[ANNOUNCEMENT] Card tags (2.0!)

[Nihil Credo]

Since a few months ago, the site has offered the possibility of automatically making the card names in your posts display a tooltip card picture upon hovering, and link to their page on http://deckbox.org upon clicking. Because there is not (yet) a button for this function in the forum editor, some readers aren't yet aware of this.

To provide a card, or a list of cards (see below) with a tooltip/hyperlink, you need to put {CARDS} before its name and {/CARDS} after it, replacing the { } brackets with the [ ] that are used in this forum.

As of today, the parser is a little smarter and will recognise the most common ways of typing decklists. Here are a few examples:



5 Tarmogoyf
4x Spiny Starfish
1 Æther Adept
2-4 Framed!
3 Fire // Ice
1 [LG] Karakas

Random text
// Commented text
4 Swords to Plowshares // Commenting after a card doesn't work (thank the split cards for that)


Boy, I sure hate Wasteland!

will turn into:



5 Tarmogoyf
4x Spiny Starfish
1 Æther Adept
2-4 Framed!
3 Fire // Ice
1 [LG] Karakas

Random text
// Commented text
4 Swords to Plowshares // Commenting after a card doesn't work (thank the split cards for that)


Boy, I sure hate Wasteland!

As smart readers will have figured out from the above examples, you can also just wrap CARDS tags around a directly-copied Magic Workstation decklist and only the card names will be hyperlinked.


// Deck file for Magic Workstation (http://www.magicworkstation.com)

// Lands
4 [TE] Wasteland
2 [ON] Polluted Delta
2 [ON] Flooded Strand
4 [PR] Volcanic Island
4 [PR] Tropical Island
2 [PR] Wooded Foothills

// Creatures
4 [PR] Tarmogoyf
4 [OD] Nimble Mongoose

// Spells
1 [TSP] Wipe Away
1 [PS] Rushing River
4 [AL] Force of Will
4 [PR] Brainstorm
4 [LRW] Ponder
4 [PR] Lightning Bolt
4 [PR] Fire/Ice
4 [SC] Stifle
4 [NE] Daze
4 [DIS] Spell Snare

// Sideboard
SB: 2 [10E] Pyroclasm
SB: 3 [10E] Pithing Needle
SB: 2 [A] Red Elemental Blast
SB: 2 [IA] Pyroblast
SB: 4 [DK] Tormod's Crypt
SB: 2 [TSP] Krosan Grip


You are not required to put CARDS tags around your decklists and new card suggestion, and you won't be sanctioned for not doing so (whereas, for example, you are required to make your posts readable and make sure they have content).

It will often be in your own best interest, however, to use tags when proposing decks or mentioning cards that are not completely well-known. Readers are lazy enough that having to look up a card on their own may very well be enough to dissuade them from reading the rest of the post you have worked so long on.

[Ace/Homebrew]

Is there a way to have 'Card Tags' display a specific printing of a card?

For example, how can I make Juggernaut display http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=321&type=card instead of http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=383289&type=card ?

[haganbmj]

Is there a way to have 'Card Tags' display a specific printing of a card?

For example, how can I make Juggernaut display http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=321&type=card instead of http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=383289&type=card ?

Looks like you can kind of make it work by linking straight to the printing... but that's less than ideal.
I'm not seeing a way in the deckbox vBulletin scripts (https://github.com/SebastianZaha/vbulletin_mtg_tooltips/blob/master/vbulletin_mtg_tooltips.xml#L23-L25).

Juggernaut?printing=3055

example: https://deckbox.org/mtg/Juggernaut?printing=3055


Juggernaut?printing=3055

[Jander78]

Looks like you can kind of make it work by linking straight to the printing... but that's less than ideal.
I'm not seeing a way in the deckbox vBulletin scripts (https://github.com/SebastianZaha/vbulletin_mtg_tooltips/blob/master/vbulletin_mtg_tooltips.xml#L23-L25).

Juggernaut?printing=3055

example: https://deckbox.org/mtg/Juggernaut?printing=3055


Juggernaut?printing=3055

If you use the url tags it will work how you want. You'll just need to research the printing you want to use on deckbox.org.

This: Counterspell (http://deckbox.org/mtg/Counterspell?printing=6455)
Would come out like this: Counterspell (http://deckbox.org/mtg/Counterspell?printing=6455)

For Juggernaut: Juggernaut (http://deckbox.org/mtg/Juggernaut?printing=3055)

Juggernaut (http://deckbox.org/mtg/Juggernaut?printing=3055)

[Barook]

While we're at it, could we get a button that does when clicking on it? Pretty please?

[haganbmj]

If you use the url tags it will work how you want. You'll just need to research the printing you want to use on deckbox.org.

This: Counterspell (http://deckbox.org/mtg/Counterspell?printing=6455)
Would come out like this: Counterspell (http://deckbox.org/mtg/Counterspell?printing=6455)

For Juggernaut: Juggernaut (http://deckbox.org/mtg/Juggernaut?printing=3055)

Juggernaut (http://deckbox.org/mtg/Juggernaut?printing=3055)

Ah yeah, that's pretty good. Forgot it applied to every url, not just card tags.

[Ace/Homebrew]

Thank you! :laugh:

[H]

While we're at it, could we get a button that does when clicking on it? Pretty please?

I had asked that here (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?18250-ANNOUNCEMENT-Card-tags-(2-0!)&p=970549&viewfull=1#post970549) (I don't know why I didn't realize there was a thread in this section for Card Tags too).


Any chance we could get a button, like the one that adds the Bold tags, or Unline Tags, etc. for the Cards tag? It would be so much easier than typing it out every time.

I think this form here (https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/bbcode_add) is how you do it. If need be, I'll make a logo for the button if no one else can.

Thanks!