About Virtual Cardboard

Virtual Cardboard lets you draft physical Magic: The Gathering cards online. Unlike simulators that use imaginary packs, here each player enters the contents of their real booster packs (or a cube list generates random packs), and the draft happens asynchronously — so when you sit down together, you can skip straight to building and playing.

Why I Built This

My friends and I squeeze in a weekly game night after the kids go to bed. We love to draft, but a draft can eat most of the night before a card is played. I built this so we could draft our physical packs during the week and just show up ready to play. Pick ratings are powered by DraftSim data to help less experienced drafters along.

Cube Customization

Cube drafts are more complex than booster drafts, so Virtual Cardboard lets cube owners communicate with their drafters in a few ways:

• Any notes you've added to cards in CubeCobra appear inline as drafters make picks.
• Card tags can be surfaced to drafters, each with an optional explanation of what they mean.
• For Commander cubes, placing cards in the command zone sets the color identity, highlighting invalid cards.

What's Next?

This project started as a way to draft online with my playgroup, but it quickly became a more robust project. As to where it goes next, that really depends on what kind of feedback I get from users.

That means you.

If you're reading this, I want to know what you think. Bugs, feature requests, anything really. Magic players tend to have opinions. You might even find the Easter egg hidden in the feedback form.

A few ideas rattling around in the noggin:

• Support for custom draft settings created on CubeCobra.
• More robust bot drafting and pack generation.
• Alternative draft formats like Winston, quilt, rotisserie.
• Save and share decklists and draft logs.
• Integrate published data from 17Lands.
• Support for other draftable games like Flesh and Blood.