Borderless Anime Styles: Rarity Shifts & Cosmetics in the Store
Specifically, Smothering Tithe and As Foretold are rarity shifted reprints in WOT which cannot be used with the previous printings as the client considers rarity shifted cards as completely different entities and will not allow for users to equip cards from the original Arena printing with the new cardstyle, therefore requiring users to recraft cards from the corresponding printing.
I imagine that the likelihood of having it so all cardstyles are usable across all rarities is unlikely, but I believe it would be the optimal solution.
Failing that I would appreciate if this was at least better communicated in the client that owning a previous printing does not mean you can utilize these cardstyles unless you craft them at their new rarity.
While precedent for this restriction exists with Faithless Looting and it's associated cardstyle being locked to the rare STA printing, it was the first printing of Faithless looting and was only available at rare when the card style was sold.
The new cardstyles for As Foretold and Smothering Tithe are for cards that have existed on the client for a while and as such many who would buy the styles own the previous printings and are not crafting the new printing, and can thus be saddled with a cardstyle they cannot use.
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[Deleted User] commented
Card Styles have always been separate for the different base art of the same card. And you can always tell which one a Card Style in the store is for by the set symbol displayed on it.
If you're not planning on crafting the cards for them, you could try asking for a refund.