#magic online

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[rivalrowan]

OM1 Flavoring Project - CARD 2: Demera, Soul of a Spider

The r/mtgvorthos subreddit (specifically u/-TvT-) is running a competition to write flavor text for Through the Omenpaths (OM1) cards, where those cards' counterparts have flavor text in Marvel's Spider-Man.

For the results, see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgvorthos/comments/1nkf2tp/om1_flavoring_project_card_2_demera_soul_of_a/

The winner, with 124 upvotes at the time of writing, was "A dance with two legs is beautiful, a dance with eight legs is… enchanting."

[magical-leak]

[oldgamemags]

Magazine advert for 'Magic The Gathering Online’  

[wizardsmtgo]

ad-VENTURE!

Adventure cards. They’re not quite split cards, and they’re definitely not double-faced cards. Instead, they’re… well, they’re new. And because they’re new, they needed a new solution to an old problem: how do we show which of the “child” cards is being cast?

We have a solution for split cards: we just show the half being cast. That even works for the fuse cards from Dragon’s Maze, by fusing the two sides together.

And with double-faced cards, it looks pretty similar: when you need to see one side…

...or the other...

...or the horrifically twisted melded version of them, you’ll see it all.

Especially when you zoom in on a meld card.

But as already stated, adventure cards aren’t split or double-faced or meld. Like split cards, all the information is on one side. But unlike all of the others, there’s no separable component of the card to become the new displayed view. There isn’t even a different picture.

What we have is... a book. With pages.

The basic design of the adventure frame keeps all the parts of the creature frame in place: the title and type lines, the mana cost, the power and toughness… everything. The adventure spell is, appropriately, added on. And, thanks to some clever graphic design, it all fits together in a “book”.

So, to solve the problem of information display on Magic Online, we kept to that presentation and motif as much as possible. What if we take the book and just… turn the page?

And so that led us here: to the way Magic Online displays adventure spells on the stack. In effect, we’re inverting the treatment. Instead of the creature name, mana cost, and type line in the usual places, we’re putting the adventure name and type line there. The creature name, mana cost, and type line drop down to the same two-tone header bars normally reserved for the adventure spell. But, to make sure that it’s super clear even at a glance, those bars move to the right side of the card. Fortunately, with this scheme, the power and toughness work very well without change, as the right side of the rules text box lines up nicely with the power and toughness being in the lower right corner of the card.

[maskedheromaskedchampion]

Sometimes Samurai get there.

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[island-delver-go]

Official #Wotcstaff tweet about MtG Arena focusing on standard and MTGO moving away from standard