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If you're like me, you're friends with Magic artists on Facebook. And why not? Eric Klug is always posting sweet alters, Christopher Rush is always posing with cute female fans and posting the pictures and the Foglios are certifiably batshit insane (in a good, Steampunky way) so their contributions are always welcome in my feed. If you take out the cool Magic art, facebook is just weird chain letters from your racist uncle and pictures of other people's cretinous children. Who needs that?
But I was treated to a very cool picture posted by Tom Wanerstrand.
Taken at GenCon in 1994, this is a big chunk of the first batch of Magic artists all in one place. It's been 20 years and fashion senses have improved a bit, some people who had lots of hair in this picture now have none (cough cough Mark Poole cough cough) and Magic's art staff has grown exponentially with a rotating cast of art directors (and therefore a rotating cast of artists) and lots of products to contribute art to.
OK, hotshot, how many can you name? Think back to the names you remember seeing on cards in 1994.
Give yourself 1 point for every artist you can name by their weird, 1994 faces or shirts.
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If you're stumped, scroll down for a list of all of the names. Take 3 points off of your score if you have to resort to checking the list, but it's still pretty challenging to match the names to the faces, so don't commit seppuku in shame or anything. It's just a made-up game thing. Scroll all the way down for the answer key to see how you did and what your score means.
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Amy Weber, Anson Maddocks, Christopher Rush, Dan Frazier, Daniel Gelon, Doug Shuler, Jeff Menges, Kaja Foglio, Mark Poole, Mark Tedin, Michael Kimble, Nene Thomas, Pete Venters, Phil Foglio, Rob Alexander, Sandra Evingham, Susan Van Kamp, Tom Wanerstrand
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Answers - From left to right.
Back row - Mark Poole, Doug Shuler, Mark Tedin, Daniel Gelon, Pete Venters, Anson Maddocks.
Middle Row - Jeff Menges, Susan Van Camp, Rob Alexander, Christopher Rush, Sandra Evingham
Front Row - Amy Weber, Nene Thomas, Kaja Foglio, Phil Foglio, Tom Wanerstrand, Dan Frazier, Michael Kimble
How did you do?
1-3 points - You're a nerd
4-8 points - You're a nerd
9-13 points - You're a nerd
14-18 points - You're a nerd
Thanks for playing!
