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[Update 6/03/25]

...Holy cow, did I forget to press enter or something? I added Final Fantasy a month ago, and I could've sworn I posted the update here. Better late than never:

Update 6/03/25

New sets

• Final Fantasy
• Final Fantasy Commander

Sets with cards added

• Secret Lair Drop

I still haven't gotten around to adding the alternate / full-art prints from Final Fantasy, or the Final Fantasy Through the Ages set of Final-Fantasy-reskinned reprints... I should do that.

But yes, I still keep this updated, and will be adding Edge of Eternities.

@Drew, the problem is a "quarantine" attribute that Apple applies to newly downloaded files and folders. I didn't actually realize unzipping on the command line avoids applying it at all, that's intriguing.

I ran afoul of this myself recently, despite knowing about it, because I forgot that removing it from a folder doesn't automatically remove it from everything *in* the folder (and because the error message has apparently gotten more cryptic than it used to be).

To see if a file or folder is currently quarantined, you can do this from command line:

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xattr -l path/to/file/
You can remove it with the -d flag, and the -r flag applies it recursively to everything in a folder:

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xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /path/to/Lackey/Folder

[New sets]

New sets

• Tarkir: Dragonstorm
• Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander

Sets with Cards Added

• Special Guests (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)
• Secret Lair Drop

Errata

• Wizards has issued errata on many thousands of cards. Instead of their name, non-legendary cards now use "this creature", "this artifact", etc. to refer to themselves in their rules text. Tokens (even legendary ones) use "this token".
• Just like the name of Unquenchable Fury eventually got used for a real card, the same thing has happened to Pick Your Poison from Mystery Booster. I've dealt with it the same way: its name in the plugin is now "Pick Your Poison (Playtest)".

Scripting

• A number of cards that create  tokens upon entering were not set to execute their scripts automatically, and have been fixed.
• Indominus Rex now has scripts to generate all its possible counters.
• The offspring keyword can only make one token, but its scripts were set up like X abilities, with options for 1, 5, and 10. This has been fixed.

Tokens

• All custom Lackey tokens that refer to themselves have gotten the above-mentioned errata (to say "this token", and have updated images.
• There is now a spawnable haste counter.
• A number of cards that can copy themselves had neither the scripts nor the custom tokens for it. Now they do.
  
  • Homunculus Horde
  • Ochre Jelly
  • Vaultborn Tyrant
  • Watchful Radstag
  • Life of the Party
  • Amphibian Downpour
  • Aeve, Progenitor Ooze
  • Krosan Adaptation
• After twenty years, Tarkir:Dragonstorm finally prints the 1/1 red Warrior token that Rally the Horde creates. Its custom Lackey token is no more. : )

Oh hey, I didn't even think about Arena. I should see if I can get a decent-quality image of the art from those.

It already does; she has a right-click script to spawn it, and I used Simon Dominic's art from Glimmberbell for it.

   

Ozox, Clattering King also has a custom Jumblebones token, using Helge C. Balzer's art from Wretched Bonemass; and Psemilla, Meletian Poet has a Nymph token using Magali Villeneuve's art from Alseid of Life's Bounty.

   

   


None of these tokens have received actual printings from WOTC yet.

Sigh... if it's not thing it's another! Re-uploaded J25 images.

[New sets]

New sets

• Foundations Jumpstart

And I think I got all the missing images, turtlelemon. Lemme know if not 👍

First, Error Downloading Image on a lot of stuff from mb2 between the 500s and 600s. 1sld 790s and 795s and also archenemy 54-58.

Huh, I'm not sure why, but I'll re-upload the images for those sets.

Second, I don't think you ever added FDN Jumpstart. I know it's a huge set, but according to the wiki, there's 56 new cards. Maybe just those?

Dagnabbit, I completely missed that one. Plenty of reprints with new art, too, but it's odd that enchantments don't have the "new" (for non-creatures) enchantment frame, like in Foundations itself.

Third, the one I think nothing can be done. The up button on my laptop keyboard stopped working. Which is mostly fine, I just use the one in the right side number area. But for some reason Lackey refuses to recognize those buttons. Is there anything I'm missing that will let me change that? If not, ages ago on a different computer, I did need to use this program called Key Tweak after my 6 y and h buttons stopped working, so I can prob find a way to make it work. Also, when looking thru cards, I just always start at the top now and go down.

Yeah... sorry, I don't know what to do about that, other than a key remapper like you suggest. You could try mapping the numpad arrow to act like the other arrow.

