Welcome back to my card by card analysis of the Magic card illustrations of Rebecca Guay. This will be the 6th installment, and when we last parted ways we were looking at Onslaught, which was released in October 2002. Guay was to take a hiatus from the game as it… explored it’s more masculine side, [...]

Greetings, and welcome to part 5 of this series covering the Magic card illustrations of Rebecca Guay. Today’s post begins with the Odyssey block of late September 2001. If you dig this piece, I encourage you to have a look at my prior installments here: one, two, three, and four. A quick not before we [...]

Hello, and welcome to part 4 of this series covering the Magic card illustrations of Rebecca Guay. Today’s post begins with the Invasion block of late 2000. If you’re just joining us, here are links to parts one, two, and three of this series. Invasion Released in September 2000, this set involves the planeswalker Urza [...]

Welcome to part 3 of my series covering the Magic card illustration work of Rebecca Guay. Apologies for the slight delay. I haven’t found the time to edit my interview with Mrs. Guay yet, but it will surely be available shortly. So far we’re up to Mercadian Masques, which was released in October 1999. If [...]

Welcome back to part two of my series on the Magic illustrations of Rebecca Guay. In Part 1, I covered Guay’s first work, way back in the Alliances expansion (1996), and came chronologically through Weatherlight (1997). We saw a few examples of the classic style Guay is known for, as well as some experiments and [...]

Rebecca Guay has long been my favorite Magic card artist. In this series, I take a chronological tour through her artistic contributions to the game, examining every card she’s ever done to date, including some which never saw print. While her career as an illustrator is not limited to Magic card illustration, the artwork which [...]

So the You Decided™ online card creation feedback system that Wizards has going on, recently produced, in its mechanical-turk-like cyber sweatshop, the new Zendikar planeswalker Sorin Markov, behold: This handsome devil caused quite a stir amongst some dorks I know, and I thought I’d therefore share my own thoughts on him.  First, let’s evaluate the [...]

So I guess I’m behind the times, especially as a die hard Guay fan.  This comes as a welcome treat for her fans as she had no regular printed work in this block thus far. Thanks to Planeswalker Writes, for bringing this to my attention. I guess this news came out last month and it’s for [...]

Well, as you can see above, our beloved artist Rebecca Guay is again scorned by the plane of Alara.  It’s a shame, as other high-fantasy type artists such as Volkan Baga have, in my estimation, quite a complimentary aesthetic to that of Guay. The orb, by the way, can be found here.  I’ll be busy [...]