Folio
III
· Issue XXX
· Entry IV
v3.30.4
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27 May 2026
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published
Chronicle of Changes.
Added2 entries
- Mana cost on hover in your hand. In the Goldfish playtester, when you hover (or move keyboard focus to) a card in your hand, a small floating pill of styled mana-symbol pips now appears above the card. White is white, blue is blue, generic costs render in a neutral circle, and the order matches the card's printed cost — so you can read what's expensive at a glance without dragging the cursor to the side preview pane.
- The cost pips also appear on the text card-face fallback (the clean rendered card-back that the playtester uses when a Scryfall image isn't cached). Same color palette, same parser, same look. Wherever the playtester needs to show a mana cost, it now uses one consistent visual treatment instead of plain text.
Refined2 entries
- Hand-zone only. Battlefield cards, pile cards, and cards inside the browse modal don't fire the hover pill — those already have the side preview pane for a quick read. Lands and other zero-cost cards render no pill at all (no empty box).
- Unrecognized mana symbols don't break anything. Snow ({S}), Phyrexian ({W/P}), and any other rare symbol render as a neutral pip carrying the raw text — the user always sees something, even when the cost is exotic. Single-color, generic, X, and trivial hybrids like {W/U} are recognized and styled in their colors.
Resolved1 entry
- Tester feedback: the room used to require a trip to the side preview pane to read a card's cost. With a hand of seven the side pane shows you the highlighted card at a time, and you'd lose orientation if you wanted to compare costs quickly across the hand. The hover pill puts the cost right above each card you point at — same gesture, immediate read, no break in focus.
Notes from the Archivist
The room labels its own pieces. Pick up a card from your hand — or just look at it long enough to point at it — and the cost answers without further questions. The pip on the generic 2 is the same shade of brass-on-charcoal as the pip the mana pool draws when you tap a land. The Folio room is finally talking to itself in one language.