Wizards of the Coast Issues an Additional Artist Credit for Recent ‘Star Trek’ Card
Wizards of the Coast issued an additional art credit for a recently printed card from the Magic: The Gathering – Star Trek set.
The card art in question is for the LCARS version of There’s Coffee in that Nebula (collector numbers #369 and #503). The artwork, by Anna Czeszejko, features a picture of a mug of coffee sitting on a desk. Inside the coffee, there is an image of a nebula. The picture of the nebula floating in the coffee is a matte painting called Nebula Explosion done for Nickelodeon’s Star Trek: Prodigy (see “‘Star Trek: Prodigy’“) by Rutger van de Steeg, who also rendered artwork for the Star Trek set.
It is unclear as to whether or not the integration of Nebula Explosion into the card art was a decision made on the artist’s side or a post-artist rendering replacement decision made by someone on the WotC art direction team. The painting is technically an image created specifically for a Star Trek show, and could’ve been encompassed as part of the license. However, it was clearly repurposed into another artist’s work; the artist credited on the card could’ve rendered their own version of a nebula in the coffee for the piece, inserting of using someone else’s.
The first sentence of WotC’s statement about the work (“It has come to our attention…”) indicates that WotC may not have known about the repurposed nebula art in the coffee initially, and it was pointed out to them after the set was already printed. Rutger van de Steeg has been issued an artist credit for his work on the card.
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