Randy Vargas

𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬
For MTG Foundations
AD:
@zack_stella

Had a blast working on this one, as it will happen any time I get the chance to go back to Kamigawa <3
#MTGFoundations #MTG

Really appreciate that! Thank you 🥺🙏

I hope you know how MUCH this first piece fucks like this is just perfect. It's a chef's kiss for me

Concept piece from 2022, early tone exploration for what eventually became Tarkir: Dragonstorm.
AD: Forrest Schehl

Shared with permission of WOTC

Thanks!

Thank you, Marcela! Really appreciate that ❤️🥺

Thank you so much for the kind words, man! <3

Every time I see your art Randy I go to scryfall thinking "Oh what else has Randy done?" and I am greeted with a page of some of my favorite cards. At this point I have to wonder if the art or the card mechanics influence my decision lol. This piece is sick, no wonder Dragonstorm was so good.

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Concept piece from 2022, early tone exploration for what eventually became Tarkir: Dragonstorm.
AD: Forrest Schehl

Shared with permission of WOTC

"Pyrrhic Strike"

30 cm x 40 cm
Oil on aluminum panel.

Only one for this set, but really happy I managed to work yet another oil painting for MTG.

AI’s Memorization Crisis Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.

Extremely good break down on how GenAi doesn’t learn, it copies.

Good reporting work done here

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

You can hold two thoughts in your head at once. First is that Cucuruz Doan's Island isn't THAT bad of an episode production wise, and you can also immediately recognize it from a single frame.

Sketches 💔

🟣 EN DIRECTO

«LUX ÁNCORA: La Travesía de la Bruma Eterna»

TEMPORADA 1 - El Rastro del Drow 🌑

twitch.tv/doblajesymazmorras

Thanks!

belabored breathing

Le tengo muchas ganas a este 👀

💣💪Uno de los libros que no me pienso perder este 2026, y que tendremos en español muy cerca de su salida en inglés. Avisados vais ✅⚔️👇

Sketches 💔

Nice! The painting looks fantastic! Good luck with the auction @istrandar.bsky.social

It's my pleasure to offer @istrandar.bsky.social 's first traditional painting for Magic - it's Luminollusk !!

This weird little guy is oil on cotton canvas, approx. 16" x 20"

Auction is Up!
mtgart.auction/Luminollusk

Your art usually does.

Selfless Saviour put me on my ass for a week.

The perspective making that tiny little brave baby look monstrous? The story behind it?

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Thank you 🙏

I'd like to think it is. Glad it resonated with you ✨

Its rather poetic eh? A Pyrrhic victory? No one there to celebrate it, no real point or matter, nothing truly won, no fanfare, just two dead bodies rotting in a swamp silently in the dark

It being the only source of light and the fact you know its about to go out... real heavy.

Adds a big moment of gravitas and silence to the piece.

Thank you for taking the time to analyze it!
I had a few more comps with the loudness I tend to paint, but really glad my AD went for this moment so I could explore it in the final.

AD sent me an image as reference for it. But no idea what it is 😅

Thank you 🙏!!