System Updates

UI/UX Polish: Added a clear filters button to empty states in the user album, and added backdrop overlays to the upgrades sidebar.

Tournaments: Introduced bronze match playoffs (3rd place) for single elimination brackets.

Tournaments: Added round timers for players during match reporting.

Deck Analysis: Introduced an interactive Deck Tag Breakdown component, classifying cards by role (Ramp, Draw, etc.).

Meta Averages: Extended tournament meta averages to now include dedicated removal and mass removal (sweeper) counts.

UI/UX Polish: Improved tooltip accessibility and added missing accessibility attributes.

Tournaments: Replaced signup action icons with a unified Manage button and Actions Modal.

Partners are in! Cards that have Partners (Or Backgrounds, or Doctors's Companions) now show up in the Card Viewer

Removal Analytics. That is, how much Removal / Mass Removal decks and commanders carry.

The Tournaments/Meta page now has a way to get average deck data construction from Commanders

Discord has arrived! Link your Discord account with TriomeLab and Sign in with Discord instead!

Deck Tags: They're folders for your decks, but decks can live in many tags

Tournament Meta: Implemented Dynamic Tier Lists to Tournament Meta Analysis.

Print Deck Modal: Added a new modal for printing decklists, featuring a simplified two-column layout and a remove-names toggle for custom deck construction.

Navigation Redesign: Replaced the header search funnel icon with a magnifying glass search bar and reorganized the main navigation and user dropdown menus into clear, categorized sections.

Active Deck System: Added a persistent Active Deck context across the platform. Easily add cards to your active deck from meta-analysis lists or card details with single-click functionality.

Responsive Density Layout: Expanded standard container width to 1600px, introduced dynamic grid columns for card list views, and added collapsible sidebars with mini-modes to maximize canvas space.

Achievements System: Implemented an achievements engine with toast notification alerts and showcase displays on player profile pages to reward various platform activities.

Playtest Tool Polish: Added drag previews/ghosts when moving cards from hand to playfield, automatically hide the big-card hover viewer while dragging, and enabled left-clicks to open the Library tray.

Advanced Search: Overhauled the search engine with FTS5 support for faster indexing and a streamed semantic-hybrid model for near-instant, intelligent results.

Life Tracker Animations: Replaced snapping numbers with smooth spring animations for a more fluid and satisfying feel when updating life totals.

Deck Builder Overhaul: Completely redesigned the search and recommendation interface within the deck builder.

Auto-Suggest Lands: Introduced a new specialized tool for recommending optimal land distributions based on your deck's color requirements.

Polished Loading: Replaced layout-shifting spinners with elegant skeleton loaders in card recommendation tabs and the printing modal.

MTG-Flavored Error Pages: Updated system error pages with Magic-themed copy ("Blind Eternities").

Public Tournament Reports: Tournament organizers can now publish rich, public-facing event reports.

Team Invites: You can now invite other players to join your team via email to collaborate on decks and tournament preparation.

The Lab Blog: Launched a brand-new blogging platform within The Lab.

RSS Support: Stay updated with the latest Lab reports and articles via our new RSS feed.

Self-Reported Results: Tournament participants can now report their own match results directly from the "Your Match" card, which organizers can then approve with a single click.

Player Profiles: Overhauled the player preferences dashboard, allowing you to link your social handles (Discord, Bluesky, Threads, X) and map interactive weekly playtime availability for online matching.

Compact Deck View: Added a brand-new high-density layout mode for decks, optimizing multi-column visualizations to display large decklists in a single viewport.

Integration with Cockatrice: You can now download your decklists as .cod files and view/copy your deck's unique Cockatrice Hash for easy online play validation.

One-Click Sync: Imported decks now feature a "Sync from {Source}" button, allowing you to instantly pull the latest changes from Moxfield, ManaBox, or Archidekt without manual editing.

Dual-Faced Card Fix: Resolved an issue where the rules text for back-faces of cards was not displaying correctly in the card viewer.

