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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1359: Being a Magic Artist

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Games, Mtg, Mark Rosewater, Magic The Gathering, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Game Design, Leisure, Ccg

4.7806 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk about the weird fact that I'm a published Magic artist on an evergrowing number of cards. Note that I recorded this before Bicycle Elemental was made public.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:03.0

We all know what that means.

0:05.0

It's time rather drive to work.

0:07.0

Okay, so I have had many hats in my time at Wizards.

0:13.0

I've done many jobs, but there's one job that I still can't believe that I not only have I done, that I continue to do, which is being an artist.

0:24.2

I need to stress, I have no artistic ability whatsoever.

0:28.6

I did not go to art school.

0:30.2

I do not know how to draw very well.

0:32.4

But yet, so far, I'm on nine different cards and there's more coming.

0:40.5

How do this happen?

0:41.7

Why do they keep making me draw?

0:45.5

That's today's topic.

0:50.1

Okay, so let's go back to the beginning, to the origin of my illustrious illustration career.

0:58.8

So we have to go back to unglued, which came out in 1998.

1:04.3

So one of the things that we were trying to do in unglued was we wanted a lot of jokes on every level and so we were looking for a lot of cool

1:14.5

and different ways to do art we had art that broke the box we had art that you know

1:19.7

interacted weird ways there was art that went off one card onto another card so one of the ideas

1:26.9

that i thought would be funny was one of our cards,

1:30.5

what if one of the cards looks kind of like it was done by a child? You know, what if we had like

1:38.1

a children's drawing? And then it dawned on me that I can draw like a child.

1:45.0

And I decided that it might be fun if we put it on,

1:48.0

look at me on the DCI, since the joke basically is us making a joke

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