Tom Marks

@tomrmarks.bsky.social

4644 Followers 474 Following

Associate Reviews Director at IGN by day, pie maker and card slinger by night. Formerly at PC Gamer. He/Him (tmarks@IGN.com)

Rhystic Studies “Red Deck Wins” playmat illustrated by Rope Arrow with six white-bordered Magic: The Gathering cards - Goblin Guide, Dragon’s Rage Channeler, Mishra’s Bauble, Lightning Bolt, Tibalt the Fiend-Blooded, and MOUNTAIN.
A screenshot from Yoshi and the Mysterious Book: a drawing of an exploding tree nut creature that has been custom named, with the caption “The wee Bustanut explodes with stimulus.”
The Magic: The Gathering card Icing Manipulator: Icing Manipulator {1}{G} Creature — Human Employee Each +1/+1 counter on a creature you control is also a Food token. (It’s an artifact with “{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.”) {3}{G}, {T}: Roll two six-sided dice. For each odd result, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature of your choice. Activate only as a sorcery.
A photo of two Magic: The Gathering cards on a desk - an original, old-border Mana Drain and a Transmute Artifact.
An image of the alternate cousin Whaleson from the video game Once Upon a Katamari, who looks sort of like a blue wale with tiny legs and arms and a flat face on its back.
A rectangular Christmas ornament with a glittery version of the card Black Lotus from Magic: The Gathering printed on it.
A Magic: The Gathering token for Pincher with art by Steve Tappin.
The Magic: The Gathering card Summoning Station, a 7-mana colorless artifact with the following ability: Tap: Create a 2/2 colorless Pincher creature token. Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may untap this artifact.
The Magic card Ancient Den, which is an Artifact Land that taps for 1 white mana. Flavor text: "Taj-Nar, throne of Raksha Golden Cub, destined leader of the leonin prides."
Maskwood Nexus {4} Artifact Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren’t on the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)
The IGN front page with all four top article spots being game reviews: Ninja Gaiden 4, Double Dragon Revive, Jurassic World Evolution 3, and Pokemon Legends: Z-a.
A screenshot of the Trans Lifeline website with the following text: Thank you for your gift You will soon receive a confirmation email to the account provided. We work hard to make sure that every dollar you give goes toward care and support for all trans people. We've logged thousands of hours of talk time on the hotline, and we've distributed over a million dollars to trans people with our microgrants. With your help, we will continue these lifesaving services until the day we are no longer needed.
Hollow Knight: Silksong screenshot that is a black screen with white text that reads: Game Completion Percentage: 96% Time: 44h 05m 47s
A Magic card called Oscorp Industries. It's a Rare land that reads "This land enters tapped. When this land enters from a graveyard, you lost 2 life. Tap: add blue, black, or red. Mayhem (You may play this card from your graveyard if you discarded it this turn. Timing rules still apply.)
A screenshot of a quote from Matt Tabak in the linked article that reads: "The goose is enormous. It is a goose that you have not seen the likes of, ever.”
A roll top desk setup up to play Magic: The Gathering online with SpellTable, including a black playmat and a bunch of dice. A big orange cat is lounging on the mat cleaning himself.
A reprint of the Magic card Heartless Act with new art depicting Appa from Avatar: The Last Airbender getting captured by sand benders.
The Magic: The Gathering card Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith, which has the following ability: “Whenever a land you control enters, create a colorless Equipment artifact token named Rock with “Equipped creature has ‘{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Rock: This creature deals 2 damage to any target’” and equip {1}.”
The Magic: The Gathering card "Weatherlight" reskinned at "Tornado, Sonic's Biplane" for the Turbo Gear Secret Lair drop.
A video of Mario Kart World gameplay, the racer is in first place as a Blue Shell approaches to hit them. They use the rewind function to dodge the Blue Shell explosion, which then causes a racer who was far behind them to get hit by it instead.
The Depths in Tears of the Kingdom on Switch 2 with HDR on.
A right Joy-Con 2 in a 3D printed plastic shell that looks like a mouse to improve comfort.
A picture of a wall above a wooden fireplace mantle. There are various knick-knacks on the mantle and art prints on the wall, but the center piece is the art for the Insect token from Magic: The Gathering’s Dominaria United set in a thick gold frame.
A 30-second video of a 3D printed deck box for Magic: The Gathering that opens up to reveal the deck and a drawer full of dice, then converts to function as a dice tower while the deck is out.
Three YouTube Comments from the IGN review of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: "I like the idea of interviewing the reviewer. With big publications it's often easy to forget the reviews are written by an individual with their own tastes and biases, not 'IGN' as whole. Getting a glimpse into what those tastes are gives some useful context. " "LOVED this format. The 10minute formal review and discussion at the end. This is exactly what I want in a video review. Thanks for doing that!" "I'll admit, I am enjoying these little interviews at the end of these reviews. Helps me know what the reviewers tastes are and how they align with my own, and thus how I interpret their opinion. "
A thoroughly worn out black and white Maxnomic gaming chair with torn upholstery exposing foam and a metal frame in parts of the seat.
A custom nightstand with three wooden legs and a grey upholstered top.
The Magic card Su-Chi, which is a 4-mana 4/4 that gives you 4 colorless mana when it dies.
The Magic card Tend the Pests: Tend the Pests {B}{G} Instant As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Create X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with “When this token dies, you gain 1 life,” where X is the sacrificed creature’s power.
The Magic: The Gathering Card Case of the Shattered Pact
Fuzzy figurines of Kirby on a Superstar and Meta Knight.
A video showing off the first version of my custom, 3D printed deck box that converts into a dice tower. It is designed for a Mr. House Magic: The Gathering Commander deck and has enough room for a ton of dice and 100 double-sleeved cards, as well as plenty of extra space for an Attraction deck and tokens.
Cloudspire Coodinator – {R}{W} Creature – Human Pilot When this creature enters, scry 2. {T}: Create X 1/1 colorless Pilot creature tokens, where X is the number of Mounts and/or Vehicles that entered the battlefield under your control this turn. The tokens have "This token saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater." 3/1 Art by Eduardo Francisco.
A Magic: The Gathering draft deck from Mystery Booster 2, the mox is Mox Poison.
A play structure with black climbing platforms that have a yellow paint stripe on their outer edges. (Sarcastic.)