I've been using Magic Assistant for a bit, it's clunky, outdated, but mostly works. I'd like to help improve it, but I have no wish to learn a new code langage. I've looked at other solutions, but found them to be either out of date, unmaintained, behind a paywall, or just missing important features. Hence this "MTG Organizer" project (name will change for sure)
Still development but most features are already here
Here are the lists of things I'd like to have included in this project :
| Feature | Status |
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| Search through MTG database | Done: Name, Colors, Type(s), Set, Rarity, CMC, Oracle text, tagger tags, Format, Power/Toughness/Loyalty |
| Support for other languages than EN | Card handling done in all available MTG languages, GUI translations not handled (yet) |
| Organizing cards in decks & collections | Done. Missing drag/drop between collections/decks, missing sideboard/commander support |
| Add deck visualizations and tools | total card/prices/legality, mana curve, color/type graphs (Legality WIP) |
| Import | MTGA, CSV(Urza Gatherer, and all supported on mtggoldfish), MTGO(.dek) |
| Export | Started : export to cardmarket decklist |
| Scan from webcam | Would be nice to have |
| Synchronization / Connection to other DBs | Local TinyDB for now, can be synchronized with a "drive" solution |
| Multiplatform Windows/Linux/Mac | Windows, Linux & Mac OK |
| Offline mode | WIP, added basic support for bulk files |
- Card data rely on a cache, which is manually stored for now, this cache is not yet updated when a set comes out. Manual solution for now is to clean the cache manually but I plan to implement a cache update system that could be triggered when a new set is out.
- On some instances, card art may not be correct if scrolling through cards quickly. This is caused by a race condition when requesting multiple images on a poor connection to the web. I added a "Ctrl+R" shortcut to force reload currently selected card for now.
- On some heavy operations (like importing a large collection) GUI may freeze while it loads data. I will implement loading bars / spinners at some point soon to keep the GUI responive on heavy operations.
- Missing half-mana symbols (un-sets)
- Missing 1,000,000 mana symbol (Gleemax)
- Partial phyrexian font handling
- Bug on sorting / removal
- Handling image with multiple pictures (e.g. Urza's mine) and alternate art
- Missing button to clear all search terms
- Add tooltip to view card translations
- Show english name when browsing other languages
Python 3.10+ pip modules listed in requirements.txt
For now, this is not packaged in an executable file, so you have to run it from source code.
Clone this repo, then when in the folder, install dependencies
- windows (with system python or venv activated)
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py -m pip install -r requirements.txt
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- linux/mac (with a venv already set)
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venv/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
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(you may have to add "py -m pip install -e ." because of the weird way python modules work, haven't figured that out yet)
then run the main program
- windows
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py mtgorg/mtgorg_app.py
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- linux/mac (venv)
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venv/bin/python mtgorg/mtgorg_app.py
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Where are my decks and collection saved ?
- (currently) your decks and collections are stored in your homefolder in a mtgorg.db file (which is basically a json file) which contains the most minimal data to store your deck
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Where is the cache stored ?
- as for above question, the cache is stored in your homefolder, in a mtgorg_cache.db file, feel free to remove this file to clean the cache.
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Search/Import is slow
- contrary to most other card organizers, this app does not store the entire dataset of card, and only stores data as you request it. This has the added benefit of not needing you to download the entire datasets before starting to organize your decks. This can result on slow operations (especially when importing big collections of cards) if your netwok connection is limited.
- There are plans to allow for full offline operations, but this is not the main focus for now
- Scryfall
- Andrew Gioia : Keyrune : expansion symbols (used under GPL 3.0 license)
- MrTeferi : Proxyshop : proxygliyph font mana symbols (Mozilla public license 2.0)
- NandaScott : Scrython : Python wrapper for scryfall requests (MIT License)
- WotC, card creators, artists, and MTG community for everything MTG.
I have absolutely no idea all of this works, I'm not a software engineer and do not have a law degree. From what I understand, this code should be GPL v3 compatible (since it uses parts which are MIT/GPL3/MPL2) but I would prefer to seek help from the community before choosing a licence.