351 Reply by sebi

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Agree that there should be some solution to the buyers who always just snipe spiked cards leaving negative.

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352 Topic by sebi

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Hello,

I have thought some more on the topic of implementing a possibility for sellers to opt for "non-instant orders" - where buyers need to first open the order for discussion before payment [1]. This would allow the seller to double check on inventory availability, card condition accuracy and pricing issues, thus avoiding the fees and annoyance of refunds.

I have tried to sketch a couple of options, ranging from a simple info flag that would highlight sellers that ask for such a discussion before payment, to an option that does not allow the buyer to pay before the seller "confirms", much like the trades have a "propose" - "accept" flow on both sides.

I have decided in the end that all the solutions have a bit too many downsides, and in the name of simplicity we will remain with the current system. In all cases there would be too many loopholes where sellers could lowball the pricing, only to then later bump it up after an order is discussed, or be negligent with inventory since cancellations would not incur negative feedback, etc...

The interface is also getting complicated, since the "special seller flag" needs to be displayed (and also explained) on card pages, on marketplace pages, on seller profile pages, on seller tradelists, on order pages, and on multi-order pages, where you'd have some of your orders be "instant", others "wait to discuss them" before you can click on "pay for all".

I'm not saying the feature request was not reasonable, and I do empathize with the issues of keeping accurate pricing and inventories for occasional sellers that have a job and life outside of magic, and not much time, but I could not find a solution that felt clean sad

All I can promise ist that I will try harder on keeping deckbox pricing more correct, and less "laggy" in catching up with price spikes, as much as i can.

[1] https://deckbox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=31339

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353 Reply by sebi

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weberondeckbox wrote:

Not sure if this is part of the update, but I added an emoji to a deck title and it worked great. Later when I went to delete it, I got an error that the deck couldn't be deleted. Removing the emoji from the title and then deleting fixed the problem.

Fixed now, thanks for reporting!

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354 Topic by sebi

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- fixed 'stickiness' of the view mode for cube decks (it was not remembering if you changed it to normal listing)
- migrated many fields to allow emoji input - chat messages, set names, comments, user bios, etc. There is no emoji picker yet on desktop, but if you select emojis on mobile or you paste them, they will work.
- adjusted pricing information for the Guru lands
- imported 6 missing Spider-based double sided AFR tokens
- imported a few MH2 missing double sided tokens: Angel // Elephant token (3/14), Thopter // Copy token (8/31), Germ /// Thopter token (10/26), Ape // Beast token (12/13),  Cat // Myr token (4/24)
- imported JP manga insert Bone Shredder
- imported the 2 new Judge promos - Morophon, the Boundless and Zacama, Primal Calamity
- imported missing Mountain card from the 1999 Mark Le Pine world champ deck

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355 Reply by sebi

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Sleet wrote:

Am I crazy or is there a Bird / / Treasure token in MH2? I could have sworn I got 3 of them...

Should already be imported, there's 2 of them listed here:
https://deckbox.org/editions/620-extras … romqs=true

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356 Topic by sebi

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- separated the Token: Timeless Witness token from the Timeless Witness card
- imported the AFR Double-Sided Tokens
- imported the AFR Commander Double-Sided Tokens
- imported the MH2 Double-Sided Tokens
- imported the  AFR Oversized Dungeon Tokens
- imported the AFR Ampersand promos
- imported 2 year of the ox store challenger promos (into the 2021 Lunar New Year edition)
- imported missing Angel // Ape doublesided token from Double masters

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357 Topic by sebi

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Finally imported the promo pack and prerelease cards. I also tried something new with the icons to stop the "ribbon" for everything problem, let me know if they work better.

