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Extended art

An extended art version of a card has art that pushes out horizontally past the traditional frame to show more of the picture; Magic: The Gathering uses the treatment on special versions of its cards, and Konami uses it for some Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.

Also called Extended-art.

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A standard frame beside an extended art card Two generic cards: one with its art inside the frame, one with the art pushed out to the sides. Standard frame: The art inside the traditional frame; Extended art: The art pushes out sideways past the frame, showing more of the picture. The tile for Extended art is outlined. Standard frame The art inside the traditional frame Extended art The art pushes out sideways past the frame, showing more of the picture

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Wizards' 2021 Booster Fun article for Modern Horizons 2 describes extended-art treatments as breaking the traditional frame of a Magic card, pushing the art out horizontally to show more of the artist's work. A 2021 article on the Magic news site MTG Rocks dates the first ones to Ultimate Masters in 2018, where they came as box toppers.

Wizards' product guide names extended-art cards among the special features of Collector Boosters, and in Modern Horizons 2 Wizards made them exclusive to those packs, on rares and mythic rares with no other treatment. MTG Rocks counted 67 extended-art cards in Modern Horizons 3, in its Collector Boosters and a few of its Commander decks.

Konami uses the name too: its page for the Yu-Gi-Oh! set Beyond the Brave lists 5 of its cards in extended art, as Ultra Rares and as Starlight Rares. In either game an extended-art copy is a different version of the card, so match the version when you buy or list one.

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