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You might remember earlier this year when we told you about the incredible carved cartridges created by artist Pigminted. He’s added new handmade carvings to his shop, this time in the form of gorgeous, intricate wooden Hearthstone cards. The cards are beautifully detailed and truly legendary.

Each card is carved by hand (and computer), with designs made to order. Choose the card itself, the hero you’d like to grace the one-of-a-kind wooden stand, and a classic or custom card back design. Then Pigminted gets to work.

“It takes me about a week to make one,” he told Nerdist. “This means going from the design of the card in Photoshop / Illustrator, setting up the files, engraving the wood, gluing, sanding, and staining and painting. A lot of the time is waiting for stuff to dry.”

The multilayered Hearthstone cards are made with tools both traditional and digital, including a laser cutter, sander, wood cutter, and other woodworking tools, said Pigminted. Like many of the best things in life, he didn’t originally set out to start a career as a woodworking artist, but fell into it almost by chance.

“I used to make a webcomic which was on cardboard, done digitally,” Pigminted said. “Eventually, I wanted to print the comics on real cardboard, but most printers don’t do that. After searching online I found a laser engraver. I thought, ‘Oh, I’ll just engrave my comics on cardboard.’ This led me to think, ‘What else can I engrave?’

“Eventually, I got to where I am today.”

You’ll also find detailed cards from some of your other favorite collectible card games in Pigminted’s Etsy store, including Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokémon, and Magic the Gathering. If you have a TCG player in your life and you’re searching for the perfect present for them, pick up the only card you can be absolutely positive they don’t have in their collection already.

What Hearthstone card would you want immortalized? Tell us in the comments.

All Images: Pigminted

You’d think that being the Queen of Soul, news outlets would focus on actual Aretha Franklin on the day of her passing. 

Aretha, one of the greatest voices to ever have lived, an icon and a pioneer, has had to share a day that should be all about her with Elvis Presley’s death from 1977 and now, Patti LaBelle, a very much living woman.

It shouldn’t be surprising that outlets like The Wrap and Fox News don’t care to be more sensitive, but that means that we get to be angry. Aretha Franklin is a legend and always will be one of the greatest performers and most important figures of the modern era. And she also has a face that is widely recognizable.

So for her to be a) mistaken as Patti LaBelle or whatever happened or b) for her to have to share in memoriam posts with Elvis Presley, who has been dead for over 50 years, is a disgrace.

Umm, is that Patti LaBelle in the corner? pic.twitter.com/PmUPpgc0zb

— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 16, 2018

In a lovely turn of events, Fox News apologized by stating that it was supposed to be her and Patti LaBelle. so they don’t have someone on their team whose job it is to make sure the graphics come out correctly? Hmm.

Fox News statement: https://t.co/37Bp65KXiJ pic.twitter.com/NNCJ2Aldbf

— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 16, 2018

Why should Aretha also have to share an in memoriam post with Elvis? It makes no sense when she died today. You can tweet twice, The Wrap.

Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin Both Died on August 16 – Long Live the King and Queen https://t.co/1nmiBEUhTZ pic.twitter.com/5EGddZ1mg3

— TheWrap (@TheWrap) August 16, 2018

Is any of it okay? No! Aretha Franklin, a woman who MANY people claim to love, has been marginalized on a day that should have been praising everything she accomplished. If we could pass a damning sentence, Fox News and The Wrap would no longer get to listen to her music ever again. You don’t get that gift.

(via Twitter, image: MOLLY RILEY/AFP/Getty Images)

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