Magic Mario

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Happy Friday MTG peeps,

As it is Friday, we suggest you take this opportunity to leave your secret gaming lair and take in a Friday Night Magic event at your local games / hobby store - or just clean off that kitchen table and get some friends over. We will be heading out to OMG! Games here in Barrie, Ontario to sling some Magic the Gathering cards - that is - should the weather co-operate. There was a very brief snow storm which eliminated any visibility at all but seems to have cleared up a bit now.

Anywhoos - onto today's rather cyrptic post title - 'Magic Mario'.

You may recall (we hope with some fondness and nostalgia) our post in the fall of last year ('MTG Eye Candy'), which featured some very cool NES pixel art creations from some of your favourite games. Well, we had some time last evening, and feeling somewhat productive, decided to have an arts 'n' craft event in our MTG Realm Lair - the result - a very pixelated Mario done up with Magic the Gathering cards.

Not the best work, but we feel we can improve given some practice and are already thinking about our next creation - perhaps PacMan and his four best Ghost buddies - Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde - we just have to modify their colours to our five mana colours of Magic.

Here is the photographic record of the endeavor . . .









You know all those mana cards in your Fat Pack - this may be a good use for them. Remember to set up your pixel art before you start taping, gluing, etc. We chose to staple the cards together and then add some broad re-enforcing bands of Duct-Tape.









Very pixelated indeed but we found that the look improves the farther one moves away from it (just like that neighbour's fugly dog).

We know you have talent out there, so host your pixel creations and post us the linky.
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MTG Eye Candy

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Happy Friday MTG peeps,

We want to wish our American cousins south of the border a very Happy Thanksgiving and best wishes in hunting down those bargains during the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales. We think there may be a joke somewhere in here with hunting and Rebecca Black on Friday but we're gonna let that slide for now.


Anywhoos - Onto the MTG geek eye candy . . .

Flickr user Dr. Von Krakenstein (linky here) has a variety of Magic the Gathering related art. Check out some of these neato NES pixel creations done with MTG cards -


And now for some mana symbols he had done up . . . just click to embiggen 'em -

















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Last image -

We've drooled over this piece for a while - it's an uncut sheet of FOIL Rares and Mythic Rares from the lastest Magic the Gathering set, Innistrad -

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Finally,
the folks over at MTG Mint Card, are having a very nice Black Friday / Cyber Monday promo. Make sure you use the coupon code (here) to apply savings to your purchase. This offer will hit the graveyard on December 1st, 2011 so make tracks soon.
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