Life Tracker: A new head-to-head 2-player tool in The Lab! Track life totals with card art and history logging.

Deck Diary Sync: Matches ended in the Life Tracker can be instantly saved to your Deck Diary, pre-filling your deck and opponent details.

Card Decklists: Card pages now display all individual public decklists that include the card, making it easier to see how cards are being utilized in the wild.

Clipboard Reliability: Completely rebuilt the synchronization engine to eliminate "ghosting" issues.

Deck Playtester: Take your decks for a spin! The new interactive playtester allows you to simulate opening hands, draw cards, and manage your battlefield directly in the browser.

Public Playtesting: You can now playtest any public deck on the platform, not just your own.

Mobile Optimized: The playtester has been refined for mobile devices, including a dedicated card viewer and touch-friendly controls.

Deck Viewer: The Deck viewer now automatically displays tokens and emblems used by the deck.

Deck Performance Insights: New dashboard on every deck showing win rate, top MVPs, and underperforming cards — all powered by your match history.

Reliable Staples: Cards that consistently overperform across multiple sessions now earn a "Reliable Staple" badge, helping you recognize your deck's backbone.

Premium Performance Badges: MVPs now show a crown, underperformers show a warning, and reliable staples get a staple icon — directly on the card art.

Synergy Pulse: A new visual indicator at the bottom of your deck view confirms your performance data is live and up to date.

Tournament Meta Analysis: Complete overhaul of the meta dashboard featuring interactive rankings for Commanders and Staple cards.

The Lab: Added a new visual Banlist & Watchlist page, displaying currently banned, restricted (disallowed as commander), disallowed as companion, and watchlisted cards grouped by type.

New Tool: Academy Manufactor Calculator — A specialized simulation engine to calculate exponential token explosions involving Academy Manufactor, Moonlit Meditation, Peregrin Took, Xorn, and Case of the Pilfered Proof.

Public Decklist Revamp: Complete overhaul of the browse page with a new sidebar filter panel and a brand new deck viewer on public decks.

Enhanced Filtering: Added support for filtering decks by commander name, player/author name, and specific themes (e.g., Tokens, Artifacts).

Advanced Color Matching: Implemented strict-exact color identity matching, ensuring results match your selected colors perfectly.

UX Improvements: Added sort by "Most Popular" (bookmarks), a sort direction toggle, and a responsive mobile filter drawer.

Backend: Optimized the public deck API to handle complex theme filtering across partner and background commanders.

Search: Refactored NLP filter application to eliminate redundant refreshes and prevent strict parameter overrides from blocking semantic results.

Deck Builder: Improved manual card search to allow exact name matches regardless of color identity, useful for custom cards and specialized land cycles.

Deck Legality: Enhanced the deck status footer to validate and report color identity violations in real-time, providing clear feedback when illegal cards are added.

Code Integrity: Refined card data mapping to ensure consistent color identity resolution across the builder and recommendation engines.

UI/UX: Updated footer versioning to dynamically display the latest release version directly from the changelog data.

Mechanic Analysis: Integrated a high-performance card analysis engine into the sync pipeline, enabling instant synergy and role discovery for all 35,000+ oracle cards.

Art Version Browser: Enhanced the variant art carousel with smooth scroll navigation, glassmorphism buttons, and faded edge masks for a more premium experience.

Deck Building: Added support for "Alternative Deck Limits," correctly validating cards like Relentless Rats and Hare Apparent.

Sync Reliability: Resolved database conflicts and optimized Scryfall data ingestion for more reliable nightly updates.

Discord Link Previews: Refined Open Graph and Twitter meta tags across the platform to ensure high-quality, single-image previews for decks, tournaments, and player profiles.

Twitter Integration: Standardized on summary_large_image cards for a more visual social media presence.

Archidekt & TappedOut Integration: Full support for importing decks directly from Archidekt and TappedOut URLs.

Deck Builder: Improved deck legality validation for double-faced cards and partner commanders.

Deck Diary: Introduced a comprehensive battle log system to track match performance and deck evolution.

