When did Magic art get so boring and one-note?

I mean it's still only a few and I think DMU is pretty much the first set in a long time where they have started to branch out with art again, which is good. Maybe my complaints are coming thankfully too late. I think it's not even really possibly to argue against the fact that MtG art is way more self-similar today than it was for the first decade or so of its existence. It's just true. Whether you like that or not is personal preference--I just happen to not like it. But it's cheaper to make and has more generic mainstream appeal so I guess I understand.

Reverse polarity is kind of a cheap shot, that art sucks. I mentioned the Foglios for a reason.

And fwiw hand-drawn art is in general higher budget than digital art. The modern stuff looks way lower budget to me. Pull up the art from something like Stronghold or Mercadian Masques--it's all hand-painted.

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