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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 1h

Fresh off the painting table: Death Cult Assassins for #Warhammer40k

Warhammer miniatures: Two nearly identical women wearing black and red leather bondage gear, running with bloodstained swords.

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Jeremy Geist @jeremygeist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now that all of #mtgfracture has been revealed, I am excited to go in depth on Empower Jace! I am very proud of it. #wotcstaff

The Magic: the Gathering card Mindseeker Oculus

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fresh off the painting table: Craters and hills.

Miniature craters and hills, painted a reddish tan color to match the tabletop.

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Jeremy Geist @jeremygeist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

EMPOWER JACE IS HERE!! I consider it my finest professional accomplishment (so far). Look forward to me yapping about it at length once the full set is spoiled! #mtgfracture

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When I was a kid we had Easy Bake Ovens that cooked real cookiees, for aspiring bakers. And we had Creepy Crawlies that cast real plastic toys, for aspiring toymakers. And we had Frankie Stein's Transference Devices that swapped personalities between real frogs and mice, for aspiring mad scientists.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fresh off the painting table: A Monster Destroid from #Robotech.

A green-painted miniature of a Monster Destroid from Robotech / Macross, painted green. This giant robot features four battleship cannons on its back and laser guns for arms.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Fresh off the painting table, an arco-flagellant and a medieval world guardsman for #Warhammer40k.

Warhammer miniatures: A man whose arms have been replaced with flails, and a man in quartered late medieval garb holding a lasgun.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Fresh off the painting table: Defender and Phalanx Destroids for Robotech RPG Tactics.

Miniature giant robots, some with antiaircraft guns for arms, some with barrel-shaped missile launchers for arms.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Fresh off the painting table: Space interior terrain for #Warhammer40K. Still a ways to go until I have enough to run a proper game inside a derelict spaceship, but I feel like I've hit a big milestone in the project, which is always nice.

Walls, floors, a staircase, and various generators, representing a rather rusty-looking miniature spaceship interior.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Fresh off the painting table: Jägerin from the Mörderin by John Blanche Kickstarter.

A miniature of an inquisitor wearing extremely high heels, a puritan's hat, and a corset on the outside; classic John Blanche stuff.

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Daniel Holt @imdanielholt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A fun thing when designing the #MTGxMARVEL Doom commander deck was making canonical enemies of the hero decks themed as that deck's foe. Ex - The Frightful Four punishes the Fantastic Four's noncreature spell theme. Killmonger benefits from Wakanda playing their artifacts. #WOTCStaff

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

John Blanche has passed. He was a staggeringly influential miniature painter, concept artist, illustrator, and art director. A tragic loss to the fantasy and gaming worlds.

John Blanche’s cover illustration for Codex Sisters of Battle, depicting an armored female grimdark warrior in front of a horde of priests and zealots. The entire painting is in reds, yellows and oranges.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I worked on the Commander product for Marvel Super Heroes (I even led the product's design for a few weeks). If you want to hear about the decks straight from a designer's mouth, check out this debut video!

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Fresh off the painting table: An Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor with bodyguards for #Warhammer40K #Inq28

Three Warhammer miniatures: a veteran guardsman with a glaive, an inquisitor with a flaming pistol, and a Tempestus Scion with a power sword and plasma pistol.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Fresh off the painting table: Chaos Beastmen for #Warhammer40K Beastmen - Homo sapiens variatus: In temperament as well as appearance they are often bestial, having a reputation for crudity, aggression, and indiscipline. Other warriors dislike them as they are rowdy and insanitary.

Four Warhammer miniatures: Goat-headed, goat-legged beastmen armed with a variety of nasty-looking pistols and melee weapons.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

If you see this, post an anime you love.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Torquil finally decided that it would be fun to ride around on my shoulder like a pirate’s parrot. Now I just need to teach them to say “pieces of eight!”

Ethan with a green parakeet riding on his shoulder.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Trying Battletech for the first time since… 1993? My son got hooked into it, and these Robotech miniatures I painted coincidentally look like an appropriate fit for certain ‘mechs…

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Well, I watched all 22.5 hours of Wong Kar-wai's Blossoms Shanghai. I'm not normally one to brag about media consumption on social media, but I'll make an exception in this case. AMA.

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Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · 01/05/2026

The #MTGxTheHobbit adventure is about to begin, dear friends. Let's look at some of the cards you'll see along the way.

An image of two MTGHobbit cards, from left to right: An Unexpected Party & Smaug the Magnificent.

