Jho!

After Momir Monday and Jhoira today, unfortunately I don't have Sto!(nehewer Giant) to finish the set on Friday. However, if you've ever wanted to play Momir Basic, MoJho, or MoJhoSto somewhere other than Magic Online, now you can! Grab a friend and a pile of basic lands and check out http://ark42.com/mtg/mojhosto.php.

I made this Jhoira only because she's such a popular Commander; I like the art, but it isn't very exciting for 3D. I curved the background in a similar way to the Karona I did, but instead of curving the whole side I just curved the top corners forward.

Mo!

When I started cutting up Legendary creatures, I knew right away that I wanted to work on Momir Vig. At the time I was still focusing on cards with lots of traditional layers instead of extensive detail work (other than Karona, that is). I also still like working on cards with lots of intertwining cables, tentacles, or ropes, because these usually look awesome in 3D.

I sold this pretty early on, but I like the art enough that I picked up another pile of copies to eventually make another 3-D Momir Vig. Sadly I sent this out before I figured out how to take good pictures of my 3D cards, so these blurry, awkward angles are all I have.

While I love Momir's art, I don't think I'll ever want a Momir deck. The more I play Commander, the less I like tutors in my decks, so I can just imagine how bored I'd get playing one of the tutor generals like Zur, Captain Sisay, or Momir. I don't mind playing against those decks at all, but I'd rather not pilot one.

You win some, you win some more.

In addition to the guy who collects Warp Worlds, my LGS also has guys who collect Prodigal Sorcerers, Terminates, and Conquering Manticores.

The same guy who collected the Manticores and had me make this for him also happened to be collecting another crap rare from Rise of the Eldrazi: Splinter Twin. Yeah, that worked out well for him.

Let's Do the Warp World Again

It's quite possible that I shouldn't be allowed to use that title for this post considering I've only seen thirty minutes of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. On the other hand, I have experienced infinite Warp Worlds multiple times. The first guy at my local game store to build an infinite Warp World deck had collected a huge pile of Warp Worlds before he asked me to make this for him:

Making this card was a miserable experience. I'd liken it to some of my nursing prereqs: a frustrating, mind-numbing experience that I am incredibly glad I went through because I learned a ton of valuable things in the process and I am very pleased with the result.

I have only made a couple life counters, and that's probably the area of 3D card construction I know the least about. I know I want to talk about it in a future article but that means I have a lot of practice and research to do first.

A blue version is less hated than its non-blue counterpart? I'm confused.

I really loved how this Braids, Conjurer Adept turned out. It took a lot of time to do the small details like the drawstrings on her jacket and her goggles but it was worth it. It along with Kaervek the Merciless are the cards I've sold that I most wish I still had.

As a Commander player, I'm glad that Braids, Cabal Minion isn't a legal commander.  As someone who makes 3D cards, I'm sad that if I made one of her it wouldn't be usable for play. Both of them have nice 3D art - though I think blue Braids is better.

A local player has a Braids deck, and in our last game I thought I was doing pretty well; I'd used up most of my resources but it was down to just the two of us, and he had almost no board presence. Sure, he had Braids in play and 3 upkeeps thanks to Paradox Haze and Copy Enchantment, but he only had 2 cards in hand and I knew one was a land.
Yeah...the other was Grozoth. Ack.

The Big Baby

I was asked by three separate people to make a 3D Child of Alara before I finally agreed to do so.  The primary reason I avoided it was because I couldn't figure out how to make the rock/dust cloud look good. I eventually figured out something I was happy with (and as usual, it looks much better in person than in these pictures) but I still shy away from clouds and mist in general.

 

This was the first 3D card I made that I bought a $5 pen specifically for (the most recent being Arcanis the Omnipotent). To edge the Child and the lines of energy I needed a flesh-colored pen because anything darker would have interfered with the color composition of the artwork.

Normally I post on Monday/Wednesday/Friday but because of a discussion in the comments of my most recent article on GatheringMagic.com, I decided to put this one up early so I could link to it. No new post tomorrow!

Women made of wood, made of paper.

After finishing this 3D card, I had a leftover copy of Chorus of the Conclave, so I added it to my Aggro Phelddagrif Commander deck. The very next game, I killed everyone at the table: 1 player with General damage, 1 player with normal damage, and 1 player with both at the same time. Normally Seedborn Muse is pretty weak in that deck (at least compared to how overpowered she is in other decks) but with Chorus of the Conclave, Winding Canyons, and lots of mana...

I'm still uncertain of how I feel about coloring the inner borders of two-color cards when one of the colors is white. I like how the coloring looks on other color pairs, but white is such a distracting color that it can end up drawing attention away from the art.