Last month we said September would be for sanding. We sanded — and then kept going: 92 changes went live, and four things we had not planned to tell you about yet.

 

The promised ones landed: card categories for your decks, a Quick Review that opens in half a second instead of a minute, and a round of scanner polish. One slipped — the API's inventory endpoints — and we say so below. Around them: your whole collection can travel to SpellWeave in a click and its decks come back as Gestic decks, sellers get a button that prices an entire Offering list, buyers see the cheapest place to buy each card they are looking for, and every official preconstructed deck ever printed now has a page on Gestic.

 

As of this writing: 2.4 million cards tracked, close to 490,000 scans, 2,543 collectors. Thank you for that.

SpellWeave (spellweave.app) is a Commander deck builder: hand it a collection and it builds a full 100-card deck out of what you own, synergies and game plan included. Until now, getting your Gestic collection over there meant exporting a file, uploading it, and doing it all again after every scan.

Now it is a couple of clicks, in both directions. On your configuration page, link your SpellWeave account — SpellWeave asks you to approve Gestic, once — and press Push collection snapshot. The cards in your Gestic collection land in SpellWeave as a new collection, ready to build from. Name the snapshot if you like. Each push creates a fresh collection over there rather than touching an older one, so nothing you built in SpellWeave is ever overwritten; push again after a big scan and SpellWeave simply gets a newer snapshot.

When SpellWeave has built you a deck, bring it home. The Import window on the home page now ends with "Or import a deck built by SpellWeave", listing your SpellWeave decks. Pick one and Gestic creates it as a Commander deck from the copies you actually own — the right printing, language and finish, copies already sitting in another deck included. Anything you do not own is added at its cheapest printing, so the deck arrives complete. The commander is marked, and from then on it is a Gestic deck like any other: play test it, check its bracket, price it, share its page.

Under each card of a Looking For list, the Stores rows are now sorted cheapest first, in your currency, so the top row is where to buy that card right now. TCGplayer gets rows of its own alongside the local shops and Cardmarket, for members who chose it in their settings or chose no store at all. Same rows, same look — just the right order.

One honest note, because you would have noticed: from September 4 to September 28 those Stores rows were empty. A database cleanup removed a table we believed nothing read, and the store prices read it. Thirty of you tried, saw nothing, and got no error — we are sorry about that. It is fixed, and the check that would have caught it in minutes is now in place.

Every public deck on Gestic now has a page of its own at gestic.org/deck/…, and we seeded the section with 880 official preconstructed decks — every Commander precon comes with its bracket and a "Why this is Bracket N" explanation. A deck page lists the cards grouped by category, exports to Moxfield, Arena, ManaBox and the rest in one click, has a Copy this deck button that drops it into your account, and — once you sign in — tells you what percentage of it you already own. Link previews get a proper share image with the commander's art.

Your own decks get the same treatment: mark a list as a Deck, make it public with the eye icon, and it has a page that your profile links to. Browse everything at gestic.org/deck/.

Promised last month, delivered. Every card in a deck now carries a category — Removal, Ramp, Card Draw, Counterspell, Board Wipe and a dozen more — assigned automatically from what the card does, using the community card tags of Scryfall's Tagger project, and overridable per deck when your build disagrees.

Sort a deck by category and it groups itself; in the deck settings you choose the order of the groups and which of them count toward the deck. A "Maybeboard" or "Sideboard" category can stay attached to the list without touching the mana curve, the colour identity check, the Commander validation or the bracket.

Quick Review, fast. The other promise. On a 4,765-card list, Quick Review used to freeze the page for 52 seconds before it answered. It now opens in half a second and paints rows as you scroll. While we were in there, it also stopped showing the wrong price on multiplied lines.

Folder Watch. Scanner power users asked for it: on the scan page, pick a folder, and every picture that appears in it from then on is scanned into your list — several folders at once if you run several scanners. Nothing is moved, renamed or deleted; Gestic only reads. Chrome for now.

Prices you paid, everywhere. The bought price and date can now be entered on every add page and on the phone scanner, not just the home page. And the version table gained a Storage column, so where a card lives is finally visible without opening its editor.

