Dominaria Art and Flavor text!
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Posted on April 29, 2018, 10:36 p.m. by Suns_Champion
Hello everyone! Did this for Rivals of Ixalan and had a lot of fun, so here's my line up for the best art and flavor text from Dominaria! Enjoy!
Art:
My #1 favorite art. Nothing beats the confident, satisfied posture and face of a drop-dead gorgeous woman. 
I am easily distracted by shiny things.
The lighting and shadow work is great here!
This one really spoke to me. It's so somber, and a great callback to Teferi's Protection.
This one really feels like a classic painting. The way the clouds frame the Knight is awesome!
Gift of Orzhova 2.0! Beautiful! 
Here's the first Saga art. Was tempted to put all of them because they're all great. This one is my favorite. 
This one is just so cool. 
Another Saga, love how futuristic and yet ancient this feels. 
Looks like Teferi is blasting a fireball away with... a glass cocoon? Awesome!
I love removal art... seeing stuff in the middle of being destroyed is sweet! 
More saga! Love the darkened face of Bolas and how swirly and loose it feels!
Joseph Meehan made gore look beautiful. Love the Phyrexian text. 
I'm biased because I got a foil version... It's great.
I like the lighting of this piece. 
I like the feeling of the Knight being enclosed by the forest.
Flavor text:
My favorite is Zhalfirin Void, but Short Sword, Damping Sphere, Slimefoot, the Stowaway, Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain, Sergeant-at-Arms, Syncopate, Eviscerate, Dub(the whole card is pure flavor), Fire Elemental, Orcish Vandal, Yargle, Glutton of Urborg, Squee, the Immortal are all great too!
All in all, I think Dominaria has had some of the best art in years, and the Saga portrait art frame is an interesting and very cool twist.
I probably have stalked enough. Let me know what your favorite art and flavor text was from Dominaria!
By far the best flavour text is Hinterland Harbor. "We're pretty proud of that."
April 30, 2018 1:06 a.m.
No mention of Zahid, Djinn of the Lamp? This is the card that definately has the best combo of art and flavor text for me.
Other art stand outs are The Mending of Dominaria, which is full of visual easter eggs, Urza's Ruinous Blast is the most impressive legendary sorcery (google the full res of that), while something like Final Parting has really cool POV shot.
April 30, 2018 6:33 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #5
enpc: i didn't read that. That's hilarious :D
I love the art on Karn, Scion of Urza. And if you compare the art of new and old Gaea's Blessing, they tell a great story. Jhoira's art is great as well.
May 1, 2018 1:39 a.m.
Why did you only show the ones that you liked the art for? In order to read the flavor text for your favorites I have to look up each one individually. Could you have not just shown those cards like you did for your favorite artworks?
May 1, 2018 5:54 a.m.
Suns_Champion says... #7
hardhitta71194 Agree, Noah Bradley never disappoints! He did a lot of my favorite here and Highland Lake from RIX, one of my all time favorites!
enpc I must have totally missed Hinterland Harbor because that's great! haha!
Boza I guess I wan't a fan of Zahid's art personally, and the flavor text kinda felt... generic... not sure if that's the right word but I'll go with it. Those other arts are great too!
MWorl91 apologies! I didn't think of that! The post was getting very lengthy and it was late, so I rushed the flavor text part. I will do better next set :)
Hardhitta7 says... #2
My favorite art is Karn's Temporal Sundering and Yawgmoth's Vile Offering, they are now my background and lock screen on my phone. Noah Bradley is amazing!
April 29, 2018 11:11 p.m.