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All-Seeing

Notes to myself

In D:\Program Files\Epic Games\MagicTheGathering\MTGA_Data\Downloads\Data there are two files of interest:

data_cards_[UUID].mtga
data_loc_[UUID].mtga

Where UUID is what looks like a UUID hex value.

data_cards

This has an array of the following objects:

[
  {
    "grpid": 6873,
    "titleId": 2929,
    "artId": 1837,
    "isToken": false,
    "isPrimaryCard": true,
    "artSize": 0,
    "power": "8",
    "toughness": "4",
    "flavorId": 431065,
    "CollectorNumber": "210",
    "altDeckLimit": null,
    "cmc": 8,
    "rarity": 2,
    "artistCredit": "Steve White",
    "set": "MIR",
    "linkedFaceType": 0,
    "types": [
      2
    ],
    "subtypes": [
      55
    ],
    "supertypes": [],
    "cardTypeTextId": 8,
    "subtypeTextId": 738,
    "colors": [
      5
    ],
    "frameColors": [
      5
    ],
    "frameDetails": [],
    "colorIdentity": [
      5
    ],
    "abilities": [
      {
        "abilityId": 14,
        "textId": 28
      }
    ],
    "hiddenAbilities": [],
    "linkedFaces": [],
    "castingcost": "o6oGoG",
    "linkedTokens": [],
    "knownSupportedStyles": [],
    "DigitalReleaseSet": ""
  },

data_loc

This has an array of the following objects:

[
  {
    "langkey": "null",
    "isoCode": "en-US",
    "keys": [
      {
        "id": 1,
        "text": ""
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "text": "Basic"
      },
      {
        "id": 3,
        "text": "Legendary"
      },

Correlation between data_cards and data_loc

My interpretation is that data_cards has all of the information about cards and data_loc has all of the localized strings in the application. To get to a specific string for a card you need to know the isoCode and the id. There are 9 isoCodes:

en-US
fr-FR
it-IT
de-DE
es-ES
ja-JP
pt-BR
ru-RU
ko-KR

It looks like it's a combination of "Administrative language alpha-2" and "Alpha-2 code". Need to research into this further.

To get utility of this you would match the various *id fields from data_cards to the strings (based on isoCode) to get the localized card text.

data_prompt

The file looks like this:

[
  {
    "id": 0,
    "text": 1
  },
  {
    "id": 1,
    "text": 164
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "text": 165
  },

To me this is a join table which matches an sequential id to it's text string.

data_enums

Ahh some fun stuff. This is what I assume to be a lot of string enumerations used in the application:

CardType
Color
CounterType
FailureReason
MatchState
Phase
ResultCode
Step
SubType
SuperType

data_altPrintings

I assume this means "alternate printings". Looks like it's got card ids with values like "SH" and "TOHO". "TOHO" stands for Toho Co., Ltd which owns the right to Godzilla so it sounds like these are alternate arts for the Ikoria cards. Likewise any card with "SH" seems to have a showcase art alternate treatment. I'm not sure if these are special alternate art outside of the parallax treatment that every card seems to get.

For some reason, Planeswalker parallax art seems to have a value of " ".

Lastly, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben has four codes due to her Secret Lair art.

data_altFlavorTexts

TBD

data_altArtCredits

TBD

data_abilities

TBD

Extracting useful information

To get the most interesting data from this I would pull the following:

Name (titleId)
Mana Cost (castingcost)
Type Line (types)
- Supertype (subtypes)
- Subtype (subtypes)
Expansion Symbol (set)
Text Box
- Abilities (abilities)
- Flavor Text (flavorId)
Artist Info (artistCredit)
Collector's Number (CollectorNumber)
Power/Toughness (power/toughness) note: toughness is Planeswalker loyalty
Card Border (frameColors)

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