User Guide

User Guide

Skeleton — sections below are planned, not all written yet. Migrated from the wiki's own User-Guide page (previously hand-maintained there directly) — this file is now the source; the wiki page regenerates from it. See documentation-process.md.

Searching for cards

How to search the catalog, read search results, and pick a printing for a slot in your decklist.

"What's That Card?" — helping identify printings

ProxyPrints crowdsources which real Magic printing a community-submitted card image depicts, so search results and filters (Full Art, Borderless, etc.) can be more precise. If you spot the vote queue while browsing, here's what it's asking and why your input helps everyone's search results.

Exporting a print-ready PDF

How to arrange your chosen cards into pages, set bleed/DPI/paper size, and export a PDF ready to print and cut.

The Display page's Page Setup section defaults to Letter landscape, 3.175mm bleed, and a Margin profile picker (Borderless / Bordered / Rear-feed) calibrated against an Epson ET-8500/8550 printer — Borderless is the default and the only profile that fits full bleed on a 4-across sheet; the other two trade some bleed for a printer-supported margin, and the page warns (rather than silently shrinking your bleed value) if your current bleed exceeds what the selected profile can fit.

Saving and re-using a project

Local-folder and Google Drive options for coming back to a project later.

Saved decks, export, and the standalone decrypt tool

Signed in with Discord? The editor and display page's Save button persists your deck to your account, and the My Decks page lists everything you've saved, decrypted right there in your browser — the server only ever stores encrypted, opaque bytes it can't read.

My Decks also has Export my decks and Import decks buttons: export bundles every saved deck into one downloadable file for backup or moving between accounts/instances, and import decrypts a previously-exported file (with your passphrase or recovery key) and adds its decks to your current account. If this site ever goes away, your exported file is still readable on its own — a small, dependency-free command-line tool (decrypt-saved-deck-export/ in the repo) decrypts it using nothing but Node.js's built-in crypto, no ProxyPrints server or codebase required.

See features/saved-decks.md for the full design (including the zero-knowledge encryption model and per-deck share links).

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