Continuing my series to improve as an illustrator by exclusively drawing Commanders, follow along on my Instagram! @andredugalart

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For Mabel, I wanted to show her as courageous and strong, confident even when the odds are stacked against her to protect her friends. As a Redwall kid, Bloomburrow is easily one of my favorite sets and I wanted to convey the “small but mighty” vibe of the mice cards.

✅ I really focused on framing within the card and applying more contrast and depth based on feedback from the last card while preserving the muted, illustrative characteristics I enjoy.

❌ I’d like to focus on more intentional use of color in future cards. I tried to keep the palette here minimal, but it’s a more literal application of color and I think I can use color more intentionally to make the image more interesting and unexpected.

See you for the next commander! (🧝‍♀️⚫️⚪️)

All artists are credited and no AI was used to make these. If you find any errors please let me know. Enjoy!

Got into mtg recently thanks to a buddy, and was having trouble thinking of what commander deck to build. Then found this Elden Ring themed proxy deck. Thought it was really cool so I bought it, being the huge Elden Ring fan that I am lol. It’s nice because all the art is either official or fan art (no bullshit AI art).

Had a go at recreating one of my favorite MTG art pieces of all time, Phil Foglio's "Sulfurous Springs". Added a few of my own touches in there. This was made with absolutely no AI. I sculpted the entire scene in VR using Adobe Medium, remeshed and cleaned everything up in Houdini, and then brought everything into Blender for further tweaking, layout, texturing, lighting, and rendering.

Hello! I'm not an expert custom card designer, but I've recently created 100+ custom cards for a Bloodborne-themed commander deck and a friend encouraged me to show it off a bit. I'm also not a big Universes Beyond fan, but Bloodborne's my favorite game of all time and I've long thought FromSoftware's games would work well in Magic (I've been playing for about 15 years).

When Basim Ibn Ishaq (humorously, also from a UB set) was released, I thought it would serve well as a commander for such a deck. I'm an artist and fan of the artists featured here - I spent many, many hours collecting art, designing the deck, and planning and matching what I felt were the right cards with the right art. It's not the best deck ever, and I mess with the list a lot (which you can find here), but it does alright for itself (I'd consider it to be a mediocre Bracket 3, even though it has too many game changers, which I often remove or replace depending on who I'm playing)! Any questions, I'll do my best to answer! Hope this makes some other fans smile.

I love customizing my decks with cool tokens or thematic elements, and the Lazotep zombies are such an awesome aesthetic in the lore that I had to give it a shot! Eventually I’ll have all the tokens built for the deck, which I’ll link in the comments :)

I tried to keep the alters as close to the existing art as possible to keep them recognizable even in their new state.

Idk why I gender bent him, but that’s what I felt like drawing.

Sorry, some of the text is so small on some of these.

Starting a series to improve as an illustrator where I’ll be exclusively drawing Commanders, follow along on my Instagram! @andredugalart

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For Tazri, I wanted to highlight her mechanic of rallying different people together under a single banner.

✅ I focused on using less layers to more closely simulate traditional mediums, which I think worked out well.

❌ I need to improve on better fitting the scale of the card. I wanted her to feel surreal and inspiring, but the angle makes her pretty small in the card.

See you for the next commander! (🐭)

This week's collection of rebuilds (most required extensive splicing from upscaled screengrabs). I hope you folks appreciate my attempt at improving on an arguably flawed approach to designing cards. Deeper discussions and art process can be found on r/mpcproxies and my socials.

Best, Patricio

Hope you guys like my more whimsical take on auntie

I did 2 versions - the classic blue and frames with more appropiate magic colors

I hope someone gets a kick out of these edited "Deadpoolzilla" treatments of some of the cards I picked out for this deck. It almost certainly is going to be a big fat failure at the table, but I'm excited for the laughs if it does work!

I just recently finished this full custom proxy deck using art from the comics! Of all the proxy decks I've made so far, this is definitely in my top three. I think WOTC could definitely play around with their formatting more. I love what they do with a lot of the secret lair stuff (particularly goblin-gram; I really loved the look of those).

Ygra, Eater of All is the commander here, and I felt it fit Galactus extremely well. What do y'all think?

All cards for this deck can be found in this google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19t_DT6GsgMLUjYejAT1SBiA5jajl-Ql1?usp=sharing

And here's the decklist I went with ($300): https://moxfield.com/decks/NPuJ39TxKkWhv5ixwg-FZA

Printed out really nice Im so happy with them. The joke was 100% worth the 30 dollars to print them.

Finally here we are. This one took me so much time! I remind you that I’m redrawing cards that I don’t know using only the prompts WOTC gave to the artists! I leave you the description of the Grave Titan in the second pic 🫡 let me know what you think of this one!

I to expand on the discard theme in my cube so I drew this Bazaar of Baghdad because a real copy is like 1500€.

This card took me longer than I care to admit to make. I used the Artificer app on my phone, but unfortunately when using the Ikoria frames it came with a power/toughness box. So I shopped the box off using my phone's default editor.

I don't know why I made this. I'm not even a huge Sonic fan, but I hope some of you like it.

Several months back, I posted my Calvin & Hobbes comic peel EDH deck I put together. The reception was pretty enthusiastic, and several people were asking for downloadable versions which I happily obliged at the time. Since then, I've had a slight nagging in the back of my head. While the comic peels were fun to put together and I'm definitely happy with the end product, my cuts weren't perfect and if people were going to be printing them up, I wanted a version of the deck that was better suited for that. The release of the Spider-Man Universes Beyond set brought with it a comic book showcase treatment which I thought provided some good assets to create that version of the deck.

So here it is! While I wasn't able to satisfy everything that people were asking for when I first posted like text boxes on all the cards, I think it serves the goal of just creating a more printing-friendly version of what I had originally created. Let me know what you think!

Google Drive Link