Why TurnZero HQ
Magic: The Gathering has never had more tools built around it: deckbuilders, life counters, collection trackers, price apps. You are probably already juggling three or four. So why add one more? Because none of the others is with you for the whole night, and none of them helps you play with people. Each is with you for one part of it, and then lets go.
The deck you built does not know it got played. The game you played does not know who was there. And by next week none of it exists anywhere except a vague memory of a good night. That is not a failure of any one app. Each of them is good at the part it took on. It is what happens when the three parts of a game night are owned by three products that were never introduced to each other.
Moxfield and Archidekt are excellent at what they do, and building a 99 is genuinely better on those sites than almost anywhere else. What neither is built to do is watch you play. The list has no idea it was ever sleeved up, nothing records who was sitting at the table, and the version you retired last month cannot be compared against the one that replaced it, because nothing anywhere knows how either of them did.
Lifetap, Carbon and Lifelinker solve the opposite half, and solve it well: fast, reliable, built for the seconds between a swing and a response. But they know nothing about your deck beyond a name you typed in once, and nothing about your playgroup at all. No rivalries, no record of who beats you, nothing that carries from one night to the next. The game ends and the app forgets it.
ManaBox, Delver Lens and the TCGplayer app are a third silo. Useful for knowing what you own and what it is worth, and disconnected from both the deck you built out of those cards and the people you have beaten with them.
TurnZero HQ is built to be present for all three acts of a night rather than one. The same app holds the list, the game and the people, which is what makes each of them worth more than it is on its own.
Build
Real decks with real card data behind them, not a name typed into a text field. Import from Archidekt, Moxfield or Manabox, photograph a pile of physical cards, or build from scratch, and the app knows what is actually in your 99. It measures the lands, ramp, removal, draw and curve against the archetype while you edit, and gives you an honest read on which Commander bracket the list is really playing in.
See the deck builder →Play
A life tracker that is genuinely at the table with you: fast, readable across four playmats, built for Commander's multiplayer chaos and for Standard's best-of-three. Because it is the same app that built the deck, it knows what it is tracking. Commander damage, eliminations and win conditions are logged against the real list rather than a guess, and a night is a night rather than a run of unrelated games.
See everything it does →Connect
This is the part nothing else has. Add friends, build a playgroup, and see who is playing right now. Track the rivalries with the people you play most. Share Moments from the table (a photo, a note, the exact cards involved in a big play) and let the people who could not make it react from their couch. Browse gatherings near you and pull up a seat when you have no regular group.
See what it connects →It is not the deepest brewing environment on the internet, and it does not pretend to be. Moxfield's public deck database is enormous and Archidekt's visual organization is better than ours. It is not a collection manager either: it will tell you what your library is worth and which decks a card is in, and it will not replace a dedicated inventory tool if buying and selling is the job. And it is not a price tracker.
What it is, is the only place the deck, the game and the people are one thing. If you only ever build and never track a night, the honest answer is that you may not need this. If you play with the same people every couple of weeks and cannot remember which of your decks is actually any good, that is the gap this fills.
Nobody is asking you to give up a tool because it is bad at what it does. The pitch is narrower and more honest than that: stop playing Magic in three disconnected silos that do not know each other, or the people you play with. The deck, the game and the people are currently three separate things.
Build your deck. Play your games. Connect with people. That is TurnZero HQ.
No, and plenty of players use both. Those sites are strong at brewing and at their public deck databases, and TurnZero HQ reads decklists straight from Archidekt, Moxfield and Manabox, so a list you brewed there can be imported in one paste and then tracked at the table. The pitch is not that they are bad at their job. It is that their job stops at the decklist, and a game night does not.
It counts life and Commander damage as well as any dedicated counter, but that is the starting point rather than the product. The counter is the part that happens to be on screen during a game; the reason it exists is that it connects the deck you built to the result you got and to the people you got it against. A dedicated counter cannot do that, because it has never been told what your deck is or who your playgroup are.
Who won and how, which deck each player brought, how long the game ran, the Commander damage that decided it, and any Moments anybody posted. That result then moves the deck's own rating, so over a season you can see which of your decks is carrying you and which one needs a rebuild, measured from real games rather than from the list.
Yes. One person tracking the night is enough: guests can be added by name without an account, so the table is recorded whether or not anybody else signs up. Personal Mode goes further and tracks only your own seat when the rest of the table is playing on paper counters.
Yes, on iOS, Android and the web. The deck builder, the AI deck rating, the card scanner, life tracking and the night history are all free. The phone apps show occasional ads (never during a game, and never on the web) which $0.99 a month removes; a premium subscription adds AI-written night recaps, board-state photos, more pods per gathering, and is ad-free too.
Track a single gathering and see what it looks like written down: who won, what they brought, and the Moments worth arguing about next week. Free on iOS, Android and the web.
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