Tarkir), 11/19/14, By Jason Chan

Wooded Foothills, (Khans of Tarkir), 11/12/14By Jonas De Ro

 Jeskai Ascendancy, (Khans of Tarkir), 11/05/14, By Dan Scott

 Polluted Delta, (Khans of Tarkir), 10/27/14, By Vincent Proce

 Lens of Clarity, (Khans of Tarkir), 10/22/14, By Raymond Swanland

 Duneblast, Khans of Tarkir), 10/15/14, By Ryan Alexander Lee

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MTG Wallpaper Round-Up

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Happy Thursday MTG peeps,

Our apologies for being away from the interwebs for the last three days but it was bears and rattlesnakes for us up in Northern Ontario, Canada-Land and no WiFi connection.  To get back into the swing of things here at MTG Realm, we wanted to get a post off with some of the recent Magic: the Gathering wallpapers for your desktop or mobile device.  

Featured below are six recent Magic 2015 core set arts - not only gorgeous card illustrations by talented artists but also solid cards to game with.  If you've not already picked up these cards, pop on over to MTG Mint Card -  anywhoos, let's have a looky-loo at the recent offerings over on the mothersite (<-use get="" goods="" i="" linky="" the="" this="" to=""> - 

Ob Nixilis, Unshackled - illustrated by Karl Kopinski
 

Soul of Theros - illustrated by Zack Stella
 

Ajani Steadfast - illustrated by Chris Rahn
 

Soul of Innistrad - illustrated by Adam Paquette

Sliver Hivelord - illustrated by Aleksi Briclot

Garruk, Apex Predator - illustrated by Tyler Jacobson 

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