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Overview

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

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

Search related features are easy to use and powerful. Search can be limited in scope to the collection owned by user. Search for similar cards lets user lookup the cards resembling in text or generated mana in 1 click.

Mtgdb.Gui offers 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.

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Feature list

Feature Illustration
Database contains all MTG sets up to Amonkhet Remastered and Core Set 2021 ../raw/master/out/help/s/Ixalan_crop.jpg
Built-in update of images, card properties and the program itself ../raw/master/out/help/s/update_window.jpg
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

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Supported deck formats

Cockatrice supports the deck format used by Magarena

Patched by me Riiak's DotP 2014 Deck Builder supports Forge deck format
Filters

One-click filter buttons let you instantly filter cards by common properties such as abilities (Flying, Haste, ...), type, manacost and so on

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Textual search bar with Lucene syntax.

Supports syntax highlighting and intellisense.

Search for similar cards shows you cards with similar text and / or generated mana.

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Search bar in deck list lets you find decks by their properties e.g. LandCount

You can also fliter to cards from to the decks you've found.

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Filter by legality ../raw/master/out/help/s/filter_legality.jpg
Filter by cards in your collection ../raw/master/out/help/l/filter_manager.jpg
Filter by cards in your deck
Choose between AND / OR operators to combine filters

Show or hide card duplicates in search result.

You may want to see all variants of a card to put into your deck a specific version of a beautiful land

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Sort by most fields, sort by multiple fields

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Diagrams

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Zoom

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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 closing the program and starting it again.

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Translations to all languages supported by Gatherer. Including russian, spanish, portugal and etc. ../raw/master/out/help/l/translations.jpg
Printing proxies on A4 paper ../raw/master/out/help/s/proxy.jpg
Tooltips on most user interface elements ../raw/master/out/help/s/sort.jpg
Highlighting matched text in search result ../raw/master/out/help/s/Filter_example.jpg
Customizable color scheme ../raw/master/out/help/s/color-schemes.jpg
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.

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