MTGinktober achieves Day 31, "Landmark," starring Kamahl, Fist of Krosa; Pollen-Shield Hare; Stinging Barrier; and Vine Trellis!
To mark this landmark, historical occasion, I wanted to see if I could shoehorn a Kamala Harris pun into our run, having already celebrated Joe this year, so we wound up with "Kamahl-Hare is a remarkable combo with tim Walls." And indeed, if you ever land Kamahl with an active tim Wall, forget about multiples, you're gonna be able to attack with vigilance thanks to the Bun's Adventure, and then start wrecking your opponent's lands.
Fun Facts: This is everyone's debut, but there's also an Ozymandius-like toppled tyrant's statue as one of the notable things on the horizon, but our little party here has decided to head to the Washington Monu--I mean Spires of Orazca. I was thrilled I finally got to draw Vine Trellis on-theme (a Wall!) no less, as that's been one of my favorite illustrations from the early days and is emblematic of sorta "pre-historical" Magic for me--the time before I actually started (7th Edition).
Easter Eggs: The birds hanging out above the reef are from Barry's Land, which felt like a nice nod to Obama. Also apparently Matt Tabak drew it, pretty neat, I wonder how much fan art he gets.
Well, that's it for this year--I'm always blown away how October screams by and apart from the exhaustion, I feel like I've been able to weather the marathon pretty well physically, no injuries and no serious smears, errors, or mishaps. I believe next year will be my tenth and final MTGinktober run. I've loved doing MTGinktober, particularly studying all these incredible Magic illustrations and other references and coming up with different combos and scenarios for them, but I recognize it consumes so much time, for almost no benefit aside from slightly improving at art (I guess?) and entertaining hardly any people (I'm beyond grateful that people do tune in, and even recognize some long-standing and/or consistent viewers, which is pretty cool). But more crucially, MTGinktober sidelines everything for a month--I put absolutely everything on hold for it cuz I draw so slowly and thus have no time for anything else. So it might be for the best to call it a day there. In the meantime, I'm happy to take a couple requests if I didn't get to your favorite character, though the archive has over 200 MTGinktobers by now, and it might be a wait while I spend every day until the election volunteering.