With my new mosaic program done, I decided that it was time to restart my Mosaic-a-Week. Stay tuned each Monday for a new image mosaic of a magic card. To kick it all off, I couldn’t resist doing a card that should be recognizable to anyone who has been in my house – Arcanis the Omnipotent.

I’ve always been a fan of Blue (it was, in fact, the color of the first deck of Magic cards I received as a gift), and I really like Arcanis in particular. To start with, he’s got a neat card draw ability (you bet he’s in my Niv-Mizzet Deck), and his bounce himself ability is ok, if you have lots of manna kicking around. Really though, the art of this card did it for me. He’s always my test subject when working on new algorithms because he has such a variety of color and fine lines – it makes for good mosaics every time.