Finishing a set

Find the set worth finishing

• Open Set Analyzer. Every set ever printed is listed, ranked by how much of it you already own, with a bar so the near misses stand out at a glance.
• The top of that list is usually a surprise. Draft sets you played a lot of tend to sit higher than sets you deliberately collected.
• A high percentage on a small set is a much shorter job than a lower one on a large set, so read the card counts beside the bar rather than just the percentage.

See what is actually missing

• Open a set and every card in it is marked owned or missing.
• The charts break the gap down by rarity, colour and type. This is the part worth reading before you spend anything: a set that is ninety percent complete but missing eleven mythics is a very different bill from one missing forty commons.
• Sort or filter the missing list to see the expensive end first, so you know whether the job is twenty pounds or two hundred.

Turning the gap into a shopping list

This is the handover the tool exists for, and there are three ways through it depending on how much you want at once:

• One card. The button on its row sends it to a wishlist.
• A handful. Tick the ones you want, or use Select All, then send them across together.
• Everything missing. One action adds every missing card currently shown to a wishlist. Filter first if you only want the commons, or only the cards under a pound.

From there, the wishlist totals it up and takes you to a retailer.

Cards you already have but have not recorded

Sometimes the gap is a filing problem rather than a shopping one. The + Collection button adds a card straight to your collection from the set view, per card or in bulk, which is quicker than going back to search when you are working through a box and ticking off what you find.

What counts as owning a card

• Completion is by card, not by printing. A card owned in any condition or finish counts as owned.
• That means a beaten up copy fills the slot. If you are collecting to a standard rather than to a checklist, the condition column in your collection is where that lives, not here.
• Basic lands are excluded from the count, because otherwise every set would be permanently unfinished for no useful reason.

Keeping it honest

The analyzer reads your collection and nothing else, so it is exactly as accurate as what you have recorded. If a set looks worse than you expect, the usual cause is cards you own that were never added rather than cards you are genuinely missing. Scanning a box is faster than doubting the number.