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Mark Poole (born August 31, 1963) is an American fantasy artist, best known for working on the first set of Magic: the Gathering cards.[1][2][3][4]

Mark Poole
Mark Poole at Gen Con Indy 2014
Born	(1963-08-31) August 31, 1963 (age 59) Goldsboro, North Carolina, US
Known for	Fantasy art

Biography

Poole was born on August 31, 1963 in Goldsboro, North Carolina.[2] He graduated from University of South Carolina in 1986 with a BFA in fine arts and design.[5] Poole works mostly in acrylic, oil and digital media.[2]

He has also worked for companies such as White Wolf Publishing, Warcraft, Sony Online Entertainment, Upper Deck and Ziggurat Games.[2][5] His work was featured at FantasyCon in July 2014.[6]

His artwork featured on the Magic: the Gathering basic Island card from the Summer Magic 1994 set fetches about $600.[7]

Collectible card game credits

• Anachronism[2]
• Battlelords[2]
• BattleTech[2]
• Deadlands: Doomtown[2]
• Dragon Storm[2] (not a CCG, but a collectible common-deck card game)
• Dune[2]
• Fantasy Adventures[2]
• Galactic Empires[2]
• Guardians[2]
• Legend of the Five Rings[2]
• Magic: the Gathering[2]
• Middle-earth[2]
• Mortal Kombat[2]
• Mystical Empire[2]
• Mythos[2]
• Netrunner[2]
• Redemption[2]
• Shadowfist[2]
• Tempest of the Gods[2]
• Vampire: The Eternal Struggle[2]
• Warhammer 40,000[2]
• Warlords[2]
• World of Warcraft[2]

Role-playing game credits

• Cover of Aftermath Technology[2] gamebook (1992)
• Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth[2] gamebook (1994)
• Babylon 5 Project[2] Sourcebook, and Earthforce Sourcebook (1997)
• Dungeons & Dragons[2] Magic Item Compendium Sourcebook, and Magic of Incarnum Sourcebook (2007)
• Fantasy Role Playing Gamer's Bible[2] (1996)
• Promethean: The Created[2] Pandora's book, Pandora's box, Strange Alchemies game supplements (2006)
• Prophecy[2] rulebook (2007)
• Stalking the Steel City[2] gamebook cover (1992)
• Worlds of Darkness: Second Sight[2] character and setting book (2006)

Other credits

• Adventurer's Limited[2] issue #1 (1995)
• Clout Fantasy[2] chip art (2005)
• Cover of Dragon[2] issue #201 (January 1994)
• The Duelist[2] interior artwork; issues #2-3 (1994)
• Legends of Norrath[2] (digital collectible card game)
• Star Wars Galaxies[2]

References

External links

• Official Site

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