I am, as probably most edh-players, very eager to get as much foil in my deck as possible.. i still have around 25 card that dont shine :-( but i am working on it!!
What kind of languages do you like your foils most?
1. english, because it is classic
2. german, just because
3. Asian-languages because of the wonderful signs on them my Favorits by far!!!
I prefer English, just because I am usually doing some complicated rules tricks, and I would rather not carry around the oracle text of cards with me when people try to question exactly how something is going on (as is I frequently get people arguing with me over whether or not Cryptic Commands tap mode targets one player or hits everyone because I use the textless version, just because textless cards look so darn pretty) I can't imagine what it would be like if most of my deck was like that. I'd have to print out the text of almost every card in my deck
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I never, ever use non-English cards. Even if you know every card in your deck well enough to not be gimping yourself (which I would like to think is the case for me), you're still making life a pain for opponents. Foils are sexy enough as is.
I only use English cards. I had to trade my foreign Swords to Plowshares for an English one simply because I couldn't remember whether it said that they gain life equal to the creature's power or it's toughness.
I used to have quite a lot of foreign cards in my EDH decks (foil kanji do look pretty cool). Sadly, after so many questions about what a card does, especially when it's from someone who's borrowing a deck of yours and just drew something, I reverted back to English. It's just simpler for casual purposes. (I may or may not be the jackass who built an 80% foreign Warp World deck for T2 though...)
I love foreign language cards, and if I can't get a card in foil (can't find it or it was never printed in it) I like to have it at least be non-english, though what language doesn't really matter (against the trend of most people, I'm not super fond of Asian lanuages). That said, for foils I like English or Russian. Russian is the ultimate pimp looking language, but English foil is still quite cool.
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Have to agree with LennonMarx, Russian is super sexy. For me it's either Russian or Japanese. Russian foil Graven Cairns (Shadowmoor) is probably one of the sexiest cards I have.
EDIT: but keep in mind what therestless said- if you don't like explaining cards, don't do it. Textless Cryptic Command is probably the worst thing that ever happened to my Wrexial EDH deck.
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Depends on the card, though for foils, my favorites are Japanese and Russian, with German or French for a select few.
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BRG Xira Arien BRG UR Melek, Izzet Paragon UR WUG Jenara, Asura of War WUG WRG Mayael the Anima WRG WB Triad of Fates WB BG Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest BG BR Rakdos, Lord of Riots BR WR Aurelia the Warleader WR WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores WBG WUBRG Horde of Notions WUBRG
Foil Japanese and foil Russian are definitely my top picks. After that: foil German, because like the OP said, German is awesome.
I have a lot of foil german cards!! would you like to trade? english foil against german foil!?! same same but different...what do you think?
i like the german cards as well (sometimes they have absolut horrible translations, which are fun) but i have way too much of them...becasue a lot of peolpe buy german cards in switzerland..
Anyone which is interessted in trading german foil cards against any foil in a other language...feel free to contact me... i will be unavailabe for one week..but i will answer as soon as possible!!
all i have to say about russian cards, wizards hired horrible translators. either the cards dont make sance or they say compleatly diffrent thing then what they mean in english. well atleast me and the people around me understand both verions
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Only foil Japanese and foil English for me. I can read some Japanese, so it's not too bad.
The downside is that other people can't play my decks unless they know the cards well. The upside is that I don't have to play against my own nasty decks.
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I am, as probably most edh-players, very eager to get as much foil in my deck as possible.. i still have around 25 card that dont shine :-( but i am working on it!!
What kind of languages do you like your foils most?
1. english, because it is classic
2. german, just because
3. Asian-languages because of the wonderful signs on them my Favorits by far!!!
so what do you prefer and how do you trade them?
Halfdane
Sek'Kuar
Please remember to autocard, just do [ card ] CARD NAME [ / card ] and for decks you can cover the whole thing in one deck tag like this: [ deck ] All of the cards in the deck [ / deck ]
WLinvala, Keeper of SilenceW
BInk-Eyes, Servant of OniB
RKiki-Jiki, Mirror BreakerR
UGExperiment KrajGU
WUGAngus MackenzieGUW
BRBladewing the RisenRB
WBROros, the AvengerRBW
USakashima the ImpostorU
WUBRGScion of the Ur-DragonGRBUW
Although my favorite non-english foil is the Hebrew? promo of Glory.
EDIT: but keep in mind what therestless said- if you don't like explaining cards, don't do it. Textless Cryptic Command is probably the worst thing that ever happened to my Wrexial EDH deck.
Currently running:
BRG Xira Arien BRG
UR Melek, Izzet Paragon UR
WUG Jenara, Asura of War WUG
WRG Mayael the Anima WRG
WB Triad of Fates WB
BG Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest BG
BR Rakdos, Lord of Riots BR
WR Aurelia the Warleader WR
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores WBG
WUBRG Horde of Notions WUBRG
I have a lot of foil german cards!! would you like to trade? english foil against german foil!?! same same but different...what do you think?
i like the german cards as well (sometimes they have absolut horrible translations, which are fun) but i have way too much of them...becasue a lot of peolpe buy german cards in switzerland..
I've got one of those in my EDH deck, it's so sexy
I'd say English is my favourite, because of all of the different and complex combos and interactions in EDH.
After that, it's Japanese.
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Also, any french card is cool in my book.
Russian looks great.
Trade?
The downside is that other people can't play my decks unless they know the cards well. The upside is that I don't have to play against my own nasty decks.