Extended Art Magic Cards — a Gallery by niheloim
Magic card alteration artist niheloim is providing a playset of extended art Blightnings as part of the prize for our Rise of the Eldrazi puzzle contest. We’ve got a full gallery of some of his amazing past work, plus contact info so you can get in touch with him and commission your own custom altered cards.
Altered art Magic cards are technically only tournament legal at the head judge’s discretion, but it’s fairly rare for anyone to run into a problem. They’re indistinguishable from regular cards when your deck is in card sleeves. Still, it’s recommended that you bring a non-repainted duplicate to big tournaments just in case.
You can send an email to niheloim and commission your own custom cards. You can also find him under his screen name (niheloim, of course) on the Wizards message boards. Here are the four Blightnings that will be awarded to the contest winner – he just informed me he has them finished and will be sending them to me next week.
Now, check out this gallery of niheloim’s altered cards. I can tell you from experience that these look really cool on the table and are nice conversation starters if you’re playing at a new venue or with players you don’t know very well (or just some old Magic buddies you want to make jealous).
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March 27th, 2010 11:41 AM
Oh… my… God.
Does he want to design my D&D Sorcerer power cards?
March 28th, 2010 12:30 AM
maybe…
March 29th, 2010 3:22 AM
You, sir, are a god, I must have those Blightnings!
March 29th, 2010 11:50 AM
I’ve never even heard of anything like this before. Very, very cool. Just to make sure I’m understanding this concept correctly; this is the process of a person using the information given by the original art on a card, and custom painting the rest of the scene that was, “hidden,” by the border?
March 29th, 2010 12:47 PM
Yup, he basically extrapolates the image to extend it out.