Renowned Alpha Artist Contributes New, Original Art to Eternal Weekend

Last updated on September 4, 2025

Mox Diamond | Illustration by Dan Frazier

For many Magic players, owning a piece of the Power Nine is a dream, a white whale made quite difficult due to the presence of those cards on MTG's Reserved List. However, Eternal Weekend players had a different avenue for obtaining a piece of Power, and an oversized one, at that.

However, one of Magic's most well-known artists has stepped up to provide original artwork for the winners of this year's Eternal Weekend.

Dan Frazier's New Moxes

Illustrations by Dan Frazier

79-year old American fantasy artist Dan Frazier has illustrated two brand new pieces of art specifically as prizes for 2025's Eternal Weekend winners. These two illustrations mimic the iconic look of the original moxen.

Boomer Magic players or Vintage Cube enthusiasts will instantly recognize Frazier's work, since these two new pieces closely mimic the original arts for Mox Diamond and Mox Sapphire.

He's responsible for the Alpha versions of all five moxes in the Power Nine, as well as the equally-recognizable Mox Diamond from 1998's Stronghold. When there's a fancy trinkety artifact in need of bauble-like art, Frazier's the guy to call.

His work for MTG comes as recently as the serialized version of Mox Jasper from Tarkir: Dragonstorm, and he even had two artist series Secret Lairs, one of which contained new renditions of the ally-colored Signets, and the other containing enemy-colored Signets.

Frazier's MTG catalog extends beyond broken mana rocks, though. You might recognize his work from the original versions of cards like Enlightened Tutor, Jester's Cap, and Berserk. The artist is a known lover of Legacy and Vintage, and his art contributions to this year's Eternal Weekend help keep a long-standing tradition alive.

What Is Eternal Weekend Anyway?

Time Walk | Illustrated by Chris Rahn

Eternal Weekend is a sporadic series of tournaments specifically catered to Legacy and Vintage audiences. Tournaments for these two formats are scarce, and Eternal Weekend is the highlight of high-level play for them. Sort of like Burning Man for Eternal Magic players, just with more original dual lands and less, uh, smoke.

The event returned in 2024 after going on hiatus after 2021, though the tournament dates back to 2004. 2024 celebrated the return with three events, one each in Shizuoka, Japan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Prague, Czech Republic. The 2025 American Eternal Weekend will run in Pittsburgh again.

Eternal Weekend tournaments typically include two main events, a Legacy and Vintage tournament. Each has its own associated promo that's awarded to top players, with more recent events awarding promo copies to the Top 32 players, with additional foil copies going to the Top 8. Crop Rotation and Tinker were the promos from 2024, for Legacy and Vintage, respectively.

2025 will award players some new-art versions of Tendrils of Agony for Legacy, and Trinisphere for Vintage.

No More Prize Paintings

The 2024 Eternal Weekend announcement mentioned that “…unlike previous years, prize paintings will not be awarded to the winners of each Legacy Championship and Vintage Championship.” That came as a huge disappointment to participants (and surely, winners), since awarding the champions a painting or oversized version of an iconic Magic card was a sort of tradition for Eternal Weekend.

Left: Mox Pearl awarded to Travis Spero (2006); Right: Timetwister sketch art by Mark Tedin

Magiclibraries.net has compiled all of the awards in one place, including oversized versions of Power Nine cards, as well as the occasional alternate art or sketch version of other iconic Magic cards.

The long-time tradition was cut off in 2024 and remains that way for 2025, but thanks to Dan Frazier, Eternal Weekend players will still have something wholly unique to fight for. One of his new, original art pieces will go to Legacy winner (presumably the Mox Diamond lookalike), while the other goes to the Vintage champ. It's unclear at the time if these will be replicated in any way for players at the non-Pittsburgh tournaments, though the art will be used on limited-edition playmats that players can pick up at Eternal Weekend.

It's a shame WotC ended this Eternal Weekend tradition, but it's always great to see a prominent figure in the Magic community step in and contribute, especially when it's someone with as much notoriety and talent as the OG mox artist himself.