I Like Lands

Because I love lands so much, I decided to try and make some into awesome life counters.  So far, I've made a mountain and an island.

This mountain was another attempt at not only making the card 3D, but also changing the card itself.  The artwork that I used for this alter was from Teetering Peaks, which was a non-basic mountain from the Zendikar block.  As you can see, it looks pretty good with a basic mountain as the face card.

Another interesting thing that I attempted with this alter was to add another layer to the mana symbol in the text box.  I think this looks great in person.

I also created this island for a guy I met at my local gaming store.  He was interested after I showed him the mountain life counter.  He handed me a stack of islands, and that week I got to work.  He even asked me to sign it!

For this one, I used slightly smaller beads in an attempt to keep them from rubbing against the bumped up island symbol, which was a problem I encountered with the mountain.

Eventually I'll create an entire set of life counters based off of lands.  I'm looking forward to doing a plains, since white is my favorite color in the game.

Shannon Ketcham