archiTop

Archidekt to TableTop export cli

This project aims to smoothen the export process from a constructed Magic the Gathering card deck in Archidekt to the game TableTop Simulator.

Motivation

Currently, third third party tools do exist to aid with this process, but these are neither smooth to use nor do they fulfill all the features that would smoothen the magic experience.

The two most noteworthy alternatives are:

Frogtown
- Doesn't allow to import directly from tabletop, requiring user to export and import
- Doesn't keep track of the card versions used in the deck (basic lands will update to the most recent)
- Usage is slow, two step process required to generate and download deck
- Doesn't separate commander cards from main deck
Tabletop scryfall importer
- Unexpected behaviour when multiple people import at the same time
- Doesn't include tokens in the exported deck
- Doesn't separate commander cards from main deck

What does this tool do?

This tool converts an Archidekt deck into Tabletop Simulator json format, able to be imported onto any tabletop board. The cards contained, deck-name and thumbnail will be extracted for given Archidekt deck-id.

Installation

The package is being hosted in PyPy, install using pip install architop

Usage

The tool is used via the commandline, runnable with architop <deckID>

Additional usage information can be acquired via the help command architop -h

Example Usage

Let's take one of my decks as example. Exporting the deck https://archidekt.com/decks/94674#Maximum_Borkdrive is as simple as copying the deck-id 94674.

By running the tool with the given deck-id:
archiDekt 94674, archiTop will export the deck as TableTop Simulator compatible file, alongside the thumbnail used for the deck in Archidekt.

Both files created will be named accordingly to the deck name in Archidekt:

Now all that's left to do is to move the two files into the TableTop Objects folder. The directory can vary for your Tabletop installation, based on OS.

You can find the path via the Tabletop Simulator game configurations:

Use of altered cards

You can optionally configure the tool to load alternate art versions of cards, by executing architop with the -a option:
architop <deckId> -a <path to .json file>

The altered art json file, follows the format below:

example_altered_cards.json
{
  "Pyroblast": "https://architop-altered.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Pyroblast.png",
  "Red Elemental Blast": "https://architop-altered.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Red+Elemental+Blast.png",
  "Aetherflux Reservoir": "https://architop-altered.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Aetherflux+Reservoir.png",
  "Chaos Warp": "https://architop-altered.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Chaos+Warp.png",
  "Dockside Extortionist": "https://architop-altered.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Dockside+Extortionist.png",
  "Sol Ring": "https://architop-altered.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Sol+Ring.png"
}