Not sure if this is the correct forum, but has anyone noticed the RTR guildgates spell out "The guilds of Ravnica" in the flavor text?
Each gate has several letters that are elevated higher than the rest:
Azorius: Senate, justice, foundation, Ravnican
Izzet: those, release, their, creations
Rakdos: Enter, indulge, may, again
Golgari: starving, rest, Ravnica
Selesnya: united, open, and
The GTC gates follow a similar pattern, but I can't tell what they say... Can anyone else figure out?
It helps if you look at the physical cards, but some of the letters in the flavor text are misaligned. They appear a couple pixels(?) above the type line.
Edit: I'm following traditional color order: (WU, UR, BR, BG, GW) one letter from each card.
Huh, I thought this was just silly looking-too-hard stuff until I actually checked and saw that, sure enough, those letters are definitely slightly off-kilter. Wow, that's incredibly subtle and really, really interesting. I suppose the story of the block does involve looking for clues to a secret maze hidden in plain sight, so this is something in keeping with that theme.
The order for the Gatecrash guilds, starting with white and having consecutive colors, should be: Orzhov, Dimir, Simic, Gruul, Boros.
It was at that moment that I realized: I'm kinda just making these things up. We can just write the rules the way we want them to work. People will have fun, and people will get it.
At first I was like, "whatever, it's late at night." But then I looked. I was thinking it just might be the font, but there's inconsistencies here. There could be something going on there. Some of the letters do looked raised, but it's hard to tell on screen what they are without blowing them up and photoshopping a line underneath them.
If you're going to put together a "secret message", I'd suggest do them in "wheel" order as seen on Tablet of Guilds:
Each gate has several letters that are elevated higher than the rest:
Azorius: Senate, justice, foundation, Ravnican
Izzet: those, release, their, creations
Rakdos: Enter, indulge, may, again
Golgari: starving, rest, Ravnica
Selesnya: united, open, and
The GTC gates follow a similar pattern, but I can't tell what they say... Can anyone else figure out?
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Edit: I'm following traditional color order: (WU, UR, BR, BG, GW) one letter from each card.
On gruul it's easiest to see.
Gruul: Enter and leave the shackles of society behind.
Simic: Enter and comprehend the perfection of orchestrated life
In the boros one the R in hearts seems elevated.
Don't have time to look closely to the others sadly
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someone with better eyesight than mine should start working on the new gates.
The order for the Gatecrash guilds, starting with white and having consecutive colors, should be: Orzhov, Dimir, Simic, Gruul, Boros.
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Boros: merciful, hearts, cries
This gives us:
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I think there are some missing, and we may have to rearrange the guilds to some kind of WUBRG order. The first word, I believe, is 'world'.
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Simic
Gruul
Boros
Orzov
Dimir
Just a guess, anyways. I could be completely off base, but it's a place to start. Also, OP only has 5 posts... lurker, or plant?
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If you're going to put together a "secret message", I'd suggest do them in "wheel" order as seen on Tablet of Guilds:
Azorious
Orzhov
Dimir
Izzet
Rakdos
Golgari
Gruul
Boros
Selesnya
Simic
Maybe there's a larger code at work. (Think Dimir).
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