Card structure changes in sets

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Iori_Yagami

Card structure changes in sets

Post by Iori_Yagami » Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:17 pm

Well, that would be most appropriate for another forum, but it's locked, so...

I have been figuring out some card apperance details.
I've found some differncs:

Elder cards had different copyrighs
1. Just artist
2. Year
3. 1993-Year
4. (c)
5. tm

Copyrigt became center-aligned.
Textbox became wider around 5E - equal ot width of picture box.

Power/Toughness number glyphs became a little different in font.

Rarity signs became coloured after Exodus.
Summon changed to Creature-.
Mana symbols changed slightly, especially white.
Tap symbol also
Revised had no 3d-edge (everyone know that)
etc, etc, etc...

Not counting card text changes, of course - there are a lot of them.
Add text aligning to that also.

I strongly advice to make a compreshensive lists of all changes to card appearance, just for verifying cards genuinity.

Of course, have a scan of each and every card is too costly. So, a small set of rules would be much better.
We could as well write a card frame generator, after putting hat data in it. That would require effort and some knowledge of graphical data formats and fonts, but it's better than managing a huge base of scanned images.

Of course, it should be considered about pirates and illegal makers and shameless conterfeiters. That's just another problem.

The area of using is pretty wide. All I've so far seen was either very-very badlt approximated card images (like Magic Suitcase, Magic Workstation, Microprose's Magic) and some full-card scans (like essentialmagic.com). Something new is to be done.
Is anyone intrested in it?

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