Magic: The Gathering Dustmourn Will Have A 'Special Guest' Card Silent Hill Fans Won't Want To Miss

Magic: The Gathering Dustmourn Will Have A 'Special Guest' Card Silent Hill Fans Won't Want To Miss

From Screen Rant (Written by Yuliya Geikhman) on | OpenCritic

The new Duskmourn set for Magic: The Gathering is getting a Special Guest card designed by a celebrated artist from the Silent Hill series. The lead monster designer and art director of the first three Silent Hill titles, Masahiro Ito, has contributed his art to an upcoming card. Ito is well-known for his iconic monster designs, including the terrifying Pyramid Head.

The new card was unveiled at PAX West, as spotted by Wargamer, and will be a reprint of the Damnation card with new art. The new Damnation features Ito's reimagining of Valgavoth, the central villain of Duskmourn.

Special Guest cards are valid MTG card reprints that feature special art by popular artists. The artists are tasked with recreating the card artwork to fit the current world or expansion of the game. Magic: The Gathering has collaborated with other video games and game artists in the past, like June's Assassins's Creed x Magic collaboration.

Ito's rethinking of Valgavoth takes an already terrifying elder moth demon and turns it into a Lovecraftian horror. In Ito's illustration, Valgavoth is a flesh-like creature emerging from the darkness and shrouded in a black cloud. Many grotesque human arms reach out from the center...

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