agic Art for the collectible card game (CCG) Magic: The Gathering. Alan illustrated roughly 47 Magic: The Gathering Cards to date. As a MTG artist, he started with Homelands, Alliances, Mirage, Visions, Weatherlight, Invasion, Darksteel, Fifth Edition, Mercadian Masques, Ninth Edition, Masters Edition, and a few other expansion sets. He illustrated the infamous Vodalian Knight for the 1997 MTG Monthly Calendar. Zuberi, Golden Feather was used on the promotional coffee mugs. Cadaverous Bloom is one of his most known cards, as it won in the Prosperous Bloom deck. Alan also illustrated a Cadaverous Bloom Redux version used in The Duelist Magazine.
Alan has Original MTG Art for sale. Contact Alan for more information and availability.
Efreets can be fun. Some of the concepts for MTG are simply amazing, the genie-like Efreet was being pulled back into the forest. MTG Weatherlight expansion set. Oil on Masonite.
Art for Magic: The Gathering card heat Wave from the Visions expansion. Oil on Masonite.
Originally done in orange, the card was changed to a blue background. MTG Invasion series.
Art for MTG Zhalfirin Crusader for the Visions Expansion. The art is larger than most cards at the request of the MTG Art Director at that time. Oil on Masonite.
Yes, digitally inspired but painted in oil. This is Reality Ripple from MTG Mirage. Oil on Masonite.
Art for the library of Lat-Nam. One of my early cards for MTG Alliances series, you can see how I loved to paint people. Oil on Masonite.
Gauntlets of Chaos for 5th Edition. This is the original card art, making it even rarer. Original is still available for sale. Oil on Masonite.
Time Ebb for the Magic The Gathering expansion set Portal. See other images from the Portal expansion. Oil on Masonite.
Art for MTG Invasion. Oil on masonite. The image was cropped as some characters changed from the guidebook.
Alan illustrated Vodalian Knight for the 1997 Magic: The Gathering Calendar. One of the more popular MTG characters.
Original art for MTG Zuberi Golden Feather. Zuberi is Alan's take on a Griffin for the Mirage expansion set.
The original art for the MTG Homelands expansion set this is the first MTG card I ever painted.
Chaos Harlequin needed to be a crazy card. Chaotic with his patchwork coming to life.
A creature being snapped back into a void for Magic: The Gathering Fifth Edition.
For the Invasion expansion, here's the original MTG art for the Elfhame Sanctuary card.
For the Homelands, Fifth Edition, and Masters II. The model on the left is fellow artist Michael Kaluta. One of Alan's earliest pieces for MTG.
Another version of Aysen Bureaucrats. Appeared in the Homelands, Fifth Edition, and Masters II expansion sets. One of Alan's oldest MTG cards.
World Bottling Kit card art for Magic: The Gathering. This was in an unusual format. Oil on Masonite. MTG Unhinged.
He needed to wear armor made of thorns. Making it more interesting Alan added a thorny tree as the background. MTG Mirage.
Cast a spell! The model is the same one used for the VTES card Claven. He also developed the photo shoot for the card reference.
Stuck in Kelp? Good thing you have a big knife. Original MTG art for sale.
All Magic: The Gathering Art © Wizards of the Coast. For original MTG card art details click the illustrations above to view larger images.