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Pauper Legality is now on Gatherer as of July 9, 2019 . Given that you currently show legality for the other formats on Gatherer, I'm guessing it would be an easy change to add Pauper to "Format" and "Format Legality Details" using the same code you do for the other formats.

Can you add Pauper?

Has anyone been able to figure out an easier way to do this than what I listed earlier in this thread? I have a folder with 23 Pauper decks that I constantly tinker with. Every 6 months or so I combine all the decks together into one massive deck so I can more easily see which cards I'm missing. This takes about 20-30 minutes of my time, and then it gradually gets out of date.

meldon44 listed a method he uses but I'm hoping for something even easier than that.

Sebi - the ultimate feature around this is being able to opposite click a folder and it would give you a menu choice for displaying all the missing cards among all decks in that folder.  Or integrating this into the search functionality. Or whatever - just some way to get to this list with 2-3 clicks.

OP is correct - no price updating has occurred at all since 7/19/18. Hope today's fix has a positive impact on prices.

Terrific!

And I echo the crowd sourcing idea. If there were a few dozen users who were approved for making adjustments to prices and nothing else on the site - that could really help. I would be willing to do it for commons, which I track anyway as an avid Pauper player.

Agreed - routine maintenance should be prioritized over new features. Can an admin chime in on this? Is there awareness that a growing number of cards are mispriced?

I can't speak for all cards as I'm a Pauper player/collector and I have fewer than 1000 rares (most of which I am happy to trade away for Pauper staples).

The prices seem quite accurate for Pauper staples. Sometimes they are off by 5% or 10% or even 15% but I consider that acceptable variation between markets. In aggregate it seems pretty good.

My OP was to note that there was a big jump on 1 specific day. Could be that it was just a bunch of NA cards got pricing for the first time that was under 30 cents/card. I noticed because a very large portion of my collection is worth less than 30 cents, so if something happens that either changes the value of all those cards in aggregate, or the NA cards turn into having a value, then I will notice.

Cards worth over 30 cents in my collection have been very reasonably priced over the past year with no sudden unexplained changes. Sometimes they change rapidly over a couple weeks but that is because it's happening in every market.

This is great news. While you're working on it, there's another related feature that might be easy for you to do as it's so similar:

Changing algorithm for choosing individual card edition/price displayed by a deck - or allowing a user site-wide setting to choose. Personally, if I'm not able to assign a specific edition of card to a deck, I want the edition which has lowest cost.

Being a Pauper player, I almost always look for the least expensive price on cards so when I am trying to build a deck, I want to know the lowest cost of cards I'm missing. I'm not sure what algorithm is currently used to determine card edition within a deck, but it is definitely not lowest cost, and often the edition displayed is not even in my inventory.

For example - Urza's Mine shows as Ninth Edition, $6.47 in my various Tron decks. The reality is that I don't own any from Ninth edition. I have a bunch from Chronicles that are worth just over $1.00 for the most part, and if I wanted to buy more I would be paying less than $1.50 for each Urza's Mine - I would never consider buying 9th Edition Urza's Mine.

Some Pauper $60 or $70 Pauper decks look on Deckbox as if they cost over $150 because of the editions they're pulling from. If the algorithm displayed editions that had the lowest current cost of card, I would get a much more realistic sense of how much I need to pay for "cards not owned" and therefore make the "cards not owned" number a much more helpful number.

I have no idea if players in formats other than Pauper would care about such a feature.

Oh wow I see that you already implemented the change of showing values of cards worth more than .30, when Total Set Value is selected. Given that I collect Pauper and have mostly commons, my total set value drops from $2,728 to $969. A lot of my .20 to .30 cards are worth something to Pauper players, though.

Perhaps .20 would be a better cutoff?

Something like that, yes. Perhaps allow the user to input the cutoff amount? Also - would be great if all basic lands (except special ones like foils, full-art, etc.) were excluded, regardless of the price cutoff. I've seen way too many times a basic land worth a penny at most is listed for as much as 50 cents on deckbox.

However, if you're going to fix that cutoff at a certain number, I wouldn't go higher than 24 cents, as anything worth 25 cents or more has real trade value, especially for Pauper players. Perhaps you could seek input from the Deckbox community for what that fixed cutoff should be, but I imagine it will be different depending on the type of player. Pauper players such as myself would rather have a lower cutoff of around 20 cents, I would imagine.

To elaborate:

With in-person trades at my LGS, 25 cents is about when people start to pay attention to the value of the card in a trade ("we're at $22 for you, $23 for me, how about throw in 4 of these 25 cent cards to even out the trade"). On the other hand, it seems like cards valued at less than 20 cents are thrown in for free in some of my trades.

There are many important cards for the Pauper format that cost less than 25 cents according to Deckbox (but which often differ by a few cents from TCG). Ghostly Flicker is .21.  Atog .25. Gorilla Shaman .20, Kor Skyfisher .19, etc.

If you want to get a sense for Pauper card values, you can look at this deckbox list I made, which represents the contents of a 53 deck "Pauper Battle Box" (decks that have done well in at least one online tournament in 2014-2105) that was publicly posted to the reddit/pauper board:

http://deckbox.org/sets/1280397

I'm gradually trying to acquire all of these cards, in the listed quantities, mostly by sifting through the penny card bins at my LGS. These cards have real value to paper Pauper players, especially the ones with 5 or more listed for the quantity (it means the cards are used in multiple decks).

Back on line for me. Was out for about 30 minutes.