Premium Feature
Board State: Know What's Actually Winning You Games
Ask most Commander players what their best card is, and you'll get a gut-feeling answer. Board State turns your phone into a running, round-by-round record of what you actually played — so the data you end up with is data you can actually trust.
The problem it solves
Deck stats today mostly stop at "I won" or "I lost." That tells you almost nothing about why. Was it the commander doing the work? A combo piece that never once got cast? A card you keep including because it "feels good" but hasn't shown up in three games?
If you're playing weekly and you've put real money and time into a deck, "it feels good" isn't a good enough answer anymore. Board State gives you the actual evidence.
How it works
Load your deck into TurnZero before the game — this is what makes the scan possible, since Board State cross-references what it sees against your known list.
Once per round, tap “Take Board Photo” (or use the Board State Photo button right in the tracker). This is meant to be done between turns, on your own time — not something you're fumbling with mid-play.
TurnZero scans the photo and matches cards against your loaded deck using AI, then shows you a Cards list for that round.
You confirm or reject each detected card — green check to confirm it's actually on the board, red X to reject a misread. Missed a card the scan didn't catch? Tap + and add it yourself.
You can log more than one photo in a round if your board's spread out or the first shot missed something — every photo you take that round shows up under Logged This Game.
Lock In finalizes the round once your card list is accurate. That locked round becomes part of the permanent record for the game.
Confirm or reject each detected card
Every photo taken that round is saved under Logged This Game
The confirm/reject step matters: this isn't a black box guessing at your board and hoping it's right. You're the last check before anything gets recorded, so the history you build is one you can actually rely on.
Why round-by-round matters
A single end-of-game snapshot tells you what was on the table when the game ended — not what actually happened. Locking in each round is what turns this into the real story of the game: your ramp came down turns 2–4, your commander stuck around from turn 5 on, removal answered a threat turn 7, and the win came from a combo piece that landed turn 9. That's the shape of the game, not just its final frame.
What you get out of it, over time
This is where Board State goes from "cool party trick" to genuinely useful for a serious player:
Cards winning you games — the ones that show up disproportionately often in your wins
Cards costing you games — dead draws, cards removed before doing anything
Cards you never see — buried in your 99, rarely hitting the battlefield, often the strongest signal of all for what to cut
Turn-by-turn patterns — how your deck actually develops, versus how you think it develops
None of this requires deck-building software or manual card-by-card logging during the game. You're not typing a decklist into TurnZero — you're pointing your camera at what's already on the table and confirming what it sees.
Why it's worth paying for
Board State is built for players who treat their decks like an ongoing project, not a static list — people playing weekly, iterating on their 99, and spending real money keeping their decks current. For that player, "which cards are actually pulling their weight" isn't a curiosity, it's the question that decides what gets cut and what gets bought next.
A premium subscription buys you a running, confirmed, cross-referenced record of every game — the kind of data that would otherwise mean manually logging your own plays by hand, every single game, forever. For a once-a-week player, that adds up to real deck-tuning insight over a season that a free, memory-based approach just can't match.
A note on how it's meant to be used
Board State is explicitly a between-turns habit, not an on-your-turn one. It's built to stay out of the way of actually playing — the same philosophy that runs through the rest of TurnZero. If it's slowing your turns down, take the photo (and do your confirming) on someone else's turn, not yours.
Who this is for
Players who want real evidence for "is this card pulling its weight," not just a hunch
Weekly players tuning a deck over many games who want to see the pattern, not just the last result
Anyone building long-term deck history who wants their stats to mean something beyond win/loss
See Board State in action.
Load a deck, take a photo between turns, and let TurnZero start building a record you can actually trust.
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