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Though they’re initially played as one kind of ALIGNMENT, then may convert to the other alignment later, they are still dual-icon cards because they have two icons on them.

My only confusion was for deck building purposes, I'm sure that portion will be clearly defined in the new REG.

My point is, if we say that LR Namaan is dual icon and the old one is not, then they're effectively different cards, which is against the spirit of LRs.

But the LR Daniel has the Cloud icon, which makes it a different card than the promo.

...no it doesn't, unless that's changed since the reveal.

LRs shouldn't be functionally different in any way from their plain versions.

That was our idealistic goal when LRs started out but that ship sailed with Spy and Sabbath Breaker, which we didn't realize until it was too late. We did the same again with Assyrian Archer this year, intentionally this time. We also decided to give the Daniel LR a subtitle and cloud icon (like the other 3 major prophets in PoC). Our original goals were set in part because LRs were originally envisioned to be as rare or rarer than URs, but that's not how they ended up. We've decided that since they're easily available and have been moved the common slot this year, that we're OK with minor differences.

But this discussion has diverged quite a bit from the original topic and is probably best dedicated to its own thread.

Though they’re initially played as one kind of ALIGNMENT, then may convert to the other alignment later, they are still dual-icon cards because they have two icons on them.

I agree with this.  Any card that has more than one icon should be considered dual icon.  Dual Icon and Dual Alignment are not the same. (Withered Plant is dual icon but not dual alignment)