June 9, 2018: The Fantasy Trip: Wizard Cover!

[RoboAdmin]

June 9, 2018: The Fantasy Trip: Wizard Cover!

Read this article on the Illuminator.

[ColBosch]

This looks absolutely fantastic! Great work, Brandon!

[Groknard]

Absolutely thrilling!

[arcanecowboy]

I'm thrilled to see Wizard and The Fantasy Trip come back.

That cover is incredibly tame, and can't see it making an appeal in a local game store.

Remember, this is the standard that was set:

https://goo.gl/3rF4ou

[philreed]

Originally Posted by Groknard

Absolutely thrilling!

Brandon did good. We will have more to show over the next month.

[Ronbo]

Both previous covers for Wizards showed a memorable scene of magical combat. I'm sorry but this is terribly disappointing. It's just a robed woman doing... not much. People this isn't an art class where you're supposed to say encouraging things because you like how he did the sparkles or the hair. This is the cover for a product meant to go on sale. The covers of old got my long-ago teenaged heart racing. This does not. Sorry.

[Jim Kane]

Originally Posted by arcanecowboy

..That cover is incredibly tame, and can't see it making an appeal in a local game store.

Agreed; the concept seems to be trying to appeal to, or cater to, something else not related to the game; and with a motivational-focus on something other than accurately defining the game visually - and all at the potential expense of future sales, with the added risk of alienating the long-term loyalist customer-base.

Originally Posted by Ronbo

Both previous covers for Wizards showed a memorable scene of magical combat. I'm sorry but this is terribly disappointing. It's just a robed woman doing... not much. People this isn't an art class where you're supposed to say encouraging things because you like how he did the sparkles or the hair.

Agreed; and well said. While wonderfully rendered in terms of artistic talent, I cannot say the same for the design concept and elements employed. Perhaps accurate art-direction would be found by applying focus on the stated definition to the actual game itself:

"WIZARD is a game of combat between two or more wizards and the creatures they conjure up." - TFT: Wizard; 1980 Third Edition (revised).

JK