There really is an app for everything I guess. Today I found a forum post over at tcgplayer.com describing a very feature rich Magic the Gathering application for the iPhone called the Sylvan library. Here is a copypasta list of the applications features:
- The Gatherer card search with card art, price, oracle text, and more.
- D20 dice, 2D6 dice, and a coin to flip. All motion controlled and 3D!
- Fully featured life counter with poison and mana counters all on one screen, all controlled with just up/down, left/right swipes.
- Game timer with log to keep track of life totals and win count.
- The log can be saved for future reference.
- Fully customizable with hand painted artwork, including backgrounds and avatars. You can use pictures from your photo roll too!
- A reference library with over 80 documents that’s searchable!
- RSS links to popular Magic RSS feeds.
- Top player list.
- Find local Magic events.
- Facebook connect integration.
If I had an iPhone I’d probably give it a whirl although I’m a bit skeptical about how useful it could be. A d20 is pretty functional you know? The UI doesn’t look too pretty from the screenshots posted in the forum thread. Why does everybody working with inside the fantasy intellectual property space insist on using textured backgrounds for everything? It just makes text harder to read!
