What's in Standard?

What's in Standard? is a simple reference page made to help new (or not new) Magic: The Gathering players easily check which sets are currently in Standard, see when the next rotation is going to happen, and understand how rotations work.

Development

Images

We display MTG set symbols for released sets. Where possible these are SVGs, but often the most recent set symbol isn't yet available in SVG. In this situation we use the "large" resolution image from Gatherer (example). Set symbols vary in width, so we standardize on a height of 21px and let the widths behave how they want.

Running it locally

Bower manages the Bootstrap CSS/JS, so you'll need it installed if you don't want the site to look like it's from the 90s. But hey, if that's your thing I won't stop you.

git clone git@github.com:glacials/whatsinstandard
cd whatsinstandard
npm install -g bower # (if you don't already have it)
bower install

You shouldn't need to serve the files from any sort of web server. Opening index.html in a browser should work just fine.

Branches

Since we use Bower and we are hosted by GitHub, the gh-pages branch just reflects master after a bower install happens. This way master retains separation from its dependencies. gh-pages is the live site.

When a set is nearing release, there should be a feature branch for that set which contains the site as it will be when the release happens, and it should be named for the new set (e.g. oath-of-the-gatewatch). This branch should be in a state that allows master to be fast-forwarded to it when a merge happens at 00:00 on release day.

API

We've got an API. It's super slim and the output is written by hand but it works like a charm.

/api/3/sets.json

This is the only API call we have. It returns a JSON array of sets which looks something like this:

[
  {
    "name": "Theros",
    "block": "Theros",
    "code": "THS",
    "symbol": "http://whatsinstandard.com/img/ths.svg",
    "enter_date": "2013-09-27T00:00:00.000Z",
    "exit_date": null,
    "rough_exit_date": "late 2015"
  },
  ...
]

The array is guaranteed to contain all sets currently in Standard and no other sets (unlike the website, which shows between one and three upcoming sets grayed out).

For API details see the baby API readme!

Testing

The API has a few quick tests. To run them, you'll need to install a couple of testing dependencies:

npm install
npm install -g mocha

Then to run the tests, just type

mocha

Or to autorun them whenever test files update, instead use

npm run autotest

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. If you have a change specific to an upcoming set release, pull request that branch directly. Otherwise use master.

Attributions

Thanks to:

• For SVG set icon images:
  • BaconCatBug
  • White Dragon
  • Goblin Hero
  • Skibulk
  • Baka-Neku
  • Qanadhar
  • Poopski
• For gathering them: jninnes