u/Rack_Daddy

Hey guys, one of my friends recently got me into Sorcery and I love the game. I come from playing all kinds of TCGs but mostly Magic and Yugioh. The effect text on basically all Sorcery cards is easiest enough to understand if you take them at face value, but they read like early era Yugioh cards where everything has an invisible (it works) at the end of it. Yugioh eventually had to update how they format effect text so that interactions between cards was consistent and clear how it would resolve. Is there any designer talk from the team behind Sorcery that goes over why they word the effects the way they do? Are they worried they'll have to errata a bunch of text to have it make sense in the future?

Hey guys, long time lurker first time poster. I'm working on my TCG and the idea is that you are commanding an army of aliens on a grid. A little bit of Sorcery, a little bit of Warhammer, a little bit of sauce. The idea is that you have a Leader and that the cards in your deck get additional effects if they are part of your leader's faction. This way all cards are still viable for drafting, but they get additional/better effects when they are working for their own faction.

What I'm running into is how to display the original effect and the upgraded effect clearly. The first example is what most of my friends say is the easiest to understand, and I agree. However, I don't really want to have that much extra text on basically every card in the game. Those who are familiar with yugioh having to put "You can only activate this card's effect once per turn" on every card know my concern. The next two examples have some text in grey, the effect if they are not "in faction" and some text in red, the text if they are "in faction".

The first example is a easier to understand, but the second and third examples leave more room for effect text and I think looks cooler. What do you all think?

(Also these are made in Dextrous so the art is temp art using one of their stock images. And the cards are horizontal because they won't fit onto the grid size I'm using if they are vertical.)

https://preview.redd.it/ytr3tr0j792h1.png?width=1120&format=png&auto=webp&s=93dfa209b4739f6c2effa516b8024e7235332f17

https://preview.redd.it/98zh1baj792h1.png?width=1120&format=png&auto=webp&s=2ab492921c820dbd05aea7fb5e6eddc4558cb66e

https://preview.redd.it/52rbs66l792h1.png?width=1120&format=png&auto=webp&s=36d9ce64aadddc2b5eaf0622d846b47d1e50126c