Card Overlays should show how long the card has been held.

[neoliminal]

The current concept of the card overlays are helpful, they tell you what "turn" or "crystal count" the card was drawn on. This gives you some idea what cost the card might be, as well as a sense of when the card was drawn.

However It think it would be more informative to know how many turns the card has been in the player's hand.

The reason this is could be more important is because you can see if your opponent is holding on to a specific card for a long time and it also give much more important information should the Crystal count radically change from some card effect. For example all cards are listed as 10 after 10 Crystals have been reached and the number can artificially be misleading should someone plays things like Astral Communion, Intense Gaze, Pilfered Power, Nourish(2), Evocation, Twig of the World Tree, or Living Mana. Even if this was resolved so that you knew what turn the card was drawn, it doesn't help as much as know how many turns the player has held on to the card.

Perhaps some die hards would want it the old way, so maybe you could switch the view with a preference/setting (and give it a different color font so at a glance people would know which style was being used.)

Thanks for reading and creating such a great tool.

[alexswabey]

That would give you worse information. If you know the turn you're on, you can infer the number of turns that the card has been in hand.

[neoliminal]

That would give you worse information. If you know the turn you're on, you can infer the number of turns that the card has been in hand.

I respectfully disagree, as I pointed out above there are times where people are gaining cards on late turns. Keeping track of which cards were gained on turn 11 and which have been held for 11 turns is critical information.

The point of the tracker is so I don't have to infer, nor should I be keeping track of new card draw turns. I would much rather know how long a card has been in a player's hand than know what turn they got the card.