Grizzly Bear & Juggernaut

Once upon a time, april 1994 to be exact, a comic book store owner went to a retailer convention in St Louis. Amongts all the artists, writers and publishers a small both with two people playings cards could be seen. Although he played a lot of cards himself they didn't catch his interest at all. Not with Jeff Smith, John Byrne, Dave Dorman, J.O. Barr, Vampirella and other godlike entities in the same hall as him. When he passed them, strategically placed in the middle of the great hall, towards the end of the day they stopped playing and insisted that he take a deck and check the game out. So he did at his hotel room, the very same evening, where he opened the revised starter deck they had given him. The first thing he did on the day after was to go to Wizards of the Coast's booth and beg them to give him some more cards. That way I (yes it was me) got my first booster pack and the addiction had started. When I many years later decided that I wanted to collect all versions of a couple of cards the choices had to come from this my first edition, revised. I went with a couple of creatures that I played in all my early red/green decks. Over the years I have met both artists (Menges and Frazier) which made the choices easy to make. The two, Grizzly Bears and Juggernaut, have followed me through my Magic years and will continue to do so.
/Peter