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Baneslayer Angel has wrong capitalization in its text ("protection from demons and from dragons" instead of "protection from Demons and from Dragons").

EDIT: Seems there are more cards with capitalization problems, I just noticed reminder text for Bubbling Muck.

EDIT2: Noticed two spaces in text of Heretic's Punishment.

All of the above problems are present in several cards, will fix it.

The other problems reported should also be fixed in time for the pre-release.

Looks like Gatherer was updated a few hours ago. Thanks again for hooking up mtgdata files, Arch

No problem.

First post updated with new release.

Is there any reason the latest version of mtg-data.txt changed all of the set codes to no longer be 3 characters? We have a few utilities that use mtg-data for parsing, but they seem to all be broken/less functional due to this change.

Yes, setcodes are now read from gatherer, which is as close to an official version of the set-codes you can get.

Is the problem that the set-codes are short or that they have changed. (Quite a lot of them changed this time since it was done in bulk.) If the first one; update your code. If the second one; I've got some bad news.

Set-codes are actually not a good identifier for a set. (Guess that's how you're using them.) They have changed multiple times and will quite possibly change again in the future. The set-name would be a better identifier.

If you point me to the tools/source maybe I can give some more concrete advice.

Arch wrote:Is the problem that the set-codes are short or that they have changed. (Quite a lot of them changed this time since it was done in bulk.) If the first one; update your code. If the second one; I've got some bad news.

I didn't write this particular piece of code, but for some reason Astral cards are being lumped into the Alliances set for tracking purposes. It seems like since we were looking for a three character code "AL " was being recorded as the Alliances set code, which "ASTRAL " is being found in.

Arch wrote:Set-codes are actually not a good identifier for a set. (Guess that's how you're using them.) They have changed multiple times and will quite possibly change again in the future. The set-name would be a better identifier.

We are actually grabbing the set codes from the Set Name in the file, but on the set line in mtg-data.txt they are only referenced by their code. No worries, it should be fixable, I just wasn't expecting broken code after this release.

Planechase 2 decks shown today -- we might get Gatherer update soon

There's also the promo Stairs to Infinity -- not sure if it will appear in the Gatherer with the rest of the set.

And it's out. Haha, beat you to it!

Will have a look at it tonight. Stairs to Infinity is in gatherer.

Updated first post with new zip.

nice!

There is a difference between the old and new plane cards. The old ones say {C} and the new ones say Chaos...

Updated again.

Sometimes I wonder if their internal data is as inconsistent or if they're intentionally obfuscating it when adding to gatherer...

I fear it's the first, although I wonder how such thing can happen, considering that Wizards probably employs a load of nerds...

"Load" is the operative word. As in "not every nerd does things exactly the same way". This list has better consistency since it's overseed by a single person.

Selesnya Sanctuary is missing metadata for PC2. Here's the info:
{
"artist" => "John Avon",
"number" => 125,
"rarity" => "C",
"series" => "PC2",
},