Adding cards to decked builder full version#
Adding cards to decked builder update#
Adding cards to decked builder full#

So other than building decks, what else is this app good for? Quite a bit! This is a brilliant integration and I found that it works perfectly. The developer has thought ahead and allowed you to save your deck files into Dropbox (free) so that you can access them from all three programs and from any location. Now I bet you’re wondering, why would you want to enter the same deck into three different apps? Well, you don’t. 😉 You also have the options to email your deck, print a deck list (formatted on a DCI deck list sheet), and even run test draws to see how it performs. The shop feature can be a bit dangerous, obviously. What’s even better (for people like me who don’t buy packs) is a link to buy every card in your new deck from with very little effort. Once you put a deck together, or even during, you can pull up statistics to see what your mana curve is, the average rarity of your cards, the color breakdown, how many of each mana symbol are present, and even the value of your deck.

Adding cards to decked builder update#

Every time a new set is released, an update to the app is released very quickly with access to all the new cards. This is a bit of gap, but can be forgiven.

Adding cards to decked builder full#

The only sets I found to be missing were odd-ball promotional cards with alternate art or full card art. Each card you search for will pull up a picture of the card from each set it was printed in, so it’s easy to search by pictures in the case of your foreign language cards. When you find the card you wanted, you can add it to the deck or sideboard easily, but have to manually add it each time you want (which becomes a pain in the butt when adding large amounts of basic lands). You can search for cards by title, words in the text box, types, and filter the results in just about any way you can think of. Decked Builder had me scouted and knew exactly what I wanted. My first purpose for this app was keeping my deck lists organized. Though the review says it’s for the iPad release, I’m actually going to be discussing all three versions ( Mac, iPhone and iPad) since they do exactly the same things seamlessly and I own all three. I plopped down my $7.99 and looked forward to getting to work.

Adding cards to decked builder full version#

After checking the lite version out (which only gives you access to cards from the three most recent sets), I knew the full version would be just what I needed. I looked around in the Mac app store, first, and found a lite version of a program called Decked Builder. It recently occurred to me to see if there were any alternatives on iOS or Mac to modernize this process a bit more.

Back when I first started, I remember going to book stores to buy strategy guides, buying magazines for price guides, and keeping all my decks written down in a spiral notebook. I started around ‘Unlimited and Revised’ and have taken a few breaks along the way, but I just can’t seem to escape this cardboard crack.

I’m almost ashamed to admit this, but I’ve been playing Magic the Gathering for 17 years now.