What is your favourite card art? (Any game, ccg, lcg)
What is your favourite card art? (Any game, ccg, lcg)
Share a photo in the comments if you can find it! Also, what do yuu like about the art? Do you run it in any of the decks/games you play?
This is mine for now. It's Trapinch from the Pokemon tcg by Asako Ito. I don't play, but there's a stack of free singles that people leave in a box at a bg place I go to, ao I took one and keep it in my wallet as a good luck charm (and charm it does, look at rhe overaized head and cute knitted body! A single crooked thread for a mouth and a shining star iris completes the baby)
Also while I was browsing, I saw this sick Galarian Moltress by Shinji Kanda
next question please.
I'm changing my answer to this card, too
Also specifically the GBC game(s) version of this card art.
That Dragonair
I would like the users here to take note of the hats.
I grew up playing mtg and was mesmerized by art from Chippy and John Avon
Chippy
John Avon
John Avon lands are so distinct. You see that dramatic lighting on a basic land and you just know it's him.
Everything from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck.
The artist was a famously unmarried woman, and that tickles me pink
that Moltres though, wow!
Oh yeah it's the most classic tarot deck out there. I quite like the Lost Hollow one and Kitten Tarot
These are great!
this full art mountain from Magic: The Gathering
I'm already a HUGE fan of the art in Streets of New Capenna but I absolutely adore this one mountain in particular, I just think it's gorgeous
Shoutout to the close second of the alt art for Disciplined Duelist from the same set:
I have several of these mountains in my Laelia deck, they're gorgeous
lmao i got like 50 of these mountains in various decks. I would replace every basic mountain in all my decks with it
I play this mountain in my draft set. A+
Rider-Waite's 7 of swords
It means "bold plan, risk, or a plan that may fail." The dude has snuck into the enemy camp to steal their swords There are 2 swords left behind so if they catch him he'll be outnumbered and fucked but if he gets away the enemy will be to a fraction of their fighting power.
If they catch him though, he'll have five swords which is two more than Zoro three-sword style from
so he'll be okay
Geck from Inscryption, I don't know why, it just makes me chuckle, you have tons of more powerful and complex cards with their creepy and menacing looks... and then you have Geck, it's just Geck. No cost, no effect. There it is, Geck, and its goofy face.
Geck
One geck is good, but how about 100 gecs
Saw them live in Barcelona! Fun times !
Not so much an art as entire card but probably the old Uncle Istvan from MtG
Also a lot of characters from Here to Slay
All of the cards in Wingspan have amazing art but I think this one is my favorite
inspan
I really love Rebecca Guay's mtg illustrations, Bitterblossom is probably my favorite.
There's some great artist doing mtg art still, but I wish they still used more stylized stuff like this.
I'm slowly collecting all of the mtg cards she's ever illustrated. Except for the secret lair set she had. Not sure what that was all about
Really anything from Liiga Smilshkalne, loved her stuff ever since Android Netrunner.
Gun to my head, probably Data Raven. Idk if I can find the card without a big FFG watermark so here's the art on its own:
https://www.deviantart.com/liiga/art/Android-Netrunner-Data-Raven-Alt-Art-702036477
Part of it is nostalgia but I really loved the dragons designed by Kazuki Takahashi. They have this wonderful lanky look, kind of like the ones from Panzer Dragoon.
Sick dragons
this flareon without question
though this one is also cool
Top one is unreal cute! It has little cakes in the reflections in its eyes
I'm a huge fan of these pixel lands, I really wish proxied lands were legal in all formats because I want these for all of my lands.
A more simple one, but I love rashmi's original card. I'm a sucker for UG card art.
In pokemon I'm in love with Yuka Morii's art, the little clay dolls in real life backdrops are so charming. I'm so happy whenever I see her cards
I love the clay art too, I'm sure it's partially the inspiration for the (computer generated) claymation netflix show
Most of the Board wipes have beautiful art.
I love progenitus for the scope, seeing this leviathan walking across the world.
i chuckle when i draw the biden joker
Too bad seb mckinnon is cringe cause I fw his art
https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=442916
On Serra's Wings from MTG: Dominaria
i really like the art of the board game ascension, illustrated by eric sabee. it has a really cool visual style that i always liked, i especially like the monsters
theres also another board game series illustrated by another person, élise plessis, that i really like. its has this dreamlike quality thats very fitting for a board game series about the world of dreams
These are so cool!
From FFG's Android Netrunner
Inside Job was one of my fave cards when I played netrunner. The look of chaotic excitement on the hacker's face is fun (also they're on the toilet lmaoo)
Modern Netrunner's art isn't as good as the FFG days but it's 200% more based
I keep this card around on my desk because I love it. Look at that doofy face ❤️
Loveable leviathan
One of my favorites is from an old 1995 TCG called "Heresy: Kingdom Come", and the card is "Michael: Chief of Archangels":
The art is by Brom, and here is better quality version of the art:
(This TCG was good for art as they were much taller than normal cards, about the size of tarot cards. This hurt them with players though since I card sleeves would fit them and made shuffling harder.)
While not all the art was great on the cards, the back image was great:
Wow that's such a bold, characterful card! Never heard of the tcg, was it popular?
No, it was a flop unfortunately. It had low sales so an expansion for it got canceled.
They had some great artists to at the time too, with different art styles to. Some had a more comic art style to. But since it was from 1995, and low sales, finding the original card art can be hard at times.
As for the first image, it is Brom, who is a major artist, quite large in the 90s and still does work. He is a good page of Brom's art. He also made what is probably the most famous Doom 2 art:
