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  • Japanese

    17 19.10%
  • Traditional Chinese

    7 7.87%
  • Simplified Chinese

    10 11.24%
  • German

    18 20.22%
  • Russian

    12 13.48%
  • Spanish/French Romance Languages

    6 6.74%
  • English

    19 21.35%
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    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.

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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

    Japanese is number 1 in my book.

    I really like Portuguese and Spanish as well.
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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

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    or, if there were more than a single card with this, Latin.
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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

    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.

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    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.

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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

    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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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

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    That latin card looks extremly hot. Are there any other cards printed in Latin?
    No. This prerelease cards from Invasion were all printed in "ancient" languages. There is one in ancient Hebrew and one in ancient Greek.

    I think they should do a PR card in Old English, but so few people know it nowadays.
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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

    I'm a big fan of Italian, only because I'm an Italianophile.

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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

    English. Anything else is annoying. That being said about half of my Relic Orb is Italian. It just sort of happened that way.

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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

    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.
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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

    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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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

    German.
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    Russian for sure, aye. I love the Cyrrilic (sp) text.

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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

    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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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

    On a different note, does anyone agree that French cards are incredibly ugly because of their lack of capitalization?
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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

    Quote Originally Posted by Nihil View Post
    On a different note, does anyone agree that French cards are incredibly ugly because of their lack of capitalization?
    The language is incredibly ugly to begin with. "Language of love" my ass. It's like Latin went on an ego trip.

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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

    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...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nihil View Post
    On a different note, does anyone agree that French cards are incredibly ugly because of their lack of capitalization?
    Delay is "Retard" in French. Good enough for me.
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    Re: Favorite Pimp Language

    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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