MTG Salvation

I find it really annoying that mtgs uses promo art for some cards as their default image. I though the whole point of card tags is to make discussion easier and card image being a messy promo undermines that.

examples of this [insert insulting term here] in action:

Ajani Steadfast
Glory
Aggravated Assault

It's a known issue that we've put into development to fix.

Currently, the autocard simply pulls the latest printing of the card. 99% of the time that's perfect, since it's much better to see Breath of Life instead of Breath of Life as a reference. Unfortunately, Wizards has been printing more and more unreadable cards, such as the ones you linked to. Thus, we have to rewrite the entire way the autocard works. It's planned, but I don't have an exact ETA or anything.

The best work around for the interim is to specify the set with CardName|Set: [card]Glory|Judgment[/card] = Glory

Is there any way to link to tokens or promos? Is there any way to still get the hover effect when using a different URL for the image?

You can link images from magiccards.info with [img], so you could find them there if they're not in MTGSalvations, though the image size is larger. However you're only going to get the hover effect when using [card] or [cardimg] to reference MTGSalvation's card data.