Shards

[mysnismatt]

Anyone else think "Hex" should have six shards? It is called Hex, has a hexagon as its symbol, and five shards.

[Yoss]

It does seem odd, but I think it's "hex" as in a spell, not "hex" as in the geometric figure.

[FlyingMeatchip]

5 colors and artifact: There's your six.

[mach]

It does seem odd, but I think it's "hex" as in a spell, not "hex" as in the geometric figure.

Take a look at the logo. It's a hexagon.

[Turtlewing]

Take a look at the logo. It's a hexagon.

It's a hex-shard that happens to be a hexagonal cut.

[mach]

It's a hex-shard that happens to be a hexagonal cut.

Happens to be? I doubt it's a coincidence.

[Aradon]

I doubt it's a coincidence, but Cory did say that the name was chosen a long time ago when he thought Hex would be a good name for a generic spellslinging card game. The fact that their logo now references a homophone of Hex is just good design.

And now is a good time for me to mention again my pet theory that we'll see a sixth, overpowered shard that the AI uses in the PvE campaign

[ErnieK]

A mentioned above... artifacts.

[rjselzler]

I doubt it's a coincidence, but Cory did say that the name was chosen a long time ago when he thought Hex would be a good name for a generic spellslinging card game. The fact that their logo now references a homophone of Hex is just good design.

And now is a good time for me to mention again my pet theory that we'll see a sixth, overpowered shard that the AI uses in the PvE campaign

I remember InQuest (did I just date myself?) "spoiling" a sixth color for MtG. A sixth shard type (space magic?) would actually fit really well with the general premise of Hex. I'm sure that idea isn't new to the PvE creative team, and I hope they get a chance to explore it.

[rjselzler]

Here's a gallery for those of us who weren't reading InQuest 16 years ago: http://magiclibrarities.net/rarities...xth-color.html