Guide
Where every command on the table lives. It is the same guide as ⋯ → Guide, inside the game — and there it works offline.
Top bar
It belongs to the whole game: turn and phase, life and the player counter, undo and redo — and the ⋯, with everything else.
Start a game
⋯ → Import deck, paste the list and play: the table starts shuffled, with seven in hand. New game starts over with the same deck.
Next turn u
untaps YOUR cards and goes back to Untap
Where: top bar · the clock on the top bar (turn · phase)
Turn and phase
Shows the turn and the phase. Click it to go to another phase; the button beside it passes the turn.
Where: top bar
Life
− and + lose and gain 1. Click the number to type the total.
Where: top bar
Player counter
Poison, energy, experience and others. Click the name to switch kind; the others that have a value show beside it. Click the number to type the total.
Where: top bar
Undo Ctrl z
Undoes the whole last gesture — drawing 7 comes back in one step.
Where: top bar
Redo Ctrl Shift z
Where: top bar
Save the game to your account
The disk next to the turn saves the game to your account, to continue on another device. Only shown when you are signed in.
Where: top bar
Create a piece n
token, emblem or dungeon
Where: ⋯ on the top bar
Roll a die
Coin, d6 or d20. The result shows in the status pill and enters the match log.
Where: ⋯ on the top bar
Card list
see the deck and swap printings
Where: ⋯ on the top bar
Import deck
paste a decklist and set up the table
Where: ⋯ on the top bar
My decks
the decks saved to your account
Where: ⋯ on the top bar
New game
same deck, shuffled, new hand
Where: right-click or long-press an empty spot on the battlefield · ⋯ on the top bar
Empty table
clears this board; saved decks stay in My decks
Where: right-click or long-press an empty spot on the battlefield · ⋯ on the top bar
Export game
downloads a file with the whole game
Where: right-click or long-press an empty spot on the battlefield · ⋯ on the top bar
Import game
replaces the open one; this cannot be undone
Where: right-click or long-press an empty spot on the battlefield · ⋯ on the top bar
Save game to account as new
keeps this table as another game, without replacing the linked one
Where: right-click or long-press an empty spot on the battlefield · ⋯ on the top bar
Load game from account
continues a game saved on another device; replaces the current table
Where: right-click or long-press an empty spot on the battlefield · ⋯ on the top bar
Account
Takes you to your account page, on the site, where you sign in and out. Opened straight from the file, the game works but the account does not.
Where: ⋯ on the top bar
Settings
The interface language and the card language, plus app upkeep: the image cache and starting over.
Where: ⋯ on the top bar
Guide ?
This page.
Where: ⋯ on the top bar
Catalog and game status
The dot at the end of the bar. It changes color when something fails; click it to read the status in full.
Where: top bar
Back to the Deck Sandbox site
The logo. The game stays saved in this browser: coming back to play brings it back.
Where: top bar
Long press an icon
Says what that button does
Battlefield
Everything you do with cards in play. Select a card and use the action bar that appears below; the rest is in the card menu.
Click the card
Selects (replaces the selection)
Shift + click
Adds to or removes from the selection
Drag on empty battlefield
Selection lasso
Shift + lasso
Adds to the existing selection
Drag a selected card
Moves the whole group
Right click the card
Opens the command menu
Long press the card
The same menu, on touch
Tap / untap t
Also by double-clicking the card. With several selected, if any is untapped, all of them get tapped.
Where: action bar, with the card selected · card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Double click the card
Taps / untaps
Inspect i
Opens the card large, with its full text and, if it has one, the other side.
Where: action bar, with the card selected · card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Flip the face f
Turns the card face down, or shows the other side of a double-faced card.
Where: action bar, with the card selected · card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Counter with a label
Adds a counter with the name you type. The counter the card suggests is already on the action bar, between − and +; click it to type the total.
Where: card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Clone
Creates a copy of the card on this board, right next to it. The copy does not enter the deck list.
Where: card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Send a copy to…
Creates a copy on the chosen board. It belongs to them and does not enter the deck list.
Where: card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Give control to…
The card moves to the other board and stays yours: it comes back on your New game.
Where: card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Return to owner
Ends the loan: the card returns to its owner's table.
Where: card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Split N
Takes N tokens off a token stack and puts them in a new stack.
Where: action bar, with the card selected · card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Merge the stacks
Joins stacks of identical tokens into one.
Where: action bar, with the card selected · card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Move to the battlefield
Puts into play a card that is in the hand, graveyard, exile or library.
