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CardName: Support * cardnames Cost: {W} Type: Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: I don't know where the conention comes from; MTGO or somewhere else - but people keep entering 'existing cardname*' to indicate a reprint. may as well do something with it - initial comment linking to original card maybe hide the star? Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Feedback None

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I don't know where the conention comes from; MTGO or somewhere else – but people keep entering 'existing cardname*' to indicate a reprint. may as well do something with it – initial comment linking to original card maybe hide the star?
Updated on 15 Mar 2017 by Alex

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2014-03-15 08:08:15: Vitenka created the card Support * cardnames
2014-03-17 07:49:05: Alex edited Support * cardnames

Hiding the star would rather defeat the point of including it. I could add a link to the original card easily enough. I actually tried to auto-detect existing card names, but it hit some problem - the regexp was too big, or some such.

Maybe expanding it in the display. Something like?

CardName* -> (((CardName*))) (Reprint of CardName)

A visual way of recognising a card as a reprint would be useful, whether it keys off "...*" or a separate field. (Although probably not a high priority.)

mmm yes; whatever the behaviour is should really be a checkbox; with ...* as a short-cut way of triggerring it :)

But I really wanna not see those stars :)

V: Ah. I think the cardset designers really do wanna see those stars, though (as an easy-to-spot visual indicator of how many reprints a set has), so you have fairly opposed aims there. Unless I make it a per-user preference, I guess... (Which would need me to start by implementing per-user preferences...)

Can I suggest a Tampermonkey script?

But it really should be a separate column, (rendering as a star after the name on printed cards if desired). That provides both "able to see at a glance which cards are reprints" and "doesn't have two cards with the same name with different 'name' fields". I mean, I agree that feature is not worth the effort of implementing, but I think it's the correct idea?

Another related thing to represent would be "This isn't the cards intended name, just something I made up to hang on it for now"

kauefr casts Reanimate Thread.

I'd really like for an official way to insert reprints in our sets, with some kind of checkbox. Maybe even diplaying the card image from gatherer instead of the usual custom render.

That latter can be done by pasting in the appropriate URL for a full-card image. But yeah, automating it might be nice.

Or at least a skeleton checkbox "Yes, basic lands are wanted, kthx"

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