MTG Familiar

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About this app

MTG Familiar is a powerful utility app for Magic: The Gathering.

The application includes a two-player life counter which tracks life, poison, and a history of changes.

The included die roller includes choices for D2, D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D20, and D100.

The mana pool and spell counter can keep track of your mana effortlessly, and is especially useful for all you Storm combo players out there.

The offline card search allows you to search for any card in the game without an internet connection. You can search by:
-Name
-Type / Subtype
-Ability Text
-Color
-Power / Toughness
-Converted Mana Cost
-Set / Format
-Rarity
-Flavor Text
-Artist

You can even check a card's legality for Block, Standard, Extended, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage.

If you do have an internet connection, the app can deliver real time prices, courtesy of TCGPlayer.com, download full card images, and link you to the card's official Gatherer page.

You can compare trades with current prices in the Trade Cards screen and keep a wishlist of cards you want to trade for.

Also included is a round timer, which will run in the background no matter what you do with your Android device.

The app has searchable, linked comprehensive rules built in, so you can settle rules disputes with ease. They are also self-updating!

This app is a free, open source project released under the GPL and Creative Commons licenses. You can get the source code, or join the team here: https://code.google.com/p/mtg-familiar/

This app is ad-free, and always will be! A must-have for any Magic the Gathering player!

Ratings and reviews

The idea is good. The fact that every time it updates, it seems to delete the entire card collection and start over is very frustrating. And that it won't do so in the background is more frustrating. Anytime I go to use it after a set has come out, I have to wait for ten or so minutes with it open before I can use it.

I've used this app since I got into magic in 2013. However, in the last year, there has been a bug that forces an unnecessary, long, and tedious update EVERYTIME you open the app. I can only imagine either the developers know about the bug and don't care to fix it, OR the app has been abandoned. Either way, it's plainly unacceptable.

Due to Google deciding that updating in the background is illegal, you have to change the auto-update frequency to be once a week or so, or turn off the auto-update feature in the app settings or it gets really annoying. Once that's turned down it's back to it's absolutely stellar performance of doing exactly what it's supposed to. It's kind of ridiculous that Google demanded the app do anything like that in the foreground, but it is what it is.