I’m currently in a large event that is trying to use the companion app. This is vastly worse set up and organized that any event I have ever seen using the dci system. The games don’t get organized or assigned correctly, and the judging staff is basically having to say “ignore the app” multiple times per minute. In addition, forcing events to use the app requires all participants to have a smart phone, with signal, and batteries, which is not universal. It also forces all participants to have a magic arena login. This app is very gatekeep-y and really not welcoming to new players or established players.

I would like to comment on a number of things in the new Card Database. (FYI, I am using a Samsung Galaxy S7)

Issues:
- In the advanced search, I personally find it too easy to accidentally activate the "mana value," "power," and "toughness" sliders. Maybe you could make it so you have to tap on the orange dots to activate these search fields.
- The database seemingly has a hard time loading large amounts of DFCs and split cards (only the DFC/split cards have trouble loading; anything else in the search loads as usual).
- Card images before Ixalan are a lot lower resolution than cards after Ixalan.
- Not a major issue, but there is a lot of inconsistency with the corners of card images (some cards have corners that end at the card, some have sharp white corners that extend past the card, and some have a few white pixels surrounding the corners of the actual card).
- Once again, not a major issue, but the "5" in the "mana value," "power," and "toughness" fields gets cut off by the orange dot when those fields are disabled.
- Some cards are missing from the search (certain specific cards, such and "Angrath, Minotaur Pirate;" heroes of the realm cards; non un-set silver-bordered cards; and promotional/celebration cards.)
- The database could use some optimization to make it run faster, load images quicker, etc.
- Not a major issue, but when dragging the sliders in the "mana value," "power," and "toughness" fields, I can't drag the maximum slider to be below the minimum slider (eg. if I have have a min of 5 and a max of 10, but I want to have a min of 0 and a max of 5, I can't drag the slider on 10 to 0. I have to drag the slider on 10 to 5, then drag one of the sliders on 5 to 0).

Feature Ideas:
- Options for loading cards in batches larger than ten (This could also help reduce the amount of time a user is waiting on cards to load.)
- If possible, allow users to choose whether they want to load cards at high resolution for increased visual fidelity or low resolution for lower data usage.
- As commander is one of the more popular formats, create an option to search for cards by color identity
- An option to search by tags (search for commanders, split cards, DFCs, silver, black or gold bordered, etc.)
- An option to search via something akin to regular expressions (eg. search for cards with "land" in the rules text, but not "island.")
- A drop down or autocomplete feature would be nice for the "expansion" and "mark" fields.
- It would be nice to see a deck builder option in the future that you can directly add cards from searches into.

Thank you for reading my feedback,
Alex

It would be incredibly valuable for formats that care about Rarity for Magic Companion to include settings to search Rarity inclusively or exclusively, and to filter search results by Highest and Lowest Rarity.

An inclusive search is done by looking for any printing of a card that matches the search criteria. If Card A has been printed at Common, Uncommon and Rare, and you do an inclusive search for Uncommon cards, then Card A will appear in the search results because at least one of its printings matches the criteria. This is like how Pauper currently cares about Rarity.

An exclusive search only returns items which exclusively match the search criteria and no others. For example, Card A, which has been printed at Common, Uncommon and Rare, would not show up in a search for Uncommon cards because it has not been printed at that Rarity exclusively. Card B, which has never been printed at any Rarity other than Uncommon, would show up in the results of an exclusive search for Uncommon cards.

The last request is for an option which lets you filter results by the Highest Rarity ever printed for a card and the Lowest Rarity ever printed for a card.

For example, if you search for cards with a certain criterion (say, Flying) and ask for the results to be filtered to show only the Lowest Rarity the results have ever been released at, it will return Cards A, B and C, which all have Flying, but it will show only the Common printing of Card A, not its other, higher rarity printings. Card C, which has been printed at Uncommon and Rare, will only be displayed at Uncommon on the search results list, not Rare. Card B will be displayed as Uncommon because that's its only Rarity in all its printings.

Filtering by Highest Rarity would be the inverse. It would display Cards A and C as Rare, their highest printings, and Card B as Uncommon, its highest, and only, Rarity.

So, filter by Lowest Rarity would display those three cards as a Common and two Uncommons. Filter by Highest Rarity would display those same three cards as an Uncommon and two Rares.

These Rarity search features would be absolutely invaluable for any format which cares about Rarity as a determining factor in deck construction and it would immediately set Magic Companion head and shoulders above any other card database app.

Many thanks to the Customer Service team for slogging through all of this and thanks to the Dev team for their hard work making an app which can really improve the player experience!