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Ever wanted to add your own custom cards or custom art to your deck, or even start brewing with a card that hasn't been released? Now you can, thanks to the new Custom Cards feature available only on Archidekt.

What's really nice about this feature is the flexibility and different ways it can help users out. A lot of Magic content creators and players have custom tokens made up as swag and promo merch featuring them or their brand, and you can now upload those if they're something you use for a specific deck.

For me, I have an Isperia, Supreme JudgeIsperia, Supreme Judge Sphinx kindred list that I've been playing for years running custom art showing Sphinxes on the basic lands.

The best use for this feature though is for folks making custom cards of their own creation. Fellow EDHREC writer Levi Stevenson has been working on his own custom cube built around the Halo series of games, and this feature will really shine when it comes to similar projects.

Custom Card Settings in Your Archidekt Account

Viewing custom cards has to be enabled in your account. If you don't want to see non-official art showing up in deck lists, by default you won't see them.

For you, the addition of this feature won't change a single thing about your user experience. However, if you want the option to view custom art in decks it's easy to enable with just a few clicks.

To enable custom cards, click on your account name in the top right of the screen, go to "My other stuff," then "Account settings."

Menu showing the location of the Account settings option

Once there, make sure you're on the Site Settings tab on the left, then scroll down until you see "Content Settings" toggle, and click to enable it.

Content settings

It's as simple as that. Once you return to your deck, you'll now be able to see art created for custom cards in other decks. More importantly you'll be able to create custom cards of your own, which is the real reason we're here.

Creating Custom Cards

Sure, seeing other people's custom cards is fun, but we really want to be making our own, or using our own art.

To do this, go back to your account name in the top right of the screen, go to "My other stuff" in the dropdown menu again, and click on "Custom cards."

Custom card editor page

Looking through some of the cards designed for Levi's cube we can easily add them using the custom card tool. First up, you can recreate the card by editing a custom card and filling out the appropriate fields. Levi was nice enough to share one of his designs with me, so in looking through the files I replicated one of the cards:

Card designed using the custom card editor page

If however you already have the cards designed and built with art, you can simply upload the entire file. To do this you do the same thing as you would above, filling out the appropriate fields for the card, but you then click the blue "Upload image" button.

Custom card image uploader

This lets you select the entire custom card to upload. The Archidekt team will be moderating the images and created cards for inappropriate material, so use reasonable judgment when creating these, but by and large let your custom card juices flow. Once added, you'll be able to see your own custom cards.

Side by side of the same card, one uploaded with the uploader after being created elsewhere, and one created using the custom cards feature

As you can see above, I have both the complete custom card that Levi had created uploaded into the system, as well as the version I made by copying the card specs. Both are now available for me to use in my brewing in any future decks I build, and anyone who has the Custom Card feature enabled will be able to see these in any of my decks where they're included.

This is a really exciting new feature, and we're curious to see what new additions to decks you can come up with now that you're not longer bound by needing a card to actually exist to use it. Let us know in the comments below what you plan to build with this new tool!