Identifying Spanish and Portuguese cards

[Cizzio]

Hi all I need some help.

I need some good advice to see if a card is spanish or portugese. They both looks the same in my eyes.

I used the spoilers on WOTC's homepage and could tell them apart, but I had a friend over that talks spanish and he said that one card (disenchant) I had wasnt a portugese card, it was spanish. So are WOTC's spoilers trustworthy?

Do u guys now some god advice on how to tell them apart?

English, deutsch, italian are no problem. Japanese and Korean are pretty easy, S and T-Chinese are a bit tricky too, but I think I can tell them apart. Its only spanish and portugese that I can't.

plz, help

[dragsamou]

Hi all I need some help.

I need some good advice to see if a card is spanish or portugese. They both looks the same in my eyes.

I used the spoilers on WOTC's homepage and could tell them apart, but I had a friend over that talks spanish and he said that one card (disenchant) I had wasnt a portugese card, it was spanish. So are WOTC's spoilers trustworthy?

Do u guys now some god advice on how to tell them apart?

English, deutsch, italian are no problem. Japanese and Korean are pretty easy, S and T-Chinese are a bit tricky too, but I think I can tell them apart. Its only spanish and portugese that I can't.

plz, help

Hi Cizzio.
Send me a Scan,I will let you know immediately or please wrote the Foreign Text on this topic  ;)
Just found that Spanish Disenchant on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... gory=19115
Spanish Text is: Destruye el encantamiento o artefacto objetivo.
Also,have a look at the HarperPrism Promos in Portuguese and compare them to the Spanish ones  ;)
http://www.magiclibrary.net/rarities-ha ... guese.html

[Cizzio]

Hi Cizzio.
Send me a Scan,I will let you know immediately or please wrote the Foreign Text on this topic  ;)

But its gonna be hard to scan all the cards I get my hands on. So thats why I wish to have some tips on how to see the difference...
But thanks for wanting to help.

This is the card my friend said was spanish. But on the checklists in "magicthegathering.com" it says its portugese...

Disenchant:

Desencantar
Hechizo instantáneo
Destruye el encantamiento o
artefacto objetivo.
1995 Wizards of the coast, inc. Todos los derechos reservados.

EDIT:

Here is checklist of spanish:
http://www.wizards.com/magic/generic/ca ... anish.html

Checklist of portugese:
http://www.wizards.com/magic/generic/ca ... guese.html

So it has to be wizards that have f*cked it up... =)

[Tenacious_Dyl]

Here is one difference :-)

On Spanish cards they ONLY capitalize the first word of the title, on portugese they capitalize all but the little ones.

so... "Order of the Sacred Torch"

in spanish:
Order of the sacred torch
portugese:
Order of the Sacred Torch
(ok... not actually in those languages, but you get it, hehe)

hope it helps,
dylan

[AXIOS]

i can't read the copyright stuff at the bottom, but how about comparing the copyright lines??

if i am correeclty, they should be different.

so compare the lines

very easy still very clearly!

[dragsamou]

But its gonna be hard to scan all the cards I get my hands on. So thats why I wish to have some tips on how to see the difference...
But thanks for wanting to help.

This is the card my friend said was spanish. But on the checklists in "magicthegathering.com" it says its portugese...

Disenchant:

Desencantar
Hechizo instantáneo
Destruye el encantamiento o
artefacto objetivo.
1995 Wizards of the coast, inc. Todos los derechos reservados.

EDIT:

Here is checklist of spanish:
http://www.wizards.com/magic/generic/ca ... anish.html

Checklist of portugese:
http://www.wizards.com/magic/generic/ca ... guese.html

So it has to be wizards that have f*cked it up... =)

Hi Cizzio.
You understand now,why I Call WOTC:
Worst Of The Company  ;)

[Cizzio]

Here is one difference :-)

On Spanish cards they ONLY capitalize the first word of the title, on portugese they capitalize all but the little ones.

so... "Order of the Sacred Torch"

in spanish:
Order of the sacred torch
portugese:
Order of the Sacred Torch
(ok... not actually in those languages, but you get it, hehe)

hope it helps,
dylan

thx if this is correct it will help alot. *gonna look at all my cards...*

Thx

[dragsamou]

i can't read the copyright stuff at the bottom, but how about comparing the copyright lines??

if i am correeclty, they should be different.

so compare the lines

very easy still very clearly!

Hi Nico.
So Smart on that One  ;)
Spanish:Todos los derechos reservados.
Portuguese:Todos os direitos reservados.
Easy as that  :)

[Cizzio]

Hi Nico.
So Smart on that One  ;)
Spanish:Todos los derechos reservados.
Portuguese:Todos os direitos reservados.
Easy as that  :)

It helps on the older ones. But now a days that line are missing, it makes it harder.

[Tenacious_Dyl]

Did my trick work for those cards with more than one word in title? I checked it to some of the cards bob has images of... let me know :-)

[Cizzio]

Did my trick work for those cards with more than one word in title? I checked it to some of the cards bob has images of... let me know :-)

Sadly it didnt.. But i´m pretty sure it works if u find a card that has no capital letters other than the first. Then it is a spanish card, I think. But if u find more than the first letter capitalized, then it can be on any of thoose two languages.

[WhiteKnightMx]

Well, i'm from from Mexico, so, i speak spanish.
If you have any doubt with spanish just ask :)

An easy way to detect Portuguese cards is the symbol ˜

Portuguese language use this symbol over some vocals (a, e, i, o, u) and they use the symbol Ç too.

Spanish cards doesn't had this symbols (well except ˜ over a "n" which means the sound "gn" in french like in Champagne)

I hope this help you.

WK

[Mr.C]

Well, i happen to be Brazilian, so let's see what i can help.

English/Portuguese
Sorcery/Feitiço
Instant/Mágica Instantânea
Interrupt/Mágica de Interrupção
Enchantment/Encantamento
Creature/Criatura
Artifact Creature/Criatura Artefato
Land/Terreno

I think that about covers it. Anything else, Feel free to ask.

[Archivist]

Welcome, Mr. C.

I think you'll find there are many questions on the site and forum about Portugese cards which you may be able to help us with.

[Gryfalia]

Well, i happen to be Brazilian, so let's see what i can help.

English/Portuguese
Sorcery/Feitiço
Instant/Mágica Instantânea
Interrupt/Mágica de Interrupção
Enchantment/Encantamento
Creature/Criatura
Artifact Creature/Criatura Artefato
Land/Terreno

I think that about covers it. Anything else, Feel free to ask.

Wow, assuming that all of these words are different than the spanish of the same (I don't have the cards in front of me), this list is gold and I thank you a million times...

Gryfalia