Introducing ManaScry — the MTG intelligence platform we wish existed

The tools that exist for Magic: The Gathering players were built for a different game.

Spreadsheets for collection tracking. A separate tab for prices. Another site for deck building. A Discord bot for legality. A different bot for pricing alerts. By the time you've stitched it all together, you're spending more time on tooling than on the game itself.

ManaScry is what happens when you treat MTG with the same seriousness as a portfolio — and build the tooling accordingly.

What it is

ManaScry is a single surface for everything serious players actually do between matches:

We started with a simple thesis: the cards you own, the decks you build, and the prices the market is paying — those three datasets should never be separated. Every interesting question lives at the intersection.

Can I build this commander deck without buying anything? Which card in my collection has spiked the most this month? If I sell my LP duals and buy this brand-new mythic, what's my net change? Is my mana curve actually viable, or am I going to mulligan to four every game?

Those are the questions ManaScry was built to answer instantly.

What's in it today

Collection management

The collection page is the spine. Bulk import from ManaBox CSV, Arena format, or paste a list. Foil markers (*F*, *E*, *S*, *G* for serialized and galaxy foils) parse correctly. Cards resolve through Scryfall in 75-card batches, with retry fallback if collector numbers don't match.

Once your collection is in, every other surface in the app understands what you own.

AI deck builder

Powered by Google Gemini. Describe what you want — commander, theme, budget, format — and a tuned, format-legal decklist materializes one card at a time, weighted toward what you already own.

manascry.generate({
  commander: "Atraxa, Praetors' Voice",
  strategy: "superfriends, +1/+1 counters",
  budget: 500,
  prefer: "collection"
})
// → 99 cards · Atraxa · 7s

It's not a meme. We use it to draft new decks ourselves.

Live price tracking

Daily Scryfall sync into your portfolio. Cost basis, market value, top movers — all reconciled. Set price alerts that fire the moment a card crosses your threshold, not the morning after.

Goldfish playtest

The newest addition. Open a deck, hit "Playtest", and you get a real opening hand. Mulligan with London rules, draw turn-by-turn, see if your commander is castable on curve. Pure consistency-checking, zero opponents.

Import from anywhere

Paste a public Moxfield, Archidekt, or TappedOut URL and the deck imports intact — commander designated, prices priced, format detected.

Public deck sharing

Toggle a deck public, copy a link, share it without revealing what you paid for the cards. The share endpoint scrubs purchase prices server-side.

What we're optimizing for

We're not chasing feature count. We're chasing decision velocity — how fast can you go from "I have a question" to "I have an answer."

That means:

• One page, one decision. No tabs within tabs. The collection page exists to manage cards. Stats exist to show you what you own. Decks exist for deck-related decisions. Crisp boundaries.
• Live data, never stale. The dashboard reflects today's market value within 24 hours of the daily price sync. Card detail modals re-fetch from Scryfall on open if oracle text or rarity is missing.
• No fluff. No upsells in the middle of your collection. No celebratory animations when you add a card. The terminal aesthetic exists because real tools don't waste your attention.

What's coming

Not a roadmap, just the things we're building right now:

• ManaScry Insights — the publication you're reading. Set reviews, meta breakdowns, price analysis, deck guides. Written for serious players, never padded.
• Mobile camera card scanner — point your phone at a card, add it to your collection. Powered by Gemini Vision.
• AI sideboard advisor — paste an opponent's decklist (or a meta description) and get a side-in / side-out plan for your deck.
• Public deck discovery — browse public decks across the platform, sorted by hot, new, top.
• Trade tracker — peer-to-peer trade ledger with value-at-time-of-trade snapshots.

If any of those sounds useful, we'd love to hear it. The fastest way to influence the roadmap is to be on the list:

A note on pricing

ManaScry is free to use. The full collection tracker, manual deck builder, price tracking, alerts, and most everything else are free forever — not as a demo, as the actual product.

We charge for two specific things:

• Removing ads ($4.99 one-time)
• AI usage credits ($9.99 one-time pack) — for users who run the deck builder and chat advisor heavily
• Pro subscription ($4.99/mo or $49/year) — bundles both, plus priority queues and earliest access to new features

That's it. No tier shaped like a wall around basic functionality. We'd rather have you using the tool than paying for the privilege of using the tool.

How to start

Sign up. Import your collection. Build a deck. Set a price alert on a card you've been watching. The whole loop takes about ten minutes.

If you stick around past that, we've done our job.

— Jack