Explain The Card: MTG
AI Copilot: Collection & Decks
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Meet your AI co-pilot for Magic: The Gathering. Scan a card to understand it, ask any rules question, build a Commander deck in minutes and track your collection.
Explain The Card is your AI co-pilot for Magic: The Gathering. Point your camera at a card and find out what it really does. Ask a rules question and get a straight answer. Build a Commander deck in minutes, and keep your whole collection in your pocket.
UNDERSTAND ANY CARD
Scan a card, no shutter and no typing, and see its Oracle text, rulings, prices and legality right away. When the wording gets tricky, one tap explains it in plain language. Scan two cards to see how they work together, or whether one quietly shuts the other down.
ASK THE RULES, GET A REAL ANSWER
"Can I respond to this?" "Does my creature survive?" Ask the way you'd ask a friend at the table. Every answer is grounded in the actual card text, official rulings and the Comprehensive Rules, not internet guesswork, and comes back in the language you play in.
BUILD A COMMANDER DECK IN MINUTES
Pick a commander, choose a power bracket and a budget, and describe the deck you want in your own words: "goblin tribal", "lands matter", "pillow fort". You get a complete, legal 100-card list sorted by role, with a game plan for how it wants to win. Build from the cards you already own, if you like.
DISCOVER COMBOS
Search thousands of Commander combos by card name or in plain English, like "infinite mana", and see step by step how each one plays out.
YOUR COLLECTION, SCANNED
Fan your cards past the camera and each one lands with the right set and printing. Anything the camera isn't sure about waits for a quick check. Keep a binder and want lists right here, or export your cards for ten popular deck and collection sites, each in its own format. See what your collection is worth and how that has changed, down to a single box or binder, and share a dated valuation report when you need one. Scanning, exporting and value history are all free, with no card limit.
ALWAYS WITH YOU
The full Comprehensive Rules work offline, and widgets, Siri and Spotlight keep any card or rule a moment away.
A NOTE ON AI
AI features are powered by Google's Agent Platform (Gemini). Nothing is sent until you opt in, and you can turn it off any time in Settings. Scanning, card data, combos and your collection all work without AI.
LEGAL
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more Bug fixes and improvements.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
4.4.1 3d ago
Your settings and card price history now follow you to your other devices with iCloud Sync. The Collection tab's value card is redesigned too: a clearer graph, and tap the change to switch between percent and amount.
Plus fixes, including Premium showing correctly on a second device.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
4.4.0 4d ago
See what your collection is worth and how that has changed over time. Keep the total on a new Home Screen or Lock Screen widget or just ask Siri, and share a dated PDF valuation report for insurance or a sale. It's all free.
Plus small fixes and polish.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
4.3.0 6d ago
Scan, ask or build straight from Control Center, your Lock Screen, the Action button, Siri or Spotlight. Printings now show their prices, and big collections load them much faster.
Plus small fixes and polish.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
4.2.0 Sep 29
A FRESHER HOME
Your history has a new look. Every scan, interaction and combo now shows its cards at a glance, and questions get more room to breathe.
If the AI is briefly busy, you'll now see a clear message, and nothing is charged.
Plus small fixes and polish.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
4.1.0 Sep 26
MEET YOUR COLLECTION
A new Collection tab. Scan your cards straight in, each with the right set and printing, and check anything the camera wasn't sure about. Sort your binder, keep want lists, note which box every card lives in, and import or export your collection in ten common formats. All free, no AI needed.
EXPLANATIONS IN YOUR LANGUAGE
Explanations now come back in the language you use the app in. And once a card is explained, that explanation follows it to every printing and language, with no second charge.
Plus a batch of fixes and polish throughout.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
4.0.0 Sep 24
A FULL COMBO LIBRARY, BUILT IN
Search thousands of Commander combos by card name or in plain English — "infinite mana," "win the game" — save the ones you like, and see step by step how each one actually resolves. Ask AI why it works, or build a deck around it in one tap.
KNOW YOUR DECK'S REAL BRACKET
Any deck can now show the Commander bracket its cards actually add up to, not just the one you picked. Free, no AI — and imported decks arrive with it already worked out.
Plus a new screen for sorting out decklist lines the importer couldn't match, and a batch of fixes.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
3.1.0 Aug 30
A FULL COMBO LIBRARY, BUILT IN
Search thousands of Commander combos by card name or plain English — "infinite mana," "win the game" — save your favorites, and get a clear step-by-step breakdown of how each one actually resolves. Ask AI why it works, or build a whole deck around it in one tap.
