jMagic is alive and well. Unfortunately, the past month has been busy for the developers, so we haven't had as much time to comment on these forums as we would like, but we are still making improvements to the game. We always welcome suggestions for cards to implement that we haven't written yet (the whole point of jMagic is to let people play with any card they want) but make sure to post them in the Feature Requests thread so we can find them as quickly as possible.
ubeefx: The rationale behind the cropped card images is that we dynamically render the entire card (except for the art) to accommodate changes due to continuous effects. For example, if you hover over your
Grizzly Bears with
Akroma's Memorial in play, you'd want to see that it has flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, and protection from black and from red. If we just showed you the original card (by using the full card scan instead of just the cropped art), it would be very difficult to communicate those changes to the user. Also, cropped art takes up much less space on your hard-drive.
For now, jMagic is focused on player-versus-player, though we haven't ruled out an AI. Our engine to player interface leaves open the possibility of an AI for any enterprising programmer.
The developers are getting together fairly soon (2 to 3 weeks) to put together a release with all the fixes requested by the community.
Thanks for your support!