New black border on textless cards.

With the reveal of the new full-art lands coming in Battle for Zendikar, I finally had to make a post about the black border on textless cards. I don’t know if this bothers anyone else, but this is my problem with it.





These are two tokens from recent sets using the new border introduced in M15. One is vanilla (textless), and the other has a text box.





The blue line shows the appearance of the border; this is what my mind interprets the border is doing. The Dragon token has a border that appears to curve behind the text box and looks fine, while the vanilla Goblin has a weirdly shaped border. It doesn’t match the shape of the border at the top of the card, and there’s really no reason for it to start to curve then square off like that.





My suggestion is to either extend the black border like this, so that the vanilla tokens appear to have a border of the same size as the token with text, just there’s no text box for it to hide behind…





…Or to square off the bottom corners so that it matches the top border. I think this one looks better.

Sorry if these don’t look too great. I mocked them up really quick in MS Paint, but hopefully this will get my point across.

