Suggestion: Updating the Bling Button
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I'd like to see the Bling button in the deck builder put to some better use. Clearly, the game isn't too picky with what printing of a card you use. Using the "unique" checkbox while searching and the import feature seem to return any old version (I assume it has something to do with the database), which makes having a good looking deck kinda cumberson. How great would it be to have a single button which just, gives you the cards you want to see? Well, as someone who really likes the art, it would be pretty cool.
At the moment it adds a "better" copy of certain cards in your deck. For example, if you have a sol ring in your deck, the button will add a copy of Sol ring from the Kaladesh Inventions. You then select multiples and compare which cards you like best. The original post seems to be [here](https://github.com/magefree/mage/pull/2767), but it offers very few details on what the original intent was.
I think the ideal button should make three successive checks.
First it should refer to a text file given to it by the user. To simplify, this is just a deck filled with at least 1 copy of every desired card and saved somewhere in the program's files (I'm not sure where that would be appropriate). The program simply picks whatever card appears in the deck.
Second, it should look for a copy of the card with an image attached to it. I feel like everyone can agree that they would rather play with a bad image than no image. This search should also look for the highest rarity followed by the latest printing. I don't know if cards have an internal full art tag but preferring to use that might be nice too.
Third, it should default to the internal list. I'm actually not sure why it should do this. That's the current behavior and I see no reason to get rid of it.
If a suitable card has been found via the first two methods it should replace the card in the deck, not be added onto the deck (as is the current functionality). Since players make choices on what cards go into the config file and what images get downloaded, there is no reason to ask them again.
If a suitable card can only be found by going to the internal list, then the card should still be added (as is the current functionality). I'm not sure how much a user is going to care about non artwork cards but, again, might as well keep the default behavior.
I'm not sure if there's any data on how people use the deck builder that would impact the importance or utility of this feature.
If players don't care about images, or care so much about images that they individually select card arts, that would make this feature less valuable.
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