Welcome to THE COMPANIONS, an exciting campaign featuring Steve Ellis playmats AND a new token pack! This collection features all three of his stylized Companion arts - extended to playmat size specially for this campaign - and much more!
Welcome to THE COMPANIONS, an exciting campaign featuring Steve Ellis playmats AND a new token pack! This collection features all three of his stylized Companion arts - extended to playmat size specially for this campaign - and the awe-inspiring Pyrobalance from Modern Horizons 3!
Join us in making this campaign a reality by donating to this campaign! We're excited to get some of Steve's most iconic pieces of Magic art into your hands at long last.
How to Pledge
Select a pledge level that you would like - one playmat, two playmats, a token pack, etc. on the Pledge Levels tab. Then, you'll get asked if you want to add anything else onto your pledge - like yet another playmat! Then you'll have a fairly normal checkout process, entering your payment information and address. Soon after the campaign has concluded, we'll reach out to you for more information, such as what specific playmat you would like! Thank you for the support!
We're giving away free, random artist proofs from throughout Steve Ellis's history of illustrating Magic cards for the first 150 backers! Get in while you can & lock one in!
Get your very own banned-almost-everywhere Lurrus playmat for your collection! Witness her and her young hunting Phyrexians in the crystal-filled plane of Ikoria.
Jegantha, the Wellspring
The very incarnation of Ikorian mana itself, Jegantha is also ready to protect its own against the fearsome invasion. Look at that GREEN!
Gyruda, Doom of Depths
This awe-inspiring demon kraken astounds in new photo, valiently defending the world of Ikoria. At least it isn't feasting on trade ships for the time being.
Powerbalance
Blue and Red magic clashing is one of the most classic motifs we have in Magic: the Gathering - get one of the craziest, beautiful representations we've gotten on your very own playmat.
Steve Ellis has spent days in the studio, working on creating a brand new, all-original token box, available in two versions! It features the most commonly used options for EDH gameplay (and other Magic games too, of course). It will include:
Treasure
3/3 Beast
3/3 Green Ape
2/2 Flying Bird
2/2 Zombie
1/1 Soldier
Clue
0/0 construct with “This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control”
Over the course of the campaign, we'll be showing off more & more finalized versions of each token!
Base Edition - $15
Get one of each of these new tokens on S30 Standard Smooth card stock, conveniently packed in Shrinkwrap, ready to be played!
Premium Edition - $30
One each of these new tokens on higher quality S33 card stock, finished in beautiful silver-foil!
Your choice of six playmats, signed by Steve, plus a silver foil token pack & a 11"x17" Metal Lurrus Print - at a special early discounted rate!
ONE PLAYMAT: $40
One stitched, UltraPro-produced playmat of your choice!
TWO PLAYMATS: $75
TWO stitched, UltraPro-produced playmats of your choice! Bundle & save!
THE BIG BOX - 4X PLAYMATS + PREMIUM TOKEN PACK: $160
Get your selection of FOUR stitched, UltraPro-produced playmats from the pool - plus a premium silver foil token pack in a custom tuck box (art not final)!
THE TOKEN PACK: Base - $15 / Premium - $30
Get your choice of either a non-foil token pack (shrinkwrapped, get usin' them!) or silver-foil premium token pack, featuring a custom tuck box & higher quality cardstock. See token list above! We'll be revealing more art and tokens throughout the campaign!
COLLECTOR BOX: $350
Your choice of six playmats, all signed by Steve, plus two premium silver-foil token packs AND a 16"x20" Metal Lurrus Print.
EARLY BIRD COLLECTOR BOX XL: $500
Your choice of six playmats, all signed by Steve, plus two premium silver-foil token packs AND a 16"x20" Metal Lurrus Print.
EARLY BIRD COMBO PACK - PLAYMAT + TOKENS:Sold Out
Get a single playmat & a base, non-foil token pack at a special discounted rate!
Steve Ellis is an artist, comics storyteller, writer and illustration instructor. He has won awards for his work including High Moon and The Only Living Boy with co-creator David Gallaher, as well as his work on AMC’s Breaking Bad: The high Cost of Living game.
Steve has also created various and sundry illustrations and comics for Marvel, DC, Blizzard Entertainment, Wizards of the Coast and many more. He has taught drawing, illustration and comics at Syracuse University since 2004.
Steve is currently at work on the world of Thornclaw Manor. The story of Melody Hawthorne, a girl who in searching for her long lost family finds herself in a world of monsters out of myths and legend.
Steve currently lives in the wilds of Ithaca, NY with his wife Yamila, daughter Luna and their lovely greyhound Blossom.
SHARE THIS CAMPAIGN ON FACEBOOK and once we reach 250 shares, we'll add a free, 2"x2" circle sticker to each backer, featuring art from the token pack!
$10,000: New Playmat Design - Elvish Promenade - LOCKED
$20,000: New Playmat Design - Marionette Apprentice - LOCKED
If you enjoy pinging away at your opponent's life total, there's nothing better for it than this Modern Horizon's 3 Uncommon. Let's get to $20,000 & add it too the pool!
$35,000: New Token Design - Backer Vote! - LOCKED
We'll put token options to backer vote - and Steve will design a token for whichever option wins!
The Original Thornclaw Manor Family Poker Deck - $25
A beautifully creepy illustrated poker deck with a narrative edge featuring the monster family of Thornclaw Manor by Steve Ellis. The cards are official poker deck size on 300g grey core card paper, glossy finish, spot foil, and packaged in a lovingly illustrated deck box with each facecard, ace, and joker a lavishly illustrated work of art.
All shipping fees will be chargedseparately, AFTER the campaign, during pledge management. The prices below are estimates. Actual shipping prices will be determined after production is finished and we're gearing up to send out your pledges to you!
Estimated shipping costs (for asingle playmat):
$10 USA
$20 UK
$25 Canada
$30 Rest of World
Other pledge level shipping costs (2 playmats, Collector Box, etc.) will be wildly variable but we do expect them to be a minimum of:
$15 USA
$25 UK
$30 Canada
$40 Rest of World
Again, shipping fees will be charged separately, after the campaign, during pledge management. Thank you!
We estimate that shipping for this campaign will begin in June 2025 at earliest.
For this campaign, we will be using Backerkit's Pay Over Time feature in an effort to make it more accessible to a wider range of people! If your pledge is over $150, after you select a pledge and go to Checkout, you'll be given the option to pay 4 equal interest-free monthly installments of your pledge total over the course of 4 months.
If you select Pay Over Time, you acknowledge that:
You understand that your rewards will not qualify for shipment until you have paid in full.
You understand that any partial payments made are not eligible for a refund.
You understand that you will not be able to access the pledge manager survey until after you have paid in full.
Please note, this means that Pay Over Time pledges will not be able to answer the color selection survey until their payment plan is completed and thus might have a more limited range of color options based on the availability of inventory that's bulk ordered.
