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Identify a card with your camera, check owned and available copies, and deliberately add cards to your inventory.
Updated · Llama Familiar team
Use Scan cards in Collection or Scan to check in the mobile shortcuts. Check mode is the starting point.
Tap Start live camera and allow camera access. Hold one upright English card against a plain background. The camera window fits your feed, including when you rotate your phone. Follow the violet card guide. The corner brackets glide onto detected edges and briefly hold through a missed reading; the border lock alone does not confirm the card’s name. Amber means hold steady, adjust the card or improve low lighting. Once the frame locks, blue means that captured frame is being read; you can lower the phone. A green outline and Card found identify a confirmed name. The llama also gives written guidance, so you do not have to rely on color. There is no shutter or photo upload.
The result stays locked while you review. See the selected printing’s price or a range for the shown printings, then compare artwork, set, collector number and finish with the physical copy. The camera does not prove a specific foil treatment. Reprints may share artwork, so compare the exact set and collector number.
The result shows owned, assigned and available copies, with locations and other printings where applicable. A card planned in a theorycraft deck is separate from a physical copy reserved for a deck.
Checking a card does not increase your inventory. To record copies you own, choose Scan to add or the Add copies to collection action. Confirm quantity, printing, finish, condition and location before saving.
Copies with the same printing, finish, condition and location join the existing inventory spot. Different treatments, conditions or locations remain separate. If a count is too high, correct the quantity rather than scanning the same cards again.
Check available copies before offering a card for sale or putting it into another deck. Assigned copies are already reserved. The price estimate includes retrieval context; an older estimate is not a live offer.
Mana Pool price comparison is optional. Open the comparison when you want that second source. For poor reception, use a previously saved Pocket collection to look up names and locations; camera matching requires a connection.
The sound button toggles original, short 8-bit sounds for camera ready, card found and copies saved. Pause camera releases the camera; leaving the tab or closing the scanner also stops it. Resume to start again. Use Flashlight in dim light when your camera/browser supports it. An unavailable control is explained below the preview. If the light reflects off a sleeve or foil, switch it off and tilt the card slightly. The scanner requests continuous focus and exposure where available; move back a little if a close-up name is blurry.
Automatic acquisition freezes one frame and pauses further scanning while recognition and price lookup complete. The name, price and review remain on screen until you choose Scan next card. There is no background queue to distract from the current card.
Choose Scan next card to resume the camera, including when deliberately scanning another copy of the same card. Finding a name never adds inventory on its own. A lookup failure offers Retry lookup without rescanning; an unreadable frame offers Try another angle.
Recognition runs on your device using the card outline and English name text, not an artwork-recognition library. Keep the name readable and all four corners visible. The Having trouble finding a card? tips are below the camera. Initial scanner and English language downloads require a connection, as do printing lookups. If camera permission is blocked, allow Camera in Safari or Chrome website settings. You can always search by name below the scanner.
