After reading todays Daily Deals post I saw a lot of people complaining that cardstyles can only be used with certain versions of that specific card. And it kinda sucks sadly. Especially since that also won't bring new players to buy any of the awesome but still pricey cardstyles that rotate the shop daily. Sure some might craft the lands and buy the cardstyle but those few player don't count.
External link →This is something we want too. Unfortunately, it's complicated. We're working on it, but we don't have a current ETA.
Currently, our whole card styles system is keyed off of the art the card uses. This seems like an odd choice now, but when we initially developed this system to support things like depth art, it made perfect sense. As we expanded the styles system to cover things like the first showcase styles in Throne of Eldraine, matching by art continued to make sense.
But, as time has gone on, problems have accumulated, and matching by art is no longer a good way for styles to work. The Omniscience example at the top of this thread is one, the KLR vs OTJ fastland styles is another, and there's a good reason that internally we call this "the Thalia problem".
So we agree it's an issue, and we want to change it. Unfortunately, this isn't a small tweak. The whole system is based on using the art, and it will take some major surgery to change. So I don't have an ETA to give yet on when we can have this changed, but we're working our way through that now.
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