One (tiny niggly) thing that I don't like about Hate // Anger is the aesthetics. A split card with and will never be able to have the two green halves next to each other, whichever way around you put the two halves :)

I've actually had a back-burner project for a while to create a cycle of hybrid split cards: one // , one // , etc. It's obviously really hard to find split card names whose two words associate with hybrid-suitable effects, but I'll get there one of these days. I've got a gigantic list of "A and B" idioms that I've culled from various places... I could put it online somewhere and create a design challenge to create a card for that cycle.

Anyway, one candidate for that cycle was "Fair & Square", which names I decided could be // . The effect was stretched enough that I didn't want it for that cycle, but it happens to rather fit the terms of Challenge # 106 in the same way that Hate // Anger does.

The wording here is kinda horrible. The left and right sides each give you two choices, but I couldn't find a way to phrase the "Fair" side within a split card textbox that used "Choose one". At which point the asymmetry probably makes me want to rephrase the "Square" side to not be modal either...

Edit: Later I created Challenge # 106b // Challenge # 106b to do more of these.

Oh yes! I like your plan (and the name!). Although the rules on this did end up a bit clunky :(

­A split card with and will never be able to have the two green halves next to each other, whichever way around you put the two halves :)

Oh, good point. I didn't notice because at work I'm using an old version of opera that doesn't show colour gradients properly.

But surely, if wizards printed this, if they did the wrong combinations of split hybrids, they'd allow the right-hand-side of the split card to flip the direction of the colour gradient?

I would have expected them to choose to always put either allied colour-pairs or enemy colour-pairs on the same card. Like they did with the guild split cards in Dissension (Supply // Demand, Crime // Punishment).

But in Dragon's Maze they broken that pattern and had the mismatching pinlines, such as on Beck // Call and Flesh // Blood, and it bugs me.

Thanks about the name; I was rather pleased to find a way to bring the reference to "square stats creatures" into the game :)

Ah! That seems reasonable now you point it out, but I hadn't thought about what combinations might be ok, I assumed they'd work out somehow. Now you point it out, it's really disappointing they didn't flip the pinlines. I wonder if they'd do it for hybrid cards, or if they can't for some reason and would avoid making hybrid split cards[1].

[1] OK, there actually isn't enough design space there, I think we've mined a lot of it out already... :)