Mtgdb.Gui: search MTG cards, build decks, manage collection

[hidalgo]

Overview

Mtgdb.Gui is a Magic the Gathering deck builder application with collection tracking and card prices.

It's free and open source. Supported operating systems are Windows and GNU/Linux desktops.

Search related features are well-thought and powerful. Search can be limited in scope to the collection owned by user. Search for similar cards can show cards resembling in text or generated mana in 1 click.

Mtgdb.Gui supports several ways to input decks or collection, the fastest are drag-n-drop and copy / paste from another application or website.

Decks can be saved in formats compatible with other MTG-related applications including Magic the Gathering Online, Magic the Gathering Arena, Forge, XMage and Magarena.

Diagrams like mana curve provide high-level perspective on a given deck or collection. You can build custom diagrams conceptually the same way as pivot table or pivot diagram in Excel.

Download link
Wiki

Features

Cards database contains all MTG sets up to Amonkhet Remastered and Core Set 2021
Built-in update for images, data and the program
Import collection from Magic The Gathering Online	You can also load and save decks in MTGO-compatible format. details
Drag-n-drop and copy-paste deck	to instantly import deck from websites and external applications. details
Deck editor	details
Collection editor	details
Sample hand, draw and mulligan simulation details
Supported deck formats	Forge Magarena XMage Magic The Gathering Online MTGArena Decked builder Cockatrice supports the deck format used by Magarena Riiak's DotP 2014 Deck Builder v1.5.0.3 patched version supports Forge deck format
Filters
One-click filter buttons to instantly filter cards by abilities like Flying or Haste, type, manacost and so on. details
Search by text in Lucene query language. Search string supports syntax highlighting and intellisense. details
Filter by legality
Filter by cards in your collection Filter by cards in your deck Choose between AND / OR operators to combine filters
Show or hide duplicates in search result. You may want to see all card variants to put your deck a specific version of a beautiful land.
Sort by multiple fields details
Statistics charts details
Zoom details
Showing card back for flipped cards or meld pair / melded card for meld cards. details
Undo / redo changes in deck, filters and so on. Works even after restarting the program. details
Card text translations to all languages supported by Gatherer. Including russian, spanish, portugal and etc.
Printing proxies on A4 paper sheet
Tooltips on most user interface elements
Search result highlighting
Customizable color scheme
Using card images you already have with Mtgdb.Gui.	details
Showing the last card removed from deck in search result even if it doesn't matches filter.	The people who used Magic Duel's online deck builder will understand me. It is such an annoying thing when you have a filter, then you remove a card, and you cannot quickly undo as the card disappears from search result. This is not going to happen in Mtgdb.Gui!

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[hidalgo]

I made some minor improvements/fixes

• Changing cards language is undo/redo -able
• Search result / keywords highlighting was slightly mispositioned in some rare cases
• Renamed fields to use in filter and search: Name -> NameEn, NameLocal -> Name.
  E.g. now to search by name you type just Name:死灵式渴求 instead of "Name local":"死灵式渴求"

[hidalgo]

List of changes:

• TDI - tabbed document interface. Before I had this tabs feature I had to keep several open instances of Mtgdb.Gui.exe, which was undesirable for several reasons:
  -Slow program startup - around 15 seconds in my PC to load all sets.
  -High memory consumption - multiplied by N where N is the number of opened instances.
  -File access concurrency for undo/redo history files.
  Now you can open some tabs, work with them in parallel - no problem.
  

  

• Improved printing - more precise card size, white guidelines between the cards to help cutting.
  
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• Minor improvment of mana buttons behavior

[aidscoi168]

Hi Hidalgo, thanks you for making this app, also after updated to v1.2 the search result just have 1 row of cards ( the older version can show 2 rows also your sample images still have 2 rows so i think it may have some bugs about the showing result feature or something ), just report to we can make the app better.

[hidalgo]

just report to we can make the app better.

Hello aidscoi168, I really appreciate your feedback, thanks!

The reason of having only 1 row in search result is lacking vertical space due to windows taskbar you have at the bottom of your screen.
You can download v1.2.1 from this post which addresses the reported issue.

[aidscoi168]

Thanks you hilado, i think the change on load and search choice status to " is this magic duels card " zone is a good idea ( still need to have better visual ). Also do you think we can have an addition small app to download new cards's images from XLHQ like yugioh pro 2 ? ( github . com / jonas-vanen / image-updater ), update new version of this app through this topic is good but i think we need more easier way to manual update images is good too ( need more step to check mega link and search for new folder of new sets ) .

[hidalgo]

do you think we can have an addition small app to download new cards's images from XLHQ like yugioh pro 2

Talking precisely about XLHQ Mega - I don't think so, because

• Updating images is not required frequently - once in a few months.
• Updating images manually is not that hard.
• Resources\Gatherer.PreProcessed directory uses images that can be downloaded by Gatherer Extractor. It is easier than using XLHQ Mega.
• Automating access to XLHQ Mega file storage is not that easy from programmatic point of view, and if I would do this I see no way to leverage it in the future - I don't use it besides Mtgdb.Gui

However I agree with you that some improvement of downloading images needs to be done. I will probably stick to some easy alternative like images from http://gatherer.wizards.com/ to be used by default and downloaded automatically if the user wants that.

[aidscoi168]

Thanks you, just because your app run smoothly even with 199 sets of cards with good zoom function then i want to have the best quality of cards images if possible ( not sure in the future more sets come out this app still run smooth or not but now it work perfect for me ).

Also i'm thinking about feature that give user ability rearrange cards's position in the deckbuilder zone or before print to images for sharing the deck, or even auto rearrange cards's position follow user guide ( me as sample will want to rearrange deck list by rarity then total mana cost follow by this order : Artifact -> multicolored/planewalker -> lands -> instant, enchantment, sorcery -> creatures ). Just want to contribute ideas for make using this awesome app's experience more better

[hidalgo]

Also i'm thinking about feature that give user ability rearrange cards's position in the deckbuilder zone

I beleave this is an excellent idea, will be the first feature to add!

Just want to contribute ideas for make using this awesome app's experience more better

Ahahah, aidscoi168, it's unbelievable how you reproduced a famous russian meme 'More better'

P.S. also, you know, in English 'more better' sounds even more better!

[hidalgo]

Deck reordering - as suggested by aidscoi168 deck reordering is now possible. Implemented via drag-n-drop.

[hidalgo]

Deck reordering improved

• The drag-n-drop process is now visualised - you can see the dragged card and the expected reordering result.
• When you drop CardA over CardB there will be no swapping anymore. Rather cardA is relocated to the position of CardB while all other card's order remains unchanged.

[hidalgo]

Deck reordering improved - now you can scroll the deck while dragging the card.

[aidscoi168]

That fast, i'm just refresh the site and ready to tell you about scroll drag then new update already here

[hidalgo]

Well, another update is coming out - 1.2.4 introduced a crash when scrolling search result.
Fixed in 1.2.4.1

[Xander9009]

I just wanted to say that despite not saying anything here yet (or even downloading it quite yet since I'm off doing Skyrim stuff), this is definitely being watched by more than it might seem.

My only suggestion so far is actually related to the thread, not the tool itself. Instead of putting an attachment for the newest versions in the post where the new version is announced, it'd probably be better to always but the attachment in the OP. Just have new version announcements point there. This way, it's never a question of whether or not someone is downloading the right one.