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[Fallen Seraph]

Yeah not amazing, but equal with most D&D art.

 

[Klaus]

I have to say, I'm not really feeling these efreet pictures, especially the one on the left. Oh well, they can't all be winners.

Yeah, those efreeti are pretty bad. They should have at least echoes of their genie side.

Cue in Counter Collection Gold:

 

[Zamkaizer]

I agree...Doesn't do anything for me. Not to say it is bad but just there,...

Then again, I wonder if efreet and the rest of the jinn simply don't make good art subjects?

I have the entire Al-qadim setting and I've been in-and-out of M:TG since Revised and yet neither of those two product lines have ever produced a genie picture that made me say "Wow...I'd like that as a poster".

What's my prize?

On a different note, while the Efreet might not be best piece we've seen, they're infinitely better than the Cambions.

 

[Dunamin]

Hmm, I had sort of hoped they went with a swirly elemental lower half instead of legs as the "default form". Always found that a somewhat distinct and classy "genie shtick".

I fear the 4E versions may be mistaken for devils once in a while.

 

[Protagonist]

I would have preferred "legless" efreeti as well, but I like how you can really get a distinct "roles" vibe from each of the three efreeti

 

[hong]

Yeah, those efreeti are pretty bad. They should have at least echoes of their genie side.

Cue in Counter Collection Gold:

Dear Klaus,

No more pimping pls, kthxb

 

[AllisterH]

What's my prize?

On a different note, while the Efreet might not be best piece we've seen, they're infinitely better than the Cambions.

I always hated this piece because you couldn't tell that it was a BLUE card. Personally, I think the cambions look way better than this genie pic.

That said, I do think like others that the ones that come closest to making me say "Wow" have always been pics of people just opening and letting loose a genie from its confinement.

Although, I think that is at odd with the DEFAULT home of genies which are the Elemental regions. I think WOTC should've never made them a full fledged race but kept them as bound servants to lamps, bottles etc.

 

[DandD]

Keep in mind that according to Worlds & Monsters, Efreeti don't have to be necessarily Genies anymore. They want to do away with the unnecessarily symmetry. Now, Efreeti might very well simply be evil spirits made of smokeless flames, instead of flame-variant-genies. Perhaps Genies won't even be of any element whatsoever.

 

[Klaus]

Dear Klaus,

No more pimping pls, kthxb

Can I be to blame if the examples of how I'd like to see the monsters portrayed were done by me?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Can I be to blame if the examples of how I'd like to see the monsters portrayed were done by me?

Why do you stuff you like? Nobody else does that! Especially not with D&D!