Here is the most recent of my card alterations, commissioned by the same person who commissioned the “My Little Titans” set I posted about previously. Needless to say, I had a much more enjoyable time working on this card, since its subject matter is much more closely aligned to my usual style of work. Not that it was completely without hiccups – I tend to work on multiple card alterations at once, and for a while this one was my biggest...

For those who don’t yet know, I am a pretty geeky gal, having spent the past ten years co-directing the TempleCon retro-futurist gaming convention, the past four years as co-owner of The Temple Games store, and most of my life playing games and devouring science-fiction and fantasy literature and art. For nearly twenty years now I’ve played the collectible card game “Magic: the Gathering,” and in recent years there has sprung up a subset...