MTG Scanner - Dragon Shield
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User Reviews for MTG Scanner - Dragon Shield
Excellent product
I only scanned in a few things so far to get a feel for the app, worth the premium price. I enjoyed the email I got about "winning" and "losing" cards, that is a useful feature for keeping an eye on the list when Im busy with my stack. Im currently organizing some things so I can finish a huge scan thats about to come in. The best thing about the app is how quickly the cards are recognized and how accurate. The only cards that give me trouble are class cards or sagas, which is to be expected. It's a lot of work for the bots we demand so much from. I read the reviews about the previous hand and I'm glad things have improved, I can't speak on the old system but the new one I am pleased with. I felt good showing my husband (a beta and alpha player who just got back into it because I brought home D&D) this app, he is also happy about seeing his prices without the hassle of constantly checking TCG manually. We can just open the app and see our cards without digging them out etc. We have already collected a lot so this is making things much easier to keep track of. "Hey do you have this card in lorehold yet?" "I'm pretty sure it came in the precon, let me check dragon shield... yep, see its already there :)"
A nice resource for card management
I used to keep track of my collection via mtgprice’s website but after they changed their policies to a subscription service I ended up just being locked out of my data. I happened upon this app a while ago and while the UI is a bit touchy it fits with what I needed. Pros: •Inventory tracking •Price Tracking •Card Scanner •List Creations •A variety of filtering/sorting options •Deck creation •A fair subscription price for ad-free management, price alerts, price charting, and updates Cons: •Deck Creation is not adjustable for EDH/Commander format •Scanner is very quick with the capture feature and sometimes (rarely) doesn’t know what the card is I’m still testing it out but over the last month of using it I decided to try out the subscription service. I’ll may update later.
Everything I Need, Except…
I use this app to keep track of an 8,000+ card collection. The amount of relief this product has brought me is tremendous. Dragon Shield has set themselves apart from others in a number of ways with this scanner. The seamless accessibility and ease of navigation is definitely noteworthy. I am able to customize the way I store and organize my cards, keep track of the decks that I have my cards in, and monitor the ebbing and flowing values of my individual cards, as well as my collection as a whole. This app has everything I could possibly need, except ONE feature (which I hope to see added, eventually). The only thing this app is lacking is a way to add MTG products to your inventory, aside from individual cards, that would otherwise be for sale on sites such as TCG Player, Card Kingdom, etc. It would be helpful to keep track of my inventory and the value of items such as unopened precons or booster boxes. I’m not sure how realistic or easy it would be to add such a feature, but I would love to see it! I've already recommended the app to my entire playgroup, and even offered to help them get their collections organized. Absolutely top product here.
Free before. Subscription now. Does the job.
Got the app a long time ago before it was bought out by its current owners. Previously the App would let you purchase quantities of card slots so you could permanently own a certain amount of card space for your collection. However, since then they have stolen those previous purchases away from me and now only offer a subscription for stuff I already owned and payed for. If you want some kind of collection manager where you can trust the developer this is not the one. Complete scam. I want my money back.Update: have tried multiple times to get fixed by contacting developer. Still not fixed and when I try replying to any emails they do send me they don’t respond back.Update: Support managed to get me my previously purchased collection slots added to my account for me after several emails back and forth. Changed my rating from 1 to 3. Will have to wait and see how the new app feels before I decide if it deserves more.
Pretty good! Just needs one thing…
Got this app recently and it works pretty well! You may have to double check that the app gets the correct set for each card though, which will slow you down a little. Overall very pleased with the scanner part of the app, though. Scanned 2,000+ cards this past weekend by myself! Just one thing I wish this app had…it would be so, so helpful if the deck building function gave you the ability to add cards straight from your “inventory” lists, rather than having to re-scan or search cards by name from the entire library. As far as I can tell, you can’t even filter your search results to show only cards that you own in your inventory. Imho, this would be a HUGE help to users who are interested in building decks using cards that they’ve already scanned into their inventory.
Good but needs some fixes
I really like the way this app is laid out and how easy and straightforward the scan feature is. It’s already helped me sort my 30k card collection and find the high value cards. My issue with it is that it seems buggy. There are some cards it simply refuses to scan no matter what, and it occasionally gets “stuck” where every scan results in showing the same random card, which can only be fixed with a restart. The other thing is that text search seems painfully slow to get results, and those seem buggy as well, like cards that don’t include the search terms showing up in the results, but only sometimes.Ultimately I’m really glad this app exists, and it does what it’s supposed to, it just needs a few wrinkles ironed out.
