Brown, and old border. I've never understood why they changed borders. I don't think it added anything, and I think it significantly reduced the cosmetic appeal of all cards.
I like the brown color for artifacts in the older style, but couldn't agree with a brown border for artifacts in the current frame. They'd be easily mistaken for lands at a glance (much like artifacts were mistaken for white cards until they darkened the silver border in Darksteel) and the modern card frame just doesn't say "old mysterious relic", even in brown.
I know they'd never do it- mostly because it would be kind of confusing, and for no real good, but I would really like if it was more the setting that dictated if the background than an artifact had was brown or silver.
Brown is really great for the more hard fantasy setting, where the various artifacts are more often lost relics of a bygone society, or some sort of magically imbued sort of item (Golems, magical amulets, etc).
Silver backgrounds are nicer for things like robots, machines and more of the sci-fi sort of aspects that the game has introduced.
As a newcomer I prefer the grey border just because it's familiar.....buuuut, I have a foil Throne Of Bone from the 7th edition that I love, visually speaking....so I'm torn.
I think the new norm is just easier to work with at this point.
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I'd like a newer brown effect, the one that MSE offers for "brown, while still modern" frames..
The one i've attached, while still brown, it's still modernized, so it doesn't look too rusty. I've been playing this game since before alpha, and while i love the old brown, the frames should stay modernized in a way, and this is a good example of showing the "rusty" effect of an artifact, without confusing it for white (for colorblind people). This is my suggestion, and while it may not happen, this is a wishful thinking/hope for the future.
The 20th anniversary would be a good time to change things, but people generally hate change, so expect lots of needless *****ing and moaning.
As a further Example, i've included Pithing Needle in this frame, and while it's harder to notice the artist's name on this brown, it's imo, not as ugly as the Pre 8th (which i'm also including for reference)
i like these over the original brown and the grey backround artifacts
I do not like DOO DOO BROWN on my cards. Silver is more than fine.
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I started when brown was the norm. I am bias towards the old brown coloring because I loved them. Agreed on all points that the new frames seem too sterile but ravarshi's idea seems rather well done! I worry the color is too matte and making it any richer would place it in nonbasic land coloration.
I like the current artifact frame best. I dislike the almost-white-bright-silver-8thed/Mirrodinian one, because, it's easy to mistake with the white colors, and dislike brown, because our artifacts now aren't covered in rust or leather or anything brown. And I also like templates, aswell, so, I like the modern frame more than any other frame.
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New. All the way. I came in right after the changes happened, so take what I say with grain of salt, I guess. But I didn't like the ramshackle, unstructured look of most of the old card frames. It was so unprofessional.
The silver hits on the artifacts moistly being older and ancient tools, most of which are made with something shiny, you know?
and the modern card frame just doesn't say "old mysterious relic", even in brown.
Most artifacts aren't old mysterious relics.
Also, there are plenty more blocks than Mirrodin that had a focus on newer, more technologically advanced artifacts. See Urza block, where all of the artifacts were just made off the assembly line. Invasion block is rather similar.
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I like the silver border more then the brown border but I do also like the brown border. I hope they do the brown border soon. I think maybe if they did a set on mostly reprints of artifacts then yeah they might do silver border. wizards would make a lot of people happy. it might even make people play artifact decks.
The brown border makes artifacts seem more, artifacty. Like they're ancient powerful relics. Like what the definition of artifact is. Not like it was made yesterday and is all shiny and new, like the very definition of what artifacts are not.
I like brown a lot better than the silver we have. That pithing needle is beautiful with the old style frame.
I like the older frames in general, actually, but gold and artifact frames were the two I really liked a lot better in the old style. I am, however, very glad that they darkened the artifact frame. Mirrodin artifacts were far too light.
A new brown border would be interesting; because I imagine the old colour scheme would look a bit to much like the lands colour.
However, the grey boarder seems to fit so many cards perfectly, I mean ~ could you ever picture the five mana dork Myr (either art) with a brown border?
Yeah, Myrs and Mirrodin would look strange, but on another hand some cards look strange with new frame as well (Mirari - silvery art with silver artifact in silver frame. Silver silver silver silver!).
I'd like brown scheme returning for artifacts, but please, only that.
The brown is better. It has much better contrast and makes the picture "pop" out.
That's the same reason I love the old frame and the Future Sight one. Solid colors make the art the centerpiece of the card, and everything is much prettier that way.
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Brown is really great for the more hard fantasy setting, where the various artifacts are more often lost relics of a bygone society, or some sort of magically imbued sort of item (Golems, magical amulets, etc).
Silver backgrounds are nicer for things like robots, machines and more of the sci-fi sort of aspects that the game has introduced.
I think the new norm is just easier to work with at this point.
i like these over the original brown and the grey backround artifacts
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This for me as well, but I find the brown a little ugly too
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That way the brown artifacts are the truly old ones and that makes them even more special
The silver hits on the artifacts moistly being older and ancient tools, most of which are made with something shiny, you know?
Also, there are plenty more blocks than Mirrodin that had a focus on newer, more technologically advanced artifacts. See Urza block, where all of the artifacts were just made off the assembly line. Invasion block is rather similar.
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But this is actually a very good point, I must admit.
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I like the older frames in general, actually, but gold and artifact frames were the two I really liked a lot better in the old style. I am, however, very glad that they darkened the artifact frame. Mirrodin artifacts were far too light.
Yeah, Myrs and Mirrodin would look strange, but on another hand some cards look strange with new frame as well (Mirari - silvery art with silver artifact in silver frame. Silver silver silver silver!).
I'd like brown scheme returning for artifacts, but please, only that.
That's the same reason I love the old frame and the Future Sight one. Solid colors make the art the centerpiece of the card, and everything is much prettier that way.