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If you have a list of cards, using double brackets to produce an image is not convenient. What's the alternative?

[[Lightning Bolt]]

edited Mar 5 at 22:10

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asked Mar 5 at 16:30

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	Excellent work, I see that the hover-over images are now running :) I need to ask, however, is this new form more fitting that the double brackets? I found it exceptionally convenient when shortening my answer in "how to avoid spellshock at 1 life." – Shushoto♦ Mar 5 at 22:02
	Avish helped fixed the hovers. I think triple-brackets are better than double-brackets when there are a lot of cards in the question. How much is a lot? I'll leave it to the question author & editors to decide. – ripper234♦ Mar 5 at 22:54
	Now you can also use card-image-links in comments, like this: [[[Omnath, Locus of Mana]]]. It's pretty cool. – Avish♦ Mar 6 at 11:15
	I just noticed that triple brackets don't work when the comments section has to be expanded. – Shushoto♦ May 27 at 21:39
	They also don't work in formatted text: [[[Ponder]]] – Shushoto♦ May 31 at 0:23

ripper234 · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-05 16:38:34Z UTC

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Use triple brackets, of course!

Write:

[[[Giant Growth]]]

[[[Slave of Bolas]]]

[[[Lightning Bolt]]]

to get:

[[[Giant Growth]]]

[[[Slave of Bolas]]]

[[[Lightning Bolt]]]

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answered Mar 5 at 16:33

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Pasting images is that way really isn't wrist friendly imo. So another meta-question: should I downvote because I don't like the answer or should I upvote because your answer correctly displays the implemented way to show links to cards? – tobsen Mar 5 at 17:09

I will accept the correct answer (the way that ends up being implemented). You can downvote / not upvote my answer if you don't like the proposal (but you can also upvote the question, regardless). – ripper234♦ Mar 5 at 21:00

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Hover images now working, thanks Avish for the help debugging the JS. – ripper234♦ Mar 5 at 23:05

Awesome, I love the mouseover effect. – CodeSavvyGeek♦ Mar 8 at 2:45

tobsen · Answer 2 · 2010-03-05 20:06:11Z UTC

I suggest alternatively to the [[]], we should use the same syntax for card lists as tappedout.net: So the following:

1x Baloth Woodcrasher
1x Coral Merfolk
7x Forest
2x Frontier Guide

would be converted into links which show the card's image if hovered over and redirect to the gatherer or magiccards.info if clicked on. Therefore, copy&pasting of decks/combos form tappedout.net would be very convenient. Btw, Where does one have to request such a feature? How to reach the creators of this site?

Maybe the visual experience for this can be toggled on the layout: show the normal full card image or the behavior I described above. This would also reduce the bandwidth used for users which know the cards by their name and don't necessary need an image of it.

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