Randy Gallegos: Art of the Day

Randy Gallegos: Art of the Day

MTG: Hour of Reckoning (2005)

The moment things changed

May 21, 2026
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When I worked on the Ravnica set for Magic in early 2005, it was on the eve of our leaving California, where I was born and lived in San Jose the whole 30 years of my life, to head to Europe for a bit. This meant that in the months leading up to the move, I decided to expand my toolset by adding digital art. I was late to the game, but didn’t want to be so much more behind that I might never get aboard. I was, and continue to be, a reluctant digital artist.

Caption: Hour of Reckoning (2005), digital

Interestingly, this still wasn’t the first time I used digital tools on a Magic card, but it was the first time I didn’t use paint or pencil at all.

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