MTG Spellcaster format
The Kitchen Table forum
Posted on May 18, 2020, 2:43 p.m. by SquirrelPenguin
So, I created this new format, and I was wondering how I would make a site that would work like edhrec, where it gives you the most played cards, and other stats. I am not sure how to do this, so I posted this forum.
SquirrelPenguin says... #3
shadow63, sort of, but it's more like brawl with a legacy cardpool, and with a different banned list.
May 18, 2020 5:23 p.m.
Yet another pointless format with no players and an inane banlist. Banning Chrome Mox who is -1 with no way to recurr the exile card and keep the mox and not banning Mox Diamond which enables a lot more. Banning counterspell. Banning Mind Twist in a multiplayer format.
Tiny Leaders had something going for it. All this will mean is you play Legacy strats with low to the ground creature strats and the usual power houses.
There is nothing here to make it interesting.
As for the website. That is a big big big ask as you will need a data base with a deck builder function. How much are you looking to pay a developer for this job.
May 18, 2020 6:28 p.m.
SynergyBuild says... #6
While I think the format is bad, I'll tell you how to go about with the website.
You want to first look at getting websites like T/O to implement a system to add your format to their own. Then you want to add a program that will check and update a list of each card in each deck named to your format. Afterwards, creating a program that can check statistics will be easy, as long as you have your database organized, implementing that wouldn't take much of any skill in HTML, CSS, or SQL, but you can use web designing applications such as Google Sites to help with that.
Your major hurdle is convincing websites to freely go about recognizing legality for your format and implementing it as an option. That takes a community. As is this format, being unheard of and not the best idea IMO, may have difficult getting off the ground. If you can get a following, follow up with some websites that host decklists/deckbuilding. If you can't, make a deckbuilder on your own and let users upload their decks to your site directly, the dedication to making such a website and the requirements it entails seems pretty self-explanatory to me, so good luck from here on out!
May 19, 2020 1:45 a.m.
i'd just get people playing the format and trying it out, i don't think campaigning for support makes any sense at the creation phase. if the ball gets rolling we can definitely support it. you can create a primer of some kind that explains it to see if you can get other people using it and enthusiastic about it, but we don't really support community formats out the gate.
May 19, 2020 2:02 a.m.
SquirrelPenguin says... #8
TypicalTimmy, you can only run one of any card, so singleton, but you can use up to seven of Seven Dwarves or any number of Relentless Rats. I have unbanned Counterspell and Mind Twist. I have banned Mox Diamond. I was going to wait and see how the metagame turned out, and then ban and unban cards accordingly. If anyone has ideas to make it more interesting, that would be appreciated.
May 19, 2020 2:45 p.m.
SquirrelPenguin says... #9
TypicalTimmy, It would have said up to two copies if that was the case. I fixed it to make it less confusing
May 19, 2020 5:32 p.m.
SquirrelPenguin says... #10
I have created a deck to serve as an example: Spellcaster Example Deck
May 20, 2020 2:04 p.m.
TriusMalarky says... #11
On the format? Eh. I hope for your sake that it takes off... but you'd need a real playerbase.
For the website, people have mentioned needing to look at other sites. Given the fact that you probably have a very small playerbase, as it's likely mostly your friends and playgroup which probably isn't much more than ~20 people, you can easily set something up with SQL or MySQL in maybe half an hour to two hours.
Seriously, it's as simple as login table, then decklist table. Login would have credentials(ID, Username, Pass, email) and decklist table would be(user ID, deck ID, deck name, commander, and then deck slots 1-59). You can then run simple SQL queries with JS to return the number of decks with a specific card in it. From there it's just pulling up the correct images.
May 27, 2020 12:21 p.m.
i dunno if i would go through all that trouble.... you can use tappedout.js to include decks into blogs
May 27, 2020 12:24 p.m.
SquirrelPenguin says... #13
Do you think it is a good idea to add artifacts along with your commander in the command zone? So Oathbreaker with an artifact rather than a signature spell? or would that make it more confusing?
June 8, 2020 5:43 p.m.
SquirrelPenguin says... #14
I personally think kepping track of multiple commander cards is confusing.
shadow63 says... #2
So 60 card commander?
May 18, 2020 4:55 p.m.