MTG Salvation

Hey Sembiance,

If you want the spoiler-resolution images I have them all in my generator. Well, they're links to the spoiler images, but they may be in a more useful format than scraping other sites because I've already done it:

KTK generator: http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/ktk/
KTK main cards json: http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/ktk/cardsMain.json
KTK tokens json: http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/ktk/cardsToken.json
KTK other cards json (basic land, promos, pack-ins, etc): http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/ktk/cardsOther.json

Also: Seconded. I love your sites! I use them all the time to figure out how to store data for my json and to get the set symbols. I'd use it for my card images, too, but I need to get them up way before you post them.

Cheers!


-=Cam

Hey man,

I'm so curious -- WHY are you building these lists? I find them invaluable to go back and make my prerelease generator perfect, but do you use them for anything else?

Cheers!


-=Cam

Hey man! Thanks for doing this. I've integrated your pack lists into my M15 Generator: http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/2015-core/

How do you want me to attribute it? To you? An email address? A link back to this post? To the spreadsheet?

Also, because I'm importing it as data and matching it against the actual card list from M15 I easily catch all of the spelling mistakes. Do you want me to send you a list or something?

You sir, are awesome. Thank you so much!

No prob! Anything I can do to help just ask.

For some reason they DID spoil the basic lands with M15. They're all in cardsOther.json.

btw, do you just do this thing for fun? (That's why I build my generator.)

In my own builder I update them daily as they're released (i.e. once per day during the release period). I use the images from the Wizards's prerelease spoiler if available, if not I fall back on a Gathering Magic spoiler image if available, if not I use a generated card image.

You're welcome to grab my data. It's all in a json file and you can easily tell my source from the image url. e.g.:

http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/2015-core/cardsMain.json

I also have the prerelease images (using the same Wizards/GM/generated fallbacks) for tokens and promo cards:

http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/2015-core/cardsToken.json
http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/2015-core/cardsOther.json

I have this going back to Innistrad if you check my main page: http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator

I actually have all of the images, but I keep changing my parser and each time it re-builds it's entire list. And I like pointing to the images on Wizard's servers for a) bandwidth;), b) stability, and c) it's the "source".

So I'm trying to find a way to change my parser to be able to point to Gatherer and still get the 265x370 Wizard's images.

I know it's a bit specific, but it feels like there has to be SOME way to get the images off Wizards once they take down the prerelease spoiler gallery.

Holy crap your sites are amazing! I build a prerelease sealed deck generator and I could have REALLY used your sites as a resource earlier...

Normally my site scrapes off the Wizard's prerelease page containing all of the set images, but with their new site they trickle the cards out like their old site but it's all one page, and after a week or so with everything spoiled they get rid of the spoiler image set and just direct you to Gatherer. Which is fine I guess except Gatherer only has small card images for M15!

The spoiler images are 265x370, whereas the largest image I can get out of Gatherer seems to be 223x310. I went through the images on your mtgimage.com site and see the same thing. Your M15 release only has 223x310 images.

Have you figured out a way to get larger images out of Gatherer? I've been hacking at the url to no avail:

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=383175&type=card

I've been trying to append a "&size=large" querystring var or something but I can't get it to do anything except show me the card back. I thought you may have more experience with this. I assume your site sources some of it's info from Wizards?

Hey all,

Not sure if this belongs on this list or not, but I've been making sealed deck generators for the prereleases for awhile now. It lets you generate what you'd get if you actually went to a prerelease and opened the packs. I've done by best to keep everything as accurate as possible with the percent chances you'd get each type of card.

It might have a good home here.

Program Name: MtG Generator
Platforms: Web
Author: Cam Marsollier
WebSite: http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator
Pricing: Free
Purpose: Sealed booster generator (new versions put out ahead of official pre-release dates)

Enjoy!


-=Cam

Awesome! Thanks for that.

I've updated my generators:

http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/2013-return-to-ravnica/
http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/2013-dragons-maze/

Quote from brine

Hey all, you may have seen this in other subforums here, basically we've been compiling the contents of all 80 RTR and GTC guild packs. We got all 40 of the Gatecrash packs, and 35 of the 40 RTR packs.

You can find the current list in this google spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Apln2HM4aSGbdDJ6MFk5cTBjb09sXzFWdndhTkx2V1E&usp=sharing

Why am I posting this here? Basically these lists can be used to recreate the guild-specific boosters found inside the prerelease guild boxes. Online sealed/draft/booster generator websites and MTG-play programs can make use of these. Also, its rumoured that the Dragons Maze guild packs will use the same booster configurations as these ones (minus the promo) so we can pre-emptively create booster generators for this prerelease

Since we're still missing some of the RTR lists, some amount of fudging of the data may be required to get those packs fully integrated. But all of Gatecrash, as well as RTR Rakdos, are all fully compiled. If by any chance anyone comes across guild packs containing the missing lists, please post the lists!

Hey man,

This thing is awesome. Thanks so much for setting it up and collecting all this data. I used it to created sealed deck generators for Return to Ravnica and Gatecrash:
http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/2013-return-to-ravnica/index.html
http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/2013-gatecrash/index.html

Quote from rathnutt

Is there a way to generate the cards in text-only format?

Okay! By popular demand I've added the ability to export your generated cards to the .dec format, used by Magic Online, Cockatrice, and Apprentice.

Enjoy!

Quote from CommanderZ

I agree the probability of shocks is too high in the generator. I got 3 shocks out of the 4 DGM boosters (I heard there are supposed to be like 1.5 shocks per booster box).

But I also got 2 Trait Doctoring - so maybe it's just the generator trying to equalize karma of the DGM boosters

Fixed! The land slot now gives a 95% chance of a Guild Gate, 4% chance of a Shockland, and a 1% chance of Maze's End. Thanks for the heads up.

Quote from otopiano

Hi, i notice that the dragon's maze boosters came with a land (non basic) as the first card, and it can be a guild or dual land, for example, i got 4 Orzhov Basilica hahaha, i guess you can fix it before the pré-release xD, tkx

Yeah I've had a lot of people tell me about this, which is awesome. It's now fixed. The land slot now gives a 95% chance of a Guild Gate, 4% chance of a Shockland, and a 1% chance of Maze's End.