I’ve been wanting to get started using XMage and thought it would be fun to play a few matches against the AI with the GRN Guild Kit decks (GK1) using the original printings. I found decklists on sites like mtg.wtf that list the card names and quantities, but they don’t specify the original set name and card number for each card.

For example, this GitHub repo has decklists for various preconstructed decks, but also lacks the specific set information and card numbers.

What I’m really looking for are decklists that include the card name, quantity, set name, and card number in the set for each card, ideally formatted like this:

quantity [SETCODE:collector number] cardname

This .dck file format used by XMage would allow me to easily import the exact preconstructed deck I want to play with the original printings, without having to rebuild it.

It made me think how nice it would be to have all the preconstructed decks available as .dck files with the original printings specified, nicely organized into folders by product. That way I could easily grab the exact deck I want to play with in XMage without having to build it manually.

Does anyone know if prebuilt decklists with detailed set data like this already exist somewhere for preconstructed products like the Guild Kits? Or if not, I may try writing a script to generate them before manually creating the files myself.

Please let me know if you know of any resources where I could find complete decklists for preconstructed decks specifying the card names, quantities, set names, and card numbers! This would save me a lot of time in recreating the decks accurately in XMage.

  • @counterspellOPEnglish
    1•8 months ago

    You can either go here https://mtg.wtf/deck Or the same data is also exported to mtgjson if you want it in JSON format https://mtgjson.com/ The same data is also available in a few other export formats.

    Source data for it is in https://github.com/taw/magic-preconstructed-decks with source URLs for every deck (some of these expired by now and you’d need to go to the Web Archive - WotC redesigns its website every few years, killing old URLs).

    Inferring exact set and collector number based on all available information is done algorithmically.

    Everything should have correct names, quantities, and set codes.

    A few cards won’t have correct collector numbers. The list of cards which are generally expected to not have exact collector number: “Plains”, “Island”, “Swamp”, “Mountain”, “Forest”, “Wastes”, “Azorius Guildgate”, “Boros Guildgate”, “Dimir Guildgate”, “Golgari Guildgate”, “Gruul Guildgate”, “Izzet Guildgate”, “Orzhov Guildgate”, “Rakdos Guildgate”, “Selesnya Guildgate”, “Simic Guildgate”

    For everything else, the algorithm is exact as far as we know. Anything the algorithm can’t detect automatically it flags, and we resolve it manually.

    — Tomasz Wegrzanowski

    I noticed that the default deck download format on the website doesn’t include set code and collector number information.

    If you’re fine with JSON, you can use mtgjson, or this file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/taw/magic-preconstructed-decks-data/master/decks_v2.json (which is exported to mtgjson).

    In case it matters, collector numbers are Gatherer-style not Scryfall-style (so DFCs are 123a / 123b, not 123 etc.). This only really affects cards with multiple parts.

    Do you have any more questions?

    — Tomasz Wegrzanowski