If you're like me, you're constantly surrounded by boxes of cardboard. If you're also like me, you are at a loss at how best to organize the piles upon piles of Magic: The Gathering cards.
This is actually a problem I've been faced with as I sort through stacks and stacks of cards to build decks recently. My lack of organization has made it harder to build, and I've found myself rebuying cards I've come to realize I actually already own. I'm notoriously unorganized, so it's been a slog trying to come up with a better system - and the time to sort it all.
Almost as if fate conspired in my favor, I started to see ads pop up on my social media feeds about a new tool designed to help with this exact problem. CardMill, an AI-powered card sorting device, is launching its Kickstarter later this month, and honestly, at least at face value, it looks like the product to solve my organizational problem.
Using AI software designed to recognize your cards, the CardMill can sort them based on set, color, card type, or alphabetically, with plans to include sorting by price and rarity to come. While Magic: The Gathering is the primary focus of CardMill's marketing, the product is also designed to support Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Flesh and Blood, Lorcana, and the Star Wars card game, which is set to launch later this year.
CardMill will also catalog your collecting, syncing pricing with TCGPlayer, so collectors can also see the value of their cards in real time. The CardMill sorter can handle up to 300 cards at once, though their press kit also makes mention of a hopper extender that can handle up to 800 cards in one run. Personally, I think that is the one for me as I've got...so...so many cards to go through.
The Kickstarter will kick off on July 22nd, with the CardMill running early Kickstarter adopters for $350. Once the Kickstarter ends, the CardMill will run collectors $400. Kicktstarter access also allows for lifetime access to the CardMill software and new features down the road - no real pricing was announced for access beyond Kickstarter from what I could see.
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