Pitch black sorcerer the magical knight errant is a mysterious and powerful figure in the realm of fantasy and magic. Armed with a formidable arsenal of dark spells and enchantments, he roams the land, seeking justice and vanquishing all evil that crosses his path. His pitch-black armor, adorned with ancient runes and sigils, serves as a constant reminder of the sorcerer's otherworldly origins and his allegiance to the dark forces. A master swordsman, he wields a blade imbued with dark magic, capable of cutting through even the strongest of defenses. But it is not just his physical prowess that sets him apart from other knights. The sorcerer possesses a deep and innate connection to the mysterious forces that shape the world.
Table 1: Clan Thunderfoot has forged fine quality weapons for ages (+2 Dex, +2 Int, Skill: Weaponsmithing).
DEX 12
STR 8
CON 8
INT 10
WIS 10
CHA 6
Skills: Weaponsmithing (+2)
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It s reminiscent of the destruction of Tokyo in Akira, and how the illustrator, Katsuhiro Otomo, shaded the explosion with mania-inducing crosshatching to honor the dead. He works for nonprofits as an educational strategies developer and, in his off-hours, enjoys writing fiction, playing games, and exploring new beers.
The sorcerer possesses a deep and innate connection to the mysterious forces that shape the world. He can tap into the very essence of magic, bending it to his will and using its limitless power to achieve his goals. Despite his intimidating appearance, the magical knight errant is not driven by a desire for dominance or personal gain.
Choose Your Own Damnation
Beginning today, Wizards of the Coast is embarking on a new experiment: artist collections sold directly to the public in the form of Secret Lairs. They’re starting with a safe pick: Seb McKinnon, whose popularity is proportional to his talent, and who has been given the freedom to illustrate a disparate collection of cards. Instead of a thematic connection, McKinnon has build a narrative one, with his four cards chronicling the life, death, and rebirth of a knight errant.
While all the art in the Lair is gorgeous, the art for Damnation is truly inspired, as befits a tournament-caliber card that has been a part of Magic’s history (and periodic “when are they going to reprint this!?” discussion) since its first printing back in Planar Chaos.
The elevator pitch for Planar Chaos was “what if Magic’s colors had developed differently?” The set included 45 “color-shifted” reprints of classics cards, nine for each color. For example: red got Prodigal Pyromancer and Pyrohemia, green got Essence Warden and Harmonize, white got Mana Tithe and Mesa Enchantress, blue got Serendib Sorcerer and Frozen Aether, and Black got Melancholy and Damnation.
In the original Alpha set of Magic, white was the color of egalitarian destruction: Armageddon, Balance, Wrath of God. This became a central part of the color’s identity; the slow subtraction of powerful mass removal from white is part of why white has become the underdog color. Shatter the Sky just isn’t the same, good as it is.
Wrath of God by Kev Walker
Damnation was an experiment, a hypothetical switch in mechanical identity to match thematic identity, but it was the exact piece Black was missing back in 2007. It bolstered Faeries into a real menace, validated Dimir Control piles like Mystical Teachings, and remained relevant after Modern became a format. I think it would be fine in Historic or perhaps even Pioneer, although its reprinting in a Secret Lair makes that unlikely in the near future. The card is iconic, much as Wrath was before it, and it was iconic because of its art. While Wrath of God showed a crowded battlefield devastated by the force of a divine explosion, Damnation
Damnation by Kev Walker.
Kev Walker’s Planar Chaos art for Damnation was a mirror of his 7th Edition Wrath of God—the art that still shows up each time the card is reprinted. While Wrath of God showed a crowded battlefield devastated by the force of a divine explosion; Damnation is a black hole, devouring both armies equally and implacably. It’s reminiscent of the destruction of Tokyo in Akira, and how the illustrator, Katsuhiro Otomo, shaded the explosion with mania-inducing crosshatching to honor the dead.
