![]() ![]() Other options, players expect those choices to be meaningful. So, when Magic Online provides skill level choices, or Play, but it also means there are near infinite opinions on what “fun” means. One of the great things about Magic is that there are near infinite ways to There are no cut-and-dried answers to any of these questions they are subjective. Should that deck be in Tournament Practice instead of Just for Fun (now justĬalled Open Play)? What does “Starting Out” mean? When am I “Getting Serious”? Unfortunately, Tournament deck versus a random deck with some good cards in it? And when What is “fun”? What is “casual”? What constitutes a Here’s the problem: When theĭefinitions of the rooms are subjective, players end up with expectations that Into the play area that they thought made sense. Online has given players a bunch of options and hoped that they self-select The first complaint is relatively easy to address: the shuffler isn’t broken humans are justīad at recognizing randomization (but that is really a conversation for another Why is deck X playing in room Y? (Insert theĭeck type of your choice into room type of your choice, we’ve heard it all.) Have been two primary, recurring complaints: For the entire 17-year history of Magic Online there Let’s talk about this a bit, so you can see where theĭesign is coming from. Received, we’ve gotten one question quite a bit: Why did you remove so many options for Open Haven’t checked it out yet, you totally should), and while it has been well We recently updated the Magic Online Play Lobby (if you (But really, vote for your favorite we’re just saying A25 should be one of your favorites.) Vote for Masters 25, which was an underrated format if ever there were one. Many of them haven’t been available in months or years.Ī: Because it’s fun. ![]() We’re not claiming that these are the best formats of all time (how do you even define “best” anyway?), but these are formats that people like. Magic’s had over a hundred draft formats. How is MyFavoriteFormat missing?Ī: Look, there are only sixteen formats here. You can see the alternative play calendar for the Core Set 2020 season here: Ī: Yep. Innistrad is so good that it doesn’t need to compete to be a winner.Ī: August 7-14. Like last year, and the year before that, and the year before that. Then play the winning format on Magic Online in late August!Ī: Halloween. Vote on Twitter today and every weekday for the next three weeks. Rules text box lines up nicely with the power and toughness being in the lower Power and toughness work very well without change, as the right side of the Those bars move to the right side of the card. But, to make sure that it’s super clear even at a glance, The creature name, mana cost,Īnd type line drop down to the same two-tone header bars normally reserved for Putting the adventure name and type line there. Instead of the creature name, mana cost, and type line in the usual places, we’re In effect, we’re inverting the treatment. What if we take the book and just… turnĪnd so that led us here: to the way Magic Online displaysĪdventure spells on the stack. Online, we kept to that presentation and motif as much as possible. ![]() So, to solve the problem of information display on Magic And, thanks to some clever graphic design, it all fits together in a “book”. ![]() The adventure spell is, appropriately, added Of the creature frame in place: the title and type lines, the mana cost, the The basic design of the adventure frame keeps all the parts But unlike all of the others, there’s no separable component of the card to become the new displayed view. Like split cards, all the information is on one side. …or the horrifically twisted melded version of them, you’ll see it all.Įspecially when you zoom in on a meld card.īut as already stated, adventure cards aren’t split or double-faced or meld. That even works for the fuse cards from Dragon’s Maze, by fusing the two sides together.Īnd with double-faced cards, it looks pretty similar: when We have a solution for split cards: we just show the halfīeing cast. Old problem: how do we show which of the “child” cards is being cast? And because they’re new, they needed a new solution to an They’re not quite split cards, and they’reĭefinitely not double-faced cards. ![]()
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