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Why the recent addition of MTG sub tags?
There's more than that: I've also created mtg-double-faced-cards, mtg-competitive-rel, mtg-professional-rel, mtg-regular-rel, mtg-color-identity, and mtg-emblems.
The rationale is that our MTG tag ...
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Should MTG card links be added to more than the first instance of the card name?
I am more in favour of only Linking the first instance of the card as per Wikipedia standards.
One thing that I find when looking at questions or answers that have every instance of a card linked, is ...
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Switch Magic autocard over to a different search engine, Scryfall
Yes, please lets do this!
The inconsistency of the current autocard can actually end up taking more time than it saves. When it works it is fine, but when it doesn't you need to head out and find the ...
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How do we feel about questions about leaked Magic cards?
I don't think we should close all such questions. However, I think we should be very mindful of how we handle them:
Use spoiler block quotes (>!) - at the very least for card text/images. (Images ...
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Can the Autocard feature be improved (again)?
The Autocard feature has been updated to use the new url format, and to improve on our encoding of card names so as to fix many (hopefully all) of issues with the old one. Here are some of my test ...
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Why are questions being downvoted?
The question you cite as being at -2, used terminology from a game with infamously, extremely precise definitions in a way that made no sense. Because of that, and the way the question was structured, ...
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Weekly email is primarily about Magic: The Gathering
It's algorithmically generated, presumably based on things like number of answers, votes, views, post age, and so on, but I don't know the details offhand.
So unfortunately, the answer here, or lack ...
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How should we be tagging questions about custom Magic cards?
We already have a number of tags about some aspect of Magic: The Gathering such as mtg-online, mtg-cube, mtg-drafting, mtg-commander (most of these are related to Magic formats).
Given that, I'd ...
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How to correctly link to Gatherer?
Your issue is caused by your Gatherer being configured to a language other than English — you mentioned in comments it's configured to French.
Our links to Gatherer aren't super high tech: they ...
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Should you edit answers to contain the [mtg:Card name] link instead of a direct link to the gatherer?
It's okay to do mass editing projects as long as you do it carefully:
Make sure your plan is clearly an improvement before you start.
Don't bump more than a few (let's say 3) to the front page at any ...
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"How to clone a legendary permanent?" appears to be becoming an unbounded collection. What should we do?
This question does not have the problems of list questions because it is not asking for a list, and there is nothing wrong with a single question having multiple valid answers. This question is asking ...
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Is there any interest in creating a recurring day for Code-Golf-esque MTG questions?
(Note: these are my personal opinions, and should not be construed as describing policy)
I do not believe that this type of question is well suited to this site. These questions come in two primary ...
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Should MTG card links be added to more than the first instance of the card name?
I'd encourage us to adopt a style of "link only the first time, but feel free to break this rule if it aids comprehension to do so."
Like, if you mention a card once and then mention it in a ...
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Switch Magic autocard over to a different search engine, Scryfall
FWIW, as of version 1.50 (just released today, January 23, 2018), my SOUP user script now implements this feature (extending and replacing the Gatherer-based reimplementation of [mtg:...] card links ...
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Should our magic-the-gathering tag have subcategories?
We do have a fair number of more specific tags already, of the form "mtg-something" - go here and search for "mtg" to see things like mtg-commander, mtg-drafting, and so on.
Generally, we could add ...
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Are there other ways to reference Magic cards in posts on BoardgamesExchange?
Boardgames SE has a special shortcut syntax exactly for this: specifically, if you type [mtg:<card name>], for example [mtg:Black Lotus], you will get a link to Gatherer for that card name - e.g....
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MTG Format Tags?
The tags mtg-modern, mtg-commander, and mtg-multiplayer all already exist, along with mtg-drafting and mtg-cube for limited formats, and mtg-two-headed-giant, mtg-frontier, mtg-tiny-leaders, and mtg-...
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Should you edit answers to contain the [mtg:Card name] link instead of a direct link to the gatherer?
No, you shouldn't edit all the older posts that are using different links to the cards as that is a trivial edit and would unnecessarily bump the post to the front page.
If you run across a link ...
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Should Magic The Gathering have it's own StackExchange?
Alex P answered this well, but I thought some might appreciate the historical context. There have been attempts, as described in the history of this site:
What is the history of game stacks on Stack ...
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Why are the card links broken?
The most common cause of a failure like this is Gatherer operating in a language other than English. On the Gatherer Settings page, the bottom option allows you to set a preferred language. Setting ...
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Are questions about how to Navigate/Use Online MTG retailers considered on-topic?
I think they're on topic. Different Stack sites have different ways to examine topicality, but I'll examine it using some rules of thumb that are usually pretty relevant:
Is it substantially related ...
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Should you edit answers to contain the [mtg:Card name] link instead of a direct link to the gatherer?
No. Use [mtg] to save time while posting, not to create more work after the fact.
Look at the difference between [mtg] and "hard-coded" Gatherer URLs.
From a reader-facing perspective, they're ...
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How do we feel about questions about leaked Magic cards?
I have something to add to doppelgreener's answer.
A friend of mine who runs a bot ring on MTGO (which is a legitimate activity if you follow the rules) has reason to believe that leaks hurt the ...
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How do we feel about questions about leaked Magic cards?
We should be able to freely ask and answer questions about leaked cards.
The desire of some people to avoid spoilers is understandable and valid. However, while I am considerate of these people, the ...
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Can the Autocard feature be improved (again)?
I've run through the jsfiddle test battery to double check results.
I've also made an updated battery that removes some duplicates and consolidates cases in the Javascript: https://jsfiddle.net/...
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Can the Autocard feature be improved (again)?
Adding an answer with all the example cards as a quick way to check some of cards that are not in the latest update post.
Lightning Bolt
Death's Shadow
Island
Curiosity
Sun Titan
Platinum Angel
...
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Autocard doesn't find a specific card, Sakashima the Impostor
I noted that there is a Sakashima the Impostor Avatar card, a Vanguard card that is not typically included in search results. Is that the problem?
Yep, that's the problem exactly.
When a card name ...
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Autocard opens non-scrolling windows
Fix mtg.js
Note the JavaScript script we're using for autocard links (thanks to Ilmari Karonen for catching this):
window.open(link, "autocard" + (+new Date()), "toolbar=0, location=0, ...
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Tag for templating questions
I'm iffy about this tag, but I think there's a workable core here.
Part of it is that I need to be able to see what tags belong on a question by looking at the question, not at the answers. That ...
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Naming the tag for questions about legendary cards and the legend rule
I was thinking about it while drafting up this question — I think maybe we should call it mtg-legend-rule with mtg-legendary-cards as an alias. The legend rule is what these questions are about, and [...
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