26 Reply by TheShaman

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(Thanks for sending me a heads-up. Not that I wouldn't have seen this on my own, as I check the forums daily, but it was very thoughtful of you and I feel special!)

I think that this method was exactly what I had in mind. Applying it to wishlists is just icing on the cake. If you are new to this forum, or don't fully grasp what is being attempted here, keep reading.

I have a collection of many thousands of cards. Maybe even tens of thousands. While inventorying this entire collection sounds like a smart thing to do, it turns out that when I go to find a card that I have one copy of, I spend just as much time as I would have without the inventory to find it among all the boxes and binders of cards. Or worse yet, I go on a mad hunt trying to find this card and it turns out that I mistakenly added it to the inventory without actually owning it. sad

The labels function being proposed allows me to add cards to the inventory, for the purpose of building a tradelist or otherwise, but then also keeps the virtual collection of cards separated by the appropriate real-world box/binder. Example:

I decide that I am going to build a mono-green Rofellos EDH deck. I know I need a Priest of Titania card for this deck, but I'm unsure of where I keep my two copies. In the past, I had to search every green box of cards I owned, plus my vintage binder, plus my trade binder, and my EDH binder two find one of the two copies I own. Fast foward to the future, where all my boxes and binders are appropriately inventoried, and I am able to see at a glance that there is one copy in my EDH Binder, and another in my box of vintage green. I have halved my search time, and found the one that wasn't in a binder (and found out it's a $4.00 common!).

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27 Reply by TheShaman

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$$$$$$

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28 Reply by TheShaman

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<3 @ sebi!

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29 Reply by TheShaman

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This is kinda sad. Good thing I've got all those pokemon cards to keep them company. sad

Meanwhile, any new news on the development of deckbox.org? It has been a while and I'm getting a little lonely without you.

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30 Reply by TheShaman

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I didn't actually put two and two together until now, but if you can link the tradelist to the inventory so that cards that are put in the tradelist automatically show up in the inventory, wouldn't it be nearly as easy to make multiple sub-inventories? As previously stated, this would be so that I can have my collection sorted by box here, as it is in the real world.

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31 Reply by TheShaman

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Maybe it isn't all that useful, but it would be interesting. I wouldn't make it 'on' by default; it should be a toggle-able option.

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32 Reply by TheShaman

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Hai Everybody!

Everyone that isn't my family calls me Reno.

I have been actively playing MtG since the Nemesis Expansion, but have been aware of the game since Revised. Until Ravnica, I hadn't the funds to play in any competitive format. At that time, I found a couple of friends who played with me back in the day, we combined our collections into one massive compendium, and keep the cost of playing down by continuing to share our collection. One of my teammates is morinkenmar.

I'm pretty good on rules questions for MtG, and I'll be happy to entertain any you may have in the general discussion thread. What I can't answer, I'll defer to MorinKenmar, or my other teammate. Beyond that, I can refer to a couple of for real judges.

Big fan of EDH, and other forms of casual play.

Anyhow, ttyl.

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33 Reply by TheShaman

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YAY!

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34 Reply by TheShaman

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Got another bug for you: See the stats on my Richard Garfield EDH deck.

I accidently added Academy at Tolaria West (it is one of the planar cards from planechase) to the decklist, and it doesn't show up in the decklist. However, if you look at the card count for the deck, the decklist recognizes that it is in the deck. Further, when I test in Statisics, it will show up in my hand or next six cards. Also, it seems that I can't remove the plane from my decklist. If nothing else comes from this bug report, that needs to be fixed.

That being said, I have no interest in a plane card being in my deck, but I do have an interest in building a deck with an accompanying planechase deck (planar decks are minimum ten cards, fyi). Perhaps there is a way to add a planechase card using quick add, but then have deckbox recognize the card type and segregate it from the maindeck into sideboard type list. To say it a different way, when I add a plane, I'd like the plane to show up in a new box that isn't the sideboard, and isn't the main deck.

(edit)Also, Celestine Reef isn't in the system? It is a Planar card.

Thanks again,
The Shaman

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35 Reply by TheShaman

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Found a bug: Richard Garfield, Ph.d. (the un-card) will not only not come up in quick add, but when I added him to a deck using the import feature, it crashed that deck and gave me a server error (saying you were notified). No big deal I guess. I just wanted to make a super-casual EDH with him as my general...funny that the game's creator crashed your site.

(edit) Well maybe it isn't just him. I just tried quick adding a few more un-cards like Mana Screw, and after they didn't add, it crashed that decklist too. Paper Tiger crashed a third decklist, ruling out that this problem is just with the most recent un-set. I'm not entirely sure what is going on/wtf happened. Another decklist added real cards just fine.

Thanks,
The Shaman

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36 Reply by TheShaman

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I have a possible bug and a related feature request.

