Box sets

[taw]

This repo contains decks, but there are other non-randomized boxed products, and there's no reason to not have them as well.

Type would probably be box and no distinction between main / side / commander, all cards would be main. Everything else would work the same.

Especially interesting would be SLD with so many products.

[axxroytovu]

I'm good to do the data entry. There are two options:

• Have one large "box" category that is exempt from deck size checks. This is much easier from my end but isn't super descriptive.
• Build individual categories for each product with appropriate size checks. This adds extra work for me but would be more consistent with how the tool currently works.

Besides SLD do you have any specific products that you're looking for? The only ones I can think of that aren't already included are:

• Complete Sets
• Land Stations
• Deck Builder's Toolkit is half precon/half boosters

[taw]

For now I just setup one box type and uploaded example product.

For SLD at least, I don't think size checking makes any sense.

It's fine to add extra types.

(halfdeck is already a type for UND, so there's already not-really-deck products here)

I might also add some flags for what's a deck and what's not-really-a-deck to types list at some point, but we'll get there when we get there.

[axxroytovu]

Here's where I'm working on this: https://github.com/taw/magic-preconstructed-decks/pull/36

This is just cards sorted by their subset property and attached to different files right now. Still a lot of cleanup work to do to fix bonus cards, missing tokens, double faced cards, etc.

[taw]

Do we want to add non-SLD box sets?

[axxroytovu]

Do you have an example? I don't know what kind of product you're referencing.

[taw]

So there's box products that are just the whole set like FTV, SS1 etc., I don't think there's that much value is in, I guess maybe for sake of completeness.

For other products, there's things like:

• Holiday Gift Packs
• SDCC boxes
• Ponies: The Galloping
• land stations

I don't think any of that is terribly important. We could either add them, or decide that we're done with this issue.

[axxroytovu]

Ah, ok. I can work on adding them slowly but it'll probably be a lower priority thing right now.

We can probably close the issue if you are able to validate that all of those products are showing up in https://mtg.wtf/product. If they're in that list, then I'll eventually get around to adding them to the system.

[axxroytovu]

I thought about Land stations, and I don't know that people care enough about exactly what lands are in the list. If there are any special promo cards that come with it or something I can record those but just the lands aren't really enough to warrant their own deck.

[taw]

Yeah, all of this looks pretty low priority.

[axxroytovu]

I'm tracking sets & products that are missing homes here: https://github.com/mtgjson/mtgjson/issues/1070

If you find any specific products or sets that are missing things feel free to mention it there.

[taw]

I currently follow mtgjson by ignoring zero-card sets and assigning their products to best matching set with cards.

[axxroytovu]

Then that same procedure needs to be implemented for the sealed products. I don't know how to make that happen besides putting up and tracking the problems as they arise.

[taw]

I think we're done here now? Not counting SLD boxes coming out every month?

[axxroytovu]

I'm still working through new products and there are definitely things I haven't uploaded yet. Secret Lairs are still coming out, and I'm still loading the deck builder's toolkits and lots of the promo boxes like the SDCC ones.

I don't really know that leaving this issue open is really doing anything though. The issue is more over at https://github.com/mtgjson/mtg-sealed-content

[taw]

OK, closing this issue then.