Has anyone else noticed that the early images we saw of the spindown life counters for DTK look different than the newest images from the Magic Community Manager videos? For instance, the Kolaghan die appeared to have black lettering on a deeper, darker purple, and the die being shown now with the Prerelease packs appears to be a light, pinkish-purple with white or silver lettering.
Maybe it's to be expected with studio lighting sprucing up those images, but I'm a bit disappointed in the Dromoka, Ojutai, and Kolaghan dice now (although I like the Silumgar and Atarka dice more). Does anyone else feel this way?
yeah you're right. Those don't look nearly as nice. The blue one is the only one that looks similar. I wanted the purple one before, but I'm not really into pink so I guess I'll get the blue.
Looks very nice this new dices, "foil-dices" are cool
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The Dromaka die looks a lot better with the black confetti in it than it does with the white. I still really like them all. I wish the Atarka die was a little more translucent like the rest of them
Frankly, I cannot see much difference, except for lighting.
The only significant difference on that pics is the Kolaghan die, that really looks like it has dark lettering in the promo picture and light in reality.
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There does look to be some differences in the one dice going from a darker gray numbering to a lighter grey, but that could be lighting. That all being said, there is an easy solution to that problem. Acrylic paint can easily change the color of the numbering. With a little acrylic paint in the lettering, it can be anything you like. It could even be a boat! That said, they are dice. I hope how the dice look in person doesn't deter somebody from picking the dragon group they want. But seriously, it could be a boat!
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The "dark" color of the numbers is allways hard to read, it should be default bright white for best contrast (make it total black for the light colored dices).
I would really enjoy some diversity among the dice. Each one is a little different, encourage trading you know. Personally I am doing ojutai, I think I will enjoy drafting that and the icy dice looks awesome.
The dice are the same but the original picture the dice where on a white background. The new picture shows in someones hand which picks up different colors. The lighting and the background are the reason for the difference.
There does look to be some differences in the one dice going from a darker gray numbering to a lighter grey, but that could be lighting. That all being said, there is an easy solution to that problem. Acrylic paint can easily change the color of the numbering. With a little acrylic paint in the lettering, it can be anything you like. It could even be a boat! That said, they are dice. I hope how the dice look in person doesn't deter somebody from picking the dragon group they want. But seriously, it could be a boat!
I was thinking the same thing with the paint idea. It won't deter me from picking the clan(s) I want to play, but it will make cracking the box a bit less exciting. However, I didn't want the Silumgar die based on the original image, but I will definitely try to buy or trade for one now. The original image did not do it justice!
I really wish they'd start printing these as standard D20's instead of spindowns. You can just as easily keep track of life with a D20 and they would have more use.
It's not really just as easy to keep track of life with a regular d20. It requires either memorization of the numbers' positions or time taken to look for the next number for every life change. On a spindown, the numbers are all easily locatable and for changes of 1-2 life require very little work at all.
That said, I agree that d20s would be more useful, and might discourage more people from using nothing but the spindowns to keep track of life at FNMs/prereleases (even though that's why they're included).
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Maybe it's to be expected with studio lighting sprucing up those images, but I'm a bit disappointed in the Dromoka, Ojutai, and Kolaghan dice now (although I like the Silumgar and Atarka dice more). Does anyone else feel this way?
For reference, here are the images/videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQeyBP6HOA0 (the 2:25 mark has him holding all 5 dice)
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/tarkir-dragonfury-explanation-2015-02-24
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The only significant difference on that pics is the Kolaghan die, that really looks like it has dark lettering in the promo picture and light in reality.
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RIP Batman guy. I hope somebody picks up the slack now that you are gone. Sick children need their Batman.
But if i had to choose, i would get the boat.
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Yeah, the Silumgar dice does look better than in the promo picture.
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I was thinking the same thing with the paint idea. It won't deter me from picking the clan(s) I want to play, but it will make cracking the box a bit less exciting. However, I didn't want the Silumgar die based on the original image, but I will definitely try to buy or trade for one now. The original image did not do it justice!
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That said, I agree that d20s would be more useful, and might discourage more people from using nothing but the spindowns to keep track of life at FNMs/prereleases (even though that's why they're included).
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