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Thanks all! Yeah some of the idea's in there are a little more subtle.. like the tentacles from show and tell. There's always a fine line from recreating very well known wotc characters and them throwing the hammer down on a mat like this. I had the deathrite shaman in a previous piece that was axed, so that guy puts a fear in me now ;)

I feel like we could keep adding tons and tons of characters to it.. but I was worried of the piece becoming overly busy.. where as right now there is enough open space to let it breathe and the composition to flow easier. all the feedback has been great though, and lets hope to all be rocking these mats very soon

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Originally Posted by Dice_Box

Someone needs to get stomped by elves more. Craterhoof is our win con.

Sent from my mobile, forgive spelling and grammatical errors.

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I know what deck it's from, I just don't think he's iconic. Anyway, the playmat's awesome.

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Originally Posted by Myelectronicdays

I feel like we could keep adding tons and tons of characters to it.. but I was worried of the piece becoming overly busy.. where as right now there is enough open space to let it breathe and the composition to flow easier. all the feedback has been great though, and lets hope to all be rocking these mats very soon

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I think it's safe to say that all the suggestions should be taken in the "If you were looking for something else to put in, this would be nice, but if in your artistic opinion you think it's as full as it can get then just call it done!" sense. It's really awesome as is, and if we can get playmats printed up with this version I think everyone would be incredibly happy with it.

I like how it is right now in it's inclusion of different characters and cards. It has enough at various parts of the mat to be recognizeable and enough hidden ones to keep it exciting without being too busy. If anything else IS added, I think it would be minor additions and mostly tweaking of the current piece of work. I'm in love with this :smile: I am thinking I may have a version of it for my desktop

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Originally Posted by Higgs

Everyone's coming up with lots of ideas and requests and obviously it should be very hard to satisfy everyone but I just wanted to drop a comment as well. The Jitte looks too much at the front to me while everything else seems to be blended nicely together, maybe you could work it into the background a bit more. Other than that, great stuff!

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I agree, possibly move the jitte a bit closer to SFM and reduce the white outline to be more subtle as the background it darker, It draws attention to it.

Maybe reduce the size of craterhoof just a tad and add some small images of something?

I'm Loving the design,none-the-less.

I'll try to drop the jitte back for sure. thanks all!

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Originally Posted by Myelectronicdays

I'll try to drop the jitte back for sure. thanks all!

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Most importantly, are you enjoying this project? What would you like to add to it? It's your piece, you definitely have a say in it :)

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Originally Posted by r3dd09

Most importantly, are you enjoying this project? What would you like to add to it? It's your piece, you definitely have a say in it :)

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I love the piece so far.. I work with so many art directors that me absorbing feedback is 2nd nature now. ;)

Idea: if you drop the show and tell tentacles (they're friggin' awesome but you've already got Emrakul and Grizzlebees) and add a warchief (attacking the LoA, maybe?), I think most of the bases will have been covered for legacy decks. Cards I'd love to see still (but understand that there is ultimately a non-infinite amount of room):

-Deathrite
-Bob
-Stifle
-Daze
-Burning Wish
-Swords to Plowshares
-Abrupt Decay
-Arcbound Ravager
-Chalice of the Void

It speaks to the sheer variety of Legacy's card pool that there are still so many other beloved cards, though.

I also love the brainstorm dots around the Top, Hoofie (the bastard has certainly stomped me once or twice) and the Blood Moon

I think Dave's about ready to be done, which is fine, because in my opinion the piece looks fucking amazing. Here's what it's looking like with a few final minor tweaks (Jitte is a little less dark, Chalice got added, logo stands out slightly more, and site url added):

http://mtgthesource.com/downloads/so...ymat_final.jpg

Been out for a few days but man that image looks absolutely awesome!

My wallet is ready.

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Originally Posted by danyul

My wallet is ready.

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Originally Posted by danyul

My wallet is ready.

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Wow, this project is great. Reading all these pages at once and watching another versions of playmat was quite the adventure. My wallet is also ready. I'm happy to see Jitte getting less dark. I miss Wasteland and Hymn a little bit but I think now "less is better" and I'm also very happy there are no planeswalkers.

Hope you will send to Europe ^^

That looks amazing, definitely getting at least one.

Stunning work. Looking forward for one also.

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Originally Posted by Deviruchi

Hope you will send to Europe ^^

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Sure hope so too!

The art looks amazing, but who is the zombie guy on the left (in front of Tendrils)? xD edit: ah, Infernal Tutor ^^

Is there any chance we could get the .psd-file, as I'd like to highlight the text with a subtle background-color, like the old TS playmat was using.

Can Force be lifted a bit, or the title dropped just a tad. cutting off some of his face doesn't sit well with me from a design aspect.

EDIT: My wallet is also ready.