Cartarch is a premium collectible-management platform built for the physical workflow of serious Magic: the Gathering collectors — track ownership across boxes, binders, and built decks; analyze deck shape and consistency; run games at the table.
§ I — The Volumes
i.
Import from a barcode scanner, Helvault, Moxfield, or a pasted decklist — Cartarch normalizes the format and resolves every card against a local Scryfall mirror. Search with full Scryfall-style syntax (boolean operators, color identity, format legality, price filters) across your whole collection.
ii.
An opt-in physical-layout system that assigns every card a drawer and slot deterministically, so a re-sort always lands at the same place. Tuned for a 6-drawer setup; configurable per-location modes let any storage layout opt in or out of the auto-sort.
iii.
Every deck gets a health panel: ramp, draw, removal, and wipe density against tunable thresholds; pip strain across demand vs. land sources; mana curve, card-type breakdown, color pips, average CMC. Filter by role tags (Ramp / Draw / Removal / Combo piece / Payoff / Protection) for surgical tuning.
iv.
A landscape tablet-first tracker for the at-table game. Commander art panel backgrounds (loaded from the local Scryfall mirror), per-seat life + counters, turn timing, auto-elimination on lethal poison, history + undo. First-player selection by dice roll or manual tap.
§ II — Inside
Overview
The Dashboard.
The day's brief, collection value at a glance, and quick actions for the placement queue.
Today's brief, holdings, recent activity.
Play
Deck analytics.
Mana curve, type breakdown, pip strain, and a deck-health read for every commander deck.
Health, density, strain — every angle you tune.
At the table
The game tracker.
Per-seat life, counters, commander damage and turn timing — landscape, tablet-first, no rules engine.
Landscape, tablet-first; no rules engine in the way.
Beta
Cartarch is in active development. Email [email protected] for an account — include a sentence about how you'd use it.
Support
Cartarch is free to use. If it helps your collection, consider a donation to keep development going. Donation-only — no paid tiers.
What's new
A journal of releases, refinements, and resolved problems since the Cartarch rebrand — open the Chronicle.
