For Challenge # 060.

I decided capturing Crowly and Aziraphael would be a bit much, but that they made a very nice representation of a general Angel/Demon pair.

I considered "white angel" and "black angel" but decided angel/demon was better. Originally I gave them different keywords (like the superfriends card), but I decided the reversed protection fit the symmetry a lot better, and is a traditional W/B trope.

In fact, come to think of it, maybe this should make a pair of knights, and use the art as a "close enough" illustration? :)

I had to look up "Crowly and Aziraphael" to make sure I didn't accidentally put up a kind of famous picture (I've done it before with Dr. Who. I don't really watch the show, but, you know... spooky angel statues. Turns out everyone knows what they are but me.)

Oh, it's from Good Omens, and I'm pretty sure this picture is not. Okay, we're cool. Just to be safe, I double checked "Crowly and Aziraphael" in Google image search. Unfortunately, I forgot that whenever you look up images of a book with two male protagonists, rule 34 is sure to follow...

Is it me or is this really undercosted?

And yes, jmgariepy, this art is either from Good Omens or is fanart of it. It has Crowley and Aziraphale written on it, and they're reading Good Omens.

Ah, you're right. I just disregarded that as the signature of the artist. They looked too old in my mind to be the main characters... since I always assumed they were 10 or so. Ah, well.

I'm not sure about cost. CMC = total P/T seems a usual maximum, but every so often a big rare exceeds that, eg. Armada Wurm, 6 mana for ten power of tramplers. Although I guess at a minimum this should go to "2WWBB", and quite possibly more. I'm not sure what a more conventional cost would be; 8 seems too much to ever be played outside limited.

Aren't they both 5994 years old? I admit, when I first saw the picture, I didn't connect it to Good Omens, but when I looked at it, I thought it was a good picture for them, even if it wasn't quite how I'd imagined them.

But FWIW, I think it's fine to have a couple of pictures like that. One of the playtest cards when Richard Garfield was designing magic had a picture of captain kirk on, but the card wasn't "captain kirk", it was "hero", illustrated with captain kirk :)

Well, it's pretty close to Broodmate Dragon... one colorless flipped to a colored mana, but it really is borderline fair. One could even say that being a sorcery is worse than being a creature (since this is both more vulnerable to Unsummon and doesn't combo with Unsummon).

I don't have a real problem with "Here's a picture of something you recognize, make a picture out of it, or in spite of it." I think that's kind of fun, too. But it's kind of it's own challenge. You know, next time I do an Art Challenge, maybe I'll do that exactly and see what kind of responses we get?

Hm. It's probably better to do one creature and one token rather than two tokens, just to save on token space. (There's often angel tokens anyway, less often demons.) But I don't really like the asymmetry.

OK, yeah, this is similar to broodmate dragon, but I think a little better because of the protection, ok, let's send the mana cost up to 2WWBB.