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Deceptive Game Design? Investigating the Impact of Visual Card Style on Player Perception
Leonie Kallabis, Timo Bertram, Florian Rupp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18648

Deceptive Game Design? Investigating the Impact of Visual Card Style on Player Perception
The visual style of game elements considerably contributes to the overall experience. Aesthetics influence player appeal, while the abilities of game pieces define their in-game functionality. In this paper, we investigate how the visual style of collectible cards influences the players' perception of the card's actual strength in the game. Using the popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering, we conduct a single-blind survey study that examines how players perceive the strength of AI-gener…

The sooner Marjorie Taylor Greene leves office, the better.. So I can go back to thinking that "MTG" means Magic The Gathering.