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[Arch]

Yes, I agree with not nesting tags. Seems like the better solution of the two. May go with "no" instead of "number" also just to keep it shorter.

Not completely sure about type/kind though. I like type better as that is what it is; "type" is part of the domain we're modelling. You bring up a valid point with "type type" looking wierd though. Maybe supertype/type/subtype-elements are better as you originally proposed.

Typing out some other suggestions to see how they look:

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<typelist>
  <item type="super">Legendary</item>
  <item>Creature</item>
  <item type="sub">Bunny</item>
  <item type="sub">Ogre</item>
</typelist>

<typelist>
  <supertype>Legendary</supertype>
  <type>Creature</type>
  <subtype>Bunny</subtype>
  <subtype>Ogre</subtype>
</typelist>


[Marek14]

M12 should be on Gatherer now.

[Arch]

New release available.

[Marek14]

The -X costs on planeswalkers should be in brackets like the others.

[melvin]

Thanks for the updated schema in the new release.

I noticed that a couple of cards where the abilities are separated by semicolon are not split up correctly.

For example:
Kjeldoran Skycaptain's "Flying; first strike; banding"
Kjeldoran Phalanx's "First strike; banding"
Longbow Archer's "First strike; reach"

[Arch]

New release available.

Noticed that the reminder text for the split abilities are not working. I do not consider that important but will probably fix at some time in the future. Does not affect the text version.

[Max mtg]

Hi, Arch!

Please correct this:

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Snow-Covered Forest
Basic Snow Land - Forest
G
ICE L, CSP C, ME2 L

Snow-Covered Island
Basic Snow Land - Island
U
ICE L, CSP C, ME2 L

Snow-Covered Mountain
Basic Snow Land - Mountain
R
ICE L, CSP C, ME2 L

Snow-Covered Plains
Basic Snow Land - Plains
W
ICE L, CSP C, ME2 L

Snow-Covered Swamp
Basic Snow Land - Swamp
B
ICE L, CSP C, ME2 L


These lands - they should not be commons in CSP.

[Marek14]

Are you sure? I don't think Coldsnap had a separate land sheet, AFAIK they WERE just commons there...

[Max mtg]

Hmm... The Gatherer itself says they were common... but that's somewhat non-logical
Sorry then, I haven't learnt the subject field well.

[Marek14]

Innistrad Gatherer should be up soon. Let's have a look at what will be their format for double-faced cards...

[Arch]

Yeah, or where they're planing to squeeze in the new color-thingy-indicator. I just hope it won't be totally random.

[Marek14]

Hm, I'd put it between mana cost and type line, and I'd mark it with parenthesis to simulate the roundness. Like this:

Civilized Scholar
{U}
Creature - Human Advisor
0/1
: Draw a card, then discard a card. If a creature card is discarded this way, untap Civilized Scholar, then transform it.
----
Homicidal Brute
(R)
Creature - Human Mutant
5/1
At the beginning of your end step, if Homicidal Brute didn't attack this turn, tap Homicidal Brute, then transform it.
ISD U

This format would use the same separator as flip cards, but I think there's no actual danger of confusing the two. Also, I'd put the color indicator on separate line, but it's also possible it could be displayed on type line like this:

(R) Creature - Human Mutant.

That might make it harder to search for some things, of course. I'd put it on a separate line.

I'd write other indicators like (B/G) for Garruk, the Veil-Cursed, (W/U/B/R/G) for Transguild Courier and (C) for Ghostfire.

EDIT: It's on Gatherer now.

[Arch]

Download

Updated with Innistrad.

There are no new colormarkers in gatherer. (They did add a 'watermark' for the Mirran/Phyrexian backgrounds - apparently more important.) So transform-cards and cards that had rules indicating their color no longer have any color indication what so ever. Will add some of my own in the future unless they fix that.

[Marek14]

Then I suggest to use the (B), (U), (B/G), (C) and so on, between the mana cost and the type line... quick before we forget which cards are affected

[Arch]

Also noted that the meta data doesn't contain all cards. Will have a look at that as well, but have some other things I'd like to do first. Can probably release an update next week.