Awesome Artwork

Nothing beats the vintage artwork. In today's short video, we'll look at three of my favorite artists, in particular Mark Tedin and some of his contributions to the game.
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I'm Mike, the Alpha Hoarder, and I'm sharing/documenting my wild collection here on YT. Join me while I ramble about old cards and MTG finance, and look at cool stuff.
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Mike the AlphaHoarder @ 375 Carlls Path #73, Deer Park NY 11729

[@mattv2099]

Tedin's art iconic. Awesome binder collection. Thank's for sharing.

[@AlphaHoarder]

Super iconic

[@nndo6953]

Same with me. My days of playing are long gone, but I still love collecting the early set cards to remind me of the good ole days. Plus, I love the art.

[@AlphaHoarder]

💯🤜🤛

[@teamcosmicseeds]

Juzam djinn🧞‍♂️....dual 🧠 favorite card! Love this mail day! Lots of mtg 🔥

[@AlphaHoarder]

Love Juzam 🤩

[@MadMagicShow]

Juzam is one of my fav cards to stare at and be nostalgic about

[@AlphaHoarder]

Right??

[@mfdoom1898]

I love Mark Tedin's work. Time Vault, phyrexian devourer, thought lash, and the urzas stuff is all amazing. One of my other all time favorite artists are the Foglios, Phil and Kaja. Their artwork is soooo good.

[@AlphaHoarder]

Honestly I love all of them! Can't think of an artist that didn't make something that spoke to me

[@mfdoom1898]

@@AlphaHoarder this is very true

[@KykyJyky]

Finally a 2024 Alpha Hoarder video that doesn't send me away with existential dread! This is such a cool binder

[@AlphaHoarder]

Haha glad to hear that

[@Wipokorp]

Great video! Thanks for sharing your favorite artists albums 😊 I really enjoy seeing their style when they are presented like that. Epic cards!!

[@AlphaHoarder]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@CMPixelPaws]

Absolutely incredible artwork on these beauties! Thanks for sharing!

[@patrick-ros]

Thanks for sharing. My favorite artists to collect are the ones that "stand out." As soon as you see one of their cards, you know it's them --- distinct and creative.

[@AlphaHoarder]

What are some of your favorites?

[@AnsonMaddocks]

Since you ask..... it is ( if I can do this right ) Teh-deen or Tuh-deen. Personally, I say "T-deen" He never corrects anyone who says it differently, so I do it for him whenever it comes up. You are right, of course, he is an incredible artist! Thanks for the content you create, be happy and well.

[@AlphaHoarder]

Still working on my Anson binder! Fallen Angel, Black mana battery, animate dead... these were images of my nightmares when I was young 😅

[@MTGUnpacked]

Incredible art! Thanks for sharing your new cards + binders🤩

[@AlphaHoarder]

Thanks for watching

[@lechasseurdemothman]

Amy Weber and Mark Tedin are my favorites... Juzam Time walk ❤️

[@AlphaHoarder]

Yes! Time Walk is my single favorite piece 😍

[@christhemagnif]

Geez! Two huge Alpha Rares! 😮 Mark Tedin’s art is fantastic. Braingeyser is my favorite (and one of my favorite cards period). Mind Bomb, Memory Lapse and Cursed Artifact are honorable mentions. Wow, Juzam in 9.5! Very cool too 🤩

[@AlphaHoarder]

Braingeyser is really epic!

[@penguinlust6749]

Good to see you back making stuff on a regular basis again. As another person whose playing days are behind them, I appreciate the older cards now more and more. Keep up the good work. I will say this, the art that first appeared in Magic back in 1993 was part of the game's appeal. It was different, well done, and eclectic. I look back on it and I'm still amazed. It redefined the fantasy genre to a certain extent, taking it back to to its old-school roots -- more 1970s style than 1980s style that had been prevalent at that point.

[@AlphaHoarder]

I agree!

[@christhemagnif]

Drew Tucker’s stuff is great. Feels like a dreamscape. Vibes really well with The Dark

[@AlphaHoarder]

💯

[@Nabraham1]

Sitting here watching this video and look up at one of my display cases to see my Tedin autographed Urza Power Plant.....something, something, great minds..... As always thank you for sharing, your collection continues to blow me away and love the passion and sharing. Thanks again bud.

[@AlphaHoarder]

Great minds indeed!

[@riccardo4-xx8op]

Love the artists binders man. Im collecting Drew Tucker as well (still missing city in a bottle and both plateau versions tho). Thanks for the upload Mike, have a good day!

[@AlphaHoarder]

He's great!

[@sbKalEl]

Love the birds

[@atunga5]

short and VERY sweet .. I had not realized how many of the classic cards were from Mark Tedin .. I have to pay more attention to the artist credits

[@AlphaHoarder]

Super iconic!

[@honigson8776]

Thank you!

