This is a pretty major update - a complete rebuild from the ground up. I'll talk about the new features one at a time.
First, some basic stuff:
1. It's now public, and no longer tied to cards in your collections
Look at the menu bar, and you'll see a new option - "Deck Builder". This will appear regardless of whether you're logged in or not.
A practival upshot of this is that you're no longer constrained to build decks only out of cards that you own, or have in your
wishlist. The only time you need to be a registered user is if you want to save a deck to refer to it later.
Because cards in your deck are no longer tied to a particular card in your collection, each card of a particular name is only
shown once - no more deck listings with four different Forests in them, because you only happen to own a certain number of a
particular printing. That was clumsy as hell, and so now it's gone.
2. The layout has improved
The new version had a lot more options I wanted to include, and with that came an extended toolbar and info bar. Now, instead of a
toolbar at the top of the editor under a bunch of text boxes, there's a panel off to the left containing all that stuff. It's designed
to look a bit like 3DS Max, since I always liked that inerface
The "Add Cards" feature has changed quite dramatically. Instead of a floating window with a multi-page wizad that needs to be started
from scratch whenever you add more cards, there's now a fixed window at the top of the Cards view containing a scrollable folter pane in
one tab, and a card list in the other. This can be collapsed to make room for viewing cards.
The informational highlights on the cards have been tidied up, and can now show multiple messages and alerts.
For a better iew of your deck composition, cards can now be displayed in a categorised view, and are sorted by name.
Last, but not least, to make life a bit easier I've introduced an implicit "Full Screen" mode, which hides the top menu and title bar,
whilst simultaneouly chucking the browser into Full Screen mode. This can be activated either using the "Full Screen" button on the
toolbar, or using the F11 key on your keyboard
3. Stats are now updated in real time
The deck stats from version 1 are still there (plus some more - I'll address that later), but now they no longer update only when the
deck is saved - not only are they updated whenever a card is added, removed or changed, but the charts update automatically without
requiring a refresh.
4. Activation now locks decks against editing
Activation was always intended to notify the user if they didn't have enough copies of a card to build a deck, but this fell over if
an activated deck was edited whie the deck was still assembled and in play. This has now been circumvented by locking decks that are
activated so that they can't be edited.
Now some cool, new stuff:
1. The whole thing is now mana aware!
I think this is one of the coolest new features The whole system is now capable of undertanding not only the mana requirements
of cards, but also their potential mana production.
In the deck builder, this is used thusly:
Alerts are shown on card frames if you don't have the mana sources in your deck
Card frames have a chart showing how much mana of each type a card uses, and how much mana of each type that card produces
A new stat has been added to the charts window, and stats panel (more on that below) showing the mana consumption and mana production of the deck as a whole.
This makes it much easier to define the land base of a deck Parsing of mana production goes from something as shallow as understanding
the mana produced by basic lands to as deep as understanding Fetchlands and Mana Elves (and all types in between!)
2. Native Commander Support!
If you select a deck type of "Commander", you'll notice a couple of cool new things:
A new "Commander" panel will appear in the toolbox, with a "Select Commander" button
Any legendary creatures in your deck will have a "Commander" radio button on their frame
Any cards (aside from basic lands, of course) with more than one copy will show an "Invalid Quantity" error
If you select a Commander (either by clicking the "Select Commander" button, which will open the "Add Cards" panel with some extra filters),
or ticking the radio button on a legendary, the selected Commander will be shown in the "Commander" panel, along with that card's color identity,
the color filters in the "Add Cards" panel will be locked to your Commander's color identity, and any cards in the deck that violate the
color identity will be highighted with an "Invalid Colors" error. Also, your Commander (in the main deck view) will be surrounded by a classy
golden glow
This update also includes the groundwork for supporting Tiny Leaders
3. New Stat Charts, and Stats Panel
The new toolbox contains a panel showing a number of important stats - namely, the number of cards in your deck, mana consumption / production,
and percentages of cards by type.
The "cards in deck" stat also shows a target number of cards for your selected deck type. The number of cards you have will be highlighted in green, orange
or red - green if you have the optimum number of cards for the format, yellow if you have to many, and red if your deck contains an illegal number.
