Who Created Professor Onyx Mtg And What Is Their Backstory?

I love how names like 'Professor Onyx' spread — to me it feels like a username becoming lore. From what I’ve noticed in communities, the creator is often a single content creator who enjoyed riffing on 'Magic: The Gathering' themes and built a persona around the name. They might be someone who started posting deck techs, custom card designs, or illustrated commissions and used 'Professor Onyx' as their brand.

The backstories attached to the name tend to be improvised by fans: a cryptic academic who studies the shadows between planes, or a brilliant but morally gray planeswalker turned teacher. If the version you saw had art or a card layout, the easiest way to find the original maker is to check the post for artist credit, do a reverse image search, or look up the uploader’s profile. I’ve done that a dozen times to find the original artist and it usually works — it’s like digital detective work, and honestly kind of addictive when you’re into community creations.

Short version for hunters: there’s rarely a single official source when a name like 'Professor Onyx' is floating in the wild — it’s almost always community-made. I’ve chased down creators before by checking the image post, reading the comments for attributions, and doing a reverse image search when the artist wasn’t credited.

If you want to verify who actually made the version you saw, check sites like Scryfall or the official Gatherer for similarly named cards (rarely helpful for fan names), then move to social platforms. Many artists sign their work or mention their page in the description; if not, politely asking in the thread often gets you pointed to the source. I like doing that because people are usually proud to own their creations and will tell you the whole silly, wonderful origin story.

Imagine a midnight lecture hall carved from onyx and starlight — that’s the vibe I get from the popular fan tellings of 'Professor Onyx.' I’ll spin a concise origin I’ve seen fans echo: born far from the ribboned spires of any famous guild, this scholar apprenticed under a hermit who taught the history of vanished planes. Over years they collected obscure sigils and shards of living shadow, turning their scholarship into experiments that blurred memory and matter.

Narratively, that gives them a conflicted arc: brilliant, slightly obsessive, and always leaning toward morally ambiguous research. People in the community often give such characters a signature prop — a slate of obsidian tablets or an onyx monocle — to make the image stick. That’s the beauty of fan-created figures: they’re collaborative, evolving like a patchwork story. If you found a specific depiction of 'Professor Onyx' (a card mockup or a piece of fan art), the artist’s caption or the hosting page usually has the original creator’s handle, which is where the canonical backstory, if there is one, will live.

Okay, this is one of those little community mysteries I love digging into. After poking around, what I keep finding is that there isn't a single canonical creator credited with a character named 'Professor Onyx' in official 'Magic: The Gathering' lore. Instead, the name tends to pop up in fan-made cards, custom art pieces, and as handles for streamers and forum personalities. That means the origin usually traces back to an individual artist or player who invented the persona for a deck, a piece of fanfiction, or a Twitch/YouTube identity.

Whenever I've tracked these kinds of things down, the creator is often visible in the image metadata, a watermark, or an upload profile on sites like Reddit, Twitter/X, or DeviantArt. For custom cards you’ll frequently see them made on tools like MTG Cardsmith or Untap.in, and the author will put their handle in the card description. So if you want the true creator, start with the image or the URL where you first saw 'Professor Onyx' and follow the credits there.

If you’re asking about backstory, the most common version floating around is delightfully gothic: a retired scholar who turned to forbidden ink and obsidian bones, teaching at a hidden academy that studies planar shadows. But remember, that’s fanon and varies wildly. If you can point me to the exact image or link you saw, I’d happily help sleuth the original creator of that specific 'Professor Onyx'.