I can appreciate the desire to go for the more mature looking art that's a decent objectiv. And untamed does strike me as more talented or sophisticated drawings. Still the first set (alpha-beta) just seemed to have a sort of cohesiveness that i may miss... it had a per splinter sort of branding. Obviously untamed has a very unique style but seems more branded all together.
And that brand seems to be dark on dark because of background. In my world of photography that would lend toward the subject / the art getting lost to the eyeball.
Also very excited about the mobile stuff... loved seeing you at steemfest and getting a glance at some of the design for that! Great job.
And with all this said what's really cool is that we always have skins!!
I think you have a good point re: the dark backgrounds.
I did go fiddle with the card files to compare, and I do think that less shading for the environment backgrounds may be a better way to go. So at this point, it's a question of whether we have time to re-tweak all the cards and still meet deadline, haha.
Guess we'll see. Maybe it will be a change we make after the release.