The old stats charts have been rebuilt and expanded. The window now has multiple sub-tabs per tab, showing:
Mana
Mana Curve
Mana Usage / Production
Power
Combined Power / Toughness
Separate charts for Power and Toughness
Types
Main types pie chart
Sub types by type (Creatures, Lands, Planeswalkers, etc)
4. Sideboard support
This one's a litte rudimentary, but I expect to expand it in future. Card frames now have a "Sideboard" checkbox to move them to the sideboard. Sideboard cards are
not counted towards deck stats (including card count) and are shown in their own category. The only downside is that moving a card to the sideboard is an "all or nothing"
thing - you can't have some copies in the main deck, and some in the sideboard - yet. Emphasis on the "yet"
5. Deck Copying
You can now copy decks - either your own (if you want to make modifications to an activated deck, for example, or experiment with a deck without affecting the original),
or somebody elses.
6. Assorted speed improvements across the whole site
Some of the features of this deck builder would have been impossible with the data structures I had in place originally, so I've reshuffled some thing in the database
to make them possible. This had the practial offshoot of making lots of other parts of the site run faster - the main one being the Collection Cards screen This screen
used to take exponentially longer to load the more cards you have in your collection... This is happily no longer the case
I'm sure there's some stuff that I've forgotten to mention - it's been a busy few months. These are all the main enhancements, though.
As always, I welcome bug reports. In the meantime, enjoy!
Welcome to Minouris's Library!
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Hey folks
I've been working on this for the past few months:
It's a site for recording your card collections, with a tool for building decks from your existing collection. It has a full database of all existing cards (up to Conspiracy from tomorrow, hopefully) derived from the API at http://mtgjson.com/ :).
It's still got a bit of work going on with it, so I'd appreciate any feedback, and especially bug reports
Features / Screenshots:
Browse cards and add them to your collections
Create and Manage Decks
View / Edit Deck Composition and Statistics
Add Cards to Decks by Block, Set, Colour, Type, Rarity, Cost and Abilities
I've just added two new features to the 'Deck Cards' screen, in edit mode:
Mana Curve Graph
Draw Chance (%)
The Mana Curve Graph (accessed by clicking the 'Show Mana Curve' button) shows you how many cards, and what percentage of your total cards, you have by calculated mana cost. This will help you see what you can cast in each turn of your game, and gauge things like the speed and aggression of your deck.
The Draw Chance (%) (shown on each card) shows the likelihood of drawing that card in a game, calculated against the number of copies you have in your deck versus your total deck size. This stat updates for every card whenever you ad or remove a card to the deck, or when you change how many copies there are.
These two features should make it even easier to build effective decks
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I've just overhauled the front page somewhat, replacing the scrolling news window with fixed width previews, removing the intro text and adding a couple of other goodies.
Cooler stuff coming soon ^.^
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I've added a major new feature to the software - namely, the ability to add cards to a wishlist!
The 'Add Cards' wizard now has a pair of additional check boxes on the 'Other Options' page:
Include Cards You Don't Own
Shows cards from outside your collection in the search results
Show Wishlist
Shows cards from your wishlist in search results
With the Include Cards You Don't Own option enabled, you will be able to see all cards that match your search criteria. Any you don't own, but want to use in your deck, will have an "Add to Wishlist" button.
Once you have added a card to your wishlist, you can add it to your deck like any other card. Wish list cards are clearly marked so that you know it's not a card you can actually play yet!
Your wishlist can be managed by clicking the "Wishlist" button for each Collection on the 'Manage Collection' screen. Cards can be either removed from the list, or marked as "Obtained"
Cards added to your collection that are in your wishlist are automatically marked as obtained.
Go forth and conquer!
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My only feature I would love to see is a way to tell which decks have a given card in them.
(So I click on Domri Rade, and it tells me I have 4 in Jund Monsters, 2 in RG Devotion, ext)
Thanks
Agreed, that's a feature I'm hoping to add - I'm planning on implementing a better card details window showing which decks a card is in as well as legalities and possibly variants, accessible both from the search and from the Collection management page.
