Working on a MTG deck building application

[psychozoundz]

I'm a new player, and while building a deck I often spend a lot of time figuring out how much of one color vs. another color I use, how many creatures vs. other spells, etc. While I like spending time sitting there with my cards trying to work out a lot of different math, once I have a general deck idea, it sucks trying to tweak it just right. So I spent a few hours last night working on a website I can use to help me with that.

When I signed up to MTGVault, this is what I thought it was. But it fell short. So basically I'm building a card database where you can create decks, comment and get feedback on them(like MTGVault), but also view graphs and statistics of other aspects of your deck. At least for me as a new player, figuring this out will help, because sometimes it seems like I'm drawing a little less of something I want, and more of something I don't. This will help me tweak it.

Does this seem at all useful to you guys? I started building it for me and 2 friends that started playing at the same time I did, but then I thought maybe this could be a full blown website that has lots of users.

[Ian]

Stats and graphs etc is something we would like to add onto MTG Vault, but it's a bit easier said than done, especially after you've already built something. Bolting on add-ons isn't that easy :-)

There are many tweaks and improvements we are going to built into the TCG Sites (WoW TCG and MTG) over the next few months, so keep on eye on the forums and twitter!

Ian

[Seras]

I have thought about doing this myself.

the main obstacle, whether doing it from scratch or adding it on to Vault, is the card database.

the Vault DB seems to only hold the name of the card, it's basic type and a link to it's magiccards.info entry. To accomplish mana graphs we would need to have every card's mana cost broken down into 6 column(each colour plus colourless).

this requires a LOT of data entry...which is what is stopping me from putting work into it.

[Ian]

We actually have more complex data for most of the decks which includes artist name, artist site, flavor, rules etc as we are working on creating ViewCard pages, similar to the WoW TCG site. I think we might be missing some info (Zendikar complex data) and some card images.

Creating statistics is on the agenda, so keep an eye out on twitter and the forums.

Gary is away for another week on his biking trip, but we will work on it after that. As MTG is his baby, I don't want to make too many big changes while he is away ;-)