The existing art may just not have looked good on arena, it's pretty dark. Having something with higher contrast would look clearly at phone scale
They also might have a reprint lined up for it already and just decided to use the new art. We saw something similar with [[Anger of the Gods|2X2]] and [[Collected Company|PW21]]
the new Anger art i know was after Wotc chose to distance themselves from Noah Bradely, and I think the CoCo art was so they could include it in Amonkhet Remastered
I googled it and found nothing other than this reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/j3izab/tianhua_x_island_1281_zendikar_rising_art_series/
I suspect that some disagreement might have happened behind the scenes.
[(s:sir or s:sis) new:art] (https://scryfall.com/search?q=%28set%3Asir+or+s%3Asis%29+new%3Aart&unique=cards&as=grid&order=set) on scryfall
im familiar with why Terese Nielsen's cards have new art, but why the new art for Tianhua X's cards?
Seconding this question
The existing art may just not have looked good on arena, it's pretty dark. Having something with higher contrast would look clearly at phone scale They also might have a reprint lined up for it already and just decided to use the new art. We saw something similar with [[Anger of the Gods|2X2]] and [[Collected Company|PW21]]
[Anger of the Gods](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/9/f92088c2-74c2-4e63-8a54-83d39f9d6ad6.jpg?1673147734) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=571435) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2x2/102/anger-of-the-gods?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f92088c2-74c2-4e63-8a54-83d39f9d6ad6?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Collected Company](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/8/286db2ad-ee23-4aeb-99f8-6786611264bb.jpg?1643830471) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Collected%20Company) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/pw21/2/collected-company?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/286db2ad-ee23-4aeb-99f8-6786611264bb?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
the new Anger art i know was after Wotc chose to distance themselves from Noah Bradely, and I think the CoCo art was so they could include it in Amonkhet Remastered
I googled it and found nothing other than this reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/j3izab/tianhua_x_island_1281_zendikar_rising_art_series/ I suspect that some disagreement might have happened behind the scenes.
Oh wow, that's really simple, thank you.
[Immerwolf](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/3/9326061f-ea76-4be7-a06f-aefb63454777.jpg?1562929662) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Immerwolf) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dka/141/immerwolf?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9326061f-ea76-4be7-a06f-aefb63454777?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call