Meanwhile, I'm just putting together a post announcing a feature I rolled out yesterday that might partly fill the gap
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First new update in a couple of weeks, since I've been on holiday, and it's a big one
Decks can now have a type (or format) set, which determines which cards are legal for that deck, based on card legality data.
When a type is selected for a deck, the "Add Cards" wizard will only find cards that are legal under that type. Cards that have "Restricted" legality will only be allowed to have a single copy.
Cards that are illegal, restricted, or explicitly banned for a type will have a label displayed in the card frame when viewing the deck, and will display a warning when the deck is opened.
Deck types are displayed in the deck list, on the deck card display, and can be changed via the "Edit Details" dialog for the deck.
Deck legality data is slightly out of date right now, as the underlying data from http://mtgjson.com/ has just been updated, and it takes ages to refresh the data However, I'll be doing a huge refresh of all legality data once Magic 2015 become legal for Standard.
The second big change I've made is to the conflicts view.
The conflicts view (shown when activating a deck if not all cards are available) now shows a graphical view of which cards are used by which other decks, instead of an austere bulleted list like before.
Additionally, the conflicts view can now be shown directly from the deck composition screen, allowng you to check the availability of cards in your deck as you build it. This should make it easier to build multiple decks with the same cards with them clashing!
As always, have fun!
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Is it possible to have a column that include the tcg mid price of the cards so that we can also know roughly how much is our collect worth and etc but I do understand that prices for the cards are constantly changing so it is probably a challenge to keep it updated all the time.
Is it possible to have a column that include the tcg mid price of the cards so that we can also know roughly how much is our collect worth and etc but I do understand that prices for the cards are constantly changing so it is probably a challenge to keep it updated all the time.
I'm considering it - it's possible to get real time data from TCG Player, so it's imminently doable There are a couple of other things I want to get in place first, though, that will make it easier to do later.
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After another couple of weeks cloistered away at my keyboard, I've got another big feature to announce - an extended Card Details window
This replaces the old Card Details window you used to get when you clicked a card in the 'Search Cards' screen. It's now accessible from lots more places (Collection card list, Wishlist, Deck cards listing), and has a ton of new information and features, such as:
View the legality of the Card, by format
View which Collections and Decks the card is in
Add cards to Collections, Decks and Wishlists from pretty much anywhere on the site where you can view cards
Obtain / Remove copies from Collections and Wishlists
This adds a huge amount of utility to every screen it's in, and clears a path for me to add even more functionality later
In addition to this, I've added a few details to the Wishlist screen, and added the ability to add cards to the Wishlist from the Search Cards screen.
As always, enjoy and let me know if there are bugs in the discussion thread
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That's a cool tool you built there, congratulations and thanks !
A few things I feel would make it even better :
TCG Player price data (I know you said you would do it but take this as an upvote)
A "Go to page X" in the search result pages navigation (top and bottom)
Export collection/deck to text/csv/excel
Quick add function (write down a list of cards with edition code and quantity and click "Add to collection/deck")
Card condition (At the very least the possibility to add foils as different cards)
FNM and promo cards
I'm currently transfering my inventory from The Vault to your site as having it always available even when I don't have my computer at hand is a very nice thing.
That's a cool tool you built there, congratulations and thanks !
A few things I feel would make it even better :
TCG Player price data (I know you said you would do it but take this as an upvote)
A "Go to page X" in the search result pages navigation (top and bottom)
Export collection/deck to text/csv/excel
Quick add function (write down a list of cards with edition code and quantity and click "Add to collection/deck")
Card condition (At the very least the possibility to add foils as different cards)
FNM and promo cards
I'm currently transfering my inventory from The Vault to your site as having it always available even when I don't have my computer at hand is a very nice thing.
Awesome feedback man, thanks A few of those are things that I already want to implement - I'm tossing up whether to add a "copies" or a "market" tab to the Card Details screen next
I need to check out a few third party import / export formats. I'm not sure where I should be focussing my efforts, though. There seem to be a few common notations shared by multiple programs.
