How to create your own set to draft

[mtgrares]

Yeah but unfortunately Forge or the set editor doesn't sort by set now, but it will probably be added in the future.

1. Download the set editor and put the file "run-set-editor.jar" in the same directory as "run-forge.jar". Open the set editor by double-clicking on run-set-editor.jar and answer no to "Do you want to edit quest booster files?"

2. The set editor will change the files common.txt, uncommon.txt, rare.txt in the /res/ directory. To make a new set to draft, delete these three files and create new text files that are empty.

3. Now run the set editor and none of the cards will have a rarity. Create your set and then save it.

4. If you want to draft your set, you need to copy common.txt, uncommon.txt, rare.txt to /res/draft/

Its a little complicated but it should work.

[juzamjedi]

I do this on a regular basis and keep changing cards in / out of the draft. It's really a nice feature that I like a lot.

[slowe]

Hmm, I put the editor jar in the same folder as run-forge.jar, but it gives an error message saying it can't find each of the rarity files.
Any idea what might cause that? This is with version 10/02.

Sorry there has been an error, you may need to restart. You can copy and paste this error message.

Please put this program in the same directory as MTG Forge

cards.txt not found
common.txt not found
uncommon.txt not found
rare.txt not found

[Rob Cashwalker]

rares, we don't use cards.txt anymore, so how is the editor to know the card names?

[bladescape]

The latest version(not the BETA one) still has cards.txt?

[slowe]

I have the beta and it still has a copy of cards.txt in addition to cardsfolder. That's why I was confused by the error message.

[Chris H.]

The current forge code does not use or access the cards.txt file or the rarity files located at /res/ and /res/quest/. These files will be deleted from forge and the SVN fairly soon. These files are now out of date and do not contain info for the last 500+ cards that have been added.

The java code from Rares set editor should be modified to access the new data files format. In fact, it might be nice to have the set editor merged into forge.

[mtgrares]

The set editor needs cards.txt to be in the /res/ folder. Yes the Forge 10/02/2010 release seems to still have cards.txt.