1/7/2024 0 Comments Wizards lizard go back to townIs Wizards going to disappear her art from the Gatherer too? Wouldn’t shock me.įortunately, Terese will probably be fine. After over 25 years of quality work, and causing no apparent problems beyond said bits of wrongthink. So despite the fact that she’s part of the LGBT community herself, she was summarily dropped. ![]() Long story short, she followed some of the wrong, people, and held some wrong beliefs. You can read more about it at the archived article here. ![]() Yup, she’s been officially canceled, for the high crime of following some of the wrong people. She’s one of the best the game has ever had, and was one of the few remaining artists with a truly distinct style. The final straw for me was what Wizards just did to longtime artist for the game, Terese Nielsen.Īnyone who’s played Magic for any length of time will have heard her name and seen her art. But I’m not here to go into depth on all of that. ![]() Even worse, they’ve been making the art much more PC via “body diversity,” heavy handed “racial diversity,” deliberately taking on more of an anti “male gaze” approach to portraying women (while not doing the same for men), along with inserting more heavy handed SJW stuff into the game. This results in less distinctive art styles, and less interesting art. In the first, they’re getting cheap, preferring digital artists over those who actually paint. Moreover, while I’ve not bought much new stuff in the last few years (something I’m glad for now), it is clear that the art quality has declined in two ways. They’ve even gone to far as to censor art deemed “insensitive,” or somehow “racist” from their Gatherer database. For quite some time there were unaddressed issues with card stock, and, more recently, they’ve taken to policing their art. The company’s slide to the woke left has been quite apparent, as has a drop in quality. As I said above, this has been some time in coming. I owe a lot to Magic, and I’ll keep playing with friends and family, but, sadly, I’m done with Wizards. Hell, when it came time to find an artist for my first book’s cover, I went looking through a list of MTG artists to find someone, and now we’ve done 8 book covers together. The way each world had different aesthetics, and different color creatures had specific style guides, it was just so well done. It was easily a cut above any other trading card game. Apart from the gameplay itself, the art of Magic was always something I really loved. I’ve also done a handful of pre-releases. I’ve had a ton of fun with the game, playing with my brother, various friends, and a few times at conventions. I’m not even going to try and calculate how much I’ve spent on the game over the years. I started back in 2000, and played (casually) pretty much continuously ever since. I’ve been a longtime fan and player of Magic: The Gathering. (With maybe a once in a blue moon exception if friends want to do a draft, but I haven’t done one in a couple years anyway.) ![]() It’s been coming for a while now, but around last week was where it all solidified, and I’ve determined to no longer buy any sealed product from them. I guess the title makes things pretty clear from the outset, doesn’t it?Īs a company, Wizards of the Coast is dead to me.
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