Scanner polish. Scan Review's name field now has the home page's autocomplete (three letters and it suggests), each scan remembers the sticky settings it was taken with and shows them, and the AI button visibly refreshes the matches. Scanned cards link to their card page in a new tab. The phone scanner draws a rounded outline without the corner dots. And an update of the desktop scanner's library broke it for a few hours — it is now pinned to a version we test.

Imports and exports. Imports skip deck section headers, accept a double-faced card's front name, and — when a row leaves the set or number out — take the cheapest printing rather than failing; every detail you do give is respected. The Cardmarket export now tells you which cards it had to leave out and why. And a one-click TCGTracking export carries your chaos-sorting locations along, born from a Discord request the week it was built.

Message center. You can block a member (no more messages either way, and their conversations leave your inbox) and report a message with a reason. Reports come straight to us.

Card pages and the Play Tester. Card pages list the finishes a printing exists in and draw the mana symbols inside the rules text. Every card link in the app now goes to our own card page instead of Scryfall. The Play Tester has a menu entry and works without an account, sample deck included, so you can hand the link to anyone.

Fixes worth confessing. Cards priced only in euros were converted backwards during the nightly run — 23% too low, and labelled TCGplayer. A crash inside the scanner's image matching took the whole site down ten times in three weeks, including the twelve-minute outage on September 28; both the crash and the slow restart that followed it are fixed. The scanner's back end also got a throughput pass for busy evenings.

Smaller things. A new header. The list toolbox is readable on a touch screen. The login page sends you straight on if you are already signed in. Gestic has a Terms of Service page and a public account-deletion page, and deleting an account now signs out every device at once. Public pages load lighter pictures. And the release notes page caught up on the summer.

Ads, plainly. Members on the free plan now see a couple of ads on the sides of the page once their first week is over; members on a paid plan see none. That is the deal that keeps Gestic free to use and the servers paid for, and we would rather say it than let you notice it.

Putting cards up for sale on Gestic has a chore in the middle of it: deciding what to ask. For a few cards you look them up. For a four-hundred-card Offering list you give up, leave the market price on, and hope. Several of you told us exactly that.

So there is now a button that does the looking up for you — every card, every copy, in a few seconds — and shows its reasoning before it changes anything.

Open an Offering list, open the toolbox, and click Automatic Pricing (the A in a loop, on the same row as Fair Value). You get a preview table: each card, its current price, the proposed price, and what backed it — how many shops carry it, which reference prices were found. Warnings sit above the table so you notice them before the numbers. Nothing is written until you click Apply.

For each printing, Gestic looks at whether the stores you chose in your settings carry it, at the average and spread of the price across every local store that stocks that exact card, and at the reference prices from TCGplayer, Card Kingdom, Cardsphere and Cardmarket. From those it settles on a fair asking price. When none of your stores carries a card, it applies a shortage surge — your buyers cannot get it nearby, so it is worth more to them. And when a card in another language has no price anywhere, it can fall back to the English printing rather than leave it unpriced; that one was a request from a member with a list of 388 Korean cards.

Prices that went up are green, prices that went down are red, and a price you set yourself on a copy always wins — the automatic run never overwrites it. Every copy's asking price sits in the card's edit window, next to what you paid for it and its price history, so you can always see exactly what a buyer will be shown.

The configuration page has a Pricing section with some twenty settings, and every one of them carries a ? that explains what it does in plain words — the surge percentages, an overall adjustment ratio, the discount for each condition and how sharply it steepens for played cards, the rounding, the English fallback and its percentage. Tick "email me a report" and each run mails you the list totals, the ten dearest cards with a TCGplayer comparison, and how many shops and references backed each price.

Run it again whenever the market moves. And tell us how the numbers feel: the engine is tuned on measurements, but you are the one standing behind the asking price.

Thank you, genuinely. The folder watch, the TCGTracking export, the English fallback in pricing, the deck copy fix — every one of them started as a message from one of you, most on Discord, some straight to our inbox. Keep them coming.

As always: share your deck pages and your profile, and if your local shop is not on Gestic yet, send us the name and we will reach out (the current list is on your configuration page). Our inbox is wide open.

 

Selling beyond Gestic: listing on eBay and Facebook Marketplace are both being tested with real accounts. And the API's inventory endpoints, which we promised last month and did not ship — they are next in line, not forgotten.

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