How does this work? Is there a manual?

[azra1l]

i'm somewhat lost as in how to use this thing.

To me it appears it doesn't recognize my replays. I choose the folder my replays are stored in, let it scan, nothing happens except that it notifies me that i have unsaved changes, even if i didn't change anything. None of the other buttons really do anything, the stats in the lower part remain empty.

I'm also lost about this deck database it needs to keep updated, How does that work, and why does MORT need this? Is that supposed to be a database of every unique MTGO deck out there? Will MORT fill this with new decks it gathers from replays?

[azra1l]

Here is my current replay folder, contains 3 games from the past couple of days.
FE33FF7C29EEDE89C301EFDEF00921ED.zip

[silasary]

Okay, so, a few things.

All three of the games you've played appear to have some kind of corruption in the logfile, and MORT is doing the sensible thing and discarding them.

Not really much you can do there except play more games, and hope Magic Online isn't buggy in the future.

As for the deck database, it's impossible to build decklists from replays. You don't see all 75 cards your opponent is playing every single game, and there's no easy way for an algorithm to name and classify them even if you could.
So MORT has a database of decks scraped from MTGTop8.com. It looks at the ~13-20 unique cards played per player per game, and tries to figure out which deck is most likely to run all of them.

[silasary]

Writing a manual is something that needs to be done, as the original manual was lost to time, and no archive of it exists.