Original Japanese characters have a lean, elegant, and simple look. The effect of this combination of letter system leads to a rather inconsistently looking type. For the numerals Arabic numbers are used as well as the Sino-Japanese numbers. The Japanese scripts, Hiragana and Katakana are combined with chinese kanji and occasionally even Roman letters. Written Japanese is composed of several scripts. Japanese and Chinese look rather similar to the untrained eye, but once you have figured it out, they will never look the same to you because they are actually not that similar. Korean was discontinued after Urza's Saga and reintroduced with Innistrad. The first expansion that was translated to Korean was Visions. Korean Core Sets were discontinued after 5th Edition and reintroduced with Magic 2012. In most other languages there are white and black-bordered versions of a language's first set. There is only a limited edition black-borded printing of Korean 4th Edition. The first set that was translated to Korean was 4th Edition. Korean cards are often highly sought after by collectors, leading to premiums that are only rivalled by Japanese cards. Korean cards from the first printing era (around 4th and 5th Edition) seperate type and subtype only by an empty space no dashes or colons. All other Asian languages use circles for periods while the Koreans use dots 2. Korean cards can also easily identified by their use of a regular period at the end of sentences. All things considered Korean text looks very geometric, regular, and compartively simple. Korean letters are constructed mostly of straight lines and circles 1, and most of the straight lines are horizontal or vertical.

Of the Asian cards, Korean are most easily distinguished.

Mtg card sets eith roman numerals