Trying to grapple with card api

by **clyspe** » 19 Jun 2012, 01:57

What does text:no text mean? I've seen it on every card, when would you ever want to put something in text?

by **friarsol** » 19 Jun 2012, 02:09

clyspe wrote:What does text:no text mean? I've seen it on every card, when would you ever want to put something in text?

Before everything was scripted, we'd place card text in the text field. Now that most cards are scripted it's only used rarely for hardcoded cards that don't have a description field.

Have you looked at http://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/Forge_API ?

by **clyspe** » 19 Jun 2012, 02:14

Yeah that's why I've asked. Now I'm browsing random cards to try and learn how abilities work, since the rest is pretty self explanatory. ctrl fing text and text:no and no didn't yield an explanation on that page, so i asked