[@zachhinkle7705]

I remember opening a pack of cards and getting something like Cave People and just staring at the card. The lack of detail in the art made the viewer use their imagination and fill in the gaps. It was an experience. Even something like Serra Angel was engaging. When she attacks, does she swing her sword? When it swings is it a powerful, forceful movement or a precise, graceful slice? Our minds would create the visuals guided by the art. The art on cards today can be truly beautiful, but just not engaging in the same way. It gives you all the detail you need and doesn't ask you to stay.

[@AlphaHoarder]

Yes, I think you've stated that very well. To be fair, there are some modern cards that still do this, but they seem to be the exception.

[@hermodnitter3902]

Awesome video! I love all of these artists, and didn't even realise how much I like Tedin's art before you showed the binder where all his works are displayed. Got a Juzam and a Chaos Orb myself and I gotta say, for my part, Juzam is the most badass looking mtg card ever! Ps, also love the birds, still a highly playable card in every format it is legal, and a great vintage cube card as well. The old ABU versions of BoP deserves even more attention than it gets imo... :)

[@AlphaHoarder]

Tedin rocks! And yes, I agree about Birds

[@Demonic_Attorney]

Juzam has been my favorite card art since I was a child. I don’t own one, but now that I’m back in the game as an adult, I have my eyes set on one. Hopefully I can trade up to one.

[@AlphaHoarder]

Yeah, that is really great art. He's also done some fantastic alters. Good luck chasing one down!

[@AlienAbductionStories]

Mike, show all your alpha rares so that we know how many do you have of each one. It would be a gift to humanity!

[@AlphaHoarder]

Perhaps one day I'll bare all 🤔

[@gleblanc83]

Mark Tedin has done some of my favorites, Timetwister and Juzam Djinn

[@AlphaHoarder]

Yes, Timetwiser! Completely forgot to pull that slab out, that's the other one not in my binder. Great stuff

[@Izawwlgood]

The art from MtG has always been top notch, and the older classics are burned in my brain, unlocking whole worlds to 4th grade me! Cool goal to go after artists work! In high school one of the art teachers was married to one of the MtG artists, and he came and showcased some of his work. I remember absolutely losing my mind gushing over the exhibition, but didn't get anything signed. Missed opportunity!

[@AlphaHoarder]

Oh man that's wild! Do you know which artist?

[@WatchUrBaq]

i was always into tcgs, but the first time i bought magic cards, i wasnt even playing the game yet. i just picked up a lot of 100 random commons so i can look at the artworks. thanks for the rare video focused on the art of the cards! the Drew Tucker art looks like "impressionism" in watercolor to me, which is one of my favorite styles of art. unlike realism, it doesnt focus on drawing out details, but only tries to give the impression of them, with lights and shadows. if you're interested in that style, i can recommend Thomas W. Schaller, who is one of my favorite impressionist painters, and also works in watercolor, like Drew Tucker.

[@AlphaHoarder]

Thanks for those details, I'll look into impressionism! Glad you enjoyed the video - it's good to hear there were others captured by the art as much as I was.

[@laneabdulla9748]

I absolutely empathize with the joy you get from these old cards. Nothing compares to what the original artists crafted from their minds and put down in pictures for us to dream about great battles and become Wizards summoning forth hordes of fantastic creatures to do battle.

[@AlphaHoarder]

You get it 🤜🤛

[@oldbordergeek]

nonsense. i like the Ursa saga a little more, sue me. i like binders with a theme! awesome. drew is the best artist 4real!

[@AlphaHoarder]

Urza's counts as old cards in my book

[@oldbordergeek]

@@AlphaHoarder awesome shinies!

[@life_kluda]

My first card in mtg was uthden troll. Found a 9.5 beta and it makes me smile.

[@AlphaHoarder]

Nice find! Uthden is a cool card

[@TavisKingsChannel]

Phoenix Heart is the Drew Tucker card that was done for Richard's wedding to Koni in 2015.

[@AlphaHoarder]

That's the one!

[@henkdachief]

birds of paradise is still epic!

[@AlphaHoarder]

Sure is! Doesn't deserve the back seat treatment I gave it here lol

[@zelosthewilder]

First of all I wanted to say that the two Alphas you opened are two of the first three I ever purchased. Second, I do love Mark's work. I'm kind of surprised you don't have Emrakul in the binder, but that's pretty easy to pick up these days. I will probably forget adding someone, but my favorite MTG artists not mentioned are Raymond Swanland, Howard Lyon, Magali Villeneuve, and Terese Nielsen

[@AlphaHoarder]

Nice! What was the third? Is there an emrakul in the old frame? Maybe I'll include it anyway though, since it is so awesome.

[@zelosthewilder]

I don't think there has been a reprint since they started redoing the old borders yet, but it is a cool card! Man, why are you making me do my homework? lol. Ok, well apparently I lied and they were the 5th and 6th Alpha rare I purchased according to my PayPal history. The first two were Fungusaur and Farmstead

[@OneMoreRedNightmare]

RKFerg did some brilliant art in DomRe and double masters. Quinton Hoover is another favorite, you can recognize his style from a mile away.

