Vintage Masters mod

Here's my take on implementing an edition file for Vintage Masters. It's largely similar to Fizanko's version here: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=14184&p=169860&hilit=+vintage+masters+#p168473 but has the following changes:
* Changed the distribution of cards in the boosters to 11 commons, 3 uncommons, 1 rare/mythic and set the foil chance in booster to 100%, similar to MMA (Modern Masters). This seems to better approximate the description of a VMA booster as containing 10 commons, 3 uncommons, 1 rare/mythic + 1 premium foil card of any rarity (which will replace the 11th card distributed by Forge to the common slot).
* Fixed the name of AEther Mutation which would not have been recognized by Forge otherwise.
* Added Volrath's Shapeshifter to the edition file (even though it's not yet supported by Forge, it has to be in the edition file for the future).
The following is NOT implemented and I'm not planning to implement it (it involves changing the Forge code to support an additional virtual card rarity solely for a MTGO set which Forge does not officially support - this is not something I'm motivated to do, to be honest):
* Special rarity for the Power Nine is not implemented. Instead, all the Power Nine cards are set to Mythic Rare rarity, which is more common than in MTGO but still rare enough to be a sufficient approximation.
INSTALLATION:
1. Place "Vintage Masters.txt" in your "res/editions" folder of Forge.
2. If you want to draft Vintage Masters, you'll have to edit your "res/blockdata/blocks.txt" file and add the following line to the very end:
4. If you'd like to get a booster pack picture for VMA you can find it in Fizanko's post in the thread above. You will need to put it into "pics/boosters" in your Forge cache.
DRAFT RANKINGS NOTE:
The draft rankings file ("res/draft/rankings.txt") does not have any information about draft priorities for Vintage Masters. I checked Bestiaire (draft.bestiaire.org) but it does not have a listing for Vintage Masters. This will most likely negatively affect the quality of AI drafting in Forge, although I haven't tested it extensively beyond confirming that the AI is still able to draft and build decks despite the lack of rankings. If anybody knows where to get reliable card draft rankings for VMA, please let me know.
Enjoy!
- Agetian
* Changed the distribution of cards in the boosters to 11 commons, 3 uncommons, 1 rare/mythic and set the foil chance in booster to 100%, similar to MMA (Modern Masters). This seems to better approximate the description of a VMA booster as containing 10 commons, 3 uncommons, 1 rare/mythic + 1 premium foil card of any rarity (which will replace the 11th card distributed by Forge to the common slot).
* Fixed the name of AEther Mutation which would not have been recognized by Forge otherwise.
* Added Volrath's Shapeshifter to the edition file (even though it's not yet supported by Forge, it has to be in the edition file for the future).
The following is NOT implemented and I'm not planning to implement it (it involves changing the Forge code to support an additional virtual card rarity solely for a MTGO set which Forge does not officially support - this is not something I'm motivated to do, to be honest):
* Special rarity for the Power Nine is not implemented. Instead, all the Power Nine cards are set to Mythic Rare rarity, which is more common than in MTGO but still rare enough to be a sufficient approximation.
INSTALLATION:
1. Place "Vintage Masters.txt" in your "res/editions" folder of Forge.
2. If you want to draft Vintage Masters, you'll have to edit your "res/blockdata/blocks.txt" file and add the following line to the very end:
- Code: Select all
Vintage Masters, 3/6/M15, VMA
4. If you'd like to get a booster pack picture for VMA you can find it in Fizanko's post in the thread above. You will need to put it into "pics/boosters" in your Forge cache.
DRAFT RANKINGS NOTE:
The draft rankings file ("res/draft/rankings.txt") does not have any information about draft priorities for Vintage Masters. I checked Bestiaire (draft.bestiaire.org) but it does not have a listing for Vintage Masters. This will most likely negatively affect the quality of AI drafting in Forge, although I haven't tested it extensively beyond confirming that the AI is still able to draft and build decks despite the lack of rankings. If anybody knows where to get reliable card draft rankings for VMA, please let me know.
Enjoy!
- Agetian