Storm Shadow... take 3...

Ever since long time member Annerios was gracious enough to send me his custom Storm Shadow figure, I've been trying to design a card that looked worthy enough to accompany the miniature during game play. You can look back here in my blog to see a couple different cards I put together. But I was never really happy with them visually...

... until now.

Using the Marvel card template I put together a while back, I decided to pay homage to the license which holds a special place in my heart: G.I. Joe. During my youth, I spent hours upon hours upon hours playing with the action figures, vehicles, and battle stations from Hasbro, reading the Marvel comics, and watching the cartoons after school. So why not just place Storm Shadow into a themed card which suited him?!

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I based the colors off of the classic Cobra palette, using shades taken directly from an illustration of Cobra Commander. The red outline is actually a bleed line, so I can cut the card down to match the size of the official cards.

The background behind the figure, I decided to keep a little generic as homage to the old school Hasbro packaging which had an illustration of each character in front of some explosion. But I included the Cobra logo because it just worked well as a nice design element, looking cool while also helping to balance everything together visually.

So yes, I'm pretty happy with it. But let me know what you think!

.H3X.