Purchase in the 24-hour window, and you're guaranteed to adopt eight brand-new pet Rats. Similar to December's Secret Lair drops, we want to make sure you can get this drop if you want it. Your code will be made available once your item is on hand and ready to begin its shipping process. When you purchase the Year of the Rat drop, you'll get a follow-up email that will confirm your purchase. While this Secret Lair drop doesn't come with any MTGO integration (don't worry-more of them will in the future!), it does still come with a code to get Year of the Rat-inspired sleeves in MTG Arena. Meris Mullaley, Art Director, Magic TCG Details Marrow-Gnawer: welcomes his large family to the new year banquet celebrating good food and good company." Pack Rat: is leading a procession to bring food, gifts, and good wishes for the new year. Rat Colony: is a happy, loving family (with whiskers and tails) decorating their den for the new year festivities. Ink-Eyes: is the legendary rat that just jumped off the ox's nose to become the first animal of the Zodiac. It was an honor to work with JungShan, Kisung Koh, Fiona Hsieh, and Jenn Ravenna on these special interpretations of well-loved Magic cards. For this Secret Lair drop, I worked with Emily Teng to create art descriptions that portrayed iconic Rat creature cards in a harmonious, aspirational manner with symbols of the Lunar New Year (lanterns, firecrackers, fruit, etc.) represented in the art. Rats in Magic: The Gathering are often depicted as disease-ridden scavengers. It was important to me that the artists involved in the project reflected the diversity of cultures that celebrate Lunar New Year and a range of art styles. If you're of Chinese descent, you would hear it called "Chinese New Year," but the holiday is known globally as "Lunar New Year" and is celebrated by multiple East Asian and Southeast Asian regions. The order of the animals is based on a myth in which the animals raced to greet the Jade Emperor and the rat, being the most cunning, rode on Ox's back and then jumped down at the finish line to be first. On Jan 25, 2020, it will become the Year of the Rat, according to the zodiac that assigns animals (and their personality attributes) to a 12-year cycle. As art director for the Year of the Rat Secret Lair drop, I wanted to make something for Magic fans and the 1.5 billion people who celebrate Lunar New Year. "Being Chinese-American, the celebration of Lunar New Year has been as integral to my life as Christmas or Halloween. Now that you've fallen head over heels in love, hear a little bit from the art director of the drop, Meris Mullaley, about how the drop came to be. Year of the Rat is being published in English. ** is not available in the following regions: China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Vietnam.
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