MTG Art Downloader

Card art for a whole deck, in one go

Paste a deck list, run a Scryfall search, or pick an EDHREC list or a preconstructed deck, and MTG Art Downloader saves the art for every card. A desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, and a command line tool.

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The app after downloading a deck list: each card with a thumbnail of its art, where the art came from, and the artistThe app after downloading a deck list: each card with a thumbnail of its art, where the art came from, and the artist

Larger, uncropped art

Art comes from MTGPics where it has it, and from Scryfall otherwise. A page counts as a match only when it names the card and credits its artist, so you never get the wrong art.

Find a larger copy

When Scryfall's small art is all there is, look for a bigger copy with Google Lens or on the artist's ArtStation, DeviantArt, Pixiv or website. The app checks what you save is the same art, larger, and every later download of it gets your copy.

Deck lists and searches

Paste or open the lists deck sites export: a line with a set and collector number gets that exact printing, and a misspelt name the closest card. Or download every card a Scryfall search matches, such as set:mh2 t:creature pow>=3.

Precons and EDHREC lists

Pick any preconstructed deck MTGJSON lists, by a picture of its box, and get the art of the exact printings in it. Search them in Scryfall's words. Presets give EDHREC's most-played Commander cards.

Files named your way

Names come from a template, NAME (ARTIST) [SET] {NUMBER} by default, with folders for each source and layout. A double-faced card is saved as one image per face.

Quick, and easy on the sites

Cards are looked up in a local copy of Scryfall's card data, refreshed daily. The app keeps to Scryfall's rate limits and remembers where it found each printing's art.

From the command line

mtg-art does everything the app does, and reads the same settings.

mtg-art cards.txt                       # a card list file
mtg-art --search "set:mh2 t:creature"   # a Scryfall search
mtg-art --preset edhrec-top-year        # a preset; --presets lists them
mtg-art --deck AbzanArmor_TDC           # a precon, by its file's name on MTGJSON
mtg-art cards.txt --out ./art           # somewhere other than the settings' folder

A rewrite of MTG Art Downloader by Mr Teferi, by way of Alex Taxiera's fork.