Wrath of God by Quinton Hoover
The quirky Quinton Hoover original, with the glowering face of the deity themself and the watercolor-saturated pile of corpses almost serving as a wimmelbilderbuch, set Magic’s style for a decade—but it didn’t have the majesty and sinister glory of the Damnation/Wrath of God diptych. Comparing the two side-by-side demonstrates how closely they match, and how much effort went into distinguishing them.
Damnation by Ron Spencer
That mirror later came up in the Player Rewards series, when Ron Spencer revisited his Player Rewards Wrath of God art in a Player Rewards Damnation. This, to me, is more personally resonant than the Kev Walker Damnation. While I appreciate Walker’s stark Damnation—the slate-clearing of an implacable and merciless god—Spencer’s Damnation is grungy and noxious. The glowing green of the crater really pops in the foil treatment; and the art itself is nicely textured, with the crater drawing focus but balanced out by the detailed foreground. It’s odd to call it “lovely,” but I wouldn’t hesitate to do so.
Indeed, I prefer it to Walker’s art, mostly because I like the concept of a god’s wrath leaving behind an impact crater. With pure omnipotence, you’d think that a god could erase humanity from Dominaria completely, through temporal manipulation or cosmic shenanigans. But gods are limited by humanity’s imagination, and so Wraths are typically depicted as superpowered nuclear bombs. Spencer depicts his Damnation as environmental as well as human. It’s not just the destruction of the warring armies, but of the battlefield, that symbolizes Damnation.
Damnation by Zack Stella
The third, and most dismissible, version of Damnation is Zack Stella’s Amonkhet Masterpiece Damnation. I’m generally a fan of Stella’s work, but this piece is done no favors by the muddy printing of the Amonkhet Masterpieces. Instead of a black hole or a neutron bomb, we have a 100-foot dragon striking a pose. Wizards meant to turn this moment into an iconic moment in Magic’s current story, with Nicol Bolas returning to his army incubator plane of Amonkhet; but it’s promotional art, not a masterpiece.
I have no qualms, however, about calling Seb McKinnon’s new Damnation a masterpiece.
Seb McKinnon first started illustrating for Magic with Return to Ravnica block—his Immortal Servitude and Debt to the Deathless showed off his macabre brilliance and meticulous technique. But it was Topplegeist that cemented him as an artist to watch to me—the warped proportions of the little specter, the caught-in-the-action framing of the piece, the alien whimsy of it spoke to what I want to see in Magic art. McKinnon paints Magic spirits beautifully—Shadows Over Innistrad gave us Pale Rider of Trostad, Topplegeist, Selfless Spirit, Fogwalker, Erdwal Illuminator, and Chilling Grasp each display a different example in the taxonomy of phantoms. In terms of style, he reminds me most of Adam Rex, whose dreamy color palettes and twisted figures are similar to McKinnon’s (Urborg Uprising, Wicked Pact, 10th Edition Terror); but McKinnon has a clarity and compositional confidence that are next level.
Vengeful Rebirth by Seb McKinnon
It’s hard to be both versatile and immediately recognizable, especially in a 2-inch art box, but McKinnon manages it. His illustrated manuscript style (Vengeful Rebirth, Deliver Unto Evil, Phantom Tiger) is immediately recognizable; but he also gets tagged in for simple tableaux (Mind Rot, Agonizing Syphon); still lifes (Chalice of the Void, Millennial Gargoyle); low-pick Limited cards (Unholy Indenture); and landscapes (Silent Clearing, Misty Rainforest).
One of my favorite pieces of his is almost a Walker Damnation in and of itself. When Soulherder’s art dropped, prior to the reveal of the card, players speculated that it would be some mass removal spell or world-destroying legend, instead of a Limited linchpin. Luckily, we’ve now circled back around to give McKinnon another shot at an apocalypse with his Secret Lair.