Where: card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Send to the graveyard c
Where: action bar, with the card selected · card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Exile e
Where: action bar, with the card selected · card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Return to hand m
Where: action bar, with the card selected · card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
To the top of the library
Where: card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
To the bottom of the library
Where: card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Delete
Removes it from the table for good. Right for tokens; a deck card usually goes to the graveyard or exile. Undo brings it back.
Where: card menu: right-click or long-press it, or the ⋯ on the action bar
Right click on empty battlefield
Battlefield menu (create a token here)
Create a piece here
Opens the piece palette and places the new one where you clicked.
Where: right-click or long-press an empty spot on the battlefield
Select everything on the battlefield Ctrl a
Where: right-click or long-press an empty spot on the battlefield
Rest the cursor on the card
Shows the card large, with no click
Ctrl / ⌘ + wheel, or pinch
Zooms in and out at the cursor
Two-finger pinch, on touch
Zooms and pans the battlefield
Wheel or two fingers
Pans the battlefield (when zoomed in)
Space + drag, or middle button
Pans the battlefield
Fit the battlefield 0
Shows the whole battlefield again after zooming in.
Where: right-click or long-press an empty spot on the battlefield
Hand
The hand sits below the table. Drag a card from it onto the battlefield to play it; what applies to the whole hand is in the ⋯ on the hand bar.
Draw 7
Draws seven at once. Undo puts all seven back.
Where: ⋯ on the hand bar
Mulligan
shuffles the hand back and draws 7
Where: ⋯ on the hand bar
Send the hand to the graveyard
Discards the whole hand. Undo brings it back, in the same order.
Where: ⋯ on the hand bar
One tap on a hand card, on touch
Shows the card large — tap again to close
Drag the top edge of the hand
Changes the hand height (double click restores the default)
Library, graveyard and exile
The piles sit on the rail beside the battlefield. Clicking the library draws a card; clicking any other pile opens it, and each card inside has its own menu.
Draw
Also by clicking the library.
Where: library menu: right-click or long-press the pile
See the library
Opens the whole library, in order, to look at and command each card.
Where: library menu: right-click or long-press the pile
Shuffle
Where: library menu: right-click or long-press the pile
Top to the bottom
Moves the top card to the bottom.
Where: library menu: right-click or long-press the pile
Mill to the graveyard
Asks how many and sends that many from the top to the graveyard.
Where: library menu: right-click or long-press the pile
Drag onto a pile
Sends to that zone
See the graveyard
Also by clicking the graveyard.
Where: graveyard menu: right-click or long-press the pile
Shuffle into the library
Puts the whole graveyard back into the library and shuffles.
Where: graveyard menu: right-click or long-press the pile
Exile the whole graveyard
Where: graveyard menu: right-click or long-press the pile
Exile
Exile has no pile menu: click it to open it, and each card inside has its own menu — including Move to the battlefield.
Commander
A Commander deck sets up a four-board table. What belongs only to this format is here.
The command zone
It is the first pile on the rail, and the commander starts there. Click it to open it; drag the commander from there onto the battlefield, and from the battlefield back to it.
Commander damage
In the life box, only in Commander and with an opponent: how much each opposing commander has dealt you. From 21 on it is highlighted.
Where: top bar
Other boards
Each board has its own deck, hand and piles, and you play one at a time.
Play with more than one board
The map button, on the left edge of the battlefield, opens the drawer with a map of each board. Click a map to play on that board; the + opens a new board, and the trash can removes one. To send a card to another board, use Send a copy or Give control, in the card menu.
My decks
The decks saved to your account, under ⋯ on the top bar → My decks. Only shown when you are signed in.
Rename
Where: ⋯ on each deck, in My decks
Copy the list
Copies the list as text, to paste somewhere else.
Where: ⋯ on each deck, in My decks
Export
Downloads the list as a file, with or without the chosen printings.
Where: ⋯ on each deck, in My decks
Delete
Where: ⋯ on each deck, in My decks
Keyboard
Shortcuts marked “with a selection” act on the selected cards. None of them work while you type in a field.
Tap / untap (with a selection) t
Flip the face (with a selection) f
Add a counter (with a selection) + =
Remove a counter (with a selection) - _
Send to the graveyard (with a selection) c
Exile (with a selection) e
Return to hand (with a selection) m
Select everything on the battlefield Ctrl a
Undo Ctrl z
Redo Ctrl Shift z
Zoom in on the battlefield z
Zoom out of the battlefield Shift z
Fit the battlefield 0
Create a piece n
Next turn u
Inspect the card under the cursor i
Select the focused card — or read it, outside the battlefield Enter
Add the focused card to the selection, or remove it Shift Enter
Clear the selection Escape
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