I too am not a fan of the new text colors. Just makes it seem like its following all rest of card games in existence. rares are shiny etc. in this case text color.
I did not see any silence special effects happen?
I did like sanctuary's little picture where your hand is. that was nice touch i think
The changes in the shards im iffy on. Everyone uses SOG for healing in mass amounts.. 5 or 6 of them and you heal a lot. Sanctuary was near to better and now it is much better i think with the SOG nerfing.. SOG works as "NORMAL" if you use :Life. Sanctuary heals same as SOG now and also protects ur quanta pool AND your hand. SOG is no obsolete.
Sanctuary will be much better for my deck now in multiples instead of just 1 or 2 and ill take out all the SOG's. The SOS shard though I think is little too strong. take 12 damage and you could reverse the whole game around in 1 of your opponents turns. The only counter would be if they played a sundial to prevent attacks to keep your health at bay. also if you use sanc or miracle or any kinda of healing with SOS you shoot yourself in the foot. It's more or less 1 or the other not both. use miracle or use SOS .. depends on whose turn you want to use it on..