mtg-ssm 1.2.1

A tool to manage Magic: the Gathering collection spreadsheets.

mtg-ssm - Magic: the Gathering Spreadsheet Manager

mtg-ssm is a tool for creating/updating user-friendly spreadsheets with Magic: the Gathering collection information. The tool can also import/export data to/from these spreadsheets to other formats, such as CSV files.

As a matter of convenience, you can store the created spreadsheet in Dropbox, Google Drive, or the like and access your collection from anywhere.

Installation

mtg-ssm is available on PyPI so, if you have python (>=3.3) and pip installed on your system, you should be able to get mtg-ssm by entering the following into a terminal:

pip3 install mtg_ssm

Updates can be performed by entering:

pip3 install -U mtg_ssm

You can verify installation from the terminal by running:

mtg-ssm --help

Usage

For first time use, you will want to create an empty spreadsheet with card data:

mtg-ssm collection.xlsx

In the future, when new sets are released, running the same command will update your collection spreadsheet while keeping existing counts:

mtg-ssm collection.xlsx

Existing collections

If you already have your cards in another collection store, you might want to import that collection into your card spreadsheet.

First create an example csv file:

mtg-ssm --format csv collection.csv.example

Then modify the template to match your counts and import into your spreadsheet:

mtg-ssm collection.xlsx collection.csv

Export / import to deckbox

If you already have your cards entered into Deckbox, you can export a csv from deckbox and import the contents into a spreadsheet just as you might merge from an existing collection using the “deckbox” import format:

mtg-ssm --import_format collection.xlsx Inventory_username_2016.March.10.csv

Alternatively, if you have your collection in a spreadsheet already and would like to load your data into deckbox to check prices or share with other people, just go the other direction.

mtg-ssm --format inventory.csv collection.xlsx

Deckbox Warning

MTG JSON, which we use for card data doesn’t always map 1-to-1 to cards in Deckbox. This means that data can lose granularity in going from one form to the other, or back. If you intend to use both native mtg-ssm spreadsheets and Deckbox, I encourage you to choose one to be authoritative and always export to the other; going back and forth is probably not a good idea.

The following conversion issues are known to exist:

• Sets that contain multiple versions of the same card (ex. Thallid in Fallen Empires) may lose track of the specific version when going back and forth.

• Alternate art cards (ex. Ertai, the Corrupted in Planeshift) may lose track of the art version when going back and forth.

• Not all Clash Pack cards are available in mtg-ssm.

Contributions

Pull requests are welcome and contributions are greatly appreciated.

Issues can be reported via GitHub.

Acknowledgments

• Wizards of the Coast: For making Magic: the Gathering and continuing to support it. Off and on, it’s been my favorite hobby since the early ’90s.

• MTG JSON: MTG JSON is an amazing resource for anyone looking to build tools around magic card data. It is pretty much THE source for structured magic card data. Without MTG JSON this project would not have been possible.

Changelog

1.2.1

• Add support for deckbox.org import/export.

• Backend improvements.

1.2.0

• Complete rework of the serialization architecture.

• Rebuild of the manager cli.

• Incompatible CLI interface changes. See help for new usage information.

1.1.0

• Complete rework of the data model storage. Drop sqlite based data models in favor of custom classes and dict based indexes.

• Switch to accepting all versions of MTGJSON instead of bumping for every release.

1.0.2

• Version bump MTGJSON support.

1.0.1

Fixed some PyPI related issues.

1.0.0

• Initial stable release.