Not a great app for the detail-oriented
[edit: developer responded that the technology is limited to scanning the art only, so I’ve increased my rating by one star. But I guess, then, why can’t that be expanded to scan the rest of the card, to detect variants and promo stamps? Regardless, the issue of displaying mismatched thumbnail/variant name pairings needs to be addressed. And maybe the default should be regular versions of cards.]The scanner works extremely fast at pulling up the card you’re pointing it at… but it’s terrible at selecting the correct version. With Wizards printing regular, borderless, extended art, alternate art, alternate frame, and promo versions of every card nowadays, any card scanner needs to be able to detect these subtleties in order to pull up the right version of a card. Sadly, this app is unable to do this with much accuracy. It also often displays mismatched card thumbnails and card version names when scanning. And changing to a different version from what it mistakenly auto selects is cumbersome (as are many many other features in this app). Needs some work.
Good but deck building needs a little love
This is a great app for people that have large and actively updated collections. Data base is comprehensive and scanning is fast and accurate. The price tracking is also great, no complaints there. My only issue with the app is that I find the deck building to be a bit lacking. My biggest want is importing decks from other platforms but another feature that would be great is having decks show which cards I am lacking in my collection when I make a deck. I have a lot of cards but I still need to pick up the odd card now and again so it would be nice to know when I need something for a deck I am planning. One last minor thing, I also noticed the data base doesn’t recognize the stranger things secret lair by the stranger things names (Mike, Will, etc.). While it’s easy enough to just search the magic equivalents, it would be nice to have the card name in the app match the words on the card.
Not an improvement over previous app
So before dragon shield took over, you would need to purchase the database to add the latest set, usually for a couple buck. Not a big deal when only 4-5 sets come out a year. Now with their subscription model? Totally a cash grab. Not sure why it didn’t properly track my previous inventory as well...it transferred over all my cards but doesn’t give me any space? I originally had about 7000 available inventory slots and now I can’t add new cards because I am “over” my free 100 card limit.Dragon Shield - you are being way too greedy with your pricing model for what this app is designed to do, and especially because there are so many other reviews complaining about your scanner quality. I would gladly pay $3-4 per set like it originally was, but if you think people are gonna blindly sign up for subscriptions with features listed as not even available yet? Set some better expectations for what this app is and does, and price it accordingly. Love your other products and sleeve, but this is completely off the mark.
Thank you Dragon Shield
I’ve followed this app since the legacy MTG Manager app, and was so disgusted with the pricing model the previous developers came up with that I actually stopped cataloging my cards despite being half way through my collection of 20,000+ cards into this database. It was literally more worth it for me to abandon all that time spent scanning than to use this app. That has changed. I see dragon shield has made this free to catalog, and all other features are bundled into a premium subscription, at $20/year. (Previous developers were asking $100+/ year subscription JUST to have your card slots available for scanning. THANK YOU for making this app accessible and FAIRLY priced. I am excited to start cataloging my collection again. With the right marketing this platform could quite honestly revolutionize card collecting, i have always seen so much potential in this app!!
Description
Dragon Shield – MTG Card Manager makes it easy to check prices for trades, track your Magic the Gathering collection’s value and stats, build decks, instantly translate foreign-language cards and find oracle-text and rulings. The perfect companion app for MTG - Manage your cardboard treasures like a Dragon! SOCIAL & FRIENDS (NEW) - Add friends on the app - See your friends' collection, decks, wish and tradelist - Share your own lists with friends SCAN CARDS - Instantly scan cards in any language - Real-time translation of foreign-language cards - Check daily prices from TCGPlayer, CardMarket, CardKingdom and MTGMintCard - Find card price charts for the last 30 days - Find format legality and oracle text and official rulings MANAGE YOUR COLLECTION FOR FREE - Organize your cards into folders - Add custom folder images - Check folder price valuation and win/loss ratio over time - Export cards to .csv or text document MULTIPLE SORTING OPTIONS AND FILTERS - Get folder statistics (Mana Cost, Card Color, etc.) MTG DECK BUILDER - Create your favorite Magic the Gathering decks - Add your sideboard - Add cards directly from Inventory - Export decks to .csv or text document - Get deck statistics (Mana Cost, Card Color, etc.) TRADE - Compare trade value between two players - See who’s winning or losing the trade and by which amount TOP WINNERS AND LOSERS - See what cards went up or down in value - Filter by date and format - See the top card winners and losers within your collection WEEKLY EMAILS WITH COLLECTION STATS - Get weekly emails with your Magic The Gathering collection statistics Magic: the Gathering™ is a trademark of Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved.
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