About Deck Distiller

This site is designed to provide insight to deck builders for Magic: The Gathering®.

It analyses your deck and makes suggestions about new cards that might work well in it, or cards in it that seem like they maybe aren't the best fit or have better alternatives.

It's currently focused on the Commander / EDH format.

Loading Decks

Deck Distiller can load decks directly from Moxfield, Archidekt, TappedOut or MTGGoldfish. Simply copy the 'Share' link from those sites (or copy the address from the browser URL bar) into the box on the Add New Deck page to add a deck to your list.

You can also paste a deck in as a list. This should work for common deck list formats, but is less precise than loading the deck from a site directly.

Suggestions

Once your deck is loaded, Deck Distiller will make suggestions about some cards it thinks you might want to add, and some that it thinks you might want to swap out. These are based on a bunch of different factors as it tries to work out what your deck is doing and what fits best in it.

The suggestions aren't necessarily perfect! Sometimes it might be confused, especially for decks with less obvious strategies or themes that aren't evident in gameplay. You should take these as suggestions, of course you don't have to make the swaps if you don't like them.

If you don't like a suggestion, you can hit the thumbs down button on its popup card. This will remove it from the list & fetch a new set without it. Conversely, there's a thumbs up button to note your appreciation of a useful suggestion.

Cards in your main deck list also have a "Recommend Replacement" button. Deck Distiller can provide suggestions of possible replacements for the card in question; it tries to find similar cards that seem they'll fit in your deck.

You can ask for replacements for your commander; it will then find a legendary creature that matches the colour identity. Generally it might be quite hard to find an alternative that will work well, but we'll do our best!

Data

Data is stored in your browser and not on the server.

This means it's currently not easy to share your decks between multiple devices. We might add some more options here in the future.