Scryfall (and before it, magiccards.info) has been outdoing Gatherer for years, but I don't think Wizards of the Coast can afford not to have a searchable card database that they control. For all I know, they've offered to contract the work out to Scryfall, but Scryfall refused, or it would have been too expensive. But if WotC decides to just leave it up to Scryfall, and Scryfall folds, or makes an editorial decision WotC doesn't agree with, that would put them in the difficult position of having to revive and update Gatherer on short notice. They need a resource that they own. And as a player, I would rather they not own Scryfall. I think Scryfall is better because they get to make their own decisions.
@nokturne213@MysticKetchup I wish computers were that smart. That's a task that has to be done by hand for most of the scenarios we'd actually care about
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Evu@mtgzone.com · 11 pts · 1y
Scryfall (and before it, magiccards.info) has been outdoing Gatherer for years, but I don't think Wizards of the Coast can afford not to have a searchable card database that they control. For all I know, they've offered to contract the work out to Scryfall, but Scryfall refused, or it would have been too expensive. But if WotC decides to just leave it up to Scryfall, and Scryfall folds, or makes an editorial decision WotC doesn't agree with, that would put them in the difficult position of having to revive and update Gatherer on short notice. They need a resource that they own. And as a player, I would rather they not own Scryfall. I think Scryfall is better because they get to make their own decisions.
SiegeRhino@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
the unspoken reason for keeping gatherer around is that they want the official source of card images to be low res images that make for bad proxies
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 1y
The only update that gatherer needs is the ability to pick two or more cards and have it tell you how their rules interact.
Artemis201@mstdn.social · 4 pts · 1y
@nokturne213 @MysticKetchup I wish computers were that smart. That's a task that has to be done by hand for most of the scenarios we'd actually care about
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
They’d better start typing.
silverchase@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
"Let's crash Arena" mode
rigatti@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
At this point they should just make it redirect to Scryfall.
silverchase@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
I remember hearing in one episode of Rosewater's podcast, he actually implies he's looking at Scryfall while talking about some list of cards.
MysticKetchup@mtgzone.com · 3 pts · 1y
Yeah, the new look is nice but I can't imagine it's as functional as Scryfall