travis

I feel that there are various factors contributing to the success of Magic: The Gathering and one of it is the artwork.

One of my favorite artist is Rebecca Guay.

I’m facing problem with the uploading of photos. Will post more cards drawn by Rebecca Guay when I’m able to do so =)

There are a number of Planes in the World of Magic. So far my favorite one is Kamigawa. I will touch on that in a later entry!

As players of Magic, we are otherwise known as Planeswalker. We start off with 20 life each, with the aim of bringing down that of our opponents to zero. How we do it? With our cards.

There are few kinds of cards that one can include in the deck! Depending on the kind of format that you play, there are usually 60 cards in a deck with only up to 4 copy of the same cards allowed.

The thousands of cards out there are categorise under,

1) Land

2) Creature

3) Artifact

4) Sorcery

5) Instant – previously known as Interrupt. They have changed that since.

Remember when we were in Primary/Secondary school and they grouped us according to colors during Sports Day? In Magic, there are 5 different colors. ( White, Green, Blue, Red and Black )

The story comes in 3 sets per block with an average of 200+ cards in a set!

The final set Apocalypse in the Invasion block came after 7th Edition.

The set kind of provided closure to the story. For the longest time, the story been revolving around the same old people. Various main characters were being killed off. Can you imagine the shock that we get? Making a comeback only to find out that the story be coming to an end? Hahaha

Desolation Angel – Back then, I don’t know how good a card is. Usually, we take Keith’s word for it. Upon reading the review he told us about Desolation Angel. There’s usually 1 to 2 angel in a set.

And I got it in the first pack of booster that I bought =)

7th edition hit the shelves in the stores not long after we got right back into the game.

I remembered us looking forward to the launch of 7th Edition with much excitement as good cards such as Birds of Paradise, Serra Angel were reprinted.

Back then, I came across an article saying that the art was Madonna inspired. Yes! The sharp pointed cones armour!

Haha…

Though not as powerful as Serra Angel, I like the below card for it’s artwork.

It was drawn by Matthew D.Wilson.

I always have the luck in getting good rares out of the booster packs.

There are 15 cards in a pack and here’s the breakdown – 11 commons, 3 uncommons and 1 rare.

The first rare Angel card that I got was Archangel from 6th Edition.