D'Gathering is a dedicated Magic: The Gathering card price aggregator and community marketplace built specifically for players, collectors, and local game stores in the Philippines. We instantly scan multiple store websites and community feeds to display in-stock card printings, prices, and variant availability in one central search engine.
Like many great community tools, D'Gathering started with a familiar frustration. During deckbuilding weekends, finding a specific single card meant opening 15 different browser tabs, sifting through store search bars, and manually comparing prices line by line across local game store websites.
What began as a simple weekend side project to automate our own card hunting quickly grew into something much bigger. As more local stores and fellow Commander and competitive players started using it, we realized the entire Philippine MTG community needed a fast, reliable, and unified home for price discovery.
D'Gathering is crafted and maintained by Another MTG Group — a passionate collective of software engineers, MTG TCG enthusiasts, and avid card collectors. We play the game, trade at Friday Night Magic events, and build tools designed by players, for players.
Our core mission is simple: to bridge the gap and make life easier for both buyers and sellers in the MTG ecosystem.
For players and collectors, D'Gathering eliminates tedious price hunting, showing you who has stock right now so you can complete your deck faster. For local game stores (LGS) and community sellers, we drive direct foot traffic and sales to your store portals without intermediary commissions or friction.
We believe great software should be blazingly fast, lightweight, and rock-solid. Here is the technology stack powering D'Gathering:
Why: Instant web request processing, PSR-4 domain isolation, and zero-overhead REST API serving. PHP keeps our web layer ultra-stable and universally deployable.
Why: Parallel scraper engine built with Tokio multi-threading. Delivers sub-second response times via database caching, with live multi-store queries completing in 2 to 5 seconds depending on remote store server latency.
Why: High-speed relational database storing indexed card price histories, unique store URL constraints, marketplace feeds, and search trend logs.
Why: Zero heavy framework bloat. Sub-10ms autocomplete suggestions, mobile camera WebP image compression, and instant client responsiveness.
Why: Lightweight custom CSS variables supporting dynamic dark mode themes (Raw Energy, Isolation, Orzhov, Tech Minimalist) with sub- millisecond rendering.
Why: Official Magic: The Gathering card catalog integration providing high-resolution card imagery, set codes, and canonical Oracle card titles.
To keep card searches accurate, lightweight, and responsive for the community, we built a few practical features under the hood:
Our title normalization strips set codes `[MOR]`, collector numbers, and ligatures (`Æ` ➔ `ae`), helping prevent partial title confusion so searching "Hex" doesn't match "Hex Parasite".
Combines fast database cache lookups with our background Rust scanner to retrieve live prices from multiple LGS store platforms smoothly.
Handles mobile photo rotation and compresses marketplace listing uploads directly in the browser to keep page load times fast for everyone.
Filters out zero-stock entries and automatically adjusts WooCommerce minor currency units (cents to pesos) before rendering results.
While D'Gathering implements multiple custom normalization layers and strict guardrails to eliminate false positives, our engine operates under certain real-world data boundaries: