{"id":198,"date":"2013-09-24T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2013-09-26T12:09:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T19:09:13","slug":"5andabitmagic4white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/24\/5andabitmagic4white\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 (and a bit) Colors of Magic – White (1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the fourth in a series of promo pieces I did for Magic, waaaay back in 1994. They’ve never been seen in public before but I figured now was a great time – being M:TG’s 20th anniversary – to share them with you.<\/p>\n

If you’re curious why these were never printed, the full story can be found in this prologue post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today, the color circle turns towards White –<\/p>\n

\"5Color-White\"<\/p>\n

Nowadays, White has a broader concept but White in Alpha was very euro-centric with its knights, paladins, medieval castles, the clergy, and the occasional angelic warrior. That’s very much reflected in this piece.<\/p>\n

The great big glowing guy in the front wasn’t really the best choice for front and center but he was a powerhouse White card of early Magic and so he had to be given a significant spot. Still, he looks kinda goofy. His cheery countenance is offset by possibly the surliest lion alive; look at that scowl! I think he even has a 5 o’clock shadow. Maybe he’s hung over. All joking aside, I did overdo the lion’s lower jaw. This is a good reminder of how amazingly useful Google image search is for artist reference. It’s easy to forget how sometimes hunting for reference through magazines and books could really derail a tight deadline back in the day.<\/p>\n

So, take a shot at identifying all the cards in the image. Remember, there are no cards from sets later than The Dark<\/em>. The answers are below.<\/p>\n


\nWhite Answers – What Cards Hidden Where?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The planeswalker in this piece is going for some kind of record –<\/p>\n

\"5Color-White2\"<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Wall of Swords<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Mesa Pegasus<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Serra Angel<\/a>. No collection of White should be without her.<\/li>\n
  4. This could be my variation on Cathedral of Serra<\/a> or it might be a generic cathedral added to balance the castle and to sub-divide the lower left and right between priests and soldiers. I’m not sure anymore.<\/li>\n
  5. Cleansing<\/a>. One of the only cards from The Dark in the project, because I’d painted it so I knew what it looked like!<\/li>\n
  6. The scales of Balance<\/a>, suitably placed in the armor’s pattern.<\/li>\n
  7. Castle<\/a>. I guess it’d be cheating to say there’s a Moat<\/a> there, right? \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n
  8. The priest from Resurrection<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  9. Clergy of the Holy Nimbus<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Personal Incarnation<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Savannah Lion<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. White Knight<\/a> and soldiers setting out on a Crusade<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  13. Northern Paladin<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Plains<\/a>. Not the most visually exciting of lands which leaves the landscape looking weirdly uniform. I guess that’s fitting for the color of Order.<\/li>\n
  15. This one surprised me when I rediscovered it: The shoulder pads are decorated with White Ward<\/a>, Blue Ward<\/a>, Black Ward<\/a>, Red Ward<\/a>, and Green Ward<\/a>, with a cog at the center that might represent Artifact Ward<\/a> or Circle of Protection: Artifacts<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Next, onto Blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here’s the fourth in a series of promo pieces I did for Magic, waaaay back in 1994. They’ve never been seen in public before but I figured now was a great time – being M:TG’s 20th anniversary – to share them with you. If you’re curious why these were never printed, the full story can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[102,103,3,116,20,101,107],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-from-the-vault","tag-102","tag-5-and-a-bit-colors-of-magic","tag-debut","tag-from-the-vault","tag-magic-the-gathering","tag-mtg-20th-anniversary","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}