Vampire Nocturnus' price is listed as "check" with a hypertext that links you to his page on bidwiket. Not sure why, or if it is even a bug.

Also, if it is something simple enough, I would like to see the total cost of the deck when the price column is in view. I know I can calculate it myself, but it would be nice if the 'system' would take the price of a card, multiply by how many are in the decklist, then total all of those products and display it.

(edit) Another idea that struck me as useful, as I am starting to really enjoy building EDH, would be the ability to create sub-inventory files (or custom named card lists that aren't decks). To frame this idea, lets say you own a ton of cards, perhaps enough to rival a small business. All of your cards, with the exception of valuable tradeables, are kept in a set of cardboard boxes that are sorted first by format legality (your standard legal cards are boxed separately from your vintage-only legal cards), then they are further separated by color. You would have quite a few boxes, to say the least. Then your worthy cards are kept in several binders that separate by legality and then by color. You would have several binders as well. If the binders and boxes were all labeled, you would have an inventory that is made up of several boxes and binders of sub-inventory.

A sub-inventory list on deckbox.org should still count the cards within it as being in your overall inventory (like sub-folders in windows directories). Having a toggle-able column in a deck list that displays, references or hyperlinks to the sub-inventory list that the card is located in would help even more, so that I would know when I'm bulding a deck which boxes to pull from inventory, but may be too advanced of a feature.

Thanks,
TheShaman

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37 Reply by TheShaman

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Given some time to mull over the awesome potential of this project, I think I may be able to offer some ideas that would add great value.

First of which is a decklisting function that automatically checks your deck for legality in common gameplay formats. Often when I build (I've been in magic a while), I just start pulling cards to build around a specific synergy. Often, after I've wrecked the kitchen table and gotten in trouble with the wife, I find out that the deck is not extended/vintage/legacy/TwoHeadedGiant legal due to one card or another.

Next, I've noticed that our profile pages bear a notable resembalance to facebook. I am not suggesting this so that deckbox becomes face book for TCG nerds, but it would be nice to provide visitors to my profile with a little more about myself and my history with MtG.

Also, I'd like to be able to include some notes with the decks I construct. Perhaps even further than that, enable visitors/friends to leave comments and give feedback about the deck inside the profile.

Lastly (for now smile ), if it would be easy to implement, I'd like to flag a deck as the one/ones I'm playing right now, for say FNM, so that others will be able to see this in my profile. For me, this feature would indicate which decks I should leave comments for in other people's profiles. It would also be nice to flag a deck as my current FNM/Competitive build, a deck I have constructed for Casual, or as a conceptual list, because it would guide feedback about that deck differently for each one, and aid people in searching for the correct play level deck (@ The person with the Baneslayer Angel that needs a deck for it).

PS. In the interest of keeping the forums concise, I'll be trying to post on threads with similar interests, rather than enforcing precedent that everyone who has a problem should start a new thread. Perhaps the threads should be renamed to reflect their content? (forum bugs/deckbox bugs/deckbox improvement/etc.)

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38 Reply by TheShaman

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On that note, I have a particular fondness for rules discussion in the realm of MtG. I'd be happy to entertain any question you may have. I have no DCI credentials, but I do have a firm grasp on most all subjects other than REL:Professional level play. Also, I am a part owner of a small card shop, friends with several people who are passionate about the game, one of which is apprenticing for his Level 3 certification.

~The Shaman

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39 Topic by TheShaman

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Foremost, I am a fan of what you are doing here. Much more ergonomic than the wizards-affiliated site, and already paying off for me in convenience.

Brass tacks:

Something I haven't seen anywhere (the internet) is a "Fishbowl" (solo play against fictional/dummy opponent) feature/tool for deck construction. For example, when one constructs a deck in real life, the very first thing you (I) do is shuffle and draw seven. You do have that covered, as well as the next six cards. Great feature there, very helpful, no complaints. The next logical step is to "play" the cards in your hand for a few turns, draw some cards and see if your deck will actually execute your win condition, or if you get some variety of screwed before that.

Then, for a time even later, I (hopefully many others as well) would appreciate a way to use the Fishbowl against a real opponent, a fellow deckbox member. Something in the vein of Apprentice, Magic Online or the Xbox Arcade Magic game, but no need for the extensive programming they do for MO, or the impressive UI on the Xbox. It seems to me that you have the database and visual scans very well integrated in this decklisting system already. I have little, if any, knowledge of coding such an internet browser based program to sample your image database, and to reference/load a user's saved decklist, but it doesn't seem to be a huge leap, or at least some variety of possible for the future. It would certainly set deckbox much farther apart from its rivals/competitors.

If someone has something to add to this thought, or a question of any kind, please feel free. I am sure it is incomplete in some way.

~The Shaman

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