Rather than giving you a practically photorealistic depiction of what the card was supposed to represent, the older art often left you with a lot more room for imagination
MTG is full of wonderful colors and guilds, but what about the colorless
Magic is like an operating system, and the cards are like programs, Garfield told me when I interviewed him for Newsweek in 1997 (for, ahem, a story about Wizards of the Coast trying to make Magic bigger and more mainstream)
MTG Strixhaven Mystical Archive cards don't lack for power based on what's already been revealed, but they're also cards that will be more accessible in their alt art variants
First pick a theme Add colours that you would like to add to the theme Choose a commander The commander supports the theme and not the other way
Drana and Linvala Drana and Linvala took a nice mono-white commander, Linvala, Keeper of Silence, and added black