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I don't know if I titled this correctly.  But for future expansions I'd really like to see a card sequenced the same.  What am I saying?  For example, all tri color good enhancements, lets say Blue/Red/White.  Are always in the same order in future expansions.  An easy way to always keep the sequence would be to alphabetize the color, Blue always on top, followed by Clay (if It's blue and clay clay goes in the middle) and so on and so forth.  It also makes is simpler and more organized in the end.

Why are we making cards like Persian Horseman / Persian Horses with the evil character on left and enhancement portion on right than making a card like Withered Plant/ The Worm with the enhancement portion on the left and evil character on the right.  This also probably confuses newer players who buy new expansions as to why it's not correctly sequenced.  There may be a better word to replace sequence with here.

Quote from: SiLeNcEd_MaTrIx on July 24, 2019, 09:44:33 PM

I don't know if I titled this correctly.  But for future expansions I'd really like to see a card sequenced the same.  What am I saying?  For example, all tri color good enhancements, lets say Blue/Red/White.  Are always in the same order in future expansions.  An easy way to always keep the sequence would be to alphabetize the color, Blue always on top, followed by Clay (if It's blue and clay clay goes in the middle) and so on and so forth.  It also makes is simpler and more organized in the end.

Why are we making cards like Persian Horseman / Persian Horses with the evil character on left and enhancement portion on right than making a card like Withered Plant/ The Worm with the enhancement portion on the left and evil character on the right.  This also probably confuses newer players who buy new expansions as to why it's not correctly sequenced.  There may be a better word to replace sequence with here.

As a general rule we already do this. Sometimes with 3 color cards we shuffle things around so they look better from a graphics standpoint. On 2 color cards with very rare exceptions we go in alphabetical order top to bottom.

As far as Worm/Horseman, I think that may have been an oversight on our part, we're not perfect after all. We do occasionally flip the order of boxes for thematic purposes (See Divide and Unify or Sin and Justice) but I don't believe that was the case on either of these cards.

Gotcha.  Oversights happen no biggie I'm glad to know in the end for the most this is already done.    Thanks for your reply and explanation!

Quote from: SiLeNcEd_MaTrIx on July 24, 2019, 09:44:33 PM

I don't know if I titled this correctly.  But for future expansions I'd really like to see a card sequenced the same.  What am I saying?  For example, all tri color good enhancements, lets say Blue/Red/White.  Are always in the same order in future expansions.  An easy way to always keep the sequence would be to alphabetize the color, Blue always on top, followed by Clay (if It's blue and clay clay goes in the middle) and so on and so forth.  It also makes is simpler and more organized in the end.

Why are we making cards like Persian Horseman / Persian Horses with the evil character on left and enhancement portion on right than making a card like Withered Plant/ The Worm with the enhancement portion on the left and evil character on the right.  This also probably confuses newer players who buy new expansions as to why it's not correctly sequenced.  There may be a better word to replace sequence with here.

As the person who's done a lot of the graphics for the past few years I can affirm that there is usually an order. When it comes to 3 and 4 brigade cards the order takes a back seat to visibility. Sometimes when two brigades are put next to one another and there is very little contrast between them so the order gets switched in order for the colors to be better distinguished.

There are times when we will intentionally flip the normal order of a dual icon card, but Persian Horsemen/Horses was just an oversight that nobody caught. The EE side was added part way through play testing to the existing EC. The standard order of EE/EC was overlooked with that addition.

  Thanks for the information Gabe!