Commander Nexus is in beta, which means it changes most days. Everything we ship — new features, fixes, and problems we already know about — gets written down here, in plain language.
Send someone an invitation link and they can open the deck. They arrive read-only; you hand them editing when you are ready, and you can take it back at any time. While you both have it open you can see each other on the deck, and every line of its history says who made that change. Links expire on their own, and you can cancel one before it is used.
Have the same deck open on your phone and your laptop, and a change made in one shows up in the other. No reloading, no wondering which copy is right.
It sits beside All Cards and No Place Yet. It shows what each card costs, what the whole list would come to, and ticks a card off once you log it as owned.
Take a look →It is a menu now. Copy them as text, add them to your wish list, mark them as owned straight into your collection, or drop them into another one of your decks.
CSV joins the export formats that were already there, with a proper header row, so it opens straight into Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets. The other formats are unchanged.
"Built by" goes somewhere now. Your page lives at /u/ followed by your display name, and lists the decks you have chosen to make public.
A sixth button in the menu. Articles there can name a real card, set or keyword and the site links it up for you, so you can look up anything you do not recognise without leaving the page.
Take a look →Questions on top, answers underneath -- the things people actually ask, in plain words, without hunting around the site for them.
Take a look →A new band below the header counts down to the sets due out next. Articles and any Secret Lair drop on sale will appear there too, as soon as there are some.
Open any card and the Rulings section lists the official answers Wizards has published about it -- the same wording a judge would use. They refresh themselves, so they stay current without anyone typing them in.
The card window has a "How rarity works" button. Common, uncommon, rare, mythic -- what that little coloured symbol means, and why it has nothing to do with how good a card is.
Account then Appearance lets you switch between a light and a dark site, and choose the highlight colour used everywhere else.
Take a look →A "?" button in the corner of each page walks you through what is on it. The card window has its own tour covering tags, prices, what you own, rulings and switching to a different printing.
The bell in the header tells you what has shipped. Everyone has it switched on now, including accounts made before it existed, and you can still turn it off. If you are signed in when something lands it appears on screen for a few seconds rather than waiting quietly behind the bell.
We used to collect price information for one printing of each card. It is collected for all of them now, so switching to a different printing shows you a real price instead of a blank.
A card previewed this morning used to wait about twelve hours in line behind thirty-year-old commons before we refreshed it. Cards that are not out yet now go to the front of that queue.
The last two pieces of the site that were fetched from other companies' servers now come from ours, so somebody else having a slow day can no longer hold up the page.
On a phone 360 pixels wide the site was laying itself out at 480 and zooming out to compensate, which made everything small and pushed it off centre. Every page has been rechecked at 320 and 360 pixels.
That bar appeared on a first visit, and every visit after it, whether or not anything had actually changed. It now shows only when there really is a new version waiting.
Account then Appearance, and Account then Tutorials, worked when you clicked them but gave a "page not found" if you reloaded the page or sent someone the address.
The site was sometimes choosing a special-edition printing with very dark artwork, where you could barely make out the picture. It now prefers the ordinary paper printing.
With a side panel open, a deck's title and bracket card could spill across the statistics sitting beside them.
Following a link straight to a deck quietly loaded that deck three times over before showing it to you. Once now.
Share, Export and "Who can edit this deck" now black out the deck behind them, instead of leaving a side panel painted over a third of the dialog.
The small confirmation and error messages were being drawn underneath open panels and dialogs. A message telling you something had failed could be completely invisible.
A deck led by two commanders may use the colours of both. We were checking against only one of them, so five of the ready-made decks carried a warning they did not deserve.
The page promised it led with the most recent release, then showed you an alphabetical list beginning at "20 Ways to Win".
Take a look →Pages such as the legal documents were shrinking to fit their own text and sitting off to the right instead of centred.
Two accounts could take the same display name, which made a public profile link ambiguous. If the name you want is taken you are now told so in plain words, instead of hitting an error.
