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Introduction: I've been working on my text-to-image "prompt engineering" skills. I ran out of ideas for images to make, so I started going through art from Magic cards: well-known cards, or well-known art, or just some personal favorites. This is sort of a journey through what DALLE2 does well, and what it doesn't, like the post about recreating album covers. For most of these (but not the first few sections), I tried to recreate the art from the Magic card. Power Nine: This is the first set of cards that I tried to recreate the original art, so the prompts all included something like "oil painting" then a bunch of words to describe what was in the art. You'll see that the artifacts (Moxes and Lotus) are easy in general, but difficult in details, while the weird art for the blue cards are very difficult.   Original on the right, recreation on the left. I successfully got a teardrop shaped pearl, but the chain is also pearled. I tried for the same backgr