Rebecca Leveille, known to Magic fans as the legendary artist Rebecca Guay, launched her 2d Kickstarter today to fund her upcoming artbook The Present. She besides revealed that she has created a new analogy for a Magic card that is due out next May.

The project includes a mixture of her art and Magic: the Gathering illustration offered as prints, playmats, puzzles, facemasks, and more. For Magic fans, this is an exclusive opportunity for backers to claim limited edition prints and playmats of some of her Magic: the Gathering illustrations, besides as a once in a lifetime gamble  to purchase original preliminary sketches of her card illustrations, directly from her sketchbooks that take been in storage since their creation.

The campaign has a $60,000 goal and will run for simply over a calendar month. All rewards can be seen in a special "Backer Gifts Gallery" page on her website and volition exist updated as new goals are added and unlocked.

The artist with her oversized 'Large Magic" series

Magic: the Gathering Rewards

If you lot're a fan of Rebecca Guay's MTG work, at that place is a smorgasbord of entrada options to support her electric current work and career via this Kickstarter.

First, she is offer several extended playmat designs for the base campaign, including Hana Kami, Aqueduct, and Angelic Renewal.

Besides in the works are some brand new artwork extensions for future stretch goals afterward in the campaign. She gave a preview of the Bitterblossom design that volition unlock past the first funding goal

Preview of Guay's extended-fine art Bitterblossom.

Besides equally a potential collaboration for a playmat/print with one of her favorite MTG artists (who she'south worked with earlier, hint, hint).

Any of the unlocked artwork will also be available equally a 16" x twenty" or 30" x 40" express edition print, including both her personal piece of work and the MTG artwork that's a part of this project. Smaller, open up edition prints at viii.5" 10 xi" are as well in queue, with two options available at launch.

Perchance the virtually exciting reward of this Kickstarter is the Evolution Box Collector'southward Edition Packages:

Each of these rewards includes one of the concluding signed copies of Rebecca'due south beginning art book Evolution, a signed  Magic: the Gathering artist proof card with watercolor sketch, a signed oversized Titania MTG menu, a signed impress of her piece of work The Visitor, and an original Magic preliminary pencil sketch, taken straight from her sketchbook. For fans outside Magic, there are also original watercolor works in place of the pencil sketches.

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Prices for this tier brainstorm at $2,900 and increase to $4,500 based on the sketch included with the grouping. This is currently the simply fashion to acquire an original sketch directly from the artist, and I would expect by the fourth dimension this article is published that several of these high-end tiers volition accept been claimed.

A New Card Coming Next Year

Rebecca has also made a pretty big announcement within the text of this Kickstarter:

"A release of a playmat and print of the NEW piece that will marker the return of my art that will exist included in the MTG game—in a new piece coming out in MAY (you heard it hither first!). I can't show it to you until its released, simply I Dearest it and they let me do Annihilation I wanted (yeah anything!)!"

That'south correct folks, later more than a decade, Rebecca Guay is returning to Magic: the Gathering! She'll be adding a new carte du jour to the more than 160 cards she has illustrated for Magic between 1996-2009.

Wrapping Up

Again, that link to get a capitalist is here. Get your pledge in now and then every bit to not miss out, and make certain you watch for special stretch goals and new rewards over the side by side thirty days.

Stay tuned to Hipsters of the Coast for updates in this campaign, and remember, to run across original #mtgart and other #vorthos related things, follow me on Twitter. Feel complimentary to ask questions or retweet to continue the conversation. Thanks and encounter you lot next time!