Why Card Lists?
Whether you're prepping a binder for the next prerelease, sharing a buy list with a friend, or tracking the cards you still need to complete a set, MTGPicker's Card Lists feature gives you a single place to organize and share cards. Every list is searchable, importable, and shareable through a public link — so anyone you send it to can see what you need and cross-check it against their own collection.
Creating a Card List
Head to My card lists from the Cards menu and click + New list. Give it a name ("Secrets of Strixhaven completion", "Modern Burn missing pieces", "Trade binder — June"), an optional description, and pick a set focus if all the cards come from one set.
The set focus is the small detail that unlocks the fastest workflow on the site. When a list has a set focus, you can paste collector numbers without spelling out the full set on each line — which is exactly the format the gallery exports.
Visibility
Lists are public by default: anyone with the share link can view them, see which cards they own, and mark cards they have available. If you'd prefer to keep a list private, toggle visibility in the edit screen — the share link will return a 404 until you flip it back.
Adding Cards: The Three Ways
1. Search one card at a time
The autocomplete search bar in the list editor pulls live data from Scryfall. Type a name, pick the printing you want (set + collector number are shown for each option), and click to add. Best for hand-curating short lists.
2. Bulk import (the fast lane)
If you already have a text list, paste it into the Bulk import textarea — one card per line. The parser supports two formats:
- Name only:
Informed Inkwright— picks the most recent printing. - Name + collector number:
Informed Inkwright 20— picks the exact printing from the list's set focus.
Any line the parser can't resolve is shown back to you so you can fix it without losing the rest of the import.
3. The Gallery's Select & Export workflow
This is the killer combo. Read on.
Exporting Cards from the Gallery
The Gallery is where most of us spend time anyway — browsing the latest set, filtering by color or rarity, hunting for a specific look. Now it doubles as a list builder.
- Open a set. Pick the set you want from the gallery filters (or land directly on a set page like
/gallery/secrets-of-strixhaven). Sort by Collector # (low to high) for a numbered run, or by Name if you prefer alphabetical. - Click Select. The button sits next to the sort dropdown. The gallery shifts into selection mode: cards no longer open the detail page when clicked, and a circular indicator appears in the top-right of each card.
- Pick the cards you want. Click each card to toggle it. A green outline and a ✓ icon show what's currently selected. The toolbar shows a running count.
- Click Export. A modal opens with one line per card in the format
Card Name CollectorNumber— exactly what the bulk importer expects. - Copy and paste into a list. Hit Copy to clipboard, switch to your card list (with the matching set focus selected), paste, and import. Done.
Tip: The gallery now returns all printings (full art, borderless, showcases, retro frames) thanks to a recent fix. If you want only one variant per name, sort by Name and pick what you need; if you want the alternate-art version specifically, sort by Collector # and the variants will sit just past the main run.
Sharing a List
Every list has a public URL of the form /lists/SHARECODE — a 7-character code printed at the top of the list editor and reachable via the Copy share link button. Send it to a friend, post it on Discord, paste it into a Reddit comment.
When a logged-in viewer opens the link, MTGPicker cross-references the list against their own collection and splits it into You need and You have — instant visibility into what's missing without manually comparing two lists.
Marking Cards as Available
If you're viewing someone else's shared list and you have cards they need, tick the I have it checkbox under each card. The list's owner will see your name appear under that card in their view, so they know who to message about it. This is the bridge from a static list to an actual trade conversation — and it dovetails directly with the Exchange feature.
A Workflow Example
Here's a real workflow that takes under a minute:
- Create a list called "SOS missing cards" with the set focus SOS and visibility Public.
- Open the gallery, filter to Secrets of Strixhaven, sort by Collector #.
- Click Select, tick every card you still need.
- Click Export, copy the output, switch to your list, paste into Bulk import, click Import.
- Copy the share link and send it to your playgroup.
Anyone in the group with a collection on MTGPicker now sees exactly which of your missing cards they can lend or trade, and can mark the ones they're willing to part with — all without leaving the site.
What's Next
Card lists are deliberately simple — a name, a set focus, a pile of cards, a share link. The power comes from how they connect to the rest of the site: the gallery's Select & Export mode for fast building, the collection cross-reference for instant gap analysis, and the claim/mark system for turning lists into trades. If you've been spreading wishlists across screenshots and Notion pages, give them a single home.