There’s some tools in the mid-low part of the editor that allows you to modify your decklist by adding, reducing, deleting cards from it. By hitting “Return” you add the selected card to the maindeck, and by hitting “CTRL (or Command on mac) + Return” you add the selected card to the sideboard. To add cards manually you can use the search box which dynamically shortens the search results at the same time you type in more characters from the card you are searching. The deck editor feature allows you to create any deck and modify it at any time. All your decks are automatically stored inside your Decks folder. For that what you want to do first is go to Cockatrice (non bold) -> Deck Editor. Before we actually play any games what we need to do is to have some decks to play with. You can customize your own shortcut messages, or you can even add your own playmat for the battleground if you wish.ĥ.
You won’t need to download any pictures like you used to do in MWS. This is a great feature that allows you to automatically download the cards while you are playing. My favorite one, and it’s definitely a MUST HAVE is the Download card pictures on the fly. In there you can choose from many different options. For that, go to Cockatrice (the one in bold) -> Preferences. It should look similar to this:īoring, huh? Don’t worry! On your menu bar you’ll see 2 menus (in Mac both are named Cockatrice, hope they’ll fix that).įirst thing you might want to do is to change the game preferences. When you open the program you’ll see an empty screen and not much to play with.
If you wish to add them too, feel free to mark them.Ĥ. *Note: By default the Unhinged and Unglued sets aren’t added. You can close the Oracle once the download is finished. So, what you have to do next is go to File -> Download sets information.Ĭlick on Start Download and wait a couple of minutes. Once you open the Oracle tool you’ll see that everything is empty and that you can’t really do much. Yes, before actually running Cockatrice we need to run the Oracle to download all cards and sets information. Nothing is wrong at this point if you don’t have the files cards.xml or sets.xmlģ. *Note: Don’t worry if you don’t have all the files yet.
It’s very simple! For those mac users out there, once installed you should have a folder in your applications that looks something like this: Visit to download and learn more about the project.Ģ. Right after the break we’ll try to explain you some of the nice features Cockatrice has and help you install/configure it.ġ. It doesn’t support tournaments yet, but, everything will come eventually!
We are talking about Cockatrice.Ĭockatrice is an open source software that works on both PC and Mac developed by Max-Wilhelm (Bruker), Marcus Schütz and Marius van Zundert, and even though the game still is on its very early stages we can say it works great for the playtesting purposes. While Magic Workstation (MWS) is the king of the hill to play free Magic games online, recently a new german software has started to get popular.