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358 Topic by sebi

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- fixed pricing information for Love your LGS promos and various WPN / Gateway promos
- fixed pricing information for double sided cards in strixhaven (+ prerelease)
- fixed pricing information for strixhaven promo pack cards
- fixed pricing information for Flooded Strand nationals promo
- fixed pricing for some MH2 extended art, retro frame, showcase cards
- imported MH2 etched foils
- moved the Double-Faced Card Placeholder cards out from the "Extras: Zendikar Rising" edition to a separate one, as they were duplicating the collector numbers
- imported the 9 Double-Faced Card Placeholder for Kaldheim, and the 9 for Strixhaven

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359 Topic by sebi

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360 Topic by sebi

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- [couple of weeks ago] fixed pricing issues for special cards in AFR (promos, extended arts etc), pricing for AFR Commander should now also be displaying correctly
- [couple of weeks ago] fixed legality in Historic and Pioneer for the M19 Gift Pack Promos
- fixed collector numbers 26 an 27 in Duel Deck Anthology Elves VS Goblins
- fixed pricing for beta Power Surge, Nether Shadow and Righteousness, Living Artifact, Alpha Nettling Imp
- dungeons appear in the Token section of decks now instead of an empty section
- imported missing AFR cards from The List
- changed handling of all edition symbol handling, should be easier to work with now, and to update some older bad quality ones. The etched editions are based on the main edition icon and have a little 'foil rainbow' on top, not sure if this is visible enough at the small icon size though, might need some adjustment. Perhaps this would work nicely for promo packs and prereleases.
- fixed pricing for JP Alternate Art cards in Strixhaven Mystical Archive
- imported Strixhaven Mystical Archive Etched
- the etched foils in Commander Legends now have a note saying "Foil Etched". They are still part of the main edition, as they are on other websites, since they got their own collector numbers in sequence, as part of the set, from wizards
- imported missing Secret Lair Drop Series cards - Phyrexian Praetors, Dan Frazier Signets, etc
- imported Modern Horizons retro frame etched cards
- fixed pricing information for the MH retro frame foils & etched foils


Does anyone know of a list of the possible cards in MH2 that can be etched? I found some information about them, but not a clear list of the collector numbers.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/a … 2021-05-21
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/a … 2021-05-21

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361 Reply by sebi

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Solseek wrote:

Hello, Sebi! I notice a small issue: when sorting by Expansion on the Inventory page, Strixhaven still shows at the top instead of AFR.

Thanks, should be fixed now.

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362 Reply by sebi

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scramasax wrote:

I had to close ads for pushing the reply button. I have to do it often when I enter cards because ads are over drop down list. does it impact the money you receive from them?

Thanks for reporting. It was reported before but I couldn't reproduce at that time, it's time I took a second look. big_smile

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363 Topic by sebi

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* fixed / implemented various behind-the-scenes issues / scripts / configurations for a big mysql upgrade (yay finally on 8.0) and a physical server upgrade / change. Still a few more things to do here related to backups, and some utf8mb4 migrations, for emoji support in various places.
* fixed deck sorting problems
* imported MH2 prerelease promos, Art Series
* imported Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, Tokens, Art Series, Commander

Still missing
- etched cards
- new "ampersand foil" cards for AFR
- double sided tokens for MH2
- DFC helper cards

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364 Reply by sebi

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Solseek wrote:

I understand that the solution you pick for Etched Foil may not be one that works for me, and I'll continue to use odd Flag Combos instead (e.g. Foil & Promo or Foil & Misprint).

Pricing is the issue here. The etched versions have to have their own separate price from normal and foil. I  difficult to add  special handling for flags whenever wizards wants to add another one, that might be just used for a single set (like the d&d ampersand foil thing they're doing now). It's much easier to just have that as a printing than a special flag. (the same as we do for planeswalker stamped, date stamped, etc...)

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365 Reply by sebi

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I'm trying to get up to date. There were a lot of backend updates for both the webapp framework and the database version that were overdue, tech debt to be paid and all that. Unglamorous and invisibile to users but needs to be done. I was also behind on responding to all the support tickets and trade disputes, which I finally finished getting up to date last week.  There are some more database issues with utf8 text to solve, emojis do not work in chats and other fields. This was waiting for the mysql upgrade which was done (not smoothly) today. Still need to set up some changes in my backup flow to account for the new mysql version and my new physical db server, that needed an upgrade.

Wizards keeps printing insane numbers of varieties that need attention when importing, they do not provide a database to nicely parse. Scryfall is mostly up to date as a double check source, but they also I think have problems with etched, the new special d&d treatment, and they do not list the double sided tokens either. Tcgplayer and mtgcardmarket do add things quickly but I cannot write an importer for those, as they are full of badly named cards with "V1" or other random text in their names. So it's a slog.

