By: me

He's a boy.

Illustrator Aleksi Briclot is launching a new Magic: The Gathering playmats Kickstarter campaign this fall! For the occasion, he's expanding classic cards into larger, immersive illustrations. Check out the project here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tca-labs/eldritch-playmats-by-aleksi-briclot?utm_source=reddit

Nahiri is one of Magic: The Gathering's most powerful lithomancers, a master of shaping stone and a warrior. Determined and fiercely independent, she has played a major role in some of the multiverse's greatest conflicts. Nahiri's mastery over stone allows her to manipulate the battlefield itself, forging weapons and structures from rock while calling upon powerful artifacts and equipment.

The inspiration for this concept came from the TV series Shōgun. The samurai and the overall aesthetic of Japan during that era made a great impression on me. I wanted to create a high-ranking, noble samurai who could exist and fight in some kind of alternate reality.

"To be chosening by a goddess is a blessing and a curse."

Introverted and creative Wyatt grew up with his grandfather, learning at this side the ways of gears and clockworks. His life of relative peace changed drastically one fateful day, when a girl fell from the sky and the Goddess of Storms chose her Heralds.

Together with his adopted sister Erin, Wyatt wields the power of wind, sky and lightning, hiding his gifts from those who sought to control it; what he cannot hide, however, is the rot consuming him. A sickness of origins unknown has eaten away at this body, bringing him to the brink of death and forcing Wyatt to seek refuge, through his powers, in one of his constructs. Confined to a shimmering crystal and a mechanical bird, Wyatt holds on, if barely, and travels with his sister in search of a cure... and answers to the plague that claimed him, and that threatens to claim all of Alberna.

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