Magic Utilities
Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 15:09Now that I'm "retired" I can spend more time actually playing the game. Of course, this makes me notice little things that annoy me and I want to fix, so I fix them. And I might as well share my changes, right? 
A lot of these changes assume you have a Playdeck\holding directory, which contains all your decks. So if you don't, create it and copy your decks into there. Also, you may want to make a backup copy of your decks, just in case.
Here are the features included in this download:
http://www.savefile.com/files/1997761
Magic Draft.exe
Run a draft. No special deck required, just go into solo duel and begin. The draft will start automatically. Also, your playdeck folder will be cleared of all non-draft decks. (all decks that were there are copied to holding, for all these utilities. Nothing is just thrown away, unless that directory doesn't exist).
CleanupDraft.bat
When you are done drafting, delete all the draft decks.
MomirBasic.exe
Play a game of Momir Basic. No special deck required, just go into solo duel and begin. You and your opponent will be given random decks of basic land. Vanguard mulligan decisions will be skipped.
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The rest of these features are mainly useful for when you want to run a gauntlet, but only use a subset of decks. For example, I don't want to play my casual decks against my Vanguard decks. These scripts only work if you follow certain naming conventions for your decks. All your Vanguard decks should begin with 'Vanguard'. Then, I classify my other decks into 3 groups by power, and prefix the deck names with T1, T2, or T3. It doesn't matter what's in those groups, as long as you name the decks appropriately.
Magic - Vanguard.exe
Copy only decks that start with 'Vanguard' into your Playdeck folder.
Magic - T1.exe
Copy only decks that start with T1' into your Playdeck folder.
Magic - T2T3.exe
Copy only decks that start with T2' or 'T3' into your Playdeck folder.
etc
By the way, I used the Magic icon for all these files, but if someone wants to create a Momir and Draft icon, I can use those for their exe's instead. That would be pretty slick.
A lot of these changes assume you have a Playdeck\holding directory, which contains all your decks. So if you don't, create it and copy your decks into there. Also, you may want to make a backup copy of your decks, just in case.
Here are the features included in this download:
http://www.savefile.com/files/1997761
Magic Draft.exe
Run a draft. No special deck required, just go into solo duel and begin. The draft will start automatically. Also, your playdeck folder will be cleared of all non-draft decks. (all decks that were there are copied to holding, for all these utilities. Nothing is just thrown away, unless that directory doesn't exist).
CleanupDraft.bat
When you are done drafting, delete all the draft decks.
MomirBasic.exe
Play a game of Momir Basic. No special deck required, just go into solo duel and begin. You and your opponent will be given random decks of basic land. Vanguard mulligan decisions will be skipped.
-----
The rest of these features are mainly useful for when you want to run a gauntlet, but only use a subset of decks. For example, I don't want to play my casual decks against my Vanguard decks. These scripts only work if you follow certain naming conventions for your decks. All your Vanguard decks should begin with 'Vanguard'. Then, I classify my other decks into 3 groups by power, and prefix the deck names with T1, T2, or T3. It doesn't matter what's in those groups, as long as you name the decks appropriately.
Magic - Vanguard.exe
Copy only decks that start with 'Vanguard' into your Playdeck folder.
Magic - T1.exe
Copy only decks that start with T1' into your Playdeck folder.
Magic - T2T3.exe
Copy only decks that start with T2' or 'T3' into your Playdeck folder.
etc
By the way, I used the Magic icon for all these files, but if someone wants to create a Momir and Draft icon, I can use those for their exe's instead. That would be pretty slick.
