MTGBook.com

MTGBook is an web application in which you can create your own decks, follow decklists from major events (or any group you follow), share decks, export decks or print decks etc. I came across the site pretty early but was unwilling to try it out. It was too flashy for me, too many things going on there (animations, graphics change, image view that irritated me the most). But well I'm someone who likes text and the simplest design possible. Hopefully the Image view of everything can be switched to List that solves my problem at least partly.

The site is actually a huge project. It's colorful with a LOT of graphics and a lot of features. The whole site is divided in several sections.

Decks

This section contains decks from players and tournaments all around the world. You can filter them by format, paper MTG or MTGO or search by cards included, player's name, deck type etc. - all you can imagine.

When you view a deck you can view sample hand, see more draws or mulligan. To get a new hand you have to click on 'New Hand' though which quite annoyed me but after you notice this you won't have problems with it anymore.

You can export the deck into MWS or MTGO format (it does not work on my mother's computer for some reason - I get some extra characters in the downloaded file that should not be there, have to try it on my own computer).

For each deck you can view more details - total score, price etc. You can also rate the deck. But well what does that rating mean? Originality vs playability combined? I actually quite like the tcgplayer ratings that divide this in two.

When you click on a card you can view all the card information (looks like magiccards.info database copy) + average price in the USA (and buying price if available).

Deckbox

This looks like a mailbox and actually works like one. It stores decks though. You can create your own decks here or add decks from other places (groups/deck search etc).

Here you can also label decks. This I find good as this allows you to label the decks properly. If you add a deck that was t2 legal in the past you can write it there. This at many other servers is not possible.

From here you can also send your deck to certain group or friend.

Creating a deck
You can either import a deck from MWS or MTGO. Or you can type your deck there manually

[number of cards] [name of card]

Or you can search the cards and somehow add them to the deck (more precisely after you find a card, double click on it to add one copy to the decklist).

You can also use existing decklist as a template. This will create a copy of a decklist that you can later edit yourself.

Groups

There are groups that already collect decklists from major tournaments, PTQs, MTGO Daily and such. You can join these groups. By doing this so the decklists from the group will end up in your deckbox.

You can also create your own groups (for example if you have a local group or you run a tournament series). They can be either private (only your friends can 'post' in it) or public. Both of these can be either moderated or not. You can also set the rights to the members (moderator, administrator etc).

A group can also be hidden.

(I did not find if there is a possibility to make a private group public and vise-versa)

Cards

In this section you can search and view all the card data. This works pretty well at any other server.

Here you can create your own collection and see how much it costs. Argh something I DON'T want to know. But sure a handy feature. Anyway it is here for a different reason. When creating a deck, you can see if you own the cards or not. It will show you which cards you don't own yet.

Friends

Contains user list. Here you can befriend the users so you can send each other decks etc. This section also contains your profile.

So I guess this pretty much sums mtgbook up. So now you can check it if interested.

http://mtgbook.com