Richard Thomas

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Richard Thomas
General Information
Status	Inactive: Alpha to Unhinged
Style	black ink and watercolors
Education/ Training	Tyler School of Art
Scryfall Statistics
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Richard Thomas is one of the original twenty-five Magic: The Gathering artists, recognizable by his stylized art. He also was the creator of Stuffy.

Description

Like a lot of “classic” Magic artists, Thomas was friends with the people at Wizards of the Coast – having worked with them on different projects before MtG. One day, Lisa Stevens called him to see if he would like to do “card art” for a new card game they were creating. He was intrigued because he had always loved tarot and other cards where art was important to the look, but had no clue about this whole collectible card game thing they were doing. He knew WOTC had something that was working the first Gen Con it debuted.

Unlike a lot of the other original Magic artists, illustration was what he did in addition to my regular job as the lead visual person at White Wolf. After leaving White Wolf in 2019, he started his own Tabletop Role Playing Game company, called Onyx Path Publishing.

Notable illustrations

• Air Elemental (Alpha)
• Hyalopterous Lemure (Ice Age)
• Black Vise (Alpha)
• The Rack (Antiquities)
• Jokulhaups
• Gleemax

Gallery

• 
  Blaze of Glory
• 
  Hoar Shade
• 
  Power Sink
• 
  The Rack
• 
  Inspired by the Japanese painting The Great Wave off Kanagawa
• 
  Wall of Earth
• 
  Wall of Light