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Cardfetcher Bot is now live! Please report any issues while we improve it

Great news everyone -- the Lemmy CardFetcherBot is now live across all MTGZone communities. We're still updating it and working on getting running with supervisor on the server, but in the meantime it should be handling all comments and posts on our instance here.

To use it, type card names in this format: [[Card Name]], and Cardbot will reply with links to the cards.

If you'd like to help out in anyway, feel free to join in at Github here: https://github.com/mikegioia/lemmy-cardfetcher-bot

Adding issues, sending PRs, anything at all will be helpful!

[[Venture Forth]]

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[[Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental]]

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cardbot reply

Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental - (G) (SF) (txt)

[[card name]] to call

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[[Fire // Ice]]
[[Start // Finish]]

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cardbot reply

Fire // Ice - (G) (SF) (txt)
Start // Finish - (G) (SF) (txt)

[[card name]] to call

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Evu reply

Everything looks good there.

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[[Silvos, Rogue Elemental]]

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cardbot reply

Silvos, Rogue Elemental - (G) (SF) (txt)

[[card name]] to call

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andantenz reply

There's my boy

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[[Sarkhan's Unsealing]]

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cardbot reply

Sarkhan's Unsealing - (G) (SF) (txt)

[[card name]] to call

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Venture Forth - (G) (SF) (txt)

[[card name]] to call

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[[Verdant Force|TMP]]

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cardbot reply

Unable to retrieve information for "Verdant Force|TMP"

[[card name]] to call

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Mike reply

We dont support the |SET syntax yet

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Andrew reply

[[Verdant Force]]

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cardbot reply

Verdant Force - (G) (SF) (txt)

[[card name]] to call

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Does the bot work for posts/comments from people from other instance ?

I made a comment on a post from here but the bot didn't respond to it. It might be related to comments from other instances not appearing on mtgzone.com (see the post I commented)

[[Not of This World]]

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[[Loopy Lobster]]

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Mike reply

still working out some kinks 😅 [[Loopy Lobster]]

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cardbot reply

Unable to retrieve information for "Loopy Lobster"

[[card name]] to call

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Evu reply

Hmm, let's try something Standard-legal: [[Chrome Cat]]

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cardbot reply

Chrome Cat - (G) (SF) (txt)

[[card name]] to call

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Evu reply

That seems good! Is the card list limited to things that are tournament-legal? Loopy Lobster was one of the Mystery Booster playtest cards.

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Mike reply

It's using the Scryfall API, and this is the query we're making for that card: https://api.scryfall.com/cards/search?q=Loopy+Lobster

I'm not sure why Scryfall can't find it since they serve the page for it.

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Evu reply

All of those playtest cards are excluded, it looks like. I think I found the answer here. This URL will find Loopy Lobster:

https://api.scryfall.com/cards/search?include_extras=1&q=Loopy+Lobster

But the include_extras parameter also covers things like tokens and planes which you might reasonably decide you don't want. Maybe have it re-run the search with include_extras if the initial search without it comes back empty? Or maybe not, since that could significantly increase the number of API calls. I don't know.

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[[Palantir of Orthanc]]

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cardbot reply

Palantír of Orthanc - (G) (SF) (txt)

[[card name]] to call

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[[Counterspell]]

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Could you update the sidebar with the github link and maybe a quick usage instruction?

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Mike reply

Just updated now, great idea

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