We already mentioned this in our article covering Alpha cards: The famous rapper Post Malone announced that he bought an artist-proof Beta Black Lotus signed by Christopher Rush for roughly $800,000
Liiga Smilshkalne Hailing from Latvia, Liiga Smilshkalne has been illustrating for Magic proper since 2021 beginning with Strixhaven, and is also credited with a Heroes of the Realm card called Myntasha, Honored One released in 2019
(The non-hero creatures including a pair of green crossbow-wielding werewolves are a welcome addition, if only because they open up novel custom army designs when paired with the base game.) The counters themselves are new, too, as chits produced by abilities and cards buff up creatures attacks and defenses
We got something that looked like this
Combined with cards like Bridge from Below and Altar of Dementia, it formed the core of a fierce strategy that saw multiple cards banned in Modern to weaken the deckincluding Bridge from Below and Faithless Lootingbut the culprit was always this eldritch monster
When Legends first was released, all legendary creatures where even restricted to keep the flavor at a peak
