Shinji Kanda
24 cards illustrated by Shinji Kanda.
Kanda is one of those artists worth taking your time over. His trick is setting everything against deep, inky black, which makes every colour leap off the card — and then packing the composition with so much detail that you keep spotting new things the longer you look (there's a tiny Gyarados hiding at the top of one of his Magikarp cards, if you know where to look). His masterpiece is the Giratina from Lost Origin, an otherworldly card that regularly gets called one of the best of the modern era. If you love art that keeps giving, he's a treasure.
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