Damnation by Seb McKinnon
The reference point for McKinnon’s Damnation is, of course, Hieronymous Bosch—most obviously The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych the Dutch painter produced sometime around 1500. The stormy blacks of the hellish sky, the bone-and-ochre tones of the foregrounded figures—it’s a pretty blatant allusion, even if McKinnon hadn’t pointed it out specifically on his Twitter. It’s a Magic spin on Bosch, though, with a Soulherder-esque demon presiding over the scene and hordes straight out of Bedevil in the margins. Bosch’s hellscapes are fantastic in the most literal sense—I used to pore over Delights and Bosch disciple Pieter Bruegel’s The Fall of the Rebel Angels as a morbid kid the same way I pored over my Tempest cards. So I’m upgrading my Damnations immediately, starting with the wear-gnawed Player Rewards foil in my Kagemaro deck and the sideboard-two-ofs in my Modern control deck.
McKinnon is an incredible fit for Magic because he’s a narrative artist. He’s worked on films, and that experience shows in the way he fills in the gaps. One of my favorite cards—on every level—from the last year is Feast of Succession from Commander Legends. While the flavor is on-point, it’s McKinnon’s art that makes it ring out. We can clearly see the story here, the Pyrrhic victory of a feast that turned into an abattoir, leaving a power vacuum and a pile of bodies. There’s a whimsy to it, and an elevated horror, as well, and it’s anchored by art that’s midway between a narrative tapestry and an illustrated manuscript. I can’t praise it highly enough, other than to say that I’ve forced it into every deck that can cast it—and that, in Magic, is the highest praise any player can offer an artist.
A lifelong resident of the Carolinas and a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Rob has played Magic since he picked a Darkling Stalker up off the soccer field at summer camp. He works for nonprofits as an educational strategies developer and, in his off-hours, enjoys writing fiction, playing games, and exploring new beers.
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Instead, he is driven by a strong sense of justice and a burning desire to protect those who cannot protect themselves. His compassion and empathy for the weak and oppressed make him a formidable ally and a terrifying adversary to those who would seek to do harm. As he travels the land, the pitch black sorcerer is often met with suspicion and fear. His dark magic and enigmatic nature make him an outcast in many realms, shunned by those who do not understand or fear his powers. But the knight errant remains undeterred, his unwavering determination to fight evil never wavering. In the end, the pitch black sorcerer the magical knight errant serves as a symbol of hope and inspiration. He reminds us that even in the darkest of times, there are those who are willing to stand up and fight against injustice. His story is a testament to the power of magic, courage, and the undying spirit of heroism..
Reviews for "The Pitch Black Sorcerer and the Balance between Good and Evil: The Inner Struggles of a Magical Knight Errant"
1. John Doe - 2 stars
I found "Pitch Black Sorcerer the Magical Knight Errant" to be a disappointing read. The story lacked depth and the characters were flat and uninteresting. The plot felt rushed and there were many loose ends that were never tied up. Additionally, the writing style was choppy and awkward, making it difficult to fully immerse myself in the story. Overall, I would not recommend this book to others.
2. Jane Smith - 1 star
I was extremely disappointed with "Pitch Black Sorcerer the Magical Knight Errant". The story seemed promising, but it quickly devolved into a confusing mess. The world-building was weak, leaving me with more questions than answers. The characters were one-dimensional and lacked any development. The dialogue was stilted and unrealistic. Overall, this book was a complete letdown and I would not recommend it to anyone.
3. Mark Thompson - 2 stars
"Pitch Black Sorcerer the Magical Knight Errant" had an interesting concept, but it fell short in execution. The pacing was uneven, with long stretches of boredom followed by rushed action sequences. The writing lacked finesse and there were numerous grammatical errors throughout the book. The resolution felt forced and unsatisfying. While the book had potential, it ultimately failed to deliver a compelling story.
4. Sarah Johnson - 2 stars
I had high hopes for "Pitch Black Sorcerer the Magical Knight Errant", but unfortunately, it didn't live up to my expectations. The story felt disjointed and the plot twists were predictable. The characters were unlikable and it was difficult to connect with any of them. The writing style was lackluster and failed to capture my attention. Overall, I was left feeling underwhelmed and would not recommend this book.