Opening a commander or a ready-made deck could throw you back to your own deck list a second later.
Searching a large collection could time out and show nothing at all. It does not any more.
On some pages the header hid the Log In button from people who were not signed in, leaving no obvious way in.
Cards you had removed were being grouped under a heading claiming there were none.
Your Decks now lets you drag a deck straight onto a folder. Long folder names are no longer chopped in half either.
A deck can be private, unlisted, or fully public. The label was only describing two of those three states.
Every section is now linked from the bottom of every page, so nothing is more than one click away.
The header showed a generic grey figure on the public pages even when you were signed in.
If you use a screen reader, each box, toggle and menu on the site now announces its own name and purpose.
A mistyped or dead link used to load an empty version of the site, which looked broken. It now shows a proper page telling you it does not exist, with a way back.
Those pages were printing their formatting marks on screen instead of applying them.
Different parts of the site were choosing card prices differently, so the same card could appear to cost two different amounts. There is now one rule. Tokens no longer show an empty price box either — we do not hold a price for token printings, and a box reading N/A answered nothing.
The terms, privacy policy and affiliate disclosures are in plain language, and say honestly what the site does and does not collect.
Commanders, ready-made decks, themes and tags are now proper addresses you can bookmark, share, or send to someone, instead of everything living at a single address.
The public pages — commanders, precons, themes, tags and the glossary — are now prepared ahead of time and delivered ready to read. That is about four thousand pages that no longer have to be assembled while you wait.
A filter meant to catch the deliberately silly, non-tournament cards was catching legitimate ones as well and quietly dropping them out of search results.
Those buttons existed before the feature behind them was finished. They now say Soon, so nothing looks broken while we build it.
Paste a link from Moxfield, Archidekt, MTGGoldfish or a Commander Template and the whole deck comes across. You can also drag cards straight in from Scryfall, Moxfield, Archidekt, EDHREC or a Commander Template and drop them on your deck. Moxfield is the one exception that does not carry the exact printing across, and the site says so when it happens.
Keep a record of the cards you actually own, in folders you decide on, separate from any one deck. The site can then tell you what a deck would cost you on top of what is already on your shelf.
Set a display name and choose a picture, and it shows up wherever you appear on the site.
Token artwork was being matched loosely and could pull in a piece from a completely unrelated set.
Many cards create creatures out of nothing — those are called tokens. They are now kept in their own section of the deck, so they can never be counted toward your hundred cards.
Rather than uploading an image from your device, you pick the art from any commander. It keeps every picture on the site something we already have the rights to show.
Card artwork, commanders and other people's decks are all visible signed out. You still need an account to save anything of your own.
Ready-made decks now display their real contents and how the deck is meant to function, instead of a flat list.
Thousands of cards were re-read to work out what each one really does — which ones find you extra lands, which draw cards, which remove a threat. Better reading here means better suggestions everywhere else on the site.
Attractions are legal in some Commander games and were being skipped entirely.
It gets stronger for creatures that share a creature type, and the site now says that rather than something vaguer.
You no longer need to know any search syntax. Choose what you are looking for from a list and the site writes the search for you. If you already know Scryfall's search language, it works too — type it into any card search box on the site. The few operators we cannot honour are named on screen rather than ignored.
A filter with no matching cards used to be hidden, so there was no way to tell whether you had already tried it. Every filter is now shown, with its count.
Opening a card from inside a deck showed a generic version of it. It now shows the exact printing sitting in your list.
Commander decks may only use one copy of most cards. Breaking that rule is now flagged the moment it happens instead of passing quietly.
A group of unusual cards — the deliberately silly ones, and the ones that hand you another turn — were being misread. They behave properly again.
Some cards do something only in particular situations. Rather than quietly disappearing from the analysis, those notes now say what they are and when they apply.
The bar across the top of the site vanished at some window sizes.
A round of testing turned up thirteen separate faults across the deck builder — wrong counts, buttons that did nothing, and panels that opened empty. All of them are fixed.