[@AlphaHoarder]

Hoover... absolutely!

[@AlphaHoarder]

That question mark was supposed to be an ! ... How could it possibly be a question 😂 Hoover is epic

[@jwt4810]

Richard Kane Ferguson is great! Always loved his style. You should pick up the Tutor cards he redid for Dominaria Remastered they are epic, his rendition of Vampiric Tutor being my favorite version now. He also did a new version of Force of Will and some cards in Commander Masters and Modern Horizons 2.

[@AlphaHoarder]

I'll definitely look for those -- Thanks for the heads up!

[@mfdoom1898]

The art is the best part of the cards.... Its what hooked me and i feel like around Battlebond was the downfall of the artwork.

[@AlphaHoarder]

It definitely changed. I can't put my finger on what, exactly, but way fewer cards achieve the feel of the old stuff

[@mfdoom1898]

@@AlphaHoarder art done with a computer changed a lot

[@TavisKingsChannel]

I agree with Anson.😊 Mark's last name is pronounced Ted-een. I always have trouble pronouncing it like Tee-din, but hopefully I'll get the hang of it.

[@AlphaHoarder]

Ty!

[@TavisKingsChannel]

The one I've had the most difficulty with is Kaja Foglio. It's pronounced Kie-ya, which almost sounds like a karate chop. The "g" is silent in their last name, so it's Folio.

[@themisprintguy]

You are thinking of Phoenix Heart, the wedding invitation from a few years ago. Last one I saw was 35k. I see maybe one or two a year. I found some unique copies of Jump I’ll have to email you too.

[@AlphaHoarder]

Ah, that's the one! Oh good, only 35k 😅 I'll look forward to your email 🧐

[@MRkriegs]

Any info about the graded currency in the background of ur profile photo? Or a close up or overview of that display shelving?

[@AlphaHoarder]

Email me, I can send a close up if you like. It changes regularly.

[@drunkmtg2264]

Sometimes your videos are like a 90's late night adult 1-900 TV ad for old Magic nerds. I'm thinking "Oh ya...Look at those // on that Alpha BOP.... So hot.

[@AlphaHoarder]

Hahaha

[@Possu81]

What do you think about sorcery tcg? Does it tickle at all? Artwork is pretty equivalent to old school mtg and cheap items acquire compared to these

[@AlphaHoarder]

I've played a little, and spent a little time with those cards. I do enjoy the art quite a bit, and I agree it has that old-school feel to it. However, just by virtue of being in a different part of my life than I was when I met magic, I'm not spending the kind of time or imagination with these cards as I did. So while I do think it's a very cool game, and I'm curious to see where it goes, it hasn't pulled me in, and I would be incredibly cautious speculating on the long-term value of these cards.

[@rachao10]

Hi what do you use to bind your cards? Dragon shield and perfect fit?

[@AlphaHoarder]

I'm not a perfect fit fan. I use Titan Shields, if the card is going into a regular binder or box, and a basic penny sleeve inside a top loader if the card of going into a top loader binder.

[@rachao10]

@@AlphaHoarder thanks 😀

[@monkey39128]

Noticed a few of your comments in Reserved Investments videos. Got to say I'm a lot less confident on modern Magic and Pokémon after watching that guy. 😬 Mass produced scarcity and speculation are rife. Too many people think they can be Rudy. All that said, love these vintage cards, beautiful artwork. 😀

[@AlphaHoarder]

I don't catch his videos as much as I used to, but he's a well of knowledge. I think he's 100% right to remind people that this stuff is incredibly speculative and unlikely to last multi-generationally. But we can still love (and hoard) the stuff, as long as we understand the risks 😅😁

[@monkey39128]

@@AlphaHoarder Yeah it definitely echoed a lot of what you were saying about the generational hand off. Absolutely! 😀

[@ryanhunsaker6963]

How much were these?

[@AlphaHoarder]

Email me, happy to share. I don't usually post that publicly, however, so as not to appear to be supporting particular entry points or market values. Sometimes I overpay for cards I like, and don't want that misunderstood

[@lucyalienlove]

'This only my 2nd Alpha Chaos Orb'. YOU ONLY HAVE TWO???? LOOOOOOSERRRRR

[@AlphaHoarder]

Woe is me 😫

[@ethansuckbutt5495]

To each their own on artwork preference. I think these cards have average artwork at best. It is a shame if you don't know Terese Nielsen or Ekaterina Burmak. I don't think they were around for Alpha edition but I could be wrong. These two artist have incredible artwork on MTG.

[@AlphaHoarder]

Art is in the eye of the beholder, so no quarrel there. I'm not too familiar with either of those artists off the cuff, but I pulled up their cards on Skyfall and they both have fantastic stuff.