It’s such a weird situation. Like on one hand, these kinds of things don’t happen as a mistake. You can’t accidentally Photoshop another artist’s work and submit it as your own. But at the same time, it seems weird that an accomplished artist would submit such an obvious hack job. With the last time we saw plagiarism (Jason Felix and Crux of Fate) it was with a relatively unknown fanartist, but this is literally the previous art for the same card, which was massively relevant in basically every format it’s legal in. There’s no way someone wouldn’t notice, which makes it even stranger that the art directors did not.

Just a terrible situation, and while I don’t think there’s any excuse for this, there’s still a lot of questions on how this ended up ever going to print in the first place