[–] [S] 7 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I agree with Jesper here, I think this is just insane that the art directors let this through. Say, for argument's sake, that Dan is not all mentally with it and just messed up because he is old or whatever. I don't buy it, but just say that is the case. How does no one at WoTC stop this from going through to PRINT? I can see immediately something is very wrong with this, and I can immediately see that it looks very close to the original The One Ring.

And TOR is not "some card" it's the most sought after card in the last few years, fetching the highest sale price of any card ever. It's literally the most expensive and sought after card in the entire game. And they're not putting this art side-by-side with the original ONCE? There's not one person who has seen the other card?

Just look at the edges of the ring, it's clearly very poorly cut out of the image and pasted digitally. It's super clear to anyone with any digital editing experience that this is a hack job. How does this go to print!!!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    This whole thing is just so bizarre to me. I posted Jesper Myfors' latest response and I think I'm just as dumbfounded as to how this even happened. These are all the very weird things:

    1. Why would Dan do this hack job at all?
    2. Why was Dan and his agent at odds with what happened at first?
    3. Where were ANY art directors at WoTC, because even I can immediately see this issue.

    I just don't get any of it, it's so weird and so poorly done and so oddly handled.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The odd thing about this poll is that there is only 1 positive response. There's no "Really excited", it's just No and two that also mean No.

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