{"id":49780,"date":"2026-05-04T23:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49780"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:00:37","slug":"magic-the-gathering-artist-apologizes-for-plagiarizing-one-ring-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49780","title":{"rendered":"Magic: The Gathering Artist Apologizes For Plagiarizing One Ring Artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1837\/18375603\/4691661-onering.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dan Frazier, one of the original artists for Magic: The Gathering, has been wrapped up in a plagiarism scandal this month over a recently released image of the One Ring from The Hobbit set. Fans on Reddit quickly noticed that Frazier&#8217;s image greatly resembled a previous One Ring illustration by Marta Nael from the Tales of Middle-earth set. Now, Frazier and Magic: The Gathering&#8217;s parent company, Wizards of the Coast, have acknowledged that Nael&#8217;s art was used without her permission or credit for her work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made a mistake, and I feel awful,&#8221; wrote Frazier in a statement on X. &#8220;I especially feel for Marta, whose work I adore. In trying to create an iconic version of The One Ring, while looking at references online, I ended up using Marta&#8217;s Ring as a reference and painted over it to try to depict the item the fans hold dear to their hearts. In doing so, I didn&#8217;t make it my own. I&#8217;m reaching out to Marta privately to apologize artist to artist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"tweet\" data-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wizards_magic\/status\/2050711976490283390\" data-has-image=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-mce-disable-toolbar=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A message from Dan Frazier and Wizards of the Coast: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4VCM8avcay\">pic.twitter.com\/4VCM8avcay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  \u2014 Magic: The Gathering (@wizards_magic) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wizards_magic\/status\/2050711976490283390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>Wizards of the Coast&#8217;s message stated that it has plans to pay Nael for her work and that both she and Frazier will be credited for the art in the digital versions. The company&#8217;s statement also noted that it didn&#8217;t catch the similarities between the two works before adding, &#8220;We still value Dan and his contributions and are grateful for his place in the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/magic-the-gathering-artist-apologizes-for-plagiarizing-one-ring-artwork\/1100-6539761\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Frazier, one of the original artists for Magic: The Gathering, has been wrapped up in a plagiarism scandal this month over a recently released&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[12513,1785,3030,4851,3835,21997,651],"class_list":["post-49780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-apologizes","tag-artist","tag-artwork","tag-gathering","tag-magic","tag-plagiarizing","tag-ring","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}