Hey, Lauren.

Hello.

Thank you for having me.

Um, so let's start by how do you approach coming back to a world that already's been done before?

Yes.

This is my second time working on a return to ...

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Ah, fuck.

but y'all really found a way to convey that through the artwork so what were some of the ways that you wanted to show the style of spell casting in that artwork

we focused on kind of some minor updates to the visuals across all of the schools but you will notice that a silver quilt probably has one of the biggest changes in terms of how its magic is depicted this is in world a little bit of a reaction actually to the phyrexian invasion if you see the original inkling designs They're a little reminiscent to Phyrexian oil being kind of viscous and ink-like.

And part of in this was paying off the idea that the school has had a reaction and students have had reactions.

They have all been through this shared trauma.

And so we changed the designs away from that kind of more inky aesthetic into something that was more reminiscent of calligraphy.

and kind of other forms of illuminated manuscript to really showcase that the school is living and breathing and changing over time in response to what's happening in the world.

And this also allows us to kind of showcase the language in a little bit more of a literal sense as you're kind of seeing magic that feels inspired by written text.

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