I was not (and still am not) sure how to handle the etched in the best way, backend-code wise. All other sites seem to just add another printing for it, so I think I'm going for that as well. Should be finally coming up this week.

That's mostly the current status.

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366 Topic by sebi

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Some problems occurred with a major mysql upgrade today causing close to 2 hours of downtime, sorry about the inconvenience.

I'm still investigating potential issues, please let me know if you notice slow pages or any other new bugs.

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367 Topic by sebi

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- fixed an issue preventing some decks being properly displayed in spoiler or cube/compact mode
- fixed an issue with changing the preferred currency in seller accounts
- fixed an issue with creating events in communities
- imported Japanese media insert Counterspell
- imported 2 missing 2021 Judge promos
- imported 10 missing basic land printings in the Introductory 2 player set

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368 Topic by sebi

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- imported Strixhaven Art Series
- imported Fabled Passage WPN promo
- fixed a (rare?) issue with facebook login / signup

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369 Reply by sebi

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Caraminyu wrote:

My bad, I didn't realize since it's the wrong logo. Really sorry.

No problem. I should fix the problem with those logos at some point...

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370 Reply by sebi

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Caraminyu wrote:

Let me rectify.
They're not a print options when you add one of the cards to the inventory.

Should be the second option in the linked screenshot, no?

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371 Topic by sebi

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- fixed a couple of long-standing issues with the deck export to csv, the printings should now correctly match the inventory or the custom set ones (instead of the 'default printing') in all cases
- fixed some issues with the "trade all" option in inventory
- fixed an issue with "add missing cards to wishlist" in decks
- import missing kaldheim and strixhaven promo pack cards
- Dragon's Approach is unrestricted now in EDH
- import missing The List cards
- import Love your Lgs 5 2021 cards

I'm still behind on the imports - more stuff to come tomorrow, and on the support tickets, but I'm getting there big_smile.

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372 Reply by sebi

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I think Scryfall and other websites also have this as separate printings, and not a "flag", like normal foil. That is, if you go to a card that has for that printing a normal, a foil and and etched foil version, they don't all show up there as 3 different prices for that card. They will show up as a printing that has normal and foil, and the etched will be a separate printing.

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373 Reply by sebi

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The user settable flag has the problem of affecting a very large amount of code and pages, because it's basically a special case in pricing.

Just to illustrate a small part of the problem: because a printing could have a non-foil, a normal-foil and an etched-foil version of the same printing, everywhere on the website that now shows 2 prices (normal and foil), will have to show 3 now. This directly relates to the backend where now we will need to store 3 prices for each single printing to cover these 3 cases instead of just 2.

Then all places where pricing sum-type calculations are made (collection value, trades, 'intersection values' for trading opportunites,  etc) now have to be double-checked and if necessary adjusted to check and account for the etched flag.

The matching in trading opportunities has to also be adjusted for that.

And so it goes... smile

I do ideally like this solution in principle as a user. But as the developer this will cause weeks of work and guaranteed future hidden bugs. The solution of separate printings (either with another edition, or with other collector numbers) gets rid of all these complications, since it's gonna be just another printing, that is foil (but with an "e" on the number, or as a note).

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374 Reply by sebi

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scramasax wrote:

While in the card database list the image that pop for "grief" is the image for "grief tyrant" but if I click on grief to go see it , it is the good image

Should be fixed now, caching issue. Shift-refresh if you still see the old one.

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375 Topic by sebi

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Imported MH2 today with the tokens.

Sadly still don't have a good solution for the etched foils. I really don't want to have to go with a user-settable flag, it would imply a lot of internal changes for pricing calculations and display etc etc... but also it would be awkward now to have a second edition as well. For the 40 timeshifted MH1 reprints, they are already in a separate "Modern Horizons 1 Timeshifts" so I would have to add another edition "MH1 timeshifts ETCHED" or add another 40 printings in the MH1 timeshifts one. Ehhhh i'm really unsure, I don't like any of the solutions sad

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