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We've all been there. Four spells on the stack, a Panharmonicon on the battlefield, and someone just activated Thassa's Oracle. The table erupts: "Does the trigger resolve before or after…?" Arguments follow. Phones come out. Someone reads Gatherer for five minutes and still isn't sure.

MTG Assistant was built for exactly this moment. Just describe the board state and ask your question. The AI doesn't just guess — it looks up the actual cards, cross-references their Oracle text and official rulings, and walks you through the interaction step by step.

Try something like:

No more digging through Gatherer. No more "I think it works this way." Just ask.

Here's where MTG Assistant gets really powerful: you can import your entire decklist — from Moxfield, Archidekt, or just a plain text list — and the AI immediately understands what your deck is trying to do.

Once your deck is loaded, the assistant has full context. It knows your commander, your mana curve, your combos, and your synergies. You can ask it anything:

• "What are my win conditions?"
• "If I have Dockside Extortionist and Temur Sabertooth on the battlefield, can I go infinite?"
• "What should I cut to make room for a board wipe?"
• "My opponent just played Rest in Peace. How does this affect my strategy?"

It's like having a knowledgeable friend who's read every card in your 99 — and remembers all of them at once. The assistant even fetches EDHREC synergy data for your commander to suggest cards that other players are running.

Ever tried to find a card but couldn't remember its name? You know what it does — something about exiling creatures when they attack — but the name escapes you. Traditional card search requires you to know the exact name or specific keywords in the rules text.

MTG Assistant uses vector embeddings to understand what cards *mean*, not just what they say. Every card in Magic has been embedded into a high-dimensional vector space using Google's Gemini AI. When you describe what you're looking for in plain English, the system finds cards that are semantically similar to your description.

Behind the scenes, the system tries four search strategies — exact name match, semantic vector search, full-text search, and fuzzy pattern matching — to make sure it finds the right card every time. All of this happens in milliseconds, so the conversation feels natural.

The Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules document is over 270 pages of dense legalese. Rule 704.5f alone reads: "If a creature has toughness 0 or less, it's put into its owner's graveyard as a state-based action." Clear enough — but what happens when layers, replacement effects, and dependency interactions get involved?

MTG Assistant has the complete comprehensive rules loaded and searchable. But more than that, the AI can *interpret* them in context. Ask it about state-based actions during a complex board state, and it doesn't just quote the rule — it explains how that rule applies to your specific situation.

The built-in Rulebook tab also lets you browse and search the comprehensive rules directly, with expandable sections and a fast search index. It's the full document, structured and searchable — no more ctrl+F through a PDF.

While the AI chat is the star of the show, MTG Assistant packs in tools for the rest of your Magic life too.

Land Hax is a hypergeometric probability calculator that answers the question every deckbuilder asks: "What are the odds I hit my land drops?" Set your deck size, land count, and desired lands in hand — it instantly shows the probability for your opening hand. Presets for Limited (40-card), Standard (60-card), and Commander (99-card) make it fast to switch contexts.

Planechase implements the full Planechase variant with a wheel-of-fortune-style die roller, complete with spin animations and incremental roll costs. It manages the plane and phenomenon deck automatically, and the landscape card display rotates based on image aspect ratio. It's the only Planechase companion app you need.

Precon Browser lets you explore over 2,600 official preconstructed decks. Browse by type, search by name or commander, and load any deck directly into the chat for analysis. Every Commander precon, Challenger deck, and event deck from Magic's history — all in one place.

All of these tools work together. Browse a precon, load it into chat, ask the AI about its win conditions, then check your land math in Land Hax — without leaving the app.