Jeremy(Archidekt Moderator)
21 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Hello, all!"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nWe’re excited to bring you not one, but two significant new features today! Let’s dive in.\n\n---\n\nCustom cards"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nYou can now create fully custom cards to add to your decks via the "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/custom-cards"},"insert":"Custom Cards manager page"},{"insert":". You can find this page by clicking your username at the top right of the page and going to the “My other stuff” dropdown. \n\n\n"},{"insert":{"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/topdekt-user/article_images/customcardsedit.png "}},{"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/topdekt-user/article_images/customcardindeck.png"}},{"insert":"\n \nCreate a custom card via the “Add custom card” button at the top of the Custom Card manager page."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"When creating custom cards, you can add fields for everything from card name and casting cost to oracle text and collector number. By default, this information will be populated in a generic card image we create for you."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You can upload your own art for your custom cards. This image occupies the entire card space (rather than just the typical art box, for instance) so is best suited for bringing in full card images created in other tools. Please only upload images you have permission to use and do not contain any mature content. Uploads are subject to moderation and may result in anything from your custom cards being deleted up to your account being banned entirely. Just use common sense about what you upload and you should be fine."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Your Custom Cards page can be sorted and filtered by controls at the top of the page."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You can add custom cards to a deck via the Extras menu (top left of the deck page on desktop, bottom nav bar on mobile)."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Custom cards interact with a deck in much the same way regular cards do: They’ll appear in the playtester, contribute to your deck stats, and appear in your deck history in a somewhat limited capacity."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"By default, you will not see the custom images uploaded by other users. You can toggle them on via your "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/accountSettings/site-settings"},"insert":"Account Settings"},{"insert":" page under \"Content Settings\"."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Custom cards are denoted by a blue tag and image icon in the upper right corner of the card."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"If you see a custom card or card image you feel is inappropriate for Archidekt, you can report it via the three dot menu to the lower right of the card."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You can copy other users’ custom cards via the card details overlay, accessible by clicking the arrow along the right side of the card."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Note: This feature can "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"kinda"},{"insert":" be used as a way to upload alters to \"real\" cards, but we're interested in building a much better system for that that won't require you to create a custom card for your image. If that's something you're interested in, please let us know!"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n---\n\nPinned cards"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nYou can now pin cards to a menu accessible from anywhere on the site on any device you’re logged into. This feature will help you keep track of card ideas you have while working on something else, make running shopping lists, or even help you deck build if you’re browsing other users’ decks for ideas. \n\n"},{"insert":{"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/topdekt-user/article_images/Screenshot_2025-11-20_135956.png"}},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"insert":{"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/topdekt-user/article_images/pinnedcardsmenu.png"}},{"insert":"\n \nTo pin a card, you can right click its image, select the three dot menu to its bottom right, or press W while hovering over it with your cursor on desktop."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Pinned cards are denoted with a green pin icon along the left side of the card. Clicking the icon will open your pinned cards menu, filtered to just the card selected."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The pinned cards page is accessible via the pin icon on the top left of the site navigation bar."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"On the pinned cards page, you can add notes to individual cards via card details (the arrow button along the right side of each card)."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The pinned cards menu has access to the same filters available on the deck page (local filter, syntax filter) along with a variety of sort options."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You can add cards directly to any of your decks via the card details menu (arrow icon on the right side of the card). You can also drag and drop cards from pinned cards into whatever deck you’re actively working on."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The Extras button at the top of the pinned cards menu allows you to export your pinned cards to a vendor, remove all pinned cards, add all pinned cards to a deck, or create a new deck using your pinned cards."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"A maximum of 150 cards can be pinned at a time."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You cannot pin custom cards because it’d be messy af."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"---\n\nThat's it for today! If you have any feedback about custom cards, pinned cards, or really anything else, please drop a comment below or join the discussion over in "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://discord.gg/tZWV3YSARg"},"insert":"our community Discord server"},{"insert":". Feedback from our users has been instrumental in making Archidekt what it is today. Thank you for continuing to be such an incredible community!\n\nGratefully,"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The Archidekt Team"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"}]}
Edited 11/20/2025, 10:02:46 PM
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bertuzzi 6 days{"ops":[{"insert":"This Custom Cards feature is amazing! If you have a custom commander (a proxy, of course — always keep the original with you :P), now we can finally add it to the deck. Awesome!\n"}]}
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LizardQueen 6 days{"ops":[{"insert":"This is really cool. So excited to make some dream cards come to life instead of writing them on a google doc.\n"}]}
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Eldrazi 8 days{"ops":[{"insert":"DUDE THIS IS AWESOME. I can now track my custom edh precons on here. Ya'll guys rock.\n"}]}