An image of two MTGHobbit cards, from left to right: The Arkenstone and a second card in Dwarven text.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Fresh off the painting table: Chaos cultists for #Warhammer40k

Warhammer miniatures: Chaos cultists with metal masks and brutal firearms.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Dang, April’s been a big month for my collection! #WotCstaff

Magic the Gathering books: Destroy All Humans vol. 7, Strixhaven Omens of Chaos, Tolarian Academy Department of Linquistics Research, and Children of the Nameless.

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annie @asardelis.com · 11/04/2026

As the Vision Design lead on Secrets of Strixhaven, my job was to figure out what the set should showcase. We build out a whole card set to do this. All cards change over development, with just those “showcase” points shining thru. Here’s a few examples: (1/7)

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Fresh off the painting table: A chaos ogryn for #Warhammer40k

A Warhammer miniature of an ogre with a mutant crab claw and a tusked gas mask. A huge, eight pointed metal star of chaos sprouts improbably from his torso.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Fresh off the painting table: Chaos Space Marines of the Black Legion for #Warhammer40k

Three Warhammer miniatures. Chaos Space marines, bedecked with horns and skulls, wearing black armor with gold trim.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Fresh off the painting table, various Adeptus Mechanicus miniatures for #Warhammer40K. Enginseers, lexmechanics, and a Sicarian Infiltrator.

Two Warhammer 40,000 Tech-priest Enginseer miniatures. They wear red hooded robes and hold huge power axes.

Lexmechanic miniatures. These fellows have been bionically enhanced with robotic writing hands. They are carrying comically large numbers of scrolls.

Sicarian Infiltrator miniature. This fellow's arms and legs have been replaced with bionics, and he's stalking forward with a sword and a gun.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

How often do you think about the Sarpadian Empires? #WotCstaff

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Me, watching Neon Genesis Evangelion with my adult children: “Which one of you is going to make me proud by inventing the Absolute Terror Field?”

Screencap from Evangelion: the words “Absolute Terror Field.”

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Okay so I watched the original Mobile Suit Gundam and War in the Pocket. Is there anything else I need to see to understand what this whole Gundam thing is about?

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Fresh off the painting table: A Rogue Psyker for #Warhammer40K

A painted Warhammer miniature of a psyker, he head swollen with power and with glowing blue eyes, holding a staff with an elaborate chaos star atop it. Chains connect his legs to weights, which barely prevent him from floating off into the sky.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I've started thinking about a lore thread I'm going to post here in about two years so, if civilization still exists and Bluesky still exists and I still exist by then, we have that to look forward to.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Fresh off the painting table: Commissar Yarrick for #Warhammer40K

A painted Warhammer miniature. A Commissar in a peaked cap, but this one has replaced his right arm with an ork power klaw, giving him a crablike appearance.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Fresh off the painting table: Skaven and giant rats for #Mordheim.

Painted Warhammer miniatures. One Skaven ratman holding a spear. Two more dressed as ninjas wielding big daggers. Two giant rats.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I am apparently unable to get with the program. #WotCstaff

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Sitting up with a very sick parakeet. Please send strident, high-pitched prayers.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Fresh off the painting table, Valkyries and Spartans for Robotech RPG Tactics.

Painted Robotech miniatures in a sci-fi cityscape.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The Fantastic Four were super (heh) fun to work with because each of them mapped so cleanly to a different one of Magic's colors. #MTGxMarvel #WotCstaff

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Daniel Holt @imdanielholt.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I LOVE the Fantastic Four, with Invisible Woman being one of my favorite super heroes of all time. So I was ecstatic to be given lead of the #MTGxMarvel commander decks…AND got to make an entire Fantastic Four themed one. 😎 #WOTCStaff (Naturally it had to be 4 color.)

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Kelly Digges @kellydigges.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Really enjoyed Rhystic Studies' look at Fallen Empires, a set very dear to me. Sam speculates that Homarid Explorer in Dominaria may have been inspired by a puzzle sent to R&D by @loreleywrites.bsky.social, though notes that Loreley dismisses this theory. I can shed some light! (🧵)

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Fresh off the painting table: Gotfret de Montbard for #Warhammer40k

A Warhammer miniature of a futuristic space knight with an improbably large sword and shield.

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Ethan Fleischer @ethanfleischer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Fresh off the painting table, a Deathblow class heavy droid for #Warhammer40K. This is a rare miniature from Citadel's short-lived Slocombe's Warbots range. For my midlife crisis, instead of buying a sportscar, I bought this off eBay.

A Warhammer miniature of a big robot looming over some rose bushes and ork skulls.

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