Dunadain wrote: ↑2 years ago
What's so confusing about looking at a hologram's shape? Genuinely confused at all the people complaining, acorn = not legal. It's really not that complicated.
Admittedly, the WOTC team is creating confusion by spoiling
Water Gun Balloon Game with an Oval hologram when it will actually have an acorn hologram, but that has nothing to do with the system they developed.
The system isn't particularly complicated. Although it overlaps with a different system so it gets a little weird (Rare/Mythic - Stamp, Uncommon/Common - No stamp - well, now except....). Also, it's 1 specific shape being nonlegal, whereas other specific shapes - the triangles for universes beyond, are legal. There's obviously potential for confusion there.
But it's not overly complex, the problem isn't confusion about how it works. Once explained, it's straightforward.
I'm reminded of this:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/a ... 2003-10-31 - The Artifact/White card issue when they switched to the new frames with 8th edition.
Look, we're used to ignoring the bottom of cards. We're used to ignoring the little hologram. Now it's something to pay attention to? Sure, if you are focused and looking for that specific thing, it's pretty straightforward. But when generally handling and sorting cards, it's just not where people look.
I have a decent number of UN-cards. I really liked drafting UNstable. I have my remnants from way back when I drafted UNhinged. Those cards stand out as what they are, because the silver border is very distinct, and it screams - "Hey, these are different". A little holofoil on the bottom of the card that I'm used to ignoring being shaped differently is not going to stand out.
If someone wants to check the legality of an UNfinity card, this system works fine.
If someone just comes across an UNfinity card, this doesn't stand out. They are going to have to stop and think, "Is this card legal?" and check. That's annoying. Not the end of the world, but annoying.
If someone comes across an UNfinity card and doesn't know anything about it, they are going to assume its legal. This is drastically different than any other UN-card, where they are going to come across is and immediately see that the card is different because of the border and want to know why/how.
That's the problem with the indicator.