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Title: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: werothegreat on September 14, 2013, 09:18:03 pm
Look at the Candlestick Maker.  Now look at Masterpiece.  See it yet?

We all know about Island/Pirate Ship/Native Village, and of course the Ruins with their un-Ruined counterparts, but can anyone find any other interesting art connections?
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: Schneau on September 14, 2013, 09:21:44 pm
Haha, nice!

I've always wondered about the Masterpiece art -- doesn't it seem like it should feature something more like a statue or a painting? But, that's cool anyway.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: WalrusMcFishSr on September 14, 2013, 09:37:57 pm
Masterpiece Maker--$2
Action
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+1 Action
+1 Buy
Take a Masterpiece Token.

You may return any number of Masterpiece Tokens. If you do, gain a Copper, then gain a Silver for each Masterpiece Token you returned.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: Jimmmmm on September 14, 2013, 11:07:53 pm
Village/Scrying Pool and Village/Pillage.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: A Drowned Kernel on September 15, 2013, 12:00:27 am
Village/Scrying Pool and Village/Pillage.

Holy crap, I never notice that on Scrying Pool!

Also Duchy and Duchess compliment each other.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: sudgy on September 15, 2013, 12:08:19 am
Village/Scrying Pool and Village/Pillage.

Holy crap, I never notice that on Scrying Pool!

Also Duchy and Duchess compliment each other.

You mean Duke and Duchess?
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: petrie911 on September 15, 2013, 12:37:08 am
Oddly, the base set art for Duchy doesn't match up well with Duke or Duchess. Where's the river?
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: yed on September 15, 2013, 05:10:38 am
(http://playdominion.com/Dominion/CardBuilder/img/illustration/candlestickMaker.jpg) (http://playdominion.com/Dominion/CardBuilder/img/illustration/masterpiece.jpg)
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: AJD on September 15, 2013, 09:55:46 am
(http://play.goko.com/Dominion/CardBuilder/img/illustration/candlestickMaker.jpg) (http://play.goko.com/Dominion/CardBuilder/img/illustration/masterpiece.jpg)

I don't quite see it? The Masterpiece has branches, and the candlestick that the Candlestick Maker is working on doesn't. I guess it looks like that guy's style, though.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: werothegreat on September 15, 2013, 09:57:03 am
You'll notice the bases are identical - they have the same curves and little red gems.  In CM, the branches are sitting on the table.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: AJD on September 15, 2013, 09:58:01 am
In CM, the branches are sitting on the table.

So they are! I didn't spot that.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: A Drowned Kernel on December 05, 2013, 11:18:05 pm
Old thread necro but I just noticed that the urchin is wearing a red bandana around his neck, and if you look closely, he still has it on his arm as a grown-up mercenary. That's pretty cool.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: werothegreat on December 06, 2013, 12:06:36 am
Old thread necro but I just noticed that the urchin is wearing a red bandana around his neck, and if you look closely, he still has it on his arm as a grown-up mercenary. That's pretty cool.

The Mercenary also has the knife that was being used on him when he was an Urchin.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: pedroluchini on December 06, 2013, 06:59:49 am
"My finest work... A true masterpiece! The only one in existence. I assure you there aren't five hundred more in the back."
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: yed on December 06, 2013, 07:50:34 am
(http://playdominion.com/Dominion/CardBuilder/img/illustration/urchin.jpg) (http://playdominion.com/Dominion/CardBuilder/img/illustration/mercenary.jpg)
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: Awaclus on December 06, 2013, 08:53:50 am
Old thread necro but I just noticed that the urchin is wearing a red bandana around his neck, and if you look closely, he still has it on his arm as a grown-up mercenary. That's pretty cool.
Read that as "a red banana". I didn't even notice I read it wrong on the first time I visited this thread after your post.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: GendoIkari on December 06, 2013, 09:33:46 am
Old thread necro but I just noticed that the urchin is wearing a red bandana around his neck, and if you look closely, he still has it on his arm as a grown-up mercenary. That's pretty cool.

The Mercenary also has the knife that was being used on him when he was an Urchin.

Now the Urchin card confuses me. As Urchin is an attack card, it stands to reason that the person of the Urchin should be a person who goes around harming people (like Goons, Militia, Witch, etc). But, based on the art, the Urchin is the person being attacked. Seems backwards.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: Witherweaver on December 06, 2013, 10:23:45 am
Old thread necro but I just noticed that the urchin is wearing a red bandana around his neck, and if you look closely, he still has it on his arm as a grown-up mercenary. That's pretty cool.

The Mercenary also has the knife that was being used on him when he was an Urchin.

Now the Urchin card confuses me. As Urchin is an attack card, it stands to reason that the person of the Urchin should be a person who goes around harming people (like Goons, Militia, Witch, etc). But, based on the art, the Urchin is the person being attacked. Seems backwards.

Because he's the decoy.  He pretends to be the victim to lure someone into assulting him, then his friend comes and robs the person from behind.  That's why two of them means a bigger attacker!
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: Polk5440 on December 06, 2013, 10:32:04 am
Urchin is a wimpy attack. Just because he attacks doesn't mean he wins the fight.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: Eran of Arcadia on December 06, 2013, 01:06:08 pm
I just assumed he was a street kid who was seen as an easy victim by the bald dude, turned out to be tougher than expected, and grew up into a hardened mercenary because of his childhood.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: Ozle on December 06, 2013, 01:36:29 pm
There's faulty logic at play here.
Just because the Urchin is the title doesn't mean its the subject of the attack. Just that an Urchin is involved

After all, who doesn't see an Urchin in the street and want to pummel them
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: Dsell on December 06, 2013, 01:40:18 pm
This is decidedly not cute but does Candlestick Maker have weird furry arms?
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: markusin on December 06, 2013, 09:19:38 pm
Old thread necro but I just noticed that the urchin is wearing a red bandana around his neck, and if you look closely, he still has it on his arm as a grown-up mercenary. That's pretty cool.

