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2. Deck and Collection Editor

NikolayHD edited this page Jan 7, 2018 · 30 revisions

Deck editing

result action
add / remove 1 card Drag-n-drop card to deck area (bottom area of the window) or use Right and Middle mouse buttons
drag from main deck and drop to sideboard dragging a card to main deck / sideboard tab
drag-n-drop cards between different open tabs dragging a card to a tab in window header
create a new tab while draggig dragging card to + button in window header
add / remove 4 cards Ctrl + drag-n-drop or Ctrl + Right / Middle mouse click
switch between main deck and sideboard

Use main deck / sideboard tabs

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Collection editing

result action
add / remove 1 card from collection Alt + Right / Middle mouse click
add / remove 4 cards from collection Ctrl + Alt + Right / Middle mouse click

Sample hand, Draw and Mulligan simulation

To see what your hand would be with current deck use sample hand tab. You will see the buttons

  • new hand shuffles the library and deals you 7 random cards
  • mulligan shuffles the library and deals you N-1 random cards where N is current hand size
  • draw adds 1 random card to your current hand

Deck editing commands such as adding / removing / reordering cards still work in sample hand tab. Combining card removal with middle mouse click with draw button you can simulate your hand content within the match.

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Undo / redo buttons

Are located at the top left of the window in the header. Undo, Redo apply to many end-user actions like checking / unchecking Filter buttons, changing search text and so on.

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Buttons in the window header right side

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Load deck or collection from a file, Save deck or collection to a file. Supported are formats of

Deck statistics. Opens Statistics charts window. Use it to view mana curve, price breakdown, or create a custom report by specifying argument, series and summary fields.

Print deck. The print buttons doesn't actually print, instead it creates images of cards by groups of 8 that can be printed on A4 paper.

Clear deck. Use it to start creating a new deck from scratch

Help menu. This is how you probably got to read this file.

Enable / disable tooltips. Tooltips are helpful but also annoying.

Edit configuration file Use it to tell the program where to find your custom card images or tweak some other settings.

NOTE: To apply your changes save the modified configuration file and restart the program.

Language selector. The Language selector affects the cards' texts only. The User Interface is allways in English.

Update Shows a window where you can

  • Check for a new version of Mtgdb.Gui
  • Download the most recent cards database from Mtgjson.com
  • Download card images
  • Download artworks
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