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pr0digal posted:The art for Wrath of God is pretty sweet...when not on that card Nylea must be pissed at that sand dune.
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These would actually look pretty cool if the art was like, in the style of an egyptian wall relief or something. It would thematically fit with the frame, and really say "here's something cool and different". Instead we get badly-posed 3d models with plastic skin and a red line drawn over them. E: some of the art is actually really cool, but still doesn't fit with the frame. Which is almost worse because now they're wasting cool art.
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cheetah7071 posted:The font is so unreadable that for a a good 10-15 seconds I thought the gimmick was that they were printing them in egyptian They did this (sort of) for the prerelease promos in Invasion and Odyssey blocks! http://magiccards.info/query?q=e%3Aptc&v=card&s=issue
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mandatory lesbian posted:is chain lightning really particularly egyptian tho It's as Egyptian as Cryptic Command, Counterspell, and Maelstrom Pulse are.
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mandatory lesbian posted:is chain lightning really particularly egyptian tho I would call it biblical Alot of this set looks like late 90s pc adventure games, in a bad way. Are they just having the same budget for cards but having to do 50 more? These are ugly as sin, but if that means I can get cheap good cards I'm happy Although this could also mean the end of masterpieces because these suck so much GoutPatrol fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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C-Euro posted:Man y'all are a bunch of sticks in the mud. This whole thing is hilarious to me and I can't articulate why. I can't decide if I want these to be real or fake. I hope they don't refrain from trying out entirely new frames because of the negative reaction. The fault here is with the particulars of the design, not its radical natural. Don't take away the wrong lesson from this, Wotc.
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C-Euro posted:They did this (sort of) for the prerelease promos in Invasion and Odyssey blocks! They look pretty drat cool, tbh. There's also the judge promo Phyrexian Elesh Norn.
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Star Man posted:It's as Egyptian as Cryptic Command, Counterspell, and Maelstrom Pulse are. i wasn't giving an exhaustive list, but fwiw the egyptians were big on judgement so counterspell and command work in that context
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Rinkles posted:I hope they don't refrain from trying out entirely new frames because of the negative reaction. The fault here is with the particulars of the design, not its radical natural. Don't take away the wrong lesson from this, Wotc. Exactly! These are bonus cards that the vast majority of the playerbase will never own, have some fun with them and do something weird. But maybe workshop it a little more next time.
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Rinkles posted:I hope they don't refrain from trying out entirely new frames because of the negative reaction. The fault here is with the particulars of the design, not its radical natural. Don't take away the wrong lesson from this, Wotc. I don't understand how within the entire art department, nobody said "hey wait these don't look good, cool and they interfere with playability" and then the art department went to their bosses and said, "here's the best we got!" and their bosses saw nothing wrong with these frames and gave them the go ahead. They're a fixable design, just like the Expeditions were a fixable design by just making the text box transparent. This looks like the design was picked at random and then not adjusted at all.
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pr0digal posted:Video of Cryptic Command In this gif it seems a little better https://twitter.com/TrickMTG/status/846851133817569280
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Rinkles posted:I hope they don't refrain from trying out entirely new frames because of the negative reaction. The fault here is with the particulars of the design, not its radical natural. Don't take away the wrong lesson from this, Wotc. Yeah, like, I think these cards look stupid but I'd absolutely rather they take opportunities like this even if they whiff dramatically. The good news is, being safe and dull is the province of a game that's doing well, so if Magic actually isn't...
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Angry Grimace posted: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. See, that would have been inspired.
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Jabor posted:These would actually look pretty cool if the art was like, in the style of an egyptian wall relief or something. It would thematically fit with the frame, and really say "here's something cool and different". Yea the attempt at an ancient aesthetic really clashes with the digital art containing prisms and lensflares.
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I doubt these are actually tournament legal. They seem to fail all the tests.
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Coverage guys are gonna HATE these.
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Elyv posted:They look pretty drat cool, tbh. There's also the judge promo Phyrexian Elesh Norn. Yeah I miss the days of cool prerelease promos. idgaf about a date stamp on an otherwise normal card, at least throw me some alternative art. I had the promo Kaldra equipment from when I did the Mirrodin prereleases back in day, they were pretty sweet lined up together.
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mcmagic posted:Coverage guys are gonna HATE these. Who would possibly use these?
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I love the invocations, they're flavorful and cute, and if you all think they're poo poo sell em to me
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End of Life Guy posted:I love the invocations, they're flavorful and cute, and if you all think they're poo poo sell em to me You're lying if you tell me you can identify what these are without having to read the rules text. Thankfully the theme is "playable cards" so they're infamous rules text.
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End of Life Guy posted:I love the invocations, they're flavorful and cute, and if you all think they're poo poo sell em to me  I hope these end up cheaper than their respective regular printings.This is probably the closest we've gotten to that one goon's dream of "goatse Goyfs".
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Attorney at Funk posted:Who would possibly use these? if I open a Consecrated Sphinx I am going to p1p1 that poo poo so hard
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Attorney at Funk posted:Who would possibly use these? I would if they're cheap. How they look doesn't enter into my decision. Matching art sort of does if I care about letting my opponent know how many of a card I have.
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The more I think the more these should have looked like the Face the Hydra cards from the Born of the Gods game day. http://magiccards.info/extra/hero/face-the-hydra/the-vanquisher.html Larger picture box and evocative, relief-style art.
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It looks a little better in that gif The same thing happened with inventions, everybody thought they were poo poo till they saw one in person, then they were kinda sweet These are definitely worse looking than inventions but I don't think they're, like, a travesty
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I actually like this style a lot.The 3D of the external frame is neat and the "unreadable hieroglyph" effect on the title is more a feature than a bug.
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cheetah7071 posted:The font is so unreadable that for a a good 10-15 seconds I thought the gimmick was that they were printing them in egyptian Honestly same Oh my god
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sit on my Facebook posted:The same thing happened with inventions, everybody thought they were poo poo
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Bow, peasants, to my mighty crotch!
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It does look a little better in the gif. But still putting random squiggly poo poo around an already hard to read and centred font was not a good idea.
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Guy who got invited to PAX by WotC when they announced Kaladesh posted:gently caress it, I like them. Give me any and all of them. (Is it emptyquoting if it's not a SA quote?)
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I mean, I'm sure that when they printed Elesh Norn in loving phyrexian people complained that the card was unreadable, right?
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Wow the text centering is really bothering me. Why not move the casting cost to the right border and the expansion symbol to the footer, so that the name/card type can be centered in both the card and the heiroglyph container? Why did they take such great art and make it even smaller than on a normal card? Everything about this makes me sad.
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