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Just a heads up - I'm refreshing all the legality data from mtgjson.com, now that Sembiance has updated it for M15, so expect some inconsistencies over the next few hours
Do remember to check your existing decks after is finished, in case some of the cards in them have cycled out of format ^.^
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Speaking to someone in a game shop yesterday, and received the following suggestions:
Store Integration
Further deck stats
Text Entry
I want to expand Text Entry intro a general Import / Export function. Both that and Store Integration are going to require some extended attributes on individual card copies (Condition, Foil, etc), so I'll do that next, then text entry, then store integration. In between I might do some more deck stats, just to jostle up the workload and keep things fresh.
Stay tuned
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Could I get a little bit of feedback on this, please?
Is this sufficient for managing individual copies of a card? Note that FNM is being implemented on mtgjson as a separate set, which means that they'll be treated the same on here
Your opinions are greatly valued ^.^
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The Card Details window now has the ability to manage the details of individual cards in your collection
The "Copies" tab of the Card Details window allows you to specify the condition, whether a card is a foil (premium) card, and whether that copy of the card is a promo copy (different types of promo, such as FNM, will hopefully be implemented soon, when the data become available).
Secondly, the ability to move cards between Collections has now been made available! This has been a disabled button on the 'Collection Cards' screen for almost the whole time we've been live, and now it actually does something Cards that are not allocated to decks can be freely moved between Collections. This function is available from the "Collection Cards" screen, and the "Collections / Decks" tab of the "Card Details" popup.
Finally, as a side note, I've added one tiny enhancement to the search screen - cards that have been selected for adding are now highlighted until the 'Add' button has been clicked. No more losing track of whether you've added the cards you've selected yet!
Have fun!
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Another update! I'm slowing down a bit now, but I think the additions are getting slightly larger...
So, I've added the aforementioned deck stats! I'm still tuning them a bit - generating the charts takes a bit longer than I'd like, and I haven't pinpointed whether the time is being taken executing the queries or generating the images (plus the Strength Curve comes up with some questionable numbers sometimes), but by and large they're working as intended
This replaces the old "Show Mana Curve" window in the Deck Cards screen - there's still a Mana Curve there, but there are some other stats as well, such as:
Composition by Type
Colors Breakdown
Land Breakdown
Strength Curve (Currently experimental)
So, now I've implemented some additional card metadata and come to grips with the charting library, I think I'll look at prices next Enjoy!
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Couple of weeks without an update... Haven't forgotten this - my day job just got temporarily crazy, and my home life these days is mostly wedding planning... Life intervenes
I did get the opportunity to tweak the query that loads the user collection list, which has had a persistent problem with slowing down according to the number of cards you have - at 500 cards it's barely noticeable, but with 7000+ (the results of just six months of collecting!), it was downright painful. Anyway, it seems to be pretty speedy now - down to just a couple of seconds to load the table again Hopefully I'll get a chance to work on something a bit more visual soon ^.^
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Huzzah! Khans of Tarkir is upon us! Thanks to the usual internet magic and the gifts given to us by Gatherer and mtgjson.com, we now have a full set in the database for you to exploit. In the prerelease? Add your hard won cards right frikkin' now! Still have to wait a week? Nope! Add what you want to your wishlist, and just start building decks!
I am excited about this release, if you can't already tell
In other news, I added "From the Vault: Annihilation" and "Duel Deck: Speed vs. Cunning" about a week ago, right before getting severely messed up by the flu for a few days.
In other other news, my local prototype has a working panel in the Card Details window for viewing current prices, delta from yesterday and a graph showing twenty day price history. It's looking very, very nice Stay tuned, and happy deck building!
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Quick heads up - Gatherer appears to have dodgy legality data for M15, and possibly other sets as well. Since mtgjson depends on Gatherer, and we depend on mtgjson, that means legalities are a bit mesed up right now.
Will hopefully have a solution soon - will pst here when everything is working again.
