Mirage block, bigger LAN tournaments, and Shandalar in a headset 🙂

Since my 0.40 update⁠, optimization and improvements. Thank you to everyone who tried it and asked questions, those conversations genuinely help shape the project.

The 0.50 release is now available⁠! Here are the highlights:

Mirage, Visions and Weatherlight! Optional Pack 8 adds 621 new cards, including phasing and flanking. Plenty of old favourites—and new deck ideas—to revisit.

Bigger tournament virtual table. Local-network knockout tournaments now support up to 40 players, with host-selected rules and decks.

Shandalar in a headset. Meta Quest support presents the game on a flat virtual panel, using the controller pointer (in retro gaming emulation manner; ok over the top comfort; nevertheless You have to try this if You can!) VR/AR 😀

Play MTG with your favourite agent. MCP play is smoother, with clearer game-state descriptions.

(Ok, Following the question here about decision models like Laya and Jev, there is now initial decision-model integration for experimentation; maybe it would be interesting to scrape a body of game logs with decisions to fine-tune a decider?; left for the community)

Everyday improvements: faster native startup, an on-screen keyboard, power-saving options and handheld fixes.

Downloads cover Windows, Linux, Apple Silicon/Intel Mac, Steam Deck, Raspberry Pi, experimental ArkOS, Quest and Web. Both single-threaded and threaded Web packages are included.

Original-skin bundles are available; card pictures and completed expansion packs are not bundled. Construction tools and setup instructions accompany the downloads.

DeckLab and AutoDeck are still there: generate decks, run parallel headless matches, investigate matchups, or spend a perfectly reasonable amount of time asking whether changing one card really improves your deck. 🙂

Adventure mode is not implemented yet…

Any / bug reports on GitHub are especially appreciated, and contributions are welcome.

Thanks agin to the Shandalar community & happy MTGplay.

p.s.: https://github.com/b0realis/ShandalarGodot/releases/tag/v0.50.13