Make Rare cards look different

[agentflare]

You never really know when a card is rare until you see the "This card is rare" thingy in the bazaar when you want to sell it.
So, to help noobs know whether a card is rare or not, I propose a system that's been in use in other CCGs.

V1: different border.
It'll look something like this (except better since this was really rushed):


V2: shiny text! (this was rather poorly done)


Why is this needed, you may ask. Well, there's 2 reasons.

1. Noobs need to know which cards are rare at a glance. This will help them learn the game a lot easier.
2. Aesthetic appeal. Rare cards should look different from normal cards, but right now there are no prettier graphics on them.

[ddevans96]

Or...just have a gold dot with an R in it in the bottom left of the card art. I don't think a new border would be all that helpful. A smaller indicator would be more subtle though.

[agentflare]

like this?

[ddevans96]

Something like that, yeah.

[Pyrodinium]

Or...just have a gold dot with an R in it in the bottom left of the card art. I don't think a new border would be all that helpful. A smaller indicator would be more subtle though.

I agree. The rarity indicator shouldn't be that distracting. Besides, a new border would compete with the border used for upgraded cards.

[agentflare]

What about V2? Shiny text?

and btw, do you guys agree that this would be a good addition?

[Pyrodinium]

What about V2? Shiny text?

and btw, do you guys agree that this would be a good addition?

well shiny text is tempting _{(ooohhh... shiny)} but it might conflict with bright elite card borders (Time, Life, Fire etc.)

[ZephyrPhantom]

If anything, I feel we don't need any indicator at all. I kind of like the plain, simple look of the cards, IMHO, and extra symbols kind of takes away from that feel.

[Camoninja]

What about description text color? Brownish for bazaar-sold, white for spins (weapons and shards), and yellow for oracle/tournament (nymph and mark).
And for the cards without descriptions (I don't think that vanilla creatures have descriptions) we could add a "..."

[OldTrees]

As far as I know, rarity only matters in the bazaar. (Rarity is not used to excuse unbalanced cards)
Rare cards in the bazaar are marked with the large warning that flashes up.

[Ashebrethafe]

As far as I know, rarity only matters in the bazaar. (Rarity is not used to excuse unbalanced cards)
Rare cards in the bazaar are marked with the large warning that flashes up.

I still think some visual difference is a good idea, if only to tell the newbies that the card they're looking at (or even better, have just won) is something they can't buy/couldn't have bought from the bazaar. Also, I'm not sure if the bugs in the warning system have been fixed. (I remember reading that if selling, say, a Titan causes a nymph to move into the same slot, the nymph can then be sold with no warning -- but now I can't find the thread in the bug-report section.)

Wizards of the Coast has two ways to indicate (different types of) rarity for MtG cards: they make the expansion symbol black (if the card is common), silver (uncommon), gold (rare) or fiery orange (mythic rare); and they put either a black or a white border around the card frame (usually black in the first set that includes the card, and white thereafter). The latter type of rarity matters mostly to collectors, since the border doesn't affect how the card works in the game -- although it does mean that a player trading with a collector would be able to get more cards in exchange for a black-bordered card, or more money that he could use to buy new cards.

As for Elements, the lower-right corner of each card has something white with a black shadow -- either a column capital, lightning bolt, or ATK|HP stats. Could this something keep its current appearance on the common cards, but be black with a white shadow if the card is rare? (I don't think Elements needs the second type of rarity. At least, not until it has a trading system, or something that serves a similar purpose.)

[silux]

So
Make Rare cards' simbols look different!