Clefaria's Magic Workstation bundle

[Clefaria]

Is there any other way of downloading all the card scans from you? I appreciate all of the work you have put in, however I don't really want to spend money so that I can download the bulk of the card scans all together. I don't mind downloading each files seperately, I would just like to know if that is the only way.

Get JDownloader, and give it the URL of the folder(s) you want to download card scans from. If that doesn't work, feed it the separate URLs of all of the sets you want to download from. Either way, you'll save time.

[Clefaria]

Wow, this completely slipped my mind, and no one else seemed to notice either, lol.

Well, anyway, I just updated my custom-built Tokens pack for Scars of Mirrodin.

[ghostzero01]

I couldn't start downloading the URLs for the card scans using the Jdownloader program. Mediafire keeps asking for an archive password before starting the DL..

[Clefaria]

I couldn't start downloading the URLs for the card scans using the Jdownloader program. Mediafire keeps asking for an archive password before starting the DL..

Putting the URL for the folder containing the scans won't work, unfortunately. You'll have to copy/paste the URL for each batch of scans you want, individually.

[Clefaria]

Masterbase/sets.dat and Themes.rar updated for Mirrodin Besieged.

[Clefaria]

Empty Rulings.dat file added to my bundle. This is necessary for the latest masterbase to not make MWS freak out (it's getting too big, it seems).

[Clefaria]

Cut a lot of 'fat' from my Card Scans folder, to keep with the theme of usability vs. completionism. Every set/'set' (according to Goblin Hero's masterbase) that contains no unique cards was removed. This includes stuff like the Duel Decks series, From the Vault, and even stuff like Chronicles (which was an official 'set', but contained no new cards). And, of course, goofy, tiny 'sets' like "Asia Pacific Land Program". I mean really, who really cares about that?

I want one to be able to, if they play eternal formats, download as little as possible, while still having scans for every card they could use. If it were up to me, I'd also remove all the promo 'sets' and stuff from the masterbase (that would help with the encroaching size issue, too), but that's not really my call.

So, there.

[Clefaria]

Mirrodin Besieged has been added to Card Scans. Token scan update is on the way.

[Clefaria]

Tokens updated for Mirrodin Besieged. I also added a Poison Counter (see _notes.txt in TK.rar for more info) and moved the token list into TK.rar for consistency.

[Clefaria]

Inexplicably missing, I added Torment (TO.rar) to the card scans.

[Clefaria]

Updated the masterbase and sets.dat for New Phyrexia, courtesy of the Mahamoti 'patch'. Will likely replace with Goblin Hero's down the line.

[Clefaria]

Updated token scans (TK.rar) with New Phyrexia tokens.

[Clefaria]

Added GH's masterbase/sets.dat and themes.

[Clefaria]

Updated tokens and added the Magic 2012 HQ scans.

[Clefaria]

Formally announcing that I'm not going to be updating this bundle anymore. I'll leave everything up on Mediafire as is.

I've never gotten too much attention for these efforts, and they were started mostly because I wanted to share with everyone the time I had put into organizing MWS stuff for myself, but for those who might wonder why I'm stopping, it's for two main reasons:

1. I play Magic Online now, and despite its dated interface, having that functioning rules engine doesn't make me want to go back to a 'tabletop Magic simulator'. Also, I haven't had an opponent to play a game via Magic Workstation with in many months, while on the other hand, there are always people online ready to screw around with casual decks in MTGO.

2. The introduction of double-faced cards was a sort of last nail in the coffin for MWS for me. Workarounds got this dated piece of software to functionally implement Mythic rarity and planeswalkers, but this...there is just no way to satisfactorily implement double-faced cards in MWS. The best you can do is make them split cards, and they look positively miserable, not to mention that you can't use scans with them because you can't tell MWS to use two different scans for the same card.

'Honorable mention' goes to the fact that the time and effort required to update everything every time a new set comes around became less and less rewarding, since it seemed almost no one was really benefiting from me tossing everything up onto Mediafire and categorizing it and everything.

So that's that. I'll update my signature to reflect the 'deadness' of the bundle, to hopefully prevent any confusion that might come up. For anyone who's curious, I'm "ClefAria" on MTGO, and I have a pretty crappy collection right now (I'm willing to accept any and all crap commons ), but I hope to be involved in some sealed tournaments for Innistrad soon.