Heads up, with Manabox as you take the picture you can tap the "normal" button and it switches to foil without having to navigate away from the camera. ❤
Sorry I had to reupload y'all! 😭The video was copyright for the music although I got it on epidemic sounds 😅 dang I was really enjoying that song! My apologies for the lack of music...I'm still learning how TH-cam works
I leave all my cards, cases, boxes, counters, dice, splayed and scattered all over my house to impress the ladies when I bring them home. (they all run away)
I have over 100 commander decks and have scanned every single one using mana box. A bit finicky by hand sometime but still hands down one of the best apps out there!
I prop my phone up with a deckbox or book to maintain the focus when using delver lens. The little camera button with the arrows down at the bottom cycles the lens being used on your phone camera, I've had the most luck with the 0.6 (ultra wide) lens when scanning cards. I'll have to give mana box a try though
Tips for delver Lens: when on camera screen, open settings and set bounding box and toggle it to allow promos. Once a card is scanned you also hav options for the card on top of screen.
I recently tried scanning a slew of cards. That Archivist looks dope! I definitely think I might pick up one. My experiences scanning with Delver vs. Manabox were similar. Too many errors from Delver! Manabox was more consistent.
I still cant believe anyone could say anything positive about a ten dollar motor in a ten dollar print being sold for two hundred. The disconnect is insane
Material cost is probably about $10, but designing and engineering it to be so precise must of cost a lot. $200 is nothing for a business. The time saved is way worth it. If you’re not running a business you don’t need it.
Based on that test, Manabox definitely performed better! However, you missed out on covering a few key features of Delver Lens. 1. The settings menu at the bottom of the scanning screen offers a robust set of features to help the scanning process. You can specify set, condition, language, foil. You can place a border on the screen to align your cards within, you can adjust how quickly or slowly it scans. 2. As you scan, there are buttons at the top to adjust set, language, foiling, and quantity as you go. 3. This one is the biggest one for me is the exporting options. You can export your list in every possible way, including CSV formats that can adjust to the specifications of any other platform. I log my collection on Moxfield, and with Delver, I am able to export a CSV that Moxfield will recognize. Manabox, you can only save your lists to your collection or a deck list, and the only export options are a txt file.
In comparison with ManaBox, which I switched to from Delver Lens, Ill clarify your points in things ManaBox can do: 1) You can specify the set and foil/non-foil as a scanning option, but doesn't have a bounding box. It also has a 'quick scan' vs 'slow scanning'. 2) You can adjust these on the fly in ManaBox as well across the bottom 3) You absolutely can export as a CSV in ManaBox, its what I use to export to Deckbox. The currently scanned list is so you can edit/varify it before adding it to a collection. Then you export from the Collection/Deck
in Delver Lens after you scan a card a menu ion bar shows up and you can pick if its foil or not and other options i just recently found you can pick what edition as well. yes it can be slow, when i tried out the Manabox app there was no sound at all don't know if it was a glitch or not did reinstall but nada. *TIP* do not stack your cards you want to scan. one at a time on a piece of paper (even a return envelope will work)
I’ve used delver lens ever since I bought 2 boxes at once, and got tired of hours and hours of manual entry. DL has been decent, but I’ll have to give Mana Box a shot.
Suggestion for another test. The apps recognize cards, but what is the hit/miss on the right print of the cards? I have noticed that with my own collection, if there are multiple versions with the same art, Manabox sometimes defaults to the newest version and I have to manually correct that. (I can see this being an issue for people with collections that involves more than a few older versions of cards)
If you sort your cards by set, you can tell mana box to just scan cards of a certain set. I do that with bloomburrow atm and it makes the scanning a lot faster.
That must have been my issue. As most of the cards I tested on mana box were from Revised. It was taking ages and a lot of moving the camera around to get anything to scan.
@@xternalpunk the pile should be more efficient and time saving vs dragging one card at a time. The machine handles it in the pile on the 2nd half of the video just fine
Lens scanner is not great - thats true (the biggest problem are black cards with foil... its near never get it correct). But as "app" to keep track of Yours collection (and Value of it, or how much You earn/loose on cards etc.) / Trade etc. - Lens is for me much better. Still if you know how Lens works, and how to use it - i did scan over 10 000 cards with it, and it was not "bad" expirence.
@@Taalia_Vess he machine stacks them in a manner that is perfectly aligned, making the reader unable to see the other cards. Sleeves also affect the readers ability to see them too I’ve noticed.
Looks like have to set aside foils altogether to be scanned separately. Just doesn't seem to be a good app for picking up foils. Which sucks. I have a metric f-ton of foils. I am definitely delighted that you made this video though. Sharing it to my LGS and card selling fiend buddies.
