MTG Scanner - Dragon Shield

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.

[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.

The app is absolutely amazing! I’m a very new player, having only played for 3 weeks now, this app makes it much easier to see exactly what a card can do and allows me to see everything in my collection at a moments notice. The scan feature is truly fast, often times taking less than half a second to get the card scanned. There is a few things to be desired however. The scan is so insanely fast that it often scans incorrectly. While it’ll be accurate in the name of the card (forest land for instance) it’ll often get the print date and/or art incorrect. While this doesn’t make that big of a difference for someone who mostly cares about the value of the cards, for people who collect them for the art like me, it can be a hassle and end up being more time consuming trying to find the correct art and release year. While this can be annoying, it’s less of a flaw and more of a trade off in my opinion. The big flaw is how I am unable to chance the price of purchase of these cards or decks. Personally I mostly purchase pre made commander decks. I may have only spent $35-$40 on the entire deck, however the app states the price of purchase as the actual value of the cards at the time of scanning which ends up showing that I “spent” $75 on a deck when in reality I spent $35 on the full deck. I feel like this would be an insanely easy fix, simply adding a “change purchase price” button for the decks that were scanned into the inventory section of the app would instantly make this a 5 star review!!! Thank you dragon shield, this is overall an AMAZING app for a new player and I fully plan to use this app for the foreseeable future