Your own private MTG Arena stats tracker — running quietly in your system tray.
Scry 2 watches MTGA's log file on your own machine, parses every match and draft
as you play, and serves a personal analytics dashboard at http://localhost:6015.
Nothing leaves your computer. No accounts, no sign-up, no telemetry. Just the
history you'd keep yourself, if you had the time.
Inspired by 17lands.com, but self-hosted and Constructed-first.
- Live match history. Every ranked, Bo1, Bo3, and casual match you play, with the deck you brought, the format, your opponent's colors, and the result — written to your local database the moment the match ends. No imports, no uploads.
- Rank climb charts. Your Constructed and Limited ranks plotted over time, per season. See when you spiked, when you stalled, and when the algorithm decided you were Silver-shaped for three weeks.
- Deck-level win rates. Sliced by format, season, and play/draw. Every version of a deck tracked separately so you can actually compare the Tuesday build to the Friday build.
- Per-card performance. For every card you own: games drawn, games in opening hand, games won with it in your deck. Your own data, not the population's.
- Draft history. Every pick, every pack, plus the deck you actually submitted. Re-read your drafts like replays.
- Card browser. Full MTGA card database, searchable and filterable. Card images are fetched from Scryfall on demand and cached locally.
- Collection snapshot. A read of your current MTGA card collection, refreshed automatically whenever you launch the game.
- One-click updates. When a new release ships, the app downloads and verifies it in-place. A progress modal shows each step; you can cancel mid-download.
| Platform | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Linux (x86_64, glibc) | Primary — fully supported and actively developed | Ubuntu / Arch / Fedora / any mainstream distro with glibc |
| Windows 10 / 11 (x86_64) | Experimental | MSI installer works; some edge cases still being smoothed. Use at your own pace. |
| macOS (Apple Silicon) | Planned, not yet supported | Release archives are produced but the installer story isn't ready. If you're excited about macOS, star the repo and check back. |
Scry 2 runs MTGA through Steam/Proton on Linux. No native Linux MTGA build
exists, but Proton handles it transparently — the watcher just reads the
Player.log that Proton writes.
Scry 2 needs MTGA's Detailed Logs setting enabled. This is MTGA's built-in debug-event stream; without it, the log file only contains plain-text entries and there's nothing to parse.
In MTGA:
- Open Options → View Account
- Enable Detailed Logs (Plugin Support)
- Restart MTGA if it was already running
Scry 2 will warn you on its dashboard if it notices Detailed Logs is off.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ShawnMcCool/scry-2/main/installer/install.sh | shThat's it. The script resolves the latest release, verifies the download
against its published SHA-256 checksum, and hands off to the bundled
installer. Autostart is wired up via XDG, the tray icon appears, and the
dashboard becomes available at http://localhost:6015.
Want a specific version? … | sh -s -- --version v0.20.0.
GNOME users: install the AppIndicator extension if the tray icon doesn't appear. Most other desktops show it out of the box.
Download Scry2Setup-*.exe from the
Releases page and run it. The bundled Burn
installer handles the MSI and the Visual C++ Redistributable. Scry 2
will start on login and surface its tray icon.
Firewall: on first launch Windows may prompt to allow epmd and erlang through — these are components of the bundled runtime. Allow both.
The Windows build is newer and less battle-tested than the Linux build. If something breaks, the "Report to developer" button in Settings → Operations opens a pre-filled GitHub issue with a scrubbed error log. That's by far the fastest way to get it fixed.
Release archives are produced on every version bump but the macOS installer experience (LaunchAgent, first-run prompts, code signing) isn't finished yet. There's no shell installer and no DMG. Track progress on the repo; this section will become actionable when the work lands.
After install, open http://localhost:6015. The tray menu has an
Open shortcut that does the same thing.
- Matches — your game history, filterable by format, season, and deck. Click any match for a full play-by-play.
- Decks — one row per deck you've registered in MTGA. Win rate, games played, and version history.
- Drafts — every draft you've done, pick by pick.
- Cards — the full MTGA card database. Your own per-card stats are overlaid on each card.
- Player — global summary: total matches, overall win rate, most-played deck, longest streak.
- Ranks — rank timeline with a chart per format per season.
- Economy — gem/gold/wildcard history inferred from log events.
- Collection — auto-refreshed snapshot of your MTGA collection.
- Settings (gear icon, top right) — three tabs:
- System — health checks, log watcher status, app version, one-click "Apply update" when a new release is out.
- Operations — backend restart/stop, projection rebuilds, error export.
- Settings — MTGA paths, 17lands refresh schedule, advanced config.
Scry 2 checks GitHub for new releases once an hour and shows a badge on Settings → System when one is available. Click Apply update and the app will:
- Download the new archive.
- Verify it against the published SHA-256 checksum (refuses to install on mismatch).
- Extract, hand off to the installer, and restart itself.
A progress modal shows each phase. You can cancel any time before the installer is actually spawned.
If an update ever fails, the running install is untouched — Scry 2 is conservative about that. Re-running the shell installer at any time is always safe and also preserves your data.
Scry 2 writes everything to a local SQLite database. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. The database is yours to keep, move, back up, inspect, or delete.
| Platform | Database location |
|---|---|
| Linux | ~/.local/share/scry_2/scry_2.db |
| Windows | %APPDATA%\scry_2\scry_2.db |
| macOS | ~/Library/Application Support/scry_2/scry_2.db (location reserved; installer TBD) |
Config lives alongside the database at ~/.config/scry_2/config.toml
(Linux) or %APPDATA%\scry_2\config.toml (Windows), but most settings
are editable from the UI — you shouldn't need to touch these files.
Scry 2's uninstaller removes the application binaries and the autostart entry. It never touches your database. Uninstall, then decide separately what to do with your history.
- Linux:
~/.local/lib/scry_2/uninstall - Windows:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\scry_2\uninstall.bat - macOS:
~/.local/lib/scry_2/uninstall(once supported)
After uninstalling, the script prints the path + size of your database so you can decide whether to keep it. To remove everything including history, delete the database directory (shown above) by hand.
- Something parsed wrong? Settings → Operations → Report to developer opens a pre-filled GitHub issue with a scrubbed error log.
- Feature idea or bug not tied to a specific event? Open an issue directly.
Scry 2 stands on other people's generous work.
- Beleren by Delve Fonts — the official MTG card-title typeface, commissioned by Wizards of the Coast. Used for headings. Proprietary; used here under Wizards' Fan Content Policy.
- MPlantin — the MTG rules-and-flavor-text typeface, derived from the Plantin family. Used for card text rendering. Proprietary to Wizards of the Coast.
- Mana font by Andrew Gioia — the mana, set, and loyalty symbols. Licensed under SIL OFL 1.1 (font) and MIT (CSS).
- 17lands — for the public card reference datasets that make card-aware analytics possible without scraping, and for setting the standard on what self-service MTGA stats should feel like. Card data is licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Scryfall — for the card image API that powers Scry 2's card browser. Please respect their rate limits and guidelines if you fork this project.
- Wizards of the Coast — Magic: The Gathering, MTG Arena, mana symbols, set symbols, and all card text and imagery are property of Wizards of the Coast LLC. Scry 2 is an independent, unofficial tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by Wizards of the Coast. See Wizards' Fan Content Policy for how fan projects like this one are permitted to exist.
- The Elixir and Phoenix communities — for building a stack where a single-developer project can credibly take on real-time ingestion, event sourcing, and a live admin UI without a team behind it.
Scry 2 itself is licensed under the MIT License — see LICENSE.
Third-party assets retain their original licenses as noted above.
Contributing or building from source? See DEVELOPMENT.md.