[New sets]

New sets

• Aetherdrift
• Aetherdrift Commander
• Innistrad Remastered

Sets with Cards Added

• Eggnogger's 'Stache in Happy Holidays
• Special Guests (Aetherdrift)
• Secret Lair Drop

Bugfix

• The Zeppelin token created by Lita, Mechanical Engineer was mistakenly rendered as a creature in addition to being a vehicle, and didn't have its rules text. This has been fixed.

[New sets]

New sets

• Foundations
• Secret Lair 30th Anniversary Countdown Kit

Scripting

• Added missing spawn scripts for several legendary tokens:
  
  • Beau from Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
  • Tamiyo's Journal from Tamiyo, Compleated Sage
  • Icingdeath, Frost Tongue from Icingdeath, Frost Tyrant
  • Volo's Journal from Volo, Itinerant Scholar

Other

• New art for several playtest tokens from Mystery Booster 2

Yeah, unfortunately there's no way to do that in Lackey. You could try using notes, or perhaps visually tying a color of counter to each direction?

Another janky idea might be to pick a corner of the card that will indicate direction. Then you've got four out of your available six directions covered, so only the other two would need a workaround.

Obviously none of these is nearly as straightforward or elegant as what you could easily do with physical cards, but oftentimes with Lackey we have to find creative workarounds.

[New sets]

New sets

• Dominaria Remastered

[Sets with added card]

I updated the plugin last night, but didn't get a chance to post a message here, so this is for yesterday, 10/2/25.

Sets with added card

• Secret Lair Drop
• Duskmourn: Kaito's emblem, which wasn't on Scryfall yet when I added the set

Scripting improvements

• Token scripts for playtest cards, and conjuring scripts for Alchemy Made Real cards, in Mystery Booster 2
• Cards that reference finality counters can now create one.

TOKENS

This is the big one. As of Core Set 2020, Wizards introduced a new frame style for tokens. Roughly five years later, I've followed suit! I've reverse-engineered all the fancy transparency effects, and whenever possible sourced higher-res files of the art to better enlarge and fill the full-ish-art frames:



Now that Wizards has been printing official tokens that are copies of cards, I have a real style guide to follow for displaying mana costs on tokens, as reminder text rather than in the title bar like I've been doing previously:



Also included is the added legendary crown on tokens:




In some cases I've picked different illustrations, if the one I had previously didn't work well in the new aspect ratio. Handily, Donato Giancola has since done a wider view of the same creature design in his own Shivan Dragon artwork:



I've also overhauled how I handle planeswalkers. Since there are so few of them, I've been Photoshopping custom elements on top of each individual card. But now I've created separate frame elements and automated the process so that I generate them from the ground up like everything else. This means I have more freedom to alter or omit text as needed, as seen here:




(From left to right: original card, Photoshop work on top of it for the old token style, and full-generated version for the new style. This way I can leave off things irrelevant to the token — like kicker and casualty — and add the mana cost.)

I've also added all the new tokens that Mystery Booster 2's playtest cards create, but have not yet made custom art for them.

All the custom-generated tokens in Lackey can be viewed here.

Hope you enjoy them! As always, let me know if you find anything missing or incorrect.

[New Sets]

New Sets

• Duskmourn
• Duskmourn Commander
• Mystery Booster 2 — All the new playtest cards are included, but I've not yet had time to go through and implement all the custom tokens and other weird scripting things yet.

Sets with cards added

• Special guests cards for Duskmourn
• Secret Lair Drop, as usual

Bugfixes

• Dungeon Master from Heroes of the Realm was mistakenly listed as a token (because one of his types is "Dungeon" 🤣). Fixed.
• Some Secret Lair cards weren't uploaded under the right file names after Scryfall changed how they record some collector's numbers. Should all be good now.

[Sets with cards added]

Sets with cards added

• Secret Lair Drop, as usual

Errata

• "Enters the battlefield" has been shortened to "enters". A few related phrasings have changed too: for example, "a creature enters the battlefield under your control" is now "a creature you control enters". This affects a LOT of cards, obviously — pretty sure it changes every single card data file

Other

• I've changed how reversible cards (for example, this printing of Zndrsplt) are handled in the plugin. Previously, the front side was a normal card, and the back side was only available as a spawned token, like DFCs. In practice, I don't think this makes sense. It would be better to be able to choose which one you want for your deck. Therefore, the back sides are now included as full-fledged cards.