GDS3 Trial 3: Design Test: Skeleton

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About Set Skeletons

A set skeleton is a tool to help you when structuring your set. It helps you keep the number of different types of card balanced across colours and balanced in line with the colour pie. It's particularly useful in early design when you're wanting to make sure you have the right amounts of creatures and other card types in the different colours.

To read more about skeletons, read Mark Rosewater's article "Design Skeletons".

About Set Skeletons In Multiverse

In Multiverse, set skeletons are a particular type of details page, using tables written in the Markdown Extra table syntax. Multiverse will generate the rows of the table for you. If you let Multiverse generate the whole skeleton, it will give you columns for Code, Slot and Card name. If you add extra columns by editing the title rows, then the Generate tab will create the right number of columns for each new row it generates.

Once you've generated your skeleton, each row will start with a link like "(CW01)". At first, these links will be in parentheses, to indicate that no card yet exists with that code. You can click on links like these to create a card with that code. Once those cards exist, the links will no longer be in parentheses. You can thus easily tell which slots in your skeleton have no card at all corresponding to them, and which have at least some information on a card (even if that card is not ready or not even complete).

	Generate codes for:
White cards (also blue, black, red and green cards)	commons,	uncommons,	rares and	mythics	(0 total)
Artifact cards	commons,	uncommons,	rares and	mythics	(0 total)
Land cards	commons,	uncommons,	rares and	mythics	(0 total)
White-blue gold cards and each allied-colour pair	commons,	uncommons,	rares and	mythics	(0 total)
White-black gold cards and each enemy-colour pair	commons,	uncommons,	rares and	mythics	(0 total)
White-blue hybrid cards and each allied-colour pair	commons,	uncommons,	rares and	mythics	(0 total)
White-black hybrid cards and each enemy-colour pair	commons,	uncommons,	rares and	mythics	(0 total)
For a total of	0 commons,	0 uncommons,	0 rares and	0 mythics	(0 cards total).

(Note: This just generates the lines of the skeleton table. You can edit the table before you create any cards.)

Zendikar	commons	uncommons	rares	mythics	total
White, blue, black, red and green	18	10	7-9	2-3	38-39
Artifacts	6	5	2	2	15
Lands	5	5	10	0	20
Total:	101	60	53	15	229

Worldwake	commons	uncommons	rares	mythics	total
White, blue, black, red and green	10	7	5-6	1-2	23-24
Multicolour	0	0	0	2	2
Artifacts	4	3	4	0	11
Lands	6	2	5	1	14
Total:	60	40	35	10	145

Shards of Alara	commons	uncommons	rares	mythics	total
White, blue, black, red and green	15	7	8	0-1	30-31
Multicolour	15	20	10	12	57
Artifacts	6	0	3	1	10
Lands	5	5	0	0	10
Total:	111	60	52	13	229

Scars of Mirrodin	commons	uncommons	rares	mythics	total
White, blue, black, red and green	13	7	5-6	1-2	26-27
Multicolour	0	0	0	1	1
Artifacts	35	25	21	7	88
Lands	1	0	5	0	6
Total:	101	60	53	15	229

Mark Rosewater Sample Set	commons	uncommons	rares	mythics	total
White, blue, black, red and green	19	13	7-9	0-1	39
Multicolour	0	10	10	5	25
Artifacts	6	5	2	2	15
Lands	5	0	5	0	10
Total:	101	80	53	15	279

Code	User	Rarity	Colors	Type	Notes
Elusion	Amuseum	C	UR	Enchantment
Fast and Furious	Amuseum	C	RG	Instant
Fervent Pitch	Amuseum	U	BR	Sorcery
Clockwork Spy	Amuseum	U	UB	Creature
Ritual of Longevity	Amuseum	U	WB	Instant
Battle for Thraben	Amuseum	R	GW	Enchantment
Ders Bolga, Quartermaster	Amuseum	R	RW	Creature	Legendary
Procedural Generation	Amuseum	R	GU	Sorcery
Zefei, the East Gust	Amuseum	M	WU	Planeswalker
Brathar, Lifer from Loam	Amuseum	M	BG	Planeswalker
(((-AMU2.UR)))	Amuseum2		UR
(((-AMU2.RG)))	Amuseum2		RG
(((-AMU2.BR)))	Amuseum2		BR
(((-AMU2.UB)))	Amuseum2		UB
(((-AMU2.WB)))	Amuseum2		WB
(((-AMU2.GW)))	Amuseum2		GW
(((-AMU2.RW)))	Amuseum2		RW
(((-AMU2.GU)))	Amuseum2		GU
(((-AMU2.WU)))	Amuseum2		WU
(((-AMU2.BG)))	Amuseum2		BG