It’s been a bit over a year since Scryfall launched, and we’re really proud of all of the improvements we’ve made. Here are a few highlights:
- We’ve launched Scryfall accounts so you can now support us directly
- We’re crowdsourcing art and functional card tags on Tagger
- We’re now providing high-resolution card images
- We launched a Slack and Discord bot
- We’re archiving tokens and lots of other supplemental items
- We’re now part of MTGCardFetcher on Reddit
- We’ve done a lot of work to represent split and double-faced cards correctly
In addition, we have some amazing news: Scryfall is now solvent! Our Patrons and our members are covering all of our hosting costs per month. This is a huge milestone for us, it means we no longer have to spend money from our own pocket to keep Scryfall available and fast. Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️
Extra support goes towards helping us tip community members that source images for us, and transitioning Scryfall from a passion project to something that can support a part- or full-time development team.
And now without father ado, here are the answers to year-end questions you submitted:
What do you get asked for help with the most?
The Planeswalker Deck cards are very polarizing. A lot of people ask us how you can filter them out. (It’s not:pwdeck by the way.)
What’s your favorite thing you’ve seen someone do with Scryfall?
The whole Scryfall team was surveyed and here are some things they chose:
- Scryfall regular expression golf
- April King made some great collages from our images
- We often get messaged by students asking if they can incorporate Scryfall’s API into their computer science projects. We’re really, really happy that it’s inspiring novice programmers. 🙌
What are your favorite tokens?
- The Reef Worm cycle by Dan Scott
- An octopus! by Craig Spearing
- One of the more Thallid-like Sapprolings by Warren Mahy
- Magali Villeneuve’s Prowess Monk
What are your favorite “Out of Flavor For This Color” cards?
- Unyaro Bees — Combining arbitrarily large green creatures with Time Spiral nostalgia
- Wheel of Fortune — Why is this red!? We’ll take it!
- Prodigal Sorcerer — The poster child of (modern) color pie violation
- Mana Tithe — No one suspects Mana Tithe
(A bunch of questions about site stats and most-popular cards)
Unfortunately (or fortunately), the answer to questions about our most popular pages and what people search for is somewhat boring.
- The majority of people are looking up cards by name (for pricing, or because they’re in the middle of a game, etc)
- The most popular card groups are whatever is new. Essentially if you pick any 90-day timeframe, the most popular cards are the most recent set release.
- The most popular individual cards in a set tend to be ones that make big news on Reddit/Twitter, here are some recent most-popular cards:
Thanks!
This amazing year was all because of you and your contributions! Here’s to many more! 🎉
You can always get in touch with the Scryfall team here on the site, Twitter, or Reddit.