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I'm not dead, by the way - but 90% of normal life functions have been suspended in order to prepare for getting married in 12 days ^.^ Hopefully things will return to normal and I'll be able to start working on this again when I get back from my honeymoon
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http://mtglib.armchairguitarist.com/ is still the location of the app
This is a pretty major update - a complete rebuild from the ground up. I'll talk about the new features one at a time.
First, some basic stuff:
1. It's now public, and no longer tied to cards in your collections
Look at the menu bar, and you'll see a new option - "Deck Builder". This will appear regardless of whether you're logged in or not.
A practival upshot of this is that you're no longer constrained to build decks only out of cards that you own, or have in your
wishlist. The only time you need to be a registered user is if you want to save a deck to refer to it later.
Because cards in your deck are no longer tied to a particular card in your collection, each card of a particular name is only
shown once - no more deck listings with four different Forests in them, because you only happen to own a certain number of a
particular printing. That was clumsy as hell, and so now it's gone.
2. The layout has improved
The new version had a lot more options I wanted to include, and with that came an extended toolbar and info bar. Now, instead of a
toolbar at the top of the editor under a bunch of text boxes, there's a panel off to the left containing all that stuff. It's designed
to look a bit like 3DS Max, since I always liked that inerface
The "Add Cards" feature has changed quite dramatically. Instead of a floating window with a multi-page wizad that needs to be started
from scratch whenever you add more cards, there's now a fixed window at the top of the Cards view containing a scrollable folter pane in
one tab, and a card list in the other. This can be collapsed to make room for viewing cards.
The informational highlights on the cards have been tidied up, and can now show multiple messages and alerts.
For a better iew of your deck composition, cards can now be displayed in a categorised view, and are sorted by name.
Last, but not least, to make life a bit easier I've introduced an implicit "Full Screen" mode, which hides the top menu and title bar,
whilst simultaneouly chucking the browser into Full Screen mode. This can be activated either using the "Full Screen" button on the
toolbar, or using the F11 key on your keyboard
3. Stats are now updated in real time
The deck stats from version 1 are still there (plus some more - I'll address that later), but now they no longer update only when the
deck is saved - not only are they updated whenever a card is added, removed or changed, but the charts update automatically without
requiring a refresh.
4. Activation now locks decks against editing
Activation was always intended to notify the user if they didn't have enough copies of a card to build a deck, but this fell over if
an activated deck was edited whie the deck was still assembled and in play. This has now been circumvented by locking decks that are
activated so that they can't be edited.
Now some cool, new stuff:
1. The whole thing is now mana aware!
I think this is one of the coolest new features
of cards, but also their potential mana production.
In the deck builder, this is used thusly:
This makes it much easier to define the land base of a deck
the mana produced by basic lands to as deep as understanding Fetchlands and Mana Elves (and all types in between!)
2. Native Commander Support!
If you select a deck type of "Commander", you'll notice a couple of cool new things:
If you select a Commander (either by clicking the "Select Commander" button, which will open the "Add Cards" panel with some extra filters),
or ticking the radio button on a legendary, the selected Commander will be shown in the "Commander" panel, along with that card's color identity,
the color filters in the "Add Cards" panel will be locked to your Commander's color identity, and any cards in the deck that violate the
color identity will be highighted with an "Invalid Colors" error. Also, your Commander (in the main deck view) will be surrounded by a classy
golden glow
This update also includes the groundwork for supporting Tiny Leaders
3. New Stat Charts, and Stats Panel
The new toolbox contains a panel showing a number of important stats - namely, the number of cards in your deck, mana consumption / production,
and percentages of cards by type.
The "cards in deck" stat also shows a target number of cards for your selected deck type. The number of cards you have will be highlighted in green, orange
or red - green if you have the optimum number of cards for the format, yellow if you have to many, and red if your deck contains an illegal number.
