Mythic Vale

The Player's Guide

A field guide to every screen in your binder — from cataloguing a foil rare to reading the week's biggest market movers.

10 chapters · 3 parts · Updated Sept 2026
Part I

The Collection

01

Your Binders

Binders group your single cards — think of each one as a physical binder or box you'd actually keep them in. Every account starts with at least one.

  • 01Open the Inventory tab (the app's home screen) to see every binder as a tile, each showing its card count and total value.
  • 02Tap New Binder, name it, and it appears alongside the rest.
  • 03Tap a tile to open it, or use its menu to rename or delete it — the last remaining binder on an account can't be deleted.
02

Adding & Managing Cards

Inside a binder, every card tracks its own quantity, condition, and foil status — and where it stands in the sell process.

  • 01Add Card: type at least 2 letters of a name, pick it from suggestions, then pick the exact printing (set, number, art) from the grid that appears.
  • 02Fill in the card's details, then save it to the binder.
  • 03Scan Card (camera icon, phone only): point your camera at the card's bottom-left collector line (e.g. "163/275 MH3") inside the on-screen box and tap the shutter — it reads the printing via on-device OCR and opens the same Add Card form pre-filled. Cards printed before 2013 often have no collector line and won't scan; search by name instead.
  • 04Tap any row's edit icon to change its quantity, condition, price, or notes, or to mark part of it sold on the spot.
Quantity
How many copies of this exact printing/condition/foil combo
Condition
Near Mint · Lightly Played · Moderately Played · Heavily Played · Damaged
Foil
A checkbox — tracked separately from the non-foil copies
Acquired price
What you actually paid, in USD — optional, never shown to anyone else
Field note — status
A card moves Available → Listed the moment you post it to the Market Feed, then you move it yourself to Pending Sale while a deal's in progress, and finally Sold — which files it under the binder's Sold tab instead of Active.
Filter by setFilter by rarityFilter by foilSort by price, name, date addedGrid or list view
03

Sealed Product

Booster boxes, bundles, and other unopened product live here, separate from your binders — reached via the same Inventory tab's second tab.

  • 01Tap Add Product, search by name (no autocomplete step — just type and pick a result), then fill in quantity and what you paid.
  • 02There's no condition or foil field here — those don't apply to a sealed box.
  • 03Active and Sold tabs work exactly like a binder's — mark a product sold and it moves to Sold history.
Field note
MTGJSON (the pricing source) carries no sealed-product pricing at all, so sealed items never get an automatic market value — only what you record as your own acquired price.
04

Collection Value Trend

A small chart on the Your Binders page, right above the binder tiles, showing whether your collection's total value is climbing or falling.

  • 01Every day, the app snapshots your active collection's total value — same math the sidebar's totals use.
  • 02Once at least two days of snapshots exist, the chart plots them, with the net change and percent shown above it.
Field note — ramp-up
Brand new, and right after this feature ships: you'll see "Not enough history yet" instead of a chart. Check back after a day or two.
Part II

The Market

05

Market Feed

A live feed of cards and sealed product other collectors are buying and selling. Mythic Vale never touches any money — every deal happens directly between the two of you.

  • 01Post something to sell, either by searching the catalog, or by tapping Sell from Inventory to pull a card straight out of a binder — its price, condition, and foil status come along automatically.
  • 02Post a "want" the same way if you're buying instead.
  • 03Set your asking price in ₱ and add a contact link (e.g. a Messenger link) and an optional caption, then publish.
  • 04On someone else's post: Contact opens however they said to reach them; Message starts an in-app conversation instead.
  • 05On your own post: update each line's status (Listed, Pending Sale, Sold) as a deal progresses, or edit/delete the post entirely.
Field note
Free accounts can have up to 5 active listings at once — see Chapter 10.
06

Market Movers

The "winners and losers" board at the top of Market Feed — the cards whose CardKingdom/TCGplayer price swung the most, across the whole game, not just cards someone here owns.

  • 01Switch between Today and This Week to change the comparison window.
  • 02Each tile shows a card's image, its percent change with an up/down arrow, and its current price.
Field note — ramp-up
This section stays hidden entirely until enough daily price history has accumulated: "Today" needs one prior day on record, "This Week" needs about a week.
07

Messages

Conversations exist only to coordinate a deal from Market Feed — there's no way to message someone out of the blue.

  • 01Tap Message on any post to start (or reopen) a thread with its owner.
  • 02Your Messages tab lists every conversation, newest first, with an unread badge.
Part III

The Collector

08

Your Profile & Seller Pages

The first time you sign in, a one-time screen asks for a display name (the only required field) before anything else unlocks.

  • 01Set a display name, and optionally an avatar, a contact link, a location, and a bio (a good place to note payment methods or shipping preferences).
  • 02Edit any of it later via the pencil icon next to your name in the menu.
  • 03Tap your own name, or any seller's name on Market Feed, to see their public profile: rating, completed sales, member-since date, and their active listings.
  • 04Leave a 1–5 star rating and an optional comment on anyone you've dealt with — you can edit or delete your own review anytime, but never review yourself.
10

Free Plan Limits

Every account today is effectively Free — there's no purchase flow yet, but these caps are already enforced.

Binders3 max
Tracked cards (active, not sold)1,000 max
Active Market Feed listings5 max
Field note
Hitting a limit shows an "Upgrade to Premium" message — Premium exists as an account flag (you'll see a crown badge if you have it), but there's no in-app way to buy it yet.