CommanderCast Ep 306a – The Inevitable Art Episode, part 1
January 22, 2018
Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 306! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on CommanderSociety.com and our homesite: CommanderCast.com! This week we’re down one Adam but fear not as Mark is joined by a long time listener and supporter of the show. If you’ve ever been apart of our comment section then you may know this legend of a man as King Honkey, but today we will learn a bit more about the man we know as Ward as he and Mark go on a trip to the Magic Art Gallery and discuss all things art… on an audio based media.
If you’re interested enough to find out how, all you have to do is click the IB!!!
***************************
CommanderCast Episode 306a
Posted: January 22, 2018
Intros:
Adam
Mark
Keep up with the conversation on Facebook & Twitter.
Community
Favorite artists in general (for perspective)
- Ward
- Francisco Goya (“Saturn devouring his son”)
- Alphonse Mucha (From “The Slav Epic”)
- Arthur Rackham (“Hey After You!”)
- Kehinde Wiley
- Audrey Kawasaki (“Hyakki Yakou (night parade)”)
- Shaun Tan
- Zdzisław Beksiński
- Eric Powell (The Goon)
- Mark
- John Howe
- Hokusai (woodblock printing in general)
- Moebius, Barry Windsor-Smith, Mike Allred
Favorite MtG block for art
- Ward
- Shadowmoor/Lorwyn
- Blowfly Infestation (Drew Tucker!)
- Brion Stoutarm (Jeremy Jarvis)
- Cemetery Puca (Omar Rayan)
- Dawnglow Infusion (Rebecca Guay)
- Fable of Wolf and Owl (Heather Hudson)
- Imperious Perfect (Scott M Fischer)
- Lurebound Scarecrow (Nils Hamm)
- Mindshatter (Michael Sutfin)
- Oona, Queen of the Fae (Adam Rex)
- Overbeing of Myth (Chippy)
- Sage of Fables (Shelly Wan)
- Vigor (Jim Murray)
- Mark
- 10th Edition
- Cloud Sprite
- Vampire Bats – Chippy
- Wall of Wood – Rebecca Guay
- Starlight Invoker – Glen Angus
- Steadfast Guard
- Youthful Knight
- Cephalid Constable
- Cloud Elemental
- Doomed Necromancer – Volkan Baga
- Hidden Horror
- Hypnotic Specter – Greg Staples
- Lord of the Undead
- Paladin en-Vec – Dave Kendall
- Viridian Shaman – Scott M. Fischer
- Wall of Fire
- Clone – Kev Walker
- Arcanis the Omnipotent
- Craw Wurm
- Mahamoti Djinn
- Nightmare
- Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer
- Platinum Angel
- Bloodfire Colossus
- Colossus of Sardia
- Commune with Nature
- Demystify
- Firebreathing
- Holy Day
- Root Maze
- Shock
- Spirit Link
- No Rest for the Wicked
- Pacifism
- Remove Soul
- Spitting Earth
- Sylvan Scrying
- Telling Time
- Terror
- Twincast
- Cryoclasm
- Reviving Dose
- Sculpting Steel
- Seismic Assault
- Story Circle – Aleksi Briclot
- Underworld Dreams – Carl Critchlow
- Plagiarize
- Upwelling – Chippy
- Evacuation – Franz Vohwinkel
- Time Stop
- Forbidding Watchtower
- Treetop Village
- Yavimaya Coast
- 10th Edition
Favorite MtG art
- Ward
- Mark
- Shelter
- Colossus of Sardia (10th Edition)
- Hell’s Caretaker (9th Edition)
Least favorite MtG art
- Ward
- Mark
- Tie: Balduvian War-Makers / Icy Manipulator (Ice Age)
Favorite MtG artist
- Ward
- Three Way Tie: Kev Walker, Terese Nielsen, Rebecca Guay (many other honorable mentions)
- Mark
Least favorite MtG artist
- Ward
- Mark
Outtro/Contacts:
Guest:
Ward: kinghonkey@gmail.com and check out his portfolio at http://dadsquatch.foliopx.com/
CommanderCast – Email: commandercast(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)CommanderCast
Rachael – Email: wiehernandez(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)HeroGirl1409
Calvin – Email: captainredzone(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)CaptainRedZone
Mark – Email: mahlerma(at)gmail(dot)com
Adam – (at)squire9999 // (at)thetrinisphere
Be sure to check out our CommanderCast Facebook page.
And a big thanks to everyone here at the CommanderCast Network. We’ll see you next week with more community, strategy, and technology. Until then, LET’S GET IT!
The episode is so long that people are literally still trying to finish it…..
I mentioned a couple of loose ends I never sewed up.
I think if an artist makes a card, especially an iconic card, and then that artist dies, I think Wizards should do the equivalent of retiring a jersey. Glen Angus was the original artist for Mindslaver. He passed away suddenly in 2007. When Wizards returned to Mirrodin they reprinted Mindslaver with new art by Volkan Baga. I think the new art is fine, but it bothered me that they used a new image just 2 years after Angus died.
Also, I forgot to talk about the Reflection cycle from Shadowmoor. Not only did it reflect the dark and light side of Shadowmoor/Lorwyn, they were all illustrated by the brother-sister team of Terese Nielsen and Ron Spencer. It’s interesting how divergent the siblings’ art styles are .
Thanks for the opportunity to be on again, I knew it would be kind of awkward to describe so much visual stuff and keep people’s attention, but it was fun nonetheless.
Great episode thanks again Ward. Really sorry i couldn’t be there. Qould have loved to talk art with you.