A hand holding up a deck of cards, the first card is Indestructible Aura from Magic the Gathering
Got my dad some old mtg cards on ebay for his 50th
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They should make tee shirts off this illustration
Is this official? It just looks too funny lol
It's official, and classic! The first few years, there were not really any guidelines; the artist was given the name of the card (and its color, I think) to illustrate, and that's it.
New players: "It doesn't grant Indestructible, and it's not an Aura!"
Sometimes artists weren't even given the name of the card. The original art for enlightened mystic was supposed to be for another card entirely
Ah, that's right. Sometimes the cards were adapted to fit the art afterwards. Ankh of Mishra was supposed to be Ark of Mishra (reillustrated as an ark in Fifth Edition) and Hyalopterous Lemur was supposed to be a Lemure (a shadow-like spirit).
It is. Legends was a wacky set.
All of Chronicles, actually
You can buy a print from the artist at least https://markpoole.com/products/indestructible-aura?srsltid=AfmBOorCxaUy2DTXp2QYz1DoCASwaFWnd9VUYzRojghmqaxWhJZ5LCEt
There were white creatures that could redirect any damage to that creature.
I remember discovering a paradox where both players were motivated to redirect damage to their own respective creatures (Albatrosses were involved) and could indefinitely.
I think WoTC was first rude about the paradox and later created some hard-to-interpret rules about conflicting recursions.