User:TulipDaisy/Sandbox
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Tinkering with format infobox. Feedback welcome. In short, there are some tweaks that I think would improve the format infobox:
1) I think it's probably more important to the average player to know whether a given format can be played in a given modality rather than if its DCI sanctioned. Furthermore, the way I understand it "DCI Sanctioned" doesn't seem to mean much when it comes to online clients. It's also confusing for a reader to see a big red X below "Paper" when looking at the page for a format that can be played in paper purely because it isn't DCI Sanctioned. The rise of more casual formats exacerbates this problem (and, as is, I think it is implemented inconsistently across the wiki). I propose changing the "DCI Sanctioned" header to something like "Ways to Play" and then having an optional line below the checkmarks that says "This format is DCI Sanctioned" for the few formats where that's true.
2) I think changing "MTGA" to "Arena" might be a good change, primarily because "MTGO" and "MTGA" are very similar looking acronyms at a glance. Arena is already a very common name used for the client and it makes the different modalities easier to distinguish at a glance.
3) Although it works great for the "Ways to Play" section, I don't like the "X or check mark" system for the "Multiplayer" field, or even the name of that field itself. The official WotC page for formats (https://magic.wizards.com/en/formats) uses "Number of Players" for this purpose. While we certainly are not required to and, in some cases, definitely should not use the same language that WotC does, in this particular case I think the way WotC does it is best. It's more precise (especially because I can see some new players being confused at how a 1v1 game is not "multiplayer") and it also makes this info easy to cite. So, I propose changing the "Multiplayer" field to "Number of Players", and the data entered should be either a single number (e.g. "2") or a range (e.g. 3-5).