SEE THE PAYOFF IN PLAIN ENGLISH
Every combo now tells you what it does in words, not just symbols, with the effect you're looking for ranked above what the loop merely passes through along the way.
Plus a redesigned Combos tab you can riffle through like a real stack of cards, and a batch of fixes.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
3.0.0 Aug 26
BUILD A DECK BY HAND NOW TOO, NO AI NEEDED
Build a deck from scratch, or edit any existing deck's cards, entirely free: pick a commander, add cards from a Scryfall-grounded search seeded with EDHREC's top picks, bulk-select and delete cards, and change a deck's bracket after the fact.
SUGGESTED CARDS THAT DON'T RUN DRY
The Add Cards sheet now tops itself back up as you add cards instead of running dry, and a new type filter narrows both search and suggestions to Creatures, Instants, and more.
NEVER GET CAUGHT WITH A BANNED CARD
A new background watcher checks your saved decks and scan history against Commander's banned and restricted list and notifies you the moment something changes. Turn it on in Settings → Notifications.
Plus smarter deckbuilder pool diversity at lower brackets and a batch of fixes.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
2.2.0 Aug 8
IMPORT YOUR OWN DECKLIST
Paste or scan any decklist to save it straight to your Decks tab, no AI needed.
TAGS, FAVORITES & OFFLINE ACCESS
Star your best decks, organize the rest with tags, and browse them anytime, even offline.
Plus smarter deck building and a batch of fixes to keep everything fast and reliable.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
2.1.0 Aug 4
MEET THE AI COMMANDER DECK BUILDER
BUILD A DECK
Pick a commander, set a bracket, a budget, and your strategy: get back a complete, legal 100-card deck with a plain-English game plan, ready to save, tweak, and take to your next game night.
TODAY'S COMMANDERS WIDGET
Fresh commander inspiration on your Home Screen every day: tap a commander to open it and start building.
Plus a new Get Support contact form in Settings, live status for anything you report, and a batch of fixes to keep everything fast and reliable.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
2.0.0 Aug 3
BIGGER SEARCH, SMARTER EXPLANATIONS
SEARCH TAB
Browse the full Comprehensive Rules or search cards and rules together in a new Search tab — instant results, full offline rule text.
EXPLAIN LIKE I'M…
Pick a reading level once — New Player, Casual, or Competitive — and every explanation and answer matches it automatically.
PRICES & PRINTINGS
See market prices at a glance and browse every printing's art before you settle on one.
Plus fullscreen card art with an optional foil shimmer, tap-through card interactions, and a batch of fixes to keep everything fast and reliable.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
1.0.0 Jul 9
SHARE YOUR EXPLANATIONS
Turn any explanation, interaction, or answer into a clean, shareable card — card art, the rules breakdown, and the source credits, all baked in. Drop it straight into a group chat, Discord, or Reddit. Pick image or text as your default in Settings.
SMOOTHER ALL AROUND
We refreshed the look in a few places and fixed a batch of bugs to keep everything fast, smooth, and reliable.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
0.5.0 Jun 29
NOW SPEAKING YOUR LANGUAGE
Explain The Card is now fully translated into French, German, and Italian — every screen, with the proper Magic terms. Read clear explanations and ask your rules questions in your own language.
A HISTORY YOU'LL WANT TO BROWSE
Your saved cards, questions, and interactions now show off real card art, so everything you've looked up is easy to spot at a glance — with favourites, tags, and sharing right where you need them.
A CLEANER, CALMER HOME
We tidied up the home screen and gave it a fresh, polished look, leaving more room for your cards and answers.
Plus the usual behind-the-scenes fixes to keep things fast and smooth.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
0.4.0 Jun 25
YOUR HISTORY IS NOW A NOTEBOOK
The full-history screen got a serious upgrade. Star any card, question, or interaction to keep your favourites one tap away. Organize everything with your own colour-coded tags. And a new filter sweeps across kind, date, colour, card type, and mana value — so you can pull up exactly the ruling you need in seconds.
Plus the usual polish and reliability fixes under the hood.
Questions or feedback? support@rosalabs.app
0.3.0 Jun 23
What's new in 0.2.0
SEARCH YOUR HISTORY
Your Home screen now keeps your most recent threads handy, and a new full-history screen lets you search across everything you've asked — card names, questions, and AI answers, follow-ups included. Find that ruling you looked up last week in seconds.
Plus the usual polish and reliability fixes under the hood.
Questions or feedback? support@rosalabs.app
0.2.0 Jun 21
Bug fixes and improvements.
Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: support@rosalabs.app
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