data is stored locally, no account needed. but software doesn't need to last forever, and it certainly doesn't need to in order to be good and valuable, which Decked Builder has been for me.)Īfter looking into a bunch of alternatives, i ended up settling on ManaBox. (quick aside-this is really not at all intended as a hit against Decked Builder, which i believe was built and is updated by just one dude who i think somewhat recently had a kid, and which served me pretty well for several years, easily worth the tiny price of admission. there is no concept of "etched foils" (which, to be fair, i also have no concept of. the mobile app understands TCG Market price, but the Mac OS app does not. however, the app itself changes very little. to the creator's credit, the card database gets updated super quickly when new sets and supplementals drop. it also uses this opaque ID if the card was printed in War of the Spark or any later set?! these two factors combined make me concerned that Decked Builder data will become increasingly difficult to transfer or use with other services. unless that version doesn't correspond to a version in Gatherer, in which case it uses its own ID that's hard to interpret. Decked Builder uses (internally and in exported CSV's) a card's "multiverse id" (its ID on Gatherer) to identify a card version. for all the ownership it gives you over your collection data, it's hard (and has recently gotten harder!) to use the data elsewhere. it doesn't offer good data portability.in all sets, any cards that share a name use the same price source-e.g., a textured foil DMU sheoldred looks up the same price as a regular foil. in older sets (i'm not sure what the cutoff is), it's not possible to track basic lands with different art & collector's numbers separately from each other. it does a poor job with same-named cards in the same set.That said, Decked Builder has some shortcomings, some of which are longstanding and others of which have been exacerbated by WotC's new normal of printing 27 version of every single card: It also was (and still seems to be) a fairly popular piece of collection management software its particular export format is even supported by MTGGoldfish, unlike most non-website collection trackers. offered the fundamental collection features of letting me track regular and non-foil versions of cards from different sets.could be purchased upfront instead of as a subscription, still with a good feature-set and.stored all my data locally in a location of my choice (which allowed for basic smooth-brain sync).Pre-pandemic, i used Decked Builder to keep track of my cards. this, at least for me, meant keeping track of my card collection again-something which was never my favorite aspect of owning a huge pile of cardboard. I recently started vaguely playing paper magic again (i mostly switched to arena-only sometime in 2019, pretty much just before the pandemic hit). assuming most of your data is from pre-2019 □) (tl dr: why i'm switching from Decked Builder to ManaBox, and a li'l script that can help you migrate your data. r/magicTCG is not produced, endorsed, supported by, or affiliated with Wizards of the Coast. Magic: The Gathering, including card images, symbols, and text, is © Wizards of the Coast, LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. The Lost Caverns of Ixalan November 2023.The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth June 23, 2023.March of the Machine: The Aftermath May 12, 2023.The bot will automatically post a comment in reply, with links for that card.įree discussion thread every weekend Upcoming Set Releases Name in your post or comment and put it in double brackets, like this: Images, up-to-date text, rulings, and more. We have a card-information bot in this subreddit which can fetch How to identify what set a card is from.Roundup of other Magic-related subreddits and sites.Playing Magic during the coronavirus pandemic.No posts that are just pictures of cards.Buy/sell/trade in the consolidated thread.No sexually explicit content or violence/disturbing imagery.The rules listed in this sidebar are a brief summary meant to give youĪ general idea of our subreddit rules.
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