The old stats charts have been rebuilt and expanded. The window now has multiple sub-tabs per tab, showing:
4. Sideboard support
This one's a litte rudimentary, but I expect to expand it in future. Card frames now have a "Sideboard" checkbox to move them to the sideboard. Sideboard cards are
not counted towards deck stats (including card count) and are shown in their own category. The only downside is that moving a card to the sideboard is an "all or nothing"
thing - you can't have some copies in the main deck, and some in the sideboard - yet. Emphasis on the "yet"
5. Deck Copying
You can now copy decks - either your own (if you want to make modifications to an activated deck, for example, or experiment with a deck without affecting the original),
or somebody elses.
6. Assorted speed improvements across the whole site
Some of the features of this deck builder would have been impossible with the data structures I had in place originally, so I've reshuffled some thing in the database
to make them possible. This had the practial offshoot of making lots of other parts of the site run faster - the main one being the Collection Cards screen
used to take exponentially longer to load the more cards you have in your collection... This is happily no longer the case
I'm sure there's some stuff that I've forgotten to mention - it's been a busy few months. These are all the main enhancements, though.
As always, I welcome bug reports. In the meantime, enjoy!
Welcome to Minouris's Library!
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Hey folks
I've been working on this for the past few months:
http://mtglib.armchairguitarist.com/
It's a site for recording your card collections, with a tool for building decks from your existing collection. It has a full database of all existing cards (up to Conspiracy from tomorrow, hopefully) derived from the API at http://mtgjson.com/ :).
It's still got a bit of work going on with it, so I'd appreciate any feedback, and especially bug reports
Features / Screenshots:
Browse cards and add them to your collections
Create and Manage Decks
View / Edit Deck Composition and Statistics
Add Cards to Decks by Block, Set, Colour, Type, Rarity, Cost and Abilities
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- Mana Curve Graph
- Draw Chance (%)
The Mana Curve Graph (accessed by clicking the 'Show Mana Curve' button) shows you how many cards, and what percentage of your total cards, you have by calculated mana cost. This will help you see what you can cast in each turn of your game, and gauge things like the speed and aggression of your deck.The Draw Chance (%) (shown on each card) shows the likelihood of drawing that card in a game, calculated against the number of copies you have in your deck versus your total deck size. This stat updates for every card whenever you ad or remove a card to the deck, or when you change how many copies there are.
These two features should make it even easier to build effective decks
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Cooler stuff coming soon ^.^
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The 'Add Cards' wizard now has a pair of additional check boxes on the 'Other Options' page:
With the Include Cards You Don't Own option enabled, you will be able to see all cards that match your search criteria. Any you don't own, but want to use in your deck, will have an "Add to Wishlist" button.
Once you have added a card to your wishlist, you can add it to your deck like any other card. Wish list cards are clearly marked so that you know it's not a card you can actually play yet!
Your wishlist can be managed by clicking the "Wishlist" button for each Collection on the 'Manage Collection' screen. Cards can be either removed from the list, or marked as "Obtained"
Cards added to your collection that are in your wishlist are automatically marked as obtained.
Go forth and conquer!
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The full set has been added to the database, so go ahead and start making decks before the prerelease
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My only feature I would love to see is a way to tell which decks have a given card in them.
(So I click on Domri Rade, and it tells me I have 4 in Jund Monsters, 2 in RG Devotion, ext)
Thanks
Agreed, that's a feature I'm hoping to add - I'm planning on implementing a better card details window showing which decks a card is in as well as legalities and possibly variants, accessible both from the search and from the Collection management page.
Meanwhile, I'm just putting together a post announcing a feature I rolled out yesterday that might partly fill the gap
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Decks can now have a type (or format) set, which determines which cards are legal for that deck, based on card legality data.
When a type is selected for a deck, the "Add Cards" wizard will only find cards that are legal under that type. Cards that have "Restricted" legality will only be allowed to have a single copy.
Cards that are illegal, restricted, or explicitly banned for a type will have a label displayed in the card frame when viewing the deck, and will display a warning when the deck is opened.
Deck types are displayed in the deck list, on the deck card display, and can be changed via the "Edit Details" dialog for the deck.
Deck legality data is slightly out of date right now, as the underlying data from http://mtgjson.com/ has just been updated, and it takes ages to refresh the data
The second big change I've made is to the conflicts view.
