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Why can't I add spoilers or single cards myself?
What to do when I get "JPEG error #53" error?
Why my deck quantities are not synched with my collection?
How to use MTG Studio as portable application?
Will MTG Studio have a multiplayer?
Why some cards have missing Prices?
How to enable Anti-Aliasing (edge smoothing) of fonts?
How to report a MTG Studio crash?
How to fix a broken collection?
Can you build a MTG Online/Arena bot for me?
I would like to help MTG Studio. Can I help?
How to Import Collection from one version to another?
How to disable the annoying ding sound navigating cards
MTG Studio is minimized in the tray bar, asks for password?
Duplicate cards - Abbey Matron (1) and Abbey Matron (2)
What is the background of the project?
I want to have the database of MTG Studio. Can I use it?
Why my Firewall says that MTG Studio is trying to send data?
Why B.F.N. from Unglued edition has mana cost of "BBBBBx3"?
Will there be a Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android version?
Will MTG Studio support any other Trading Card Game?
How I can quickly search for cards?
If I buy MTG Studio, is this a one-time purchase, or will I
Where my collection file is stored?
MTG Studio fails to start. What should I do?
I have lost my registration key. Now what?
How prices work in MTG Studio?
# Why can't I add spoilers or single cards myself? I am making the new set addition as automated as possible but yet it is not a process which can be easily outsourced/cloudsourced since there are a lot of manual and automated processed apart from the basic card details such as- We manually update the Banned and Restricted rules. We also keep information if the card is Legal or has a Legal reprint
- We manually add new game formats
- The process for automated updating legality cache takes 20 hours - since we have 52 000+ cards defined in 60+ formats which is approximately 3.1+ million cached values.
- We add manually Card of the Day details
- We add manually Release Notes for cards
- We add manually Lexicon for cards
- We add manually Functional Reprints, Mana Cost Reprints, Mirrored Pairs, Cycle cards
- We have automated procedures for adding latest Oracle rules
- We spell check every single card rules and flavor text
- We have semi automated procedures for adding the latest MTG Online, TCG Player, Multiverse and Wagic card identifiers
- We have semi automated procedures for "linking" our cards to external card stores for fetching prices
- We have lots of automated data quality checks which run for more than 10 minutes
- We manually add artist contact details
- We manually add the set expansion symbols
- We manually add more than 50 attributes for new editions such as border color, product type, copyright message, card breakdows, popular third party Magic software set abbreviations, set description, recommended market price, design team, development team, codename, expansion symbol description, plane
- We manually add new mechanics, and keyword abilities and Magic terms and link them to cards. This 350+ abilities linked to 52 000+ cards. Which is 18.2+ million cached values.
- We manually add strictly better, strictly worst, functional reprints, and color shifted cards, cycle cards.
- We manually assign the watermark for each card
- We semi-manually mark mana producing cards
- We manually add theme decks and sample decks in various deck file formats
- We perform spell checking against a very custom own developed Magic dictionary
- We mostly manually added 50 000+ combos
- If user interface is built for all those tasks the final distribution would be 100 instead of 30 MB
...and it is not only about data. Whenever a new set comes along Wizards constantly introduce new stuff such as: Guild Mana, Hybrid Mana, 1/2 Power, toughness, new special symbols such as Chaos or Untap. They are really inventive and come with lots of custom stuff which needs to be coded in various areas of thee application.
- Last but not least - the most valuable asset of MTG Studio is its rich content and we are not willing to open source or sell our proprietary database.
We value quality over quantity and we tend to believe MTG Studio is one of the "purest" MTG database in the world.
# What to do when I get "JPEG error #53" error? This problem occurs when there is a broken downloaded image. For example in your case it should be the Abyssal Prosecutor one.Please open your Card Art\Wotc folder and delete the jpg files within. (details on where this folder is on your Windows can be read at [Directory-Structure])
- Open MTG Studio
- Choose from the main menu Tools|Open Configuration Folder
- It will open Windows Explorer. Within the opened folder where should be a subfolder Card Art
- Within the Card Art folder there should be a WotC folder
- Open it and delete all *.jpg files within. 6. Restart MTG Studio
Why this happens? - because your network connectivity sometimes goes down and partially downloaded Jpeg file gets stored on your disk.
# Why my deck quantities are not synched with my collection? # How to use MTG Studio as portable application? # Will MTG Studio have a multiplayer? # Why some cards have missing Prices? # How to enable Anti-Aliasing (edge smoothing) of fonts? # How safe is MTG Studio? # How to report a MTG Studio crash? # How to fix a broken collection? # Can you build a MTG Online/Arena bot for me? # I would like to help MTG Studio. Can I help? # How to Import Collection from one version to another? # How to disable the annoying *ding* sound navigating cards # MTG Studio is minimized in the tray bar, asks for password? # Duplicate cards - Abbey Matron (1) and Abbey Matron (2) # What is the background of the project? # I want to have the database of MTG Studio. Can I use it? # Why my Firewall says that MTG Studio is trying to send data? # Why B.F.N. from Unglued edition has mana cost of "BBBBBx3"? # Will there be a Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android version? # Will MTG Studio support any other Trading Card Game? # How I can quickly search for cards? # If I buy MTG Studio, is this a one-time purchase, or will I # Where my collection file is stored? # MTG Studio fails to start. What should I do? # I have lost my registration key. Now what? # How prices work in MTG Studio?© 2003 - 2026. All rights reserved.