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, 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.

Any deck list

Paste or open the lists deck sites export. A line with a set and collector number gets that exact printing; a misspelt name is matched to the closest card.

Scryfall searches

Anything Scryfall's search takes, such as set:mh2 t:creature pow>=3, downloads every matching card. Count the matches first.

EDHREC top lists

Presets for 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 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.