Japanese
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
German
Russian
Spanish/French Romance Languages
English
It's practically giving me an aneurysm (actually had to look that word up, go intarwebs for lernin me gooder) trying to decided between my favorites. I will willingly pimp from Korean, Japanese, S-Chinese, Russian, and German. But from those languages, I'm going to have to pick German, just because of some of the words are so awesome to pronounce.
As far as looks go, though, my Korean Tolarian Academy I recently parted with was my favorite card of all. It just looked so sophisticated.
Japanese is number 1 in my book.
I really like Portuguese and Spanish as well.
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I'll say German, because it's pseudo-readable for English speakers, and because if I can ever manage to find some, my Winter Orbs will be Frostbringers. That just sounds epic.
English - I mean, WTF, I want to be able to read my cards O_o
That latin card looks extremly hot. Are there any other cards printed in Latin? I generally like Spanish/Portugese and Italian, too. I mean "Miniera di gemma" and not Gemstone Mine.
I like mine in German, Japanese, French, and Spanish. Korean looks good too, but hard to get.
But I think more Hebrew cards would be awesome.
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I'm a big fan of Italian, only because I'm an Italianophile.
English. Anything else is annoying. That being said about half of my Relic Orb is Italian. It just sort of happened that way.
Russian. A lot of people double take on cards because it looks like they can be read, but then they realize it's in Russian. I also like to mix it up and get a play set of four different languages to confuse people.
Normally I prefer to play with foil english cards. Most of the time I play with people not that interested in either Legacy or competive magic, so they lack a lot of knowledge of the cardpool.
Having the cards in english helps me smoothing out games.
However, since I started learning Japanese, I really like it for pimping purposes. I might build a japanese deck once, with only cards which aren't that complicated to understand (9-land stompy or something).
Overal, Japanese is my favored pimping language, but most of the time I go for functionality.
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German.
Originally Posted by Jack Burton
Russian for sure, aye. I love the Cyrrilic (sp) text.
It is very interesting to see german as one of the prefered languages because to me as a german the german cards have always been too īnormalī. I have tried to go international and get english cards for value reasons, lol. Well, this opinion was built 11 years ago.
As īpimpī I prefer old cards, and try to simply get my deck black bordered. The great thing is we have got the 3rd edition black bordered here in germany. Thus I play basic lands, duals, and standard cards like Lightning Bolt, Dark Ritual, Hypnotic Specter,... from that edition.
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On a different note, does anyone agree that French cards are incredibly ugly because of their lack of capitalization?
YOU'RE GIVING ME A TIME MACHINE IN ORDER TO TREAT MY SLEEP DISORDER.
I'm not the only one thinking this way, but for me asian cards are cooler than English one. Everything else is way behind, whether French, German, Portugese, whatever. Within the asian languages strictly speaking, I also think Korean looks the best, but Japanese cards are usually the most expensive to get. I think this poll should give the option to vote for Korean.
Living in Shanghai, it is not difficult for me to pimp my decks in Chinese for more recent cards, foil when I can find them, but it is sometimes complicated (especially for Coldsnap).
It happened to me several times in real tournaments: judges were called because all my deck is in asian, and sometimes your opponent just won't believe your Jitte or SoFI is so powerful. Funny situations, but it does not happen that often.
I also don't understand the recent "hype", especially from sourcers, for German cards. I have my Necropotenz, Willenkrafts and a couple others. But I really cannot find it any superior to any other European languages. Maybe because I was traumatized in high school by some evil German teatchers. Maybe.
Anyway, despite being born French, I am probably the strongest anti French here (I didn't went living in Shanghai for no reason), but I would like to congratulate Nihil for his very relevant analysis of the French language. It sucks because of the lack of capitalization. Especially compared to English, Spanish, Portugese, etc.
Besides the overall "beauty" of the foreign card, knowing the language is always a plus. Speaking French, English, little German, and Chinese, It would make more sense for me to look for these. But Korean is sooo nice...
This thread sucks. Mostly because what is considered Pimp is largely dependant on the set each card is from. For example:
Mirage - cannot get it in any asian language but Japanese, but looks sexy as fuck in said language. I would prefer Japanese over German any day.
Alliances/Ice Age - German FTW. Gedankenwirbel.
New sets - Foil is the best language. Do you speak shiny?
In general, the German language is cool because the names are rediculous and fun to mispronounce; plus "interrupt" is translated to "unterbrechenzauber" which takes up half the damn card.
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