Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Cardcast.gg – Play paper Magic: The Gathering over webcam
I've been building https://cardcast.gg, a web app for playing paper Magic: The Gathering remotely. You point a webcam at your play area and it identifies cards as you put them down. It's an alternative to Spelltable that I built for my friend group to play weekly with. The main technical difference is detection. Spelltable uses perceptual hashing; cardcast uses modern ViT backbones so it's much faster and more accurate. If you import a decklist from Moxfield, Archidekt, or MTGGoldfish, the search narrows to that deck's card pool, greatly reducing false-positives. What I have so…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Mage Scanner▲128Card Scanner and Collection Tool for Magic: The Gathering 🃏
2019 · its alternatives →
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I've been teaching LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering recently, via MCP tools hooked up to the open-source XMage codebase. It's still pretty buggy and I think there's significant room for existing models to get better at it via tooling improvements, but it pretty much works today. The ratings for expensive frontier models are artificially low right now because I've been focusing on cheaper models until I work out the bugs, so they don't have a lot of games in the system.
Feb 2026 · mage-bench.com · its alternatives →
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A Twitter bot which tweets Magic: the Gathering cards with appropriate GIFs superimposed onto them. - minimaxir/magic-the-gifening
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful, interactive levels. The goal was to blend marketing content with the look and feel of a game to engage users. The app is built with Three.js [1], using our custom render pipeline and shaders, and uses Rapier for physics simulation [2]. The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view…
2024 · 5-million-devs.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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- 6FT
Trading cards are awesome, but paying $30 for some cardboard isn’t. I’ve upscaled 60,000 cards from the entire catalog of Yugioh, Magic, Pokemon, & a newer game, https://elestrals.com. I've made it easy to build a decklist, download it, and then print at home. Modern inkjet printers got really good when nobody was looking. While it’s clear they’re not real cards, the upscaling makes them look great for casual play (these are not tournament legal). It’s totally free, give it a try! Supplies: [url-redacted] Printer Settings: [url-redacted] Instructions: [url-redacted] Overview: I…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Scorecard.gg offers free scorecards for your favorite board games.
2023 · scorecard.gg · its alternatives →
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Wordbots is a long-running side project I've been working on on-and-off for the past ~7 years that I finally feel comfortable enough with to share with the HN community. It's an online tactical card game (inspired by games like Hearthstone and Magic: the Gathering), where players write their own cards in natural language, that gets parsed down to JavaScript. The English-to-JavaScript translation is handled by a semantic parser operating on a hand-crafted CCG grammar – kind of an “old-school” approach in this age of LLMs but one that performs quite well on the very constrained language of…
2023 · app.wordbots.io · its alternatives →
- 9SG
Screentop is the best place to play tabletop games online for free. Play with friends directly in your browser - no setup required!
2020 · screentop.gg · its alternatives →
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Make your own AI-generated Magic cards!
2019 · minimaxir.com · its alternatives →
- 11PP
I was curious to see how some of the latest models behaved and played no limit texas holdem. I built this website which allows you to: Spectate: Watch different models play against each other. Play: Create your own table and play hands against the agents directly.
Jan 2026 · llmholdem.com · its alternatives →
- 12AG
2022 · urzas.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi folks. I launched my first startup on HN 15 years ago (see my profile), and I wanted to post here again now. Like my last one, this project comes from one of my life's passions. I have played Magic: The Gathering for 30 years. My co-founders and I think Magic deserves its own market, and this thinking will lead to dozens of ways to make a great app. We consider what we have an MVP, and we are all going to MagicCon this weekend in Las Vegas to walk around in our Mana Pool shirts and talk to people about the future. If HN likes the site, I would appreciate you crashing it before we head out…
2023 · manapool.com · its alternatives →
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The future of card and board game online entertainment
2019 · cardboard.live · its alternatives →
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A playing cards deck which contains useful git commands
2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
- 16PB
From webapp About page: Welcome! Battletech CCG is a fantastic card game. Wizards of the Coast discontinued it in 2001. This service exists to help people play a game using their physical deck remotely. To get started, create a new game and send your friend the gameId. They can join. Then click "Initialize" and "Call" buttons to start a video chat with them. When you play a card from your deck, hold it up to your camera and the service will capture it and match the image to a pristine image capture of the card that you can place on your virtual table so your opponent can see it. With good…
2024 · battletechccg.net · its alternatives →
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BINGO4D Sebagai situs judi online yanxg didalamnya banyak sekali permainan manarik dan banyak sekali bonus yang di dapatkan
2013 · sketch-deck.com · its alternatives →
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- 19WPWebRTC Poker▲75
2013 · bitflop.me · its alternatives →
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Ever felt like you were the designated poker dealer in your friend group? Frustrated with the clunky, old-school home game experience? Well, I did too. Years of playing poker left me wanting more than just shuffling and dealing. That's why two friends and I decided to change the way we play. We've built an app to streamline your home poker games! Think automated dealing, easy chip management, and features to keep things exciting. We're in beta now, so if you love poker nights, we need your help. Check out the app, give us feedback, and let's change the game together!
2024 · smartdealer.poker · its alternatives →
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Dungeon Crawling on mobile mashed-up with collectible cards
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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find-cards▲63Find the playing cards you want at the best price
2021 · find-cards.com · its alternatives →
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- 24PT
Hello Hacker News! I’ve been having some fun recently and I wanted to share with you. My idea was to feed ChatGPT an image and ask for a caption, feed that back to DallE, then call this in a loop, and observe how the image that was generated changed over time. Similar to playing the game “telephone”. The results were really intriguing, so I built something that you can play with. Note this is best on a desktop (streamlit is optimized for a large screen), but if you’re on mobile you’ll want to expand the sidebar to start — it’s the carrot on top. My initial intention was for you to be able to…
2023 · share.streamlit.io · its alternatives →
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