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  • posted a message on Learning new MSE templates.
    I use magiccards.info a lot, so I just kinda hacked up their format to display mine as well. It's actually not a completed page, as you can see if you click on one of the card names.

    Bruker was sent a C&D directly after a Reddit post advertising Cockatrice. It would be unwise to have that happen again. If you look, you will find it.
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    Bruker no longer maintains it.
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  • posted a message on Learning new MSE templates.
    It was new to me. This past summer, I did not have a script and was exporting the sets by hand. Also, Cockatrice is not down.
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  • posted a message on Learning new MSE templates.
    Yes, but you still need to do a bit of manual editing to change mana about and replace some characters. It's a lot easier than hand writing the whole thing from an MWS set list though.

    Here is the Reddit post for the exportation files: MSE Cockatrice Exporter
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    I recently saw that MSE has some new templates and scripts out. One for exporting to Cockatrice, and numerous for creating really spectacular overlays and card layouts. I basically just played around and made about 17 cards to test this all out.

    I have not tested the MWS and Lackey exporting yet, but the Cockatrice one needs some filtering for its export code. I noticed that a double hyphen messes up Cockatrice, and it need to be replaced with a single hyphen. I also noticed that an apostrophe in MSE is different from the apostrophe that Cockatrice expects. Any hybrid and phyrexian mana are also formatted wrong.

    I would love to hear some suggestions on how to address these things in a more automated fashion, and also any suggestions on building custom sets that are fairly balanced for Vintage.

    Here are links to my "Oracle" page spoiler and the associated set files.
    Malevolent Mistress Maleficent - Oracle
    MMM Set Files

    Here are a couple card examples:



    This set permits the addition of non-standard colours, as well as overlays. The overlay functionality is really cool, and it works in conjunction with foil overlays, as you can see in this example. The overlay is a bit tricky at first, but it's not too hard to get the hang of. I just have poor Photoshop skills.



    So, this one looked like it might be a cool template. The problem was that I could not find a place to put any casting cost or card type. So, I just kinda wrote them in to fit with the rest of the card. One nice thing was that I was able to change the text colour to non-standard colours of my choosing. This card didn't turn out that well, but I believe the template has some potential.



    This was a really cool alternative template. The main thing that sets it apart, is that that the text boxes are slanted, and the image area is a jagged edge.

    The images were just taken from Google images. I'm really not to a point of concerning myself with doing completely original cards that are legitimately playable until I get some of the technical issues sorted first.
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