Delver has to many bugs when importing csv lists, the layout and app doesn’t seem to be bad when it’s fixed. Mana Box is better but to design layout isn’t user friendly. I prefer Helvault it’s easier and cleaner.
I found about you because of Talarian Community College. I'm assuming that was you and not some other girl named Taalia that plays Magic The Gathering. Looked like you.
Heads up, with Manabox as you take the picture you can tap the "normal" button and it switches to foil without having to navigate away from the camera. ❤
Thanks for the tip. I wish I knew this before, I just catalogued a few hundred cards most of which are foil 😅
Same with Delver, just with a rainbow icon
I love you, this tip saved me. I have so many cards to go through and half of them foil which is why I was waiting. This is AMAZING!
@@johnmetcalf5541 omg thank you so much! I see it now! Wow so much faster 😅🙏
Sorry I had to reupload y'all! 😭The video was copyright for the music although I got it on epidemic sounds 😅 dang I was really enjoying that song! My apologies for the lack of music...I'm still learning how TH-cam works
I leave all my cards, cases, boxes, counters, dice, splayed and scattered all over my house to impress the ladies when I bring them home. (they all run away)
do not give up, you'll find her eventually 💪💪
Kindred spirit! XD
Taalia out here doing the real work for us lmao - thank u for your service to the community
I have over 100 commander decks and have scanned every single one using mana box. A bit finicky by hand sometime but still hands down one of the best apps out there!
I prop my phone up with a deckbox or book to maintain the focus when using delver lens. The little camera button with the arrows down at the bottom cycles the lens being used on your phone camera, I've had the most luck with the 0.6 (ultra wide) lens when scanning cards. I'll have to give mana box a try though
DANG SMART! love that. Let me know which one you like best
Tips for delver Lens: when on camera screen, open settings and set bounding box and toggle it to allow promos. Once a card is scanned you also hav options for the card on top of screen.
What does the bounding box setting do?
@grimreefer4110 defines an area where the lens expects the card to be.
Cool. I use almost all of them. Both manabox and delver lens
so weird that people seem to have no issues with mana box. It takes me ages to get cards to scan. Delver lens and dragon shield scan perfectly for me.
I need that contraption to go through all my old cards
I recently tried scanning a slew of cards. That Archivist looks dope! I definitely think I might pick up one.
My experiences scanning with Delver vs. Manabox were similar. Too many errors from Delver! Manabox was more consistent.
I still cant believe anyone could say anything positive about a ten dollar motor in a ten dollar print being sold for two hundred. The disconnect is insane
Waiting on the Ali express clone for sure.
Material cost is probably about $10, but designing and engineering it to be so precise must of cost a lot. $200 is nothing for a business. The time saved is way worth it. If you’re not running a business you don’t need it.
@@TheGrimKeeperlmao you are fucking insane
Based on that test, Manabox definitely performed better! However, you missed out on covering a few key features of Delver Lens.
1. The settings menu at the bottom of the scanning screen offers a robust set of features to help the scanning process. You can specify set, condition, language, foil. You can place a border on the screen to align your cards within, you can adjust how quickly or slowly it scans.
2. As you scan, there are buttons at the top to adjust set, language, foiling, and quantity as you go.
3. This one is the biggest one for me is the exporting options. You can export your list in every possible way, including CSV formats that can adjust to the specifications of any other platform. I log my collection on Moxfield, and with Delver, I am able to export a CSV that Moxfield will recognize. Manabox, you can only save your lists to your collection or a deck list, and the only export options are a txt file.
In comparison with ManaBox, which I switched to from Delver Lens, Ill clarify your points in things ManaBox can do:
1) You can specify the set and foil/non-foil as a scanning option, but doesn't have a bounding box. It also has a 'quick scan' vs 'slow scanning'.
2) You can adjust these on the fly in ManaBox as well across the bottom
3) You absolutely can export as a CSV in ManaBox, its what I use to export to Deckbox. The currently scanned list is so you can edit/varify it before adding it to a collection. Then you export from the Collection/Deck
@@Wheels35 interesting, I did not see that as an option the last time I tried the app. I'll have to look at it again
@@jakefromkc8739 yes I did confirm just know you can export a CSV on Manabox.
in Delver Lens after you scan a card a menu ion bar shows up and you can pick if its foil or not and other options
i just recently found you can pick what edition as well. yes it can be slow, when i tried out the Manabox app there was no sound at all don't know if it was a glitch or not did reinstall but nada. *TIP* do not stack your cards you want to scan. one at a time on a piece of paper (even a return envelope will work)
I found out with manabox it does not use the normal sounds it uses alerts so you could listen to music while your scanning cards
I’ve used delver lens ever since I bought 2 boxes at once, and got tired of hours and hours of manual entry. DL has been decent, but I’ll have to give Mana Box a shot.
Where can I get that machine?
