7th Edition art is the best. Name one card from 7th with bad art.
tenkaze
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
I hope you mean just for this card and not the whole set. 7th had some of the worst art the game has ever seen.
EDIT: Okay, I'll back up my claim. Greed. Disrupting Scepter. The Diamonds. Crystal Rod. Air Elemental. Rampant Growth. Coat of Arms. They're not all bad as in "lacking artistic skill," they're bad as in "doesn't accurately depict what is conveyed by the text" or "conveys the subject in a bland and unflavorful fashion." Rampant Growth shows a guy getting strangled by vines. Rampant Growth, then, is expected to be a kill spell, but as you know, it isn't. Coat of Arms shows one person standing alone. Coat of Arms is terrible if you're playing with only one creature. Disrupting Scepter is a card that represents an item that can tear things out of people's minds, but both the user and the victim seem no more excited than if the scepter were a paper towel roll. I've seen finger paintings that convey more emotion and excitement. Compare 7th's Air Elemental with the 10th or Portal Second Age versions and it's clear which is the worst. An Air Elemental is a creature made of air, not some ugly blue man sticking his tongue out at me. This is made even worse by its flavor text, which was apparently written by a Juggalo.
Of course, there were tons of great Rebecca Guay pieces in 7th edition, so it wasn't all terrible. And this is actually my favorite art for Disenchant, with Ice Age in a close second. So I'm not making a categorical statement saying that all 7th edition art is bad, but I haven't yet seen another set that overall gave off such a sterile and uninteresting vibe.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@tenkaze Disagree, those are great artworks, and they represent the card fine. I prefer allot of 7th edition art! But Thorn Elemental I prefer the Urza version
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EDIT: Okay, I'll back up my claim. Greed. Disrupting Scepter. The Diamonds. Crystal Rod. Air Elemental. Rampant Growth. Coat of Arms. They're not all bad as in "lacking artistic skill," they're bad as in "doesn't accurately depict what is conveyed by the text" or "conveys the subject in a bland and unflavorful fashion." Rampant Growth shows a guy getting strangled by vines. Rampant Growth, then, is expected to be a kill spell, but as you know, it isn't. Coat of Arms shows one person standing alone. Coat of Arms is terrible if you're playing with only one creature. Disrupting Scepter is a card that represents an item that can tear things out of people's minds, but both the user and the victim seem no more excited than if the scepter were a paper towel roll. I've seen finger paintings that convey more emotion and excitement. Compare 7th's Air Elemental with the 10th or Portal Second Age versions and it's clear which is the worst. An Air Elemental is a creature made of air, not some ugly blue man sticking his tongue out at me. This is made even worse by its flavor text, which was apparently written by a Juggalo.
Of course, there were tons of great Rebecca Guay pieces in 7th edition, so it wasn't all terrible. And this is actually my favorite art for Disenchant, with Ice Age in a close second. So I'm not making a categorical statement saying that all 7th edition art is bad, but I haven't yet seen another set that overall gave off such a sterile and uninteresting vibe.
Disagree, those are great artworks, and they represent the card fine. I prefer allot of 7th edition art! But Thorn Elemental I prefer the Urza version