Custom Tokens #6: White/Blue 1/1 Bird (from Dovescape and Pride of Clouds)

It always really annoys me when certain cards I use don't have cool-looking tokens to go with them. Photoshop to the rescue!

There are tools online you can use to make your own tokens, but they have limitations, and I want my tokens to look as legitimate as possible—and that means using the most modern token layout (which debuted, I believe, with Magic 2015) and the proprietary Beleren font. Now, I don't have access to that font, so all the titles and type-lines of the tokens I make have to be spliced together in Photoshop from existing cards. The results, fortunately enough, look really good!

I have a Ravnica Cube (if you want to draft the cube or to look at the cube's cards / guiding philosophies, follow this link to the cube's CubeTutor page), and the blue/white Azorius deck based on fliers really loves Pride of the Clouds. But using other tokens for the birds just never felt right. Here's my version of the token at full resolution so you can print it out for maximum effect:

I couldn't track down the original artist for this bird image; I found this piece of art on a Tumblr blog called "Azure Depths," but the author of that blog didn't cite his or her sources. I used the Dissension expansion symbol because both of the cards that produce this token are from that set.

As a final note: now that I have these tokens all built in Photoshop, it's really easy to swap out the art for anything else. If you find some better art and would like me to make a custom token for you using that art, just post it in the comments (or tell me where I can find it), and I'll put 'em together!