Mage: suggestion for the ability/keyword icons

[copperfield42]

Loving those ability icons, the one for trample is hilarious, and fitting if you're in the receiving end of some enormous trample creature XD

but as show above is misspelled.

Now for reason I open this issue:

I don't think that using the symbols for man and gay man respectively are appropriate for the abilities of first and double strike.

Something with swords I think is better, like the one already used for the attack phase

or those emojis maybe: 🗡️ ⚔️
https://emojipedia.org/dagger/
https://emojipedia.org/crossed-swords/

the one for indestructible

I don't like it much either, because it remind me of the yugioh card _Monster Reborn_ which is a reanimation spell, and that symbol, the Ankh, is a symbol for life, so it might be better for something like persist or undying, so for this one I suggests something with a shield instead.

like this emoji maybe: 🛡️
https://emojipedia.org/shield/

[copperfield42]

looking at the infect icon, it does not strike my as appropriate given that the motif for it is more of a plague than chemistry

maybe the virus emoji: 🦠
https://emojipedia.org/microbe/
in particular the openmoji version

But I suppose that that could be inappropriate give the current situation, so how about the set symbol for New Phyrexia or the phyrexia mana that already are in the symbols folder

[JayDi85]

New Phyrexia symbol can't be used cause it depends on wizards images and is optional to download. All card icons are open source and packed with the app all time, so it must use open source and free license.

Also all icons must use solid black/white style without other colors (but I can edit it, e.g. make it black). There are another requirements for icon files:

• https://github.com/magefree/mage/blob/master/Mage.Client/src/main/resources/card/icons/readme-icons.txt

You can find all used icons in that folder (github can show it):

• https://github.com/magefree/mage/tree/master/Mage.Client/src/main/resources/card/icons/prepared

Ability related icons and file names can be found here:

• https://github.com/magefree/mage/tree/master/Mage/src/main/java/mage/abilities/icon/CardIconType.java

[copperfield42]

alright, how about those:

for infect one of those:
https://fontawesome.com/icons/disease?style=solid
https://fontawesome.com/icons/virus?style=solid
https://fontawesome.com/icons/biohazard?style=solid
https://fontawesome.com/icons/dizzy?style=solid (for a little hilarity like with trample one XD)
https://fontawesome.com/icons/skull?style=solid

for indestructible one of those:
https://fontawesome.com/icons/shield-alt?style=solid
https://icons.getbootstrap.com/icons/shield-fill-x/
https://icons.getbootstrap.com/icons/shield-x/
https://icons.getbootstrap.com/icons/shield-shaded/

for first and double strike:
https://pixabay.com/vectors/duel-saber-sword-1294350/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/swords-crossed-medieval-old-knight-310788/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/swords-crossed-black-silhouette-311733/

And it should be easy to remove one of the swords to use as the first strike one.

It appear that the symbol used for vigilance, the Khanda, is used in some religion or something from Arabic people, so maybe is better to change it too, so how about any of those
https://fontawesome.com/icons/street-view?style=solid
https://fontawesome.com/icons/eye?style=solid (which look like the eye already used in the vigilance counter)
https://fontawesome.com/icons/user-shield?style=solid

[copperfield42]

here some other suggestions for other keywords:

Reach:
https://pixabay.com/vectors/bow-arrow-shaft-bolt-weapon-sport-307275/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/arrow-bow-heraldic-heraldry-149273/
https://pixabay.com/vectors/bow-arrow-drawn-archery-target-311747/

Shroud:
https://fontawesome.com/icons/unlock-alt?style=solid
https://fontawesome.com/icons/expeditedssl?style=brands
https://fontawesome.com/icons/keycdn?style=brands
https://fontawesome.com/icons/user-lock?style=solid

[JayDi85]

• First and double strikes, vigilance -- replaced in b2b88bf2e8e2f01690036fbdc2dfde198d91a342.
• Indestructible icon is fine and associated with the gods from popular Amonkhet block.
• Infect can't be virus icon due covid-19. Maybe in the future it can be replaced by radiation icon.
• Other ability icons will be added in the future.

[copperfield42]

cool.
😮 I didn't know that the svg format looking like that internally

Infect can't be virus icon due covid-19. Maybe in the future it can be replaced by radiation icon.

alright, but that one wasn't my only suggestion for icon tho...
the radiation one sound fine too