What Are Card Lists?

Card Lists in Icarian are curated collections of Magic cards organized by specific themes, rules, or characteristics.

Overview

Card Lists help you discover and track notable Magic cards across different categories:

• Reserved List - Cards that Wizards of the Coast has promised never to reprint
• Power 9 - The nine most powerful and valuable vintage cards
• Elder Dragons - Legendary Dragon creatures, including the original Elder Dragons
• Dual Lands - Original dual lands from Alpha/Beta/Unlimited/Revised
• Fetch Lands - Popular mana-fixing lands across various sets
• Shock Lands - Dual lands that enter tapped unless you pay 2 life

And many more!

Types of Lists

Manual Lists

Manual lists are hand-curated collections where specific cards are individually added:

• Power 9 - Exactly 9 cards (Black Lotus, Moxes, Ancestral Recall, Time Walk, Timetwister)
• Original Dual Lands - The 10 original dual lands
• Reserved List - Cards on the official Reserved List

These lists are maintained by administrators and updated as needed.

Rule-Based Lists

Rule-based lists automatically populate based on specific criteria:

• Elder Dragons - All legendary creatures with “Dragon” type and specific subtypes
• Reserved List - All cards where isReserved = true
• Commander-Legal Staples - High-value cards that are legal in Commander

Rule-based lists update automatically when: - New cards are added to the database - Card metadata is updated - List rules are modified by administrators

Browsing Card Lists

Lists live on your Lists page (choose Lists from the top bar). Its All lists tab shows every published list with your progress; Targeted shows the ones you’re collecting toward. Search finds a list by its name or by a card in it.

If you’re not signed in, Lists shows a catalog of every list with a strip of its most expensive cards. Open one to see all its cards and their prices.

A List’s Page

Each list opens on a cover made from its most expensive card’s art. Beside the title, a progress panel shows:

• Your progress - The percentage of the list you own, with a progress bar
• Owned - How many of the list’s cards you own, out of the total
• Missing - How many you still need
• To finish - About what the missing cards would cost, using the cheapest printing of each. Cards with no price yet are counted separately (“+ 2”, “2 unpriced”)

Below the cover, three tabs sort the cards:

• All - Every card, in the list’s own order
• Owned - Your most valuable copy of each card you own, tagged with its value. Foil and etched copies shine
• Missing - The cards you lack, cheapest first, inside a dashed outline and tagged “Missing · $X”. It reads as a shopping list

On another collector’s list page you see their progress and their copies, without the cost to finish.

Targeting Lists

You can “target” lists to track your completion progress:

1. Open any list
2. Choose Target in its progress panel
3. The list appears on your Collection page and your Lists page’s Targeted tab

Targeting a list is similar to targeting a set - it helps you track which cards you own and which you’re still seeking.

Using Lists for Collection Goals

Card lists are useful for:

Investment Tracking

Target Reserved List or high-value lists to track investment cards: - Monitor which reserved cards you own - Set price alerts for missing reserved cards - Track total value of your investment holdings

Format Staples

Target Commander or Modern staples lists: - Identify format staples you’re missing - Build up your collection of playable cards - Track which staples you have for deck building

Historical Collections

Collect classic or iconic cards: - Complete the Power 9 (ambitious!) - Collect all original dual lands - Gather Elder Dragons for a themed collection

Deck Building Reference

Use lists to find cards for specific strategies: - Browse fetch lands for mana base improvements - Review shock lands for budget dual land alternatives - Explore commander-eligible cards for new deck ideas

Suggesting New Lists

If you’d like to suggest a new card list:

1. On your Lists page, choose Suggest a list
2. Give it a name and, optionally, a description
3. Under Cards to include, search for cards by name and choose Add for each one that belongs. Choose × on a picked card to remove it
4. Choose Submit suggestion

My suggestions shows each one you’ve sent and its status: Pending review, Approved, or Not added. Open a suggestion to read the admin’s note once it’s been reviewed. You can delete a suggestion that hasn’t been approved.

Administrators will review and may create the list if it’s useful to the community!