I think you guys could save money, time, and headaches if you would just hire yourselves an in-house artist!
You should adapt a more concept-y art look for the overall style so that the artist wouldn't have to break their back making too many details per card. People respond more to concepts and character than they do to the details anyway. A good concept artist could whip together such a card in 10-20mins per card
And also, you should start designing cards around the characters in the storyline. This will make it easier for your in-house artist to make meangingful, recognizable situations and items when cards feature reacurring characters in different places doing different things. There is no need to make a new kind of magic thing in order to express a new card's power. Instead you can just say, "Amber's Journey", or "Baduruu's Might" and no, that wouldn't break things because you can just say if another shadow ranger uses Baduruu's Might, that Baduruu shows up and gives him helping hand. Or if Boris uses Amber's Journey, you can say that he is just listening to some advice that Amber gave him or something. =p
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