The conflicts view (shown when activating a deck if not all cards are available) now shows a graphical view of which cards are used by which other decks, instead of an austere bulleted list like before.
Additionally, the conflicts view can now be shown directly from the deck composition screen, allowng you to check the availability of cards in your deck as you build it. This should make it easier to build multiple decks with the same cards with them clashing!
As always, have fun!
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
I'm considering it - it's possible to get real time data from TCG Player, so it's imminently doable
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
This replaces the old Card Details window you used to get when you clicked a card in the 'Search Cards' screen. It's now accessible from lots more places (Collection card list, Wishlist, Deck cards listing), and has a ton of new information and features, such as:
This adds a huge amount of utility to every screen it's in, and clears a path for me to add even more functionality later
In addition to this, I've added a few details to the Wishlist screen, and added the ability to add cards to the Wishlist from the Search Cards screen.
As always, enjoy and let me know if there are bugs in the discussion thread
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
So, as of the latest update you can do exactly that
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
That's a cool tool you built there, congratulations and thanks !
A few things I feel would make it even better :
I'm currently transfering my inventory from The Vault to your site as having it always available even when I don't have my computer at hand is a very nice thing.
Awesome feedback man, thanks
I need to check out a few third party import / export formats. I'm not sure where I should be focussing my efforts, though. There seem to be a few common notations shared by multiple programs.
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
Do remember to check your existing decks after is finished, in case some of the cards in them have cycled out of format ^.^
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
I want to expand Text Entry intro a general Import / Export function. Both that and Store Integration are going to require some extended attributes on individual card copies (Condition, Foil, etc), so I'll do that next, then text entry, then store integration. In between I might do some more deck stats, just to jostle up the workload and keep things fresh.
Stay tuned
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
Is this sufficient for managing individual copies of a card? Note that FNM is being implemented on mtgjson as a separate set, which means that they'll be treated the same on here
Your opinions are greatly valued ^.^
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
The "Copies" tab of the Card Details window allows you to specify the condition, whether a card is a foil (premium) card, and whether that copy of the card is a promo copy (different types of promo, such as FNM, will hopefully be implemented soon, when the data become available).
Secondly, the ability to move cards between Collections has now been made available! This has been a disabled button on the 'Collection Cards' screen for almost the whole time we've been live, and now it actually does something
Finally, as a side note, I've added one tiny enhancement to the search screen - cards that have been selected for adding are now highlighted until the 'Add' button has been clicked. No more losing track of whether you've added the cards you've selected yet!
Have fun!
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
So, I've added the aforementioned deck stats! I'm still tuning them a bit - generating the charts takes a bit longer than I'd like, and I haven't pinpointed whether the time is being taken executing the queries or generating the images (plus the Strength Curve comes up with some questionable numbers sometimes), but by and large they're working as intended
This replaces the old "Show Mana Curve" window in the Deck Cards screen - there's still a Mana Curve there, but there are some other stats as well, such as:
- Composition by Type
- Colors Breakdown
- Land Breakdown
- Strength Curve (Currently experimental)
So, now I've implemented some additional card metadata and come to grips with the charting library, I think I'll look at prices nextMinouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
I did get the opportunity to tweak the query that loads the user collection list, which has had a persistent problem with slowing down according to the number of cards you have - at 500 cards it's barely noticeable, but with 7000+ (the results of just six months of collecting!), it was downright painful. Anyway, it seems to be pretty speedy now - down to just a couple of seconds to load the table again
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
I am excited about this release, if you can't already tell
In other news, I added "From the Vault: Annihilation" and "Duel Deck: Speed vs. Cunning" about a week ago, right before getting severely messed up by the flu for a few days.
In other other news, my local prototype has a working panel in the Card Details window for viewing current prices, delta from yesterday and a graph showing twenty day price history. It's looking very, very nice
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
Will hopefully have a solution soon - will pst here when everything is working again.
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
I'm not dead, by the way - but 90% of normal life functions have been suspended in order to prepare for getting married in 12 days ^.^ Hopefully things will return to normal and I'll be able to start working on this again when I get back from my honeymoon
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!