Marta Molina is a self-taught painter from Madrid, Spain, who reached the Sorcery roster the same way a handful of the game's contributors did: through the Magic: The Gathering card-alter scene. Born and raised in Madrid and now based in a village near the capital, she comes from a family of artists. Before she ever touched a Magic card, she was making reproductions of Byzantine and Renaissance works and working with silver as a medium. She moved into card alters "by chance," built a global following for her landscape and ship paintings on tiny altered Magic frames, and was then commissioned by Erik's Curiosa to paint full-size art for Sorcery: Contested Realm. Collector Arthouse credits her as one of three prominent alter artists pulled into the game.
Style
Molina paints traditionally, and acrylic is her stated favorite — she likes that it lets her "infuse my works with vibrant light and color while drying quickly." She also works in pencil sketch and ink. The through-line from the alter work to the Sorcery cards is landscape: she made her name painting detailed terrain and water onto card-sized surfaces, and that sensibility scaled up cleanly to full paintings. Her own framing is that she blends classical technique with contemporary fantasy, and the cards bear it out — the recognizable Molina signature is attention to detail and a bright, saturated color palette that Collector Arthouse notes has made her a fan favorite.
Across the table her cards read as the luminous ones. Marine scenes, harbors, ships, open water, and broad terrain dominate her Sorcery output, which fits — many of her cards are Sites and water-element pieces where the art is the landscape. Where some painters on the roster lean dark and tonal, Molina's work tends toward light and clarity.
Cards on Sorcery
Collector Arthouse's artist index credits Molina across three sets — Alpha/Beta, Arthurian Legends, and Gothic:
- Alpha/Beta: Baptize, Bog, Craterize, Lighthouse, Lugbog Cat, Major City, Pristine Paradise
- Arthurian Legends: Marine Voyage, Merlin's Tower, Mount Ussar Sanctuary, Paladins of Bazia
- Gothic: Forgotten Tomb, Mountain Pass, Oasis, Polar Explorers
Marine Voyage is the one she singles out as her favorite. She describes it as a harbor scene drawn from her own forest-and-river surroundings near Madrid — the kind of landscape-into-fantasy translation that defines her work. Pristine Paradise and Zephyranne Airship are the two she names alongside it on her artist profile, the airship a vivid departure from the water scenes.
That set list is sourced from the Collector Arthouse index; her personal favorites (Marine Voyage, Pristine Paradise, Zephyranne Airship) are confirmed in her own words. Card-by-card set attribution beyond what's indexed there isn't separately documented, so treat the breakdown above as the catalog of record rather than an exhaustive lifetime list.
Where to see more Marta
- martamolina.art — her official site. Background, technique, and the cards she's proudest of, with more work on her linked Patreon.
- Her Sorcery cards — Marine Voyage, Pristine Paradise, Major City, and the rest are catalogued on curiosa.io and across the Alpha/Beta, Arthurian Legends, and Gothic sets.
- Collector Arthouse — Marta Molina — the full Sorcery card index this piece draws on, plus their long-form interview.
Sources
- Marta Molina — Collector Arthouse artist page — Spain nationality, self-taught origin via Magic alters, "attention to detail and beautiful color palette," and the full Sorcery card index across Alpha/Beta, Arthurian Legends, and Gothic
- Sorcery Artist Interview: Marta Molina — Collector Arthouse — born and raised in Madrid, family of artists, Byzantine/Renaissance reproductions and silver work before card alters, entered alters "by chance," and Marine Voyage as her favorite harbor piece
- Marta Molina — sorcerytcg.com artist page — self-taught path, acrylic as preferred medium, and named cards Pristine Paradise, Marine Voyage, and Zephyranne Airship
- martamolina.art — her official site