I’ve always had a steady stream of inquiries from users asking how they can make donations to this site, so now after several years of saying “you can’t”, you can! The Apathy House Shop is now open! The goal of the shop was to offer you all something a little different that couldn’t be found in the hundreds of other card shops already available to you. As such I am currently offering Global Booster Pack Sets from Shards and Conflux in the wrapper of your choice. Each set contains one pack in each language that set was printed in. You will get a set of nine packs all featuring the same character on the wrapper. As time goes on, more unique offers will be added, including Booster Pack lots for the newest sets.

By supporting this site you can help ensure two very important things. First, that this site remains, as it has always been, ad free. The second is that we can continue to cover the cost of resources, which steadily increases with increased usage. It will also help fund the development of new features that are planned for the future.

At the moment, the shop maintains its own accounts which are not tied to your current Apathy House accounts, but that’s ok! If you register on the shop with the same email address you used for your regular account, they will soon be linked into a single login. New users can also register on the shop alone and the account will eventually be valid for the entire site.

UPDATE: Alara Reborn has now been added as well!

The Cardmongler takes its challenge to a whole new level by allowing you to choose your cards from the newest set only!

You can now search on the Searchable Price Guide by card number. Simply use the card number where the card name normally goes and it will automatically look it up by number instead. This is something I’ve personally wanted on here for a long time. I do a lot of trading of foreign language cards and always hate when I have to go out of my way to look up the name of a card first before looking up its price. Now I don’t have to! The form does require you to select at least one set when searching by number, and it obviously only works for sets that actually have numbers (Core sets starting with 6th Edition, expansions starting with Exodus, and some of the promo sets).

For those of you relying on the Checklist Generator for your global collections, I’ve updated it with all the latest promo cards. This was something of a hassle with all the latest change Wizards has made recently with programs ending, new programs starting, and most of all the issuing of Gateway and Prerelease promos in several new languages! The checklists should be 100% accurate again. As always let me know if something isn’t right.

Introducing Card Fight! The mythical Cardmongler presents you with two cards and you must choose which one you think is better. The fast paced action of this life and death struggle requires intense awareness and the acute knowledge that only the best players possess. Are you one of them?

Updated the Firefox Extension to work with the new Firefox 3. It still works in 2 as well. Enjoy.

The Firefox Extension is back online! Try it out. Let me know if there are any problems. It should actually work better than before, with fewer occurrences of ‘could not parse’ errors.

Added a brand new section to the site today, the Magic Product Codes page! You can find it under the Info menu. This page is an extension of a project originally started years ago by the Magic Library to catalog all the various product codes, ISBNs, logos, etc of every Magic related product ever released! It is a HUGE undertaking which anyone can contribute to. The fruits of this project are now mirrored here with a slick new layout.

New codes are always needed anytime a new product is released. Additionally information for many of the sets, especially non-english, from the last four years is currently missing. If you have this information please feel free to post it here or on the Magic Library.

The better news, for all you developer types, is I have also created an XSLT API for this information which allows other websites to use and display this data any way they want! Basic documentation is coming, but has not been posted yet. If you are a web developer and are interested in hooking into this info on your site, please contact me.

Made a nice visual update to the Checklist Generator today to make it look like all the other lists. It’s more readable and more pleasant to cut and paste to other places.

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