Match Logging: Quickly record 1v1 or multiplayer matches, including opponent commanders and match outcomes (Win/Loss/Draw).

Performance Tracking: Tag overperforming MVPs and underperforming cards directly from your decklist for each match.

Timeline Integration: View match logs interspersed with deck edits in your private Deck History tab to see how changes impact performance.

Centralized Journal: Access a complete chronological history of all your played matches across all decks in the new Deck Diary page.

Rich Notes: Add detailed match reports with automated card linking using [[Card Name]] syntax.

Deck Builder: Improved Deck Legality feedback by stating why the deck is not legal).

Deck Builder: Added real-time legality feedback for cards and overall deck status (e.g., banned cards now show a red border and "BANNED" badge).

Card Details: Massive performance optimization for the card detail page.

Database: Added missing indexes for synergies and commander synergy lookups to speed up recommendation engines.

Bugfix: Resolved an issue where some card images were missing due to data mapping mismatches.

Deck Builder: Fixed a bug where custom commander art selections were being reverted to the default printing on save.

Loading: Added a loading progress bar to the top of the page.

Optimized card data fetching to reduce load times.

Player Protection: Added "Not me?" functionality to decouple incorrect tournament records from player profiles.

Profile Claiming: Guest profiles can now be claimed by users, including automated merging of tournament history on approval.

Fuzzy Matching: Improved commander history resolution to handle long card names and partial slugs, fixing 404 errors.

LGS Branding: Store Organizers can now upload logos and customize their store theme color.

Standardized Headers: Unified Store and Tournament headers into a single, premium Branded Header component.

Visual Polish: Added a subtle branded "Banner" style (top border) across LGS cards, profiles, and event pages.

Primary Format: Added a new field for LGS to specify their primary game format (e.g., Tiny Leaders, Standard).

Mobile UX: Refined the responsiveness of headers and modals for a better experience on smaller screens.

Regional Leaderboards: Added a real-time Meta Analysis section (Color Distribution, Top Identities, Top Commanders) that updates based on filters.

Leaderboard Filters: New LGS (Local Game Store) filter with regional scoping and improved layout for better visualization.

Player Statistics: Meta analysis now correctly displays the number of unique players contributing to the current filter set.

Deck History: Unified tournament records with the deck timeline, including support for URL-based deck IDs.

Backend: Automated deck statistics calculation (mainboard + commanders) on save and copy.

Deck Page: Fixed commander name and color identity display.

Deck Lab: Smarter edit history that groups granular saves into logical sessions (30m window).

Tournament Insights: Individual decks now show a cross-player tournament record (Borrowed Deck Tracking).

Author Attribution: Public decks now link to their creators in the browse list and deck header.

Editor UX: Added a sticky "Add Card" button and redesigned card overlays to prevent blocking card art.

Soft Delete: Cards removed from main/side/commander boards are now moved to "Considering" before deletion.

Signature Commanders: Improved "Top Commander" sorting to prioritize performance (1st place finishes) over recency.

Fixed Language Settings: The language selector in the footer now correctly updates the interface language.

Player Profile: Signature Commanders are now displayed as a vertical list for better readability.

Analytics: Showing Top 3 signature commanders in the player profile, complete with win counts and color identity.

Tournament Journey: Improved Deck Evolution Timeline with high-precision card diffing and corrected chronology.

Navigation: Professional slug-based URLs for commander-specific and deck-specific tournament history.

Data Integrity: Enhanced color identity resolution for commanders, fixing missing symbols for cards like "Tannuk".

Personalization: Set a favorite commander to replace your profile picture across the platform.

Leaderboard Analytics: "Top Deck" now reflects your most successful commander based on win/loss records.

Deck Evolution: Detailed history and performance tracking for individual decks, including decklist changes over time.

Improved data accuracy for commander color identities and player statistics.

Added regional and country leaderboard viewer to the Tournament Hub.

Updated footer versioning to link directly to this changelog.

Added social meta tags (Open Graph and Twitter) to Player, LGS, and Tournament pages for better sharing.