MTG plugin

[Brevan]

I haven't noticed the duel decks in the MTG plugin yet, but until then I guess you could just make the changes yourself to whatever set you like in the text files, just make sure there's an entry in CardImageURLs.txt for it.  Keep in mind that any updating of the plugin will probably wipe out your changes.

Here's some links to card images.  I was going to do all tokens.... but a search on starcitygames.com returned four pages worth, so apologies if there are a few missing popular ones.  If it looks like tokens are accepted into Lackey, then I'll be glad to collect the remaining images (looks like Starcitygames is the place to get them).

3/3 beast (G):
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=201842&type=card

4/4 beast (G):
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=201844&type=card

5/5 Dragon (R):
http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardscans/MAG_WWK/Dragon.jpg

3/3 Elephant (G):
http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardscans/MAG_WWK/Elephant.jpg

0/1 Goat (W):
http://sales.starcitygames.com//cardscans/MAGEVE/Goat.jpg

0/1 Plant (G):
http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardscans/MAG_WWK/Plant.jpg

3/3 Ogre (R):
http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardscans/MAG_WWK/Ogre.jpg

1/1 Saproling (G):
http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardscans/MAG10TH/TokenSaproling.jpg

1/1 Snake (G):
http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardscans/MAG_ZEN/Snake.jpg

5/5 Tuktuk The Returned (A):
http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardscans/MAG_ROE/TuktukTheReturned.jpg

[Just Mick]

You probably don't want to hand edit your plugins because if your plugin doesn't match your opponent's, A) weird things can happen, and B) whatever changes you're trying to effect will not make sense to your opponent (unless you've both agreed to use doctored files)

[Brevan]

Bah, I just noticed that the card images from Starcitygames.com included a white border with shadow (so they're normal scans but with card-shadows added on a white background).  They'd still be alright, but when you put them on the "table" in Lackey, they seem to have oddly-thick black borders due to the shadow.  Not as classy, so a new image-source is needed before the plugin is modified.

@Just Mick
The only changes I'm suggesting is to add a new card to the plugin.  If your opponent doesn't have that card, then they get an image-placeholder (It's a white "Unknown Card" image I think) that includes the title of the card you see.  With Tokens, this is a pretty nice way to fail, since they still see a card with the word "goblin" (if that what the card is named).  Since tokens don't have much in the way of card-text, there's not much wrong that can happen. 

I guess the worst case scenario is if you didn't add new cards, but chose to overwrite old cards.  Then your opponent sees the old card image while you see the new image.  In that case, the dialogue box at the bottom of the screen still shows "Brevan tapped card X" but the image of the card would be of card Y instead of X.  Certainly easy for the opponent to get confused.  This is the same situation that happened recently when the Unglued set was incorrectly showing the Poltygeist card when the Goblin Bookie was selected in the deck editor.

[Just Mick]

Just saying, when you are done, best thing you can do is to make your changes available for download and hopefully the plugin maintainer will be able to integrate your work into the plugin.

I think there is a lot of value in just having every card face ever produced in the plugin database. I've noticed there is an alternative (original) version of the Garruk planeswalker used on the wizards website not in the plugin. And I know my brother was looking for artwork for the original promotional Path to Exile card which was not in there. So there are probably a lot of other cards (including tokens) not in the plugin excluding foils -- stupid stupid foils. I don't think Vanguard is there for example.

[Bort]

Trevor has explained that tokens will be added in a future version of Lackey as a feature. I don't want to hack token cards added in as regular cards in the interim. For now, a spawned card with a note or counter should work fine. Adding custom images for every token is far more cumbersome and too much trouble than it's worth. Notes work fine.

[Just Mick]

I'm curious how much work it is managing the MTG plugin.

[Bort]

I'm curious how much work it is managing the MTG plugin.

It's easy to maintain, but I am at the mercy of the content being available. For example, I cannot include Archenemy until there is a text spoiler for it.

[gsman]

Any idea how long its gonna take for the rest of M11 to get spoiled so it can be added? i'm ready to see it enter standard already

[Trevor]

Any idea how long its gonna take for the rest of M11 to get spoiled so it can be added? i'm ready to see it enter standard already

I think the prerelease is July 10.

[gsman]

you're right, it is, and its all spoiled now too, pictures and all. So i guess this means we'll get the m11 in lackey on 7/10

[whizzerd]

m11 was added to gatherer today, not sure if that is what is used to update the plugin or not

[Bort]

M11 was just added to the magic plugin.

[mdinitexpress]

M11 has been added to standard...hooray!  However, 2010 does not show up in the "standard" filter.  Officially, magic 2010 does not cycle out until next fall.  Could somebody please address this?  Is it something I can change myself?

[Bort]

If you make a list of the sets for standard, extended, and legacy, I will update the plugin immediately.

[GnKoichi]

As of right now

Standard:
2010
2011
Alara Block
Zendikar Block

Extended:
Tenth Edition
2010
2011
Time Spiral Block
Lorwyn/Shadowmoor Block
Alara Block
Zendikar Block

Legacy:
Every Set (right?)

Article on the Extended change: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/95b