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War of The Spark Gets Alternate-Art Magic: The Gathering Japanese Planeswalkers


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Wizards of the Coast have teamed up with Japanese artists to commemorate the special War of the Spark event with alternate-art versions of all 36 planeswalkers in the upcoming Magic: The Gathering set. The alternate versions will be included randomly in Japanese-language booster packs, replacing the regular version of the planeswalker in the pack 50% of the time.

Check out the awesome alternate-art Japanese planeswalkers below:

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These artworks look great, and one particular alternate-art worth mentioning is the Liliana one by Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano. It looks like they're not making an alternate-art version for the Tezzeret buy-a-box promo card.

If you want to know more about the Japanese artists involved in this project, check out the Twitter thread about them below:

The War of the Spark card set will be released on May 3, 2019. Prerelease events will take place on April 27-28. It will be available in digital version on Magic Arena on April 25.

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