154 - Magi Magi Magician Girl by linkinboss on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Oh man, this was a lot of work to get done. Unfortunately, there is no digital render, a lot of the scans of the card aren't great, and the Duel Art original illustration has a different background, which means even the restored arts on DeviantArt have some quirks like having an overly pink hue on the black (also missing Takahashi's signature).

For this one I ended up aligning a few scans from auctions in high res, upscale them and apply filters to get rid of most of the printing artifacts. Also, I revised the translation available on online Wikis, as this card was released before/around the time PSCT started to become a thing, so I imagined it needed up some cleaning.

A few other quirks is that I removed the "star" from the name, as that has always been done to English cards. I didn't try to localize the name, though if other cards with stars in the name are anything to go by, probably it would have had it changed. However, people are to used to this one, so might as well keep it.