The Mercenary also has the knife that was being used on him when he was an Urchin.

Now the Urchin card confuses me. As Urchin is an attack card, it stands to reason that the person of the Urchin should be a person who goes around harming people (like Goons, Militia, Witch, etc). But, based on the art, the Urchin is the person being attacked. Seems backwards.
I always saw the urchin as stealing something from a tough guy who ends up catching him, but then the tough guy sees potential in the urchin and takes him under his wing, showing him the ropes of gang life and everything. Kind of like Oliver Twist. The urchin needs to be "found" by another attacker who can harden the urchin enough to turn him into a mercenary when he grows up.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: Archetype on December 07, 2013, 12:38:38 am
I thought the urchin was the bald guy. Like, at first he is lame and just robs kids for their cabbages. But then he uprageds to a mercenary, loses weight, and grows some hair like a real man.

But the little kid being the Urchin makes so much more sense.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: flies on December 08, 2013, 08:38:25 am
The bald guy us bald.  The mercenary is not.  QED.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: werothegreat on December 08, 2013, 09:48:23 am
I think some people here need to go look up what Urchin means in the dictionary.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: Schneau on December 08, 2013, 10:33:13 am
I think some people here need to go look up what Urchin means in the dictionary.

urchin - noun - a small sea animal that lives on the ocean floor and is covered in sharp spines
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: markusin on December 08, 2013, 11:53:04 am
The bald guy us bald.  The mercenary is not.  QED.
Also, Urchin is a Dark Ages card, not a Guilds card.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: bedlam on December 09, 2013, 04:20:55 am
Did you notice the stones being cut out of the quarry are the same ones being used in the upgrade during the remodel of the castle being built by the golem.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: yed on December 09, 2013, 04:44:32 am
Did you notice the stones being cut out of the quarry are the same ones being used in the upgrade during the remodel of the castle being built by the golem.
(http://playdominion.com/Dominion/CardBuilder/img/illustration/quarry.jpg)(http://playdominion.com/Dominion/CardBuilder/img/illustration/upgrade.jpg)(http://playdominion.com/Dominion/CardBuilder/img/illustration/remodel.jpg)(http://playdominion.com/Dominion/CardBuilder/img/illustration/golem.jpg)
I don't see it. While it can be same stones and castle, the illustrations are different.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: eHalcyon on December 09, 2013, 05:52:14 pm
The bald guy us bald.  The mercenary is not.  QED.

Clearly the big bald urchin attacked the child and stole his red bandana, and used his trusty dagger to steal the kid's hair and fashion himself a wig so that he finally looked rugged enough to be hired as a mercenary by all those superficial warlords because who is scared of a bald man honestly it's so obvious.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: markusin on December 09, 2013, 06:03:34 pm
The bald guy us bald.  The mercenary is not.  QED.

Clearly the big bald urchin attacked the child and stole his red bandana, and used his trusty dagger to steal the kid's hair and fashion himself a wig so that he finally looked rugged enough to be hired as a mercenary by all those superficial warlords because who is scared of a bald man honestly it's so obvious.
That's a very plausible explanation. I mean what, that little kid becomes a grown man in the span of a single turn? How old does that make the reign of the rulers of each Dominion?
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: werothegreat on December 09, 2013, 06:23:46 pm
The bald guy us bald.  The mercenary is not.  QED.

Clearly the big bald urchin attacked the child and stole his red bandana, and used his trusty dagger to steal the kid's hair and fashion himself a wig so that he finally looked rugged enough to be hired as a mercenary by all those superficial warlords because who is scared of a bald man honestly it's so obvious.
That's a very plausible explanation. I mean what, that little kid becomes a grown man in the span of a single turn? How old does that make the reign of the rulers of each Dominion?

The knife is hollow - it contains testosterone shots and/or a time machine.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: Awaclus on December 09, 2013, 06:34:08 pm
The bald guy us bald.  The mercenary is not.  QED.

Clearly the big bald urchin attacked the child and stole his red bandana, and used his trusty dagger to steal the kid's hair and fashion himself a wig so that he finally looked rugged enough to be hired as a mercenary by all those superficial warlords because who is scared of a bald man honestly it's so obvious.
That's a very plausible explanation. I mean what, that little kid becomes a grown man in the span of a single turn? How old does that make the reign of the rulers of each Dominion?

The knife is hollow - it contains testosterone shots and/or a time machine.
Or an outpost.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: flies on December 10, 2013, 10:10:07 am
The bald guy us bald.  The mercenary is not.  QED.

Clearly the big bald urchin attacked the child and stole his red bandana, and used his trusty dagger to steal the kid's hair and fashion himself a wig so that he finally looked rugged enough to be hired as a mercenary by all those superficial warlords because who is scared of a bald man honestly it's so obvious.
Clearly.  I don't know how I missed this.
Title: Re: The Candlestick Maker is making the Masterpiece (and other cute art things)
Post by: tastor on December 10, 2013, 02:04:45 pm
But the little kid being the Urchin makes so much more sense.

Yeah, if you guys notice the bald man in the image is wearing some kind of apron, he is a butcher or store clerk or something, not a thief himself. The Urchin stole food from him, and he cornered the kid in an alley way, maybe giving him the cut on his eye (shown in Mercenary) to teach him a lesson. The fact that Mercenary has the same knife means he maybe went back and got revenge? In either case the cornered boy in Urchin grows up to become the Mercenary.