Playtest

The playtester lets you solo-goldfish any deck in Spellbinder without leaving the site. Draw opening hands, mulligan, play lands, cast spells, track life and mana, and work through turns to test how a deck feels before you sleeve it up.

Opening the playtester

From any deck page, click Playtest in the header. Your library is shuffled and you're dealt an opening hand ready to mulligan. Starting life follows the deck's format: Commander, Brawl, and Oathbreaker decks start at 40, everything else at 20.

Mulligans

The playtester uses the London mulligan. After your opening hand is dealt, choose Keep or Mulligan from the hand panel:

• Each mulligan reshuffles your hand into the library and draws seven fresh cards.
• After keeping, you must put one card on the bottom of your library for each mulligan you took. The hand panel prompts you to select those cards.
• Commander, Brawl, and Oathbreaker get a free first mulligan, so the first redraw does not cost a card on the bottom.

What you can do

• Draw, mulligan, shuffle, scry, and manipulate the top or bottom of your library
• Move cards between the battlefield, hand, graveyard, exile, command zone, and library
• Tap, flip, and transform cards; attach counters and create token copies
• Track life, mana pool, turn number, and any number of named counters (poison, energy, storm count, anything you like)
• Undo and redo moves, or restart the game (optionally with sideboarding)
• Flip coins, roll dice, and roll the planar die
• Resize cards, reset zoom to actual size, and toggle the hover preview

Keyboard shortcuts

Press ? at any time while in a playtest session to open the shortcut reference.

Game

Hovered or selected card

Library

Dice and coins

Tips

• Click the life total in the top bar to type in an exact value.
• The top bar's ellipsis menu has per-game settings like disabling automatic draw or untap on the next turn, and toggling the card preview.
• Restart and sideboard is only available when the deck has a sideboard. It brings up the sideboarding screen between games.
• The counter tracker starts with a single empty row. Name it anything, then use the + in the header to add more rows. Restarting the game zeros the values but keeps your named counters; closing and reopening the tracker clears all rows.
• Right-click a card (or long-press on mobile) and choose View Card to open a large preview of the card image — useful on small screens where cards on the battlefield can be hard to read.