Mark Poole | |
|---|---|
 Mark Poole at Gen Con Indy 2014 | |
| Born | August 31, 1963 |
| Known for | Fantasy art |
Mark Poole (born August 31, 1963) is an American fantasy artist, best known for working on the first set of Magic: the Gathering cards. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Mark Poole | |
|---|---|
| Mark Poole at Gen Con Indy 2014 | |
| Born | August 31, 1963 |
| Known for | Fantasy art |
Mark Poole (born August 31, 1963) is an American fantasy artist, best known for working on the first set of Magic: the Gathering cards. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Poole was born on August 31, 1963, in Goldsboro, North Carolina. [2] He graduated from University of South Carolina in 1986 with a BFA in fine arts and design. [5] Poole works mostly in acrylic, oil and digital media. [2]
He has also worked for companies such as White Wolf Publishing, Warcraft, Sony Online Entertainment, Upper Deck and Ziggurat Games. [2] [5] His work was featured at FantasyCon in July 2014. [6]
His artwork featured on the Magic: the Gathering basic Island card from the Summer Magic 1994 set fetches about $600. [7]
Magic: The Gathering is a tabletop and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast, Magic was the first trading card game and had approximately fifty million players as of February 2023. Over twenty billion Magic cards were produced in the period from 2008 to 2016, during which time it grew in popularity. As of the 2022 fiscal year, Magic generates over $1 billion in revenue annually.
Spellfire: Master the Magic is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) created by TSR, Inc. and based on their popular Dungeons & Dragons role playing game. The game appeared first in April 1994, shortly after the introduction of Magic: The Gathering, in the wake of the success enjoyed by trading card games. It was the second CCG to be released, preceding Wizards of the Coast's second CCG Jyhad by two months. More than one dozen expansions for the game were released, and the final expansion was released in October 1997.
Gerald Brom, known professionally as Brom, is an American gothic fantasy artist and illustrator, known for his work in role-playing games, novels, and comics.
Rebecca Guay is an artist known early in her career as an illustrator, commissioned for work on role-playing games, collectible card games, comic books, as well as work on children's literature. Guay subsequently turned primarily toward gallery work, opening her first solo exhibition in 2013 at the R.Michelson Gallery.
John Avon is a Welsh fantasy and science fiction illustrator. His work has been compiled in the book Journeys to Somewhere Else and used for book covers, CD covers, games, toys and advertising campaigns. Avon is best known for his artworks for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering, for which he has produced over 200 paintings.
Ron Spencer is an American illustrator whose most famous work has been for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.
The Duelist was a trading card game magazine published by Wizards of the Coast.
Guardians is a fantasy-themed collectible card game (CCG) published by Friedlander Publishing Group (FPG) in 1995. The initial set was sold in 60-card starter decks and 14-card booster packs.
Terese Nielsen is an American freelance fantasy artist and illustrator.
Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a game developer based in Roseville, Minnesota, United States, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, card, and dice games. As of 2014, it is a division of Asmodee North America.
The World of Warcraft Trading Card Game is an out-of-print collectible card game based on Blizzard Entertainment's MMORPG, World of Warcraft. The game was announced by Upper Deck Entertainment on August 18, 2005 and released on October 25, 2006. Players can play against each other one-on-one, or can join others in order to defeat dungeon/raid "bosses" based on those in the MMORPG. In March 2010, Upper Deck lost the license from Blizzard Entertainment. The license was acquired by Cryptozoic Entertainment later in the month, with the company announcing that planned card sets would be released.
Blue Moon is a German expandable card game (ECG) designed by Reiner Knizia and published by Kosmos and Fantasy Flight Games in 2004.
Elizabeth T. Danforth is an illustrator, editor, writer, and scenario designer for role-playing games and video games. She has worked in the game industry continuously since the mid 1970s.
A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) among other names, is a type of card game that mixes strategic deck building elements with features of trading cards. It was introduced with Magic: The Gathering in 1993.
Alan Pollack is an American artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games.
Matt Forbeck is an American author and game designer from Beloit, Wisconsin.
A sideboard, side deck, or side is a set of cards in a collectible card game that are separate from a player's primary deck. It is used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.
A digital collectible card game (DCCG) or online collectible card game (OCCG) is a computer or video game that emulates collectible card games (CCG) and is typically played online or occasionally as a standalone video game. Many DCCGs are types of digital tabletop games and follow traditional card game-style rules, while some DCCGs use alternatives for cards and gameboards, such as icons, dice and avatars. Originally, DCCGs started out as replications of a CCG's physical counterpart, but many DCCGs have foregone a physical version and exclusively release as a video game, such as with Hearthstone.
Tempest of the Gods is an out-of-print collectible card game by Black Dragon Press and was released in July 1995. The core set, called Limited Edition had 270 cards. It was a limited edition with cards having a gold-coloured border and produced in four rarities, sold in starter decks of 70 cards and booster packs of 15 cards. Signed and numbered cards were randomly inserted into packages.
Bloodshadows is an original pulp adventure gamebook by West End Games that was published in 1994. It was the first setting book for WEG's MasterBook game, which used rules elements used earlier in their TORG and Shatterzone games. It was reprinted in 2011 by Precis Intermedia, which is looking to rework and reform the core rules. A reworked third edition of the gamebook was published by Precis Intermedia in 2016.