MTGDecks.net Deck Lists - over 1233600 decks

[Xitax]

Out of curiosity... how long does it take Forge to load with this many decks?

[PikWik]

with an SSD, and average processor, ~4 minutes

with a standard HD, and average processor, ~10 minutes (5200RPM)
probably less with a 7200RPM; guessing ~9 minutes

these are how long both of my systems take.
one is a SBC with the SSD and a rather dated laptop with the 5200.

but, YMMV

[Agetian]

Btw, you definitely don't *have* to have all of them load at the same time (I mean, if you want to - sure, but you're not obligated to). The idea behind sorting these decks into formats, then into sets, and then into events (which is a new feature btw) is to allow one to choose which decks he wants to play with at the moment

- Agetian

[Agetian]

UPDATE (11/20/16): Updated the megapacks in the first post of the thread, now the packs contain deck lists from MTGDecks.net till November 20, 2016, totaling 181774 decks, among them 40039 AI-playable decks and 1149 unsupported (or partially supported) decks. Tested against Forge SVN r32583. Enjoy!

- Agetian

[Rooger]

Thanks for such a great resource Agetian! I wish I had infinite lifetimes to test every single one of the bazillion decks you have here.

I have a little problem to report though. I was trying to move around the folder so that my forge doesn't load all the decks but have it inside the forge folder to grab a few decks when needed, however windows gave me an 0x80004005 unspecified error and I wasn't able to move the folders. I tried to delete the folders so that I could unzip the file where I needed but that gave me the same error. Turns out it is because some folders end in a "." like "Extended\Eventide\Big Extended - Praha 18.1." and i guess windows kind of freaks out because of it i'm not sure why. I'm also not able to open the directory, because it is not available.

Is it possible for the script to check if the last character of a created folder is a . and if so delete the character?

[Agetian]

Glad you're enjoying the packs, Rooger!

As for the issue you've mentioned, here are two packs where the final period symbols have been removed from directory names. Please see if using these packs helps you resolve the issue you're having. Note that deck names and event names may have some other weird symbols in them, and at such big numbers (180000+) it's very difficult to predict what exactly may go wrong in one OS or another. Unfortunately, I don't have a Windows system installed on any of my PCs, and haven't had one for years, so I can't personally test how well this would work on it. I do remember from my past experience with Windows that it's a lot more restrictive when it comes to naming files and it won't let you move, delete or rename files that had any characters that Win considered odd/unsupported for one reason or another, and I also remember that it did not play nearly as well with UTF-8 characters either (not really a problem on *nix systems).

If worst comes to worst and you're still having issues with the packs below, I'd recommend searching for the decks you want inside the archive and then selectively unpacking them, possibly without recreating the folder structure itself to avoid issues with naming.

P.S. If these packs *do* help you though I'd be happy to integrate the extra step of removing the final period symbols from directories into my further releases.

- Agetian

[Rooger]

Wonderfull! This is working great, hopefully it wasn't too much trouble for you to implement the fix...

You are right windows can be very picky sometimes and in this case I believe the culprit was winrar. While unpacking the files it doesn't check if the files/folders are "windows ready".

In case anyone was getting the same problem as I did I've found a solution to delete the folders with the period at the end.

-Open a CMD with Administrator Rights
-Type in and press enter: rd /q /s "\\?\[path]\Problematic Folder."
for instance
rd /q /s "\\?\C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\Problematic Folder."

This should delete the folder and everything in it so make sure you double check the path to avoid deleting files you don't want to delete.

You can check more info on this here its for Win 7 but the same applies for 10.

[Agetian]

Happy to hear it helped! It was no problem at all!

- Agetian

[Agetian]

UPDATE (01/02/17): Happy New Year, guys! Here comes a new update, which brings the total number of decks to over 183300, among them 42100+ AI-playable (nearly 2000 new ones are now deemed AI-playable thanks to the recent SVN change that enables Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx for the AI). There are also 1237 partially supported decks that have one or more card which is not yet coded in Forge. As usual, the downloads are in the first post of the thread.

Some of the decks have been auto-identified as Frontier, which is apparently a new "modern modern" kind of format: http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Frontier

There is some underlying change in the technology used for parsing these decks:
1) The folder names with the period in the end should now be auto-renamed not to contain the final period, which should help things on Windows machines.
2) The decks now use the standard Forge comment symbol ("#") for unsupported cards, which should make working with unsupported decks in Forge easier and glitch-free.

Please note that you need a recent SVN build of Forge to enjoy all of these decks.

Enjoy! And my best wishes for all of you in 2017!

- Agetian

[Agetian]

UPDATE (01/08/17): Reuploaded the AI-playable pack to account for some of the AI playability changes in the recent SVN builds.
In addition to that, there's now a new pack of AI-playable decks that are playable with caveats. Here's the description:

The "AI (Limited) Playable Decks" is a new pack that contains additional decks from MTGDecks.net that have one or several cards in them that are marked as "AI unplayable" in the code base but which are known to be played relatively well given a properly constructed deck and which were used before, for example, in quest decks. IMPORTANT: with these decks, you will get a warning that there are one or more AI-unplayable cards in the deck. However, you can expect relatively good quality of AI gameplay with these cards because they were "tested" in the AI's virtual hands before in quest decks or in other circumstances. You have to expect the lower overall quality of AI with (most of) these decks, however, you should not experience any AI rule violations (at least that's the hope) or serious errors such as crashes. This pack, all in all, adds an additional 10299 decks that can be tried by the AI.

Enjoy!

- Agetian

[Agetian]

I reuploaded both AI-playable packs one more time, looks like I forgot to run the deck sorter before. Now the decks should once again be properly sorted by sets and events.

- Agetian

[Agetian]

UPDATE (02/10/17): Updated all the packs in the first post of the thread. Now the full pack includes over 188340 decks, while the AI-playable pack is at 44047 decks ("extended", limited-playable AI pack is at 77497 decks). There are also 1380 decks that contain one or more cards which are not yet supported by Forge.

NOTE: Mtgdecks.net no longer provides event information metadata in the deck files, so new decks (after January 8 ) will not be sorted by event, only by set. If Mtgdecks.net restores event information in their metadata, those decks will be resorted in the next update.

- Agetian

[Agetian]

UPDATE (05/01/17): Updated all the packs in the first post of the thread. Now the full pack includes over 198900 decks, while the AI-playable pack is at 47185 decks ("extended", limited-playable AI pack is at 82113 decks). There are also 1574 decks that contain one or more cards which are not yet supported by Forge.

NOTE: Mtgdecks.net no longer provides event information metadata in the deck files, so new decks (after January 8 ) will not be sorted by event, only by set. If Mtgdecks.net restores event information in their metadata, those decks will be resorted in the next update.

- Agetian

[Agetian]

UPDATE (06/11/17): Updated all the packs in the first post of the thread. Now the full pack includes over 205660 decks, while the AI-playable pack is at 48955 decks ("extended", limited-playable AI pack is at 84756 decks). There are also 1771 decks that contain one or more cards which are not yet supported by Forge.

NOTE: Mtgdecks.net no longer provides event information metadata in the deck files, so new decks (after January 8 ) will not be sorted by event, only by set. If Mtgdecks.net restores event information in their metadata, those decks will be resorted in the next update.

- Agetian

[austinio7116]

A small subsample of these decks, trying to cover a wide range of different decks from each era.