White borders on cards

[Milod]

how come some cards have white borders, my mountain card has white borders how can i remove that and make them black?

[moomarc]

The white borders are from the core sets from alpha to 9th Edition (and Portal: Three Kingdoms). After that the core sets were changed to have the black borders as well (I think to make them tournament legal but could be horribly wrong there). At the moment there's no way to make Forge use black borders for all sets/cards, but for basic lands (or any other card that has at least one black bordered version) you can edit the deck file and just change the set expansion for that card. For example, if in your deck list you have

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24 Forest

add a pipe divider and set the expansion to 10E or later or any limited edition set

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24 Forest|M12

or even mix sets

12 Forest|ZEN
6 Forest|ISD
6 Forest M10

This will only help in constructed mode and only if you're using set images, but at least its something.

[friarsol]

Borders had nothing to do with tournament legality. A card is legal in a format, if the card name is in one of the sets that is legal in that format. (I could play my Revised Birds of Paradise in Standard, because Birds of Paradise are in M12)

It was just how things were back then, and Wizards decided to make everything black bordered for consistency.

[Rob Cashwalker]

Borders had nothing to do with tournament legality.

Not to nitpick, but Silver and Gold bordered cards are not tournament legal. (silver for Un-sets and gold for the championship reprint decks)
Not that Forge implements any Un-cards, nor is there any reason why users need reprints of the championship decks, since Forge gives you the "originals".

[friarsol]

Borders had nothing to do with tournament legality.

Not to nitpick, but Silver and Gold bordered cards are not tournament legal. (silver for Un-sets and gold for the championship reprint decks)
Not that Forge implements any Un-cards, nor is there any reason why users need reprints of the championship decks, since Forge gives you the "originals".

Don't you have a website to get back online or something? ;p I was mostly only referring to marc saying the white borders weren't tournament legal. Other colors of borders were there to show illegality, as you state, for championship decks or the Un-sets.

[Rob Cashwalker]

The domain transfer should take effect Monday... avahost.net is the webhost, but they're incompetent.. even registering the new domain cardforge.net hasn't worked.

[moomarc]

My confusion stemmed from misreading the product info pages for the From the Vault and Premium Deck Series once long ago:

All cards are black bordered and tournament legal. This means that these cards are legal for use in any tournaments where the original printings are still legal. For some cards, it is their first time with a black border."