Seriously, that sorting/counting machine looks like a godsend for going through large amounts of cards.
It's $300
Hi, nice video, sorry, do you have the link to that TCG Archivist?
It might be faster to place all the foils in a separate pile so you can blaze through the non-foil.
@@sawderf741 yes I have them separated now
Thanks for doing the testing so we don't have to :)
@@williamphelps6674 new test coming later today
I wish I had an archideckt! Usually struggle too much with ManaBox lol that seemed to keep the position and lighting perfectly!!
Helpful, many thanks!
Can the mana box list be uploaded to TCGplayer?
@@TheGrimKeeper yes!
Suggestion for another test. The apps recognize cards, but what is the hit/miss on the right print of the cards? I have noticed that with my own collection, if there are multiple versions with the same art, Manabox sometimes defaults to the newest version and I have to manually correct that. (I can see this being an issue for people with collections that involves more than a few older versions of cards)
@@ShifuDaxiongmao ohhh I will check on this
If you sort your cards by set, you can tell mana box to just scan cards of a certain set. I do that with bloomburrow atm and it makes the scanning a lot faster.
How does one find your card listings on Whatnot?
Any way to get an autographed picture for my card room?
@@TommysPlaypin yes!
Manabox is great, but it struggles to scan withe borders cards and some full arts too. I solved this by using black sleeves (with a white table ofc).
That must have been my issue. As most of the cards I tested on mana box were from Revised. It was taking ages and a lot of moving the camera around to get anything to scan.
Where did you get the card feeder?
@@WishIhadacabinonthemoon it's tcg archivist
@@Taalia_Vess Thank you!!
I am sitting here yelling just put one out at a time…..
Well I am sold on ManaBox and that machine
I believe in you.
I ❤ Taalia
i wish there was a yu gi oh version of this
One of us, one of us, ManaBox!
not enough light is my guess
You can just tap at the top of Delver Lens and it changes it to foil. It's the rainbow rectangle. I can tell you Delver Lens hates black cards though.
@@budz2355 yes I found the button! Most of my cards are already separated foil vs non. Is there a way for it to choose foil each time?
So much fast to just type them in on Moxfield. Takes way longer to scan
Manabox user ! 🔥👌
Perfect for collection and deckbulding ;)
To be fair you have them in a pile and they are not even. That would be hard for any scanner app
@@xternalpunk the pile should be more efficient and time saving vs dragging one card at a time. The machine handles it in the pile on the 2nd half of the video just fine
@@xternalpunk I will try one card at a time vs the machine to time it's efficiency
Lens scanner is not great - thats true (the biggest problem are black cards with foil... its near never get it correct). But as "app" to keep track of Yours collection (and Value of it, or how much You earn/loose on cards etc.) / Trade etc. - Lens is for me much better. Still if you know how Lens works, and how to use it - i did scan over 10 000 cards with it, and it was not "bad" expirence.
If I played MTG against you, would you be opposed to me playing Howling Mine?
I’ve noticed trying to scan a stack is much less reliable than 1 at a time
@@VenomusDragon-gx8xt I should test single cards but I feel like that's not super efficient. I'm glad the machine lets me pile them
@@Taalia_Vess he machine stacks them in a manner that is perfectly aligned, making the reader unable to see the other cards. Sleeves also affect the readers ability to see them too I’ve noticed.
Looks like have to set aside foils altogether to be scanned separately. Just doesn't seem to be a good app for picking up foils.
Which sucks. I have a metric f-ton of foils.
I am definitely delighted that you made this video though. Sharing it to my LGS and card selling fiend buddies.
@@CainMadness thank you! Yeah my plan is to do foils and non foils separately
Delver has to many bugs when importing csv lists, the layout and app doesn’t seem to be bad when it’s fixed. Mana Box is better but to design layout isn’t user friendly. I prefer Helvault it’s easier and cleaner.
I found about you because of Talarian Community College.
I'm assuming that was you and not some other girl named Taalia that plays Magic The Gathering.
Looked like you.
The archivist damages every 10th card based on other reviews which is 100 percent unacceptable.
@@saleen12 I haven't noticed that but I'll check
@@Taalia_Vess does it not jam on you? If not then you might not have the issue.
@@saleen12 no jams yet
You need to invest in paper! It's good for you!
Am I going crazy or did this video already hit TH-cam?
get a lightbox
Mana box is the best
Deja Vu?
@@Ryan_Dye-r haha twice in one night
@@Ryan_Dye-r I know right 😭 I'm so sad I had to delete the video.
@@Taalia_Vess
Why? What happened?
#FirstComment
This is so unhelpful. I really wish you would do it properly. No sleeves and not stacking cards. at least no stacking cards.
@@SilverBlack831 I learned as I went. No sleeves help for sure but the point is to stack and be efficient which was achieved