Over the past week I have been playing over Convoke, using the playtester on Blueprint over Moxfield, which I normally use. As well as importing in decks, and doing some from scratch builds.
Over all their is a lot I like, and some things I believe that could be tweaked.
A few things have come up worth noting.
PLAYTESTER
1. Power and Toughness : Having a means to independently adjust power and toughness increases would be helpful. Currently the only means I am aware of are using the +1 or -1 counters. A great many cards only effect either power or toughness, creatures are not always symmetrical either, so cards that double P/T do not track well either.
Example: I play Zophandrel, Hunger Dominus. I double my 8/4`s P/T ever combat, so he becomes a 16/8. Cant really just use +1 counters for that. Other cards only give a + to Power, or vice versa.
Suggestion: Implement the ability to adjust the P/T manually on cards. Moxfield has this functionality, in conjunction with the counter tracker I think it would cover all bases for P/T management.
2. Card Preview/Clarity: This could just be something on my end, but its quite difficult to read the cards as they are displayed in hand and on screen. even if I use the zoom function to max, the text on the cards remains kind of muddied, not crisp. This is also apparent in the deck builder as well. Im not sure if something could be done about that.
Suggestion: For cards IN HAND, instead of squinting to read the cards, have an enlarged card preview to the right side of the battlefield when hovering cards in hand. For the purposes of VTT use, this will be cut off or otherwise hidden from other anyway. You could also implement this as a toggle option for in hand preview. Perhaps its just me with this issue and others can see them fine.
3. Tokens: I have been unable to find Day/Night, Start Your Engines, Citys Blessing, etc style tokens when searching in the Token/Card finder. These do come up and it would be nice to have them handy, or be able to find them in the search when needed.
DECK BUILDER
1. Total Price: I was thinking, it would be a nice QoL thing if it showed the price as is, based on the cards/art you have selected, as well as the cheapest price as well, based on the cheapest version of all the cards in your deck. A similar function exists inside moxfield, you can change all your cards to the cheapest version. If their were just a second price displayed that simply reflected this, that would be pretty cool.
2. Lands: In the total land count, having the amount of MDFC`s displayed in brackets would be a nice QoL change to see at a glance how many of the lands in the deck are MDFC`s.
3. Game Changers: Having the names of the game changers displayed in the GC indicator at the top would be nice. You can just check at a glance what GC`s are in any given list as well. An always on indicator of what cards in the list are the game changers, perhaps a toggle, similar to moxfield, that always has the GCs outlined in gold? Currently clicking it highlights them and pulls you to the first one in the list.
4. More Stats Drop-down: Making this more legible would be nice. Increasing the font size and the numbers would be great. The percentages are particularly obnoxious to read at a glance. Both are very small, and gray on lighter gray font color. Please tweak this for better clarity.
5. Deck Folders: Their does not seem to be a way to move or otherwise organize decks within the folders besides by Name in the List Display option. I quite like the image display personally, and being able to organize these based on whatever criteria I assign them would be nice. Some decks in the 3 category are a stronger 3, some slower, etc and I tend to organize my decks based on that.
Suggestion: Would it be possible to add either a numbering system, 1-10 and group decks together based on that, or just be able to drag them around and rearrange them in the folders ever would be nice.
QoL Considerations
1. Printings: I know the preferred printing of cards option has been mentioned, but id like to bring it up again. Art preferences are a fairly big part of the game, and not having to switch them for every deck unless you want to would save a great deal of time for folks.
2. Tokens: Similar to preferred printings, but for tokens. A ton of token art exists, being able to change those as well would be nice.
BRACKET CALCULATOR
I don`t really care about this personally, but I am sure some folks would appreciate it. I see posts off and on from less experienced players asking about "How strong is my deck?" etc etc.
Perhaps a button to auto upload your currently viewed list to one of the many bracket checking sites? They could find a decent answer to their question, as well as suggestions for changes at some of these places. It would be a cool piece of functionality that Moxfield nor Archidekt I believe have implemented.
Source: r/BlueprintMTG · by /u/EclipseFaze