Christopher Rush

This article is about the illustrator. For the writer, see Christopher Rush (writer).

Christopher Rush is an illustrator for Magic: The Gathering.^[1] In total, he has illustrated over 100 cards for the series. Most of his work for Wizards of the Coast was done on the earliest sets, where he also helped with various design and marketing issues. He is the artist of the most expensive card in the game, the Black Lotus.

While the Pokémon TCG was still run by Wizards, he did the illustration for Promo Mewtwo #12, which was released in the April 2000 issue of Nintendo Power. Incidentally, Christopher Rush was the first artist from outside of Japan to have illustrated a Pokémon card, and remains one of the few.

Christopher Rush continues to do freelance work illustrating cards for various games and concept art for computer games and television.

Career Note: While working on the art for Wizards of the Coast, Chris also worked as a Game Play Counselor at Nintendo of America in Redmond, WA.

List of cards by Christopher Rush

Card name	Cost	Rarity
Abbey Gargoyles	2WWW	U
All Hallow’s Eve	2BB	R
Apprentice Sorcerer	2U	U
Archangel	5WW	R
Artifact Possession	2B	C
Basal Thrull	BB	C
Black Lotus	0	R
Blacker Lotus	0	R
Blood of the Martyr	WWW	U
Bog Imp	1B	C
Bone Flute	3	U
Booster Tutor	B	U
Brainstorm	U	C
Brass Man	1	U
Canopy Spider	1G	C
Chicken Egg	1R	C
Chronatog	1U	R
Chronatog Totem	3	U
Circle of Protection: Black	1W	C
Circle of Protection: Red	1W	C
Coal Golem	5	U
Collector Protector	3WW	R
Craw Giant	3GGGG	U
Crookshank Kobolds	0	C
Dark Heart of the Wood	BG	C
Demystify	W	C
Descendant of Kiyomaro	1WW	U
Desert Nomads	2R	C
Dread Reaper	3BBB	R
Elvish Pioneer	G	C
Elvish Scout	G	C
Eron the Relentless	3RR	U
Field of Reality	2U	C
Fire Drake	1RR	U
Flying Men	U	C
Forbidden Lore	2G	R
Forbidden Ritual	2BB	R
Forest		L
Fyndhorn Elder	2G	U
Gauntlet of Might	4	R
Goblin Berserker	3R	U
Goblin Grenade	R	C
Goblin Rimerunner	R	C
Granite Gargoyle	2R	R
Green Mana Battery	4	R
Heed the Mists	3UU	U
Hell Swarm	B	C
Icatian Infantry	W	C
Ihsan’s Shade	3BBB	U
Imaginary Pet	1U	R
Imprison	B	R
Indomitable Will	1W	C
Infantry Veteran	W	C
Ishi-Ishi, Akki Crackshot	1R	R
Joiner Adept	1G	R
Jovial Evil	2B	R
Junún Efreet	1BB	U
Knights of Thorn	3W	R
Kormus Bell	4	R
Krovikan Horror	3B	R
Lightning Bolt	R	C
Lim-Dûl's Paladin	2BR	U
Lotus Bloom1
Malachite Talisman	2	U
Mana Flare	2R	R
Mana Leak	1U	C
Manabarbs	3R	R
Metamorphosis	G	C
Moonring Mirror	5	R
Muse Vessel	4	R
Myr Quadropod	4	C
Mystic Restraints	2UU	C
Nafs Asp	G	C
Necrite	1BB	C
Nether Shadow	BB	R
Netherborn Phalanx	5B	U
Niall Silvain	GGG	R
No-Dachi	2	U
Order of the Ebon Hand	BB	C
Opal Guardian	WWW	R
Overgrowth	2G	C
Plains		L
Powerleech	GG	U
Prophecy	W	C
Radjan Spirit	3G	U
Rakdos Ickspitter	1BR	C
Rakalite	6	R
Rashka the Slayer	3WW	U
Rathi Dragon	2RR	R
Relic Bind	2U	R
Reroute	1R	U
Rod of Ruin	4	U
Rukh Egg	3R	R
Rukh2	0
Runesword	6	C
Safe Haven		R
Seraph	6W	R
Snapping Drake	3U	C
Snow-Covered Plains		L
Sol Grail	3	U
Soldevi Adnate	1B	C
Steam Spitter	4G	U
Stone Rain	2R	C
Storm World	R	R
Su-Chi	4	U
Sunastian Falconer	3RG	U
Tablet of Epityr	1	C
Tawnos’s Coffin	4	R
The Wretched	3BB	R
Tomorrow, Azami’s Familiar	5U	R
Tormod’s Crypt	0	C
Twinstrike	3BR	U
Ur-Drago	3UUBB	R
Urza’s Bauble	0	U
Utvara Scalper	1R	C
Volcanic Hammer	1R	C
Wellwisher	1G	C
Word of Undoing	U	C
Yotian Soldier	3	C

Notes

1.^ Time Spiral Prelease Tournament foil

2.^ Cast only in the mtg game Shandalar when Rukh Egg dies Rukh creature appears. Done in 1994. Not to be confused with the Edward P. Beard Jr. version.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ Moursund, Beth (1997-02). The Official Magic: The Gathering : Strategies & Secrets. Sybex. p. 183. ISBN 9780782120318. http://books.google.com/books?id=k-fweoTJIB8C. Retrieved 22 September 2011. 

External Links

• Official Site

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