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Magic: The Gathering: Yoji Shinkawa Illustrates Card For Kamigawa

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Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, has been preparing itself and its player base for a year of massive crossovers with such intellectual properties as Fortnite, Street Fighter, Warhammer 40,000, and others. In 2020 we saw a crossover with TOHO's Godzilla and also one with The Walking Dead, and this past year we saw a number of additional crossovers including Stranger Things and Arcane. However, all of these will inevitably pale in comparison to 2022's Universes Beyond initiative. However, Wizards hasn't let the crossover magic subside for this year just yet, as we now have the news that they have gotten Yoji Shinkawa, the renowned character designer of Metal Gear and Death Stranding fame, to illustrate an alternate-art card for Magic's upcoming Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty expansion set.

The Buy-A-Box promotional art for Satoru Umezawa, a card from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, the next upcoming expansion set for Magic: The Gathering. Illustrated by the legendary character designer Yoji Shinkawa.
The Buy-A-Box promotional art for Satoru Umezawa, a card from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, the next upcoming expansion set for Magic: The Gathering. Illustrated by the legendary character designer Yoji Shinkawa.

Shinkawa will be joining Xenoblade Chronicles character designer Raita Kazama in the endeavor of creating alternate-art versions of Satoru Umezawa, a crime boss of renowned lineage from the plane of existence called Kamigawa, in a setting placed 6,000 or so years after the events of the original block of sets located on the plane. Additionally, these two will be joining Fist of the North Star mangaka Tetsuo Hara, who has illustrated an alternate art for Kaito Shizuki, who seems to be the protagonist of the Neon Dynasty storyline, if the story put out by Wizards of the Coast nearly two weeks ago has anything to say about it.

What do you think about the priming that Wizards of the Coast is doing to prepare the fanbase for a glut of new crossovers in 2022? Let us know what you think of all of this in the comments below!

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Joshua NelsonAbout Joshua Nelson

Josh Nelson is a Magic: The Gathering deckbuilding savant, a self-proclaimed scholar of all things Sweeney Todd, and, of course, a writer for Bleeding Cool. In their downtime, Josh can be found painting models, playing Magic, or possibly preaching about the horrors and merits of anthropophagy. You can find them on Twitter at @Burning_Inquiry for all your burning inquiries.
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