Topic: New to Deckbox. Help with entering collection

Thanks for building deckbox.org! I'm glad I found it. I decided to give it a try. But I have some questions:

I thought I would start with entering my decks and I noticed that it was saying that I didn't own the cards. I am probably not going to add any of the boxes of cards that don't actually see play or even get considered (I'm looking at you Camel). I've only entered 1 deck so far. Is there a way to change an entire deck to "owned"?

As I enter the cards, I'm noticing some weird cards values, such as Birds of Paradise (Beta!) coming up as $2.27 and Savannah having no price what so ever! What's up with that?

Actually, being a long time player, I wanted to see the value of my cards (because I just realized that they were worth more than "a little bit") in the set that I own them. When I type in Erhnam Djinn, I mean Arabians, not whatever set it was reprinted in! Is there a way to change the set of a card?

Do I have to add cards to the collection and then add them to my decks? Doubling my efforts? If so…

In the Statistics, multilands and mana artifacts don't count towards available mana—so the numbers are way off.

Any help would be appreciated!

Re: New to Deckbox. Help with entering collection

MrGonz wrote:

Thanks for building deckbox.org! I'm glad I found it. I decided to give it a try. But I have some questions:

I thought I would start with entering my decks and I noticed that it was saying that I didn't own the cards. I am probably not going to add any of the boxes of cards that don't actually see play or even get considered (I'm looking at you Camel). I've only entered 1 deck so far. Is there a way to change an entire deck to "owned"?

I don't think there is a one-click solution, but you can quickly go down the leftmost (green) column representing the inventory count and click each field to type in the number of that particular card you have.

MrGonz wrote:

As I enter the cards, I'm noticing some weird cards values, such as Birds of Paradise (Beta!) coming up as $2.27 and Savannah having no price what so ever! What's up with that?

I'm not entirely sure, but prices seem to come from tcgplayer.com. I don't know how the different versions are factored in, but you'll see it go in the other direction too. I have some cards from Anthologies that show up as worth way more than they should be because their other printing is from Legends, etc.

MrGonz wrote:

Actually, being a long time player, I wanted to see the value of my cards (because I just realized that they were worth more than "a little bit") in the set that I own them. When I type in Erhnam Djinn, I mean Arabians, not whatever set it was reprinted in! Is there a way to change the set of a card?

From your inventory, you can click the red arrow to the left of the card name to set the edition. However, this doesn't change any of the price data. That is stored per card name.

Re: New to Deckbox. Help with entering collection

Sweet preypacer! Thank you for the tour, I needed that.

I think I'm getting a work-around going: Adding my deck to the Inventory, selecting all and adding to an empty deck correcting qty.

Bummer on the (it seems) old card values. Most of my collection is old and that was kinds the point. I'll add my play decks but will hold off adding my collection until later, when they get the pricing sorted out.

Thanks again! I really appreciate your quick response.

Re: New to Deckbox. Help with entering collection

One of your fixes could be if you switch your tcgplayer.com value to maximum or highest price.  this will cut out alot of the averaging that the default setting has, as it takes lowest and highest and determines some valuye or other.  but understand that if you set it to highest your card value will still be overinflated as its the highest price a vendor has set for your card value.

One of the reasons that cards show no value is that TCG player doesnt have any listed and it sets the value to 0.  its a strange situation, but hopefully fixable with time.

Hope this helps,
Jeff

Re: New to Deckbox. Help with entering collection

There are likely multiple problems. I sorted my inventory by descending price and see at least three distinct ones. (see attached)

1) duplicate record for a single card in deckbox.org (red) - here there are two cards (http://deckbox.org/mtg/Fire and http://deckbox.org/mtg/Nighteyes%20the%20Desecrator) which exist elsewhere in the database as well (http://deckbox.org/mtg/Fire%20//%20Ice and http://deckbox.org/mtg/Nezumi%20Graverobber). Those versions do have prices.

2) no price on tcgplayer (purple) - here there are no prices to draw from so no price is (legitimately) displayed (http://deckbox.org/mtg/Adventurers'%20Guildhouse and http://deckbox.org/mtg/The%20Ultimate%2 … %20Service). There might be a better way to convey that instead of just leaving the price blank.

3) unknown reason why the price is $0 (green) - here copies do exist on tcgplayer and prices are shown on the deckbox page for the card but in the inventory the price shows as $0 for some reason (http://deckbox.org/mtg/Hymn%20to%20Tourach and http://deckbox.org/mtg/Savannah). I don't even have a guess as to what's wrong here.

Last edited by preypacer (2011-08-24 00:08:50)

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