Familienoberhauptvogel
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Best counterspell art on the worst frame
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Fuck me that layout is bad.
- The rules font looks terrible and it being centered looks even more terrible.
- The P/T is crammed into the corner completely inside the rules box
- Why is there this round border around the cost and the hieroglyph font?
- Who authorized that terrible font (or rather the whole idea) anyway?
Holy fuck. And I though inventions looked kind of ugly...
The only thing I'm not offended by is the idea of having this 3D-effect on the card (the artwork appears to be at the end of a short hallway). It might either look really awkward on an actual card or kind of cool.
- The rules font looks terrible and it being centered looks even more terrible.
- The P/T is crammed into the corner completely inside the rules box
- Why is there this round border around the cost and the hieroglyph font?
- Who authorized that terrible font (or rather the whole idea) anyway?
Holy fuck. And I though inventions looked kind of ugly...
The only thing I'm not offended by is the idea of having this 3D-effect on the card (the artwork appears to be at the end of a short hallway). It might either look really awkward on an actual card or kind of cool.
These all look like 1994-95 failed TCG card frames.
I'm a fan of the idea that you don't need a mechanical theme between the cards, though. Land made sense in Zendikar, Artifacts made sense on Zendikar, but going with an art/frame as the connector in sets without obvious themes is a good thing.
Hope we get Masterpiece cards in Phyrexian (like the Elesh Norn judge promo) when we return to New Phyrexia, or get Jace v Chandra anime art when we go to a Japanese themed world, ect.
I'm a fan of the idea that you don't need a mechanical theme between the cards, though. Land made sense in Zendikar, Artifacts made sense on Zendikar, but going with an art/frame as the connector in sets without obvious themes is a good thing.
Hope we get Masterpiece cards in Phyrexian (like the Elesh Norn judge promo) when we return to New Phyrexia, or get Jace v Chandra anime art when we go to a Japanese themed world, ect.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The decision to add random nonsense symbols next to the types and card names is fucking unfathomably stupid.
Royal_Flush
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Oh the painting on the outer pillars represents the card's color. Well, gonna hide it somewhere I guess <.<
It took me a while to realize that it wasn't JUST random nonsense symbols in there.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I mean, I think every design decision on these is bad (horrible frame, tiny art, weird symbols, stacked P/T) and if the cards aren't all great value, there's going to be some backlash.
SigmasonicX
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I do actually like the red frame >_>
Familienoberhauptvogel
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They need to damage control these fast with showing them in person.
The frame might have been good if they were in the style of egyptian paintings instead of the cg hyperrealism.
The frame might have been good if they were in the style of egyptian paintings instead of the cg hyperrealism.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Virtually every design decision on these sucks.
Unreadable font
Centered-caps lock text
Random nonsense symbols around the types/names
Tiny art
Stacked P/T
Sepia Tone Mana symbols.
The frame itself looks like random fucking blocks of color
Ancient (outdated) design ideas for "ancient" invocations.
yeah im not exactly optimistic, i just have to think there must be some positive aspect here...maybe...plz
why is all of the information in a differently shaped/sized box
why is the artist info completely incongruous from the rest of the card, infuriatingly close to being aligned with the copyright info
why is the mana cost contained in a tiny circle. why is it positioned slightly lower than the name. most importantly, why the fuck is the generic mana not aligned with the mana symbols?
why did they go with "papyrus, but unreadable" for the font
why is the color of the card represented by an ugly barcode-like pattern on the sides
why is the artist info completely incongruous from the rest of the card, infuriatingly close to being aligned with the copyright info
why is the mana cost contained in a tiny circle. why is it positioned slightly lower than the name. most importantly, why the fuck is the generic mana not aligned with the mana symbols?
why did they go with "papyrus, but unreadable" for the font
why is the color of the card represented by an ugly barcode-like pattern on the sides
I'm pretty sure I like these more than everyone else in the thread, but the "risks" WOTC has taken the last few years- lets get rid of answer cards, lets rotate cards early, lets start banning cards again- but not when the format actually needs it! have all blown the fuck up in their faces
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The only thing I actually like is the gold-border thing at the bottom, should have gone around the card, and then had a colored layer around the rest of the card. And not wingdings text.
I would have literally preferred that they just have the art be colored hieroglyphics and get rid of all the seizure inducing elements around the cards.
Like if the art itself looked like:
and the frames around them didn't have so many random, contrasting elements, because the regular MTG art in those frames looks really ridiculous.
I would have literally preferred that they just have the art be colored hieroglyphics and get rid of all the seizure inducing elements around the cards.
Like if the art itself looked like:
and the frames around them didn't have so many random, contrasting elements, because the regular MTG art in those frames looks really ridiculous.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
If the Dominaria Masterpieces aren't just old style frames I'm gonna throw a fucking fit.
the bolas horns are neat i guess
Now that we have seen what they are willing to do, they need to go full Beta and re-write the cards like they were in Beta
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keeblerdrow
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I pulled one Expedition, I've never pulled a single Invention. I will open one of these in a pack every other WEEK. Because they look fuck-awful.
Would be fine with this if they switched out the font for something readable, then put the name and mana cost in Guru Land-style gold foil.
It'd still be tacky, but man it'd be sweet.
Infinite Stars
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OT11| We don't need no Invocations
Seriously, those look fucking awful.
Seriously, those look fucking awful.
Trick Jarrett just posted a video showing off the Cryptic Command Invocation:
https://twitter.com/TrickMTG/status/846850855626145792
https://twitter.com/TrickMTG/status/846850855626145792
Aside from the look of the cards, what does everyone think about the list so far?
Aven Mindcensor
Chain Lightning
Consecrated Sphinx
Counterbalance
Counterspell
Cryptic Command
Maelstrom Pulse
Pact of Negation
Wrath of God
The pained silence in the video says it all.
Aven Mindcensor
Chain Lightning
Consecrated Sphinx
Counterbalance
Counterspell
Cryptic Command
Maelstrom Pulse
Pact of Negation
Wrath of God
The pained silence in the video says it all.
Those are hideous. They might look better in person, but these will just go in the regular trade binder if I ever open one.
Wish the art was bigger and the frame smaller, I like the Counterbalance art and sort of like the Wrath of God art, but the frame is so distracting.
Hope the next set of these is better looking, these aren't really chase.
Wish the art was bigger and the frame smaller, I like the Counterbalance art and sort of like the Wrath of God art, but the frame is so distracting.
Hope the next set of these is better looking, these aren't really chase.
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