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DyingMagpie 9 days{"ops":[{"insert":"This is rad. I would absolutely love a system for alters too \n"}]}
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ljmadruga 9 days{"ops":[{"insert":"I use archidekt a lot because I play commander mostly through Tabletop Simulator these days. I love the new custom card feature, but I'd love to see it expanded a bit to include more features, namely smaller font sizes, the ability to italicize text, and a style that looks similar to modern magic cards.\n\nDown the line, I'd also like to see a feature where people can create amd upload custom sets and cubes!\n"}]}
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AcadianBacon 9 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Both new features are amazing additions! Are there any suggestions for good card art creation choices that we should use to accompany the Card Creator?\n\nAlso excited to see what updates and additions will be made to it, I see that some issues are already being addressed in the comments section like the text not resizing to fit in the rules text box. Definitely gonna keep an eye on it, being able to not only get custom cards but put them together in usable decklists is a great feature!\n"}]}
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AcadianBacon 9 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Also the pinned cards feature is gonna make perusing other peoples' builds and also your own decks much easier, appreciate it!\n"}]}
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Cloudbreaker 11 days{"ops":[{"insert":"I have been having a lot of fun creating custom cards with this new feature! A bug I have noticed though is that sometimes on double sided cards it refuses to save the mana value no matter how many times I enter it and save the file. It occasionally also deletes or alters the mana cost on the back side when I save the mana value for the front side.\n\nAdditionally, I know it was already brought up elsewhere, but I wanted to also say that I would find it useful to be able to add a card's color identity. Even if we had to add it manually somewhere.\n"}]}
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Jeremy(Archidekt Moderator)
10 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Good catch on the MV and casting cost issues! We'll dig into it. \n\nAnd thank you for the other feedback as well! \n"}]}
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Iribis 14 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Amazing! Is there any plans or ideas for allowing importing MTGNexus cards for easy deck building custom cards?\n"}]}
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Poulpinou 14 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Hello ! I can't find the button to unpin a card (I miss-clicked on pin by mistake). Where is it ?\n"}]}
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Jeremy(Archidekt Moderator)
14 days{"ops":[{"insert":"If you open your pinned cards menu (the pin icon on the top nav bar of every page), you can click the \"-\" icon to remove a card. Clicking the pin icon on the card itself in your deck will also open the pinned card menu filtered to just that card and allow you to do the same thing. Sorry for the confusion!\n"}]}
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Emperock 14 days{"ops":[{"insert":"I am not aware of the the technical hardships, but most of the custom cards I create float more around 3.5 to 4.5MB. Currently the limit is at 1.5 which means I cant upload any of them TwT. How resource consuming would it be to highten the limits. Or could you maybe implement some compression if its too big?\n"}]}
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Play2X 12 days{"ops":[{"insert":"I had the same problem with cards I make on MTGCardbuilder, what worked for me simply saving those cards as jpgs. That got rid of things like transparence, but significantly reduced filesize without changing the quality (from 2.5 MB to 700 KB). Hope this helps!\n"}]}
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Play2X 15 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Finally its here, this is so awesome! I can finally retire my Excel spreadsheets where I had deck compositions for decks with custom cards. This will be such a huge help on not just constructing the decks, but also playtesting and even designing them!\n\nA question/feature-idea though: Is there perhaps a way to make folders for different cards? Right now I have cards from 4 different IPs lying around on my PC, + whatever I might come up with in the future, so a way to group them together might turn out really helpful. Or perhaps I just missed that this feature might already exist... in that case, my bad :P\n"}]}
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Jeremy(Archidekt Moderator)
14 days{"ops":[{"insert":"For now, my suggestion would be to use the set code field to differentiate the IPs that you're making cards for. Then you can use the filter tool on the custom card manager page (or the search that pops up when you go to add one to a deck) to filter to just the IP you're looking for.\n\nWe may add additional organization tools in the future, but want to see how and how much folks use the feature first. The feedback is appreciated! \n"}]}
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marsintenn(Uncommon Patron)
18 days{"ops":[{"insert":"the pinned card list is an excellent feature. trying to manage shopping lists for multiple decks whenever i go to my lgs is always a hassle any way i do it. looking forward to trying this as an option. i'd love to see further development or any way you guys can add to this feature to make sorting things easier, \n"}]}
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michael(Alpha User)
16 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Sorting the pinned cards easier? \n\nIn what way are pins missing a way to sort? There's a sorting dropdown at the top with most things I could think of, is there something you feel is missing?\n"}]}
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Almagnus1 18 days{"ops":[{"insert":"I would love to see custom cards extended into a way to make proxies using the various WotC (or custom) card frames and templates. Sometimes you really don't like the card art, sometimes you want the art to better fit the deck aesthetic, and sometimes you don't have the card, and sometimes you don't want to play an expensive card.\n"}]}
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Jeremy(Archidekt Moderator)
18 days{"ops":[{"insert":"We have tentative plans to expand on the feature to better support alters of existing cards. As for designing cards using WotC frames/templates, there are some legal concerns there that limit how much we'll be able to do. For now, using another custom card service then uploading the image here is going to be your best bet.\n\nThank you for the feedback!\n"}]}
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Cylver 18 days{"ops":[{"insert":"I actually just returned to messing with an old custom commander of mine, so it's really cool to see this being added.\n"}]}
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