![]() THIS MAKES THE FUNCTION OF THE CARD DIFFICULT TO SEE, ESPECIALLY WHERE THE CARD HAS ENOUGH TEXT TO BREAK OVER SEVERAL LINES. To makes things more difficult the card text has been changed to ALL CAPS. The card now has patches rather than borders, giving it no clear visual identity. The mana symbols have been left uncoloured. The piping is gone, except for a floating blue bar above the card name. The blue colour identity is not shown only by the broken blocks of colour on the sides of the card. Side by side we can see how every part of the card that could have helped us identify what we are looking at is gone, replaced with a gaudy mess. No, the card is not called Force of Willi. Then we have a black border framing the card.When fanning through cards in your hand, where you can only see part of each, these visual cues are an important way of helping players see what resources they have. The card border frames this, blue for Force of Will, and Gold for Maelstrom Pulse. Colour identity is important in Magic and piping is used to great effect to convey this. Maelstrom Pulse’s piping shows black moving to green, showing is this card is both black and green. Force of Will’s is blue, showing us that this is a blue card. ![]() The piping surrounds the key information. Above the first of these is the card name and mana cost. A box in the middle gives the card type and set symbol and separates the art from the text box.Īround these elements lie the piping. Two dominant factors, the art and the card text box, draw the eye. Looking at a typical Magic card we see this:Ī number of identifiers, whether we recognise them or not, tell us what we are looking at. The Amonkhet Invocations seem to have forgotten this. Magic cards use a number of subtle and not to subtle cues to tell us what the card it, what it does and also that it’s part of the game of Magic. To see why, it’s worth looking at what makes Magic cards work. Others pointed to specific parts of the cards they didn’t like, but often different people pointed to different negative aspects. The third set, the Amonkhet Invoations, were recently revealed to significantly less acclaim.Ī lot people simply didn’t like them, and said so. The first two masterpiece sets were received positively by the player base. These form a set within a set and are typically exciting and sought after cards from Magic’s past, as well as something splashy from the new set. Recent Magic sets (and apparently every Magic set moving forward) contains a super rare set of ‘masterpiece’ cards. ![]()
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