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I have found some 290 cards with some phrases entered under the 'Text:' statement.

What do these mean? How are they currently used? Is it safe to discard them?

This is generic card text that is placed either first or last in the CardDetailPanel (I can't remember the exact location, I haven't been in that code in a while ). It's generally some subset of the Oracle text that isn't covered by Keywords or Spells/Abilities. I've been gunning to get rid of the Text field for a while, but I'm not sure if we're quite ready to do it yet. It is annoying to have so many cards with Text:no text on them.

friarsol wrote:This is generic card text that is placed either first or last in the CardDetailPanel (I can't remember the exact location, I haven't been in that code in a while ). It's generally some subset of the Oracle text that isn't covered by Keywords or Spells/Abilities. I've been gunning to get rid of the Text field for a while, but I'm not sure if we're quite ready to do it yet. It is annoying to have so many cards with Text:no text on them.

I am moving all the card parsing to CardRulesReader, so that all the raw texts for triggers, abilities etc will be stored in CardRules (or a matching face). Cards will have reference to CardRules (Tokens will have CardRules created for them without CardPrinted instances)
So.. looks like it is a good day to kill all those "Text:"s, because oracle texts will become avaliable for Cards... or at least make that field totally optional.

Max mtg wrote:So.. looks like it is a good day to kill all those "Text:"s, because oracle texts will become avaliable for Cards... or at least make that field totally optional.

Sounds good to me. I haven't noticed any issues when scripting minimal scripts without the Text field. So I'm happy with it being a non-required field.