Dev News

Do you play Commander online? We are looking for you to beta test our latest project: Playgroup Live. If you've used XMage, Cockatrice, or similar tools, this is our take on online Commander: smoother UX, built specifically for Commander, and fully integ...

It's been a while since we shared an update on what we've been working on, so let's go through the latest changes from the past few months. **Rewind 2025** Your Playgroup Rewind for 2025 is now live! These are living stats and will continue to update ...

Today we bring you Playgroup 4.0.0! This release comes packed with fixes, changes and new features. iOS: ✅ Online Android: ✅ Online Desktop: ✅ Online ### Changelog * Alternative table layouts; You can now pick a different table layout when starting...

**Introducing Playgroup.gg Rewind 2024: Celebrate Your Year in Commander\!** As the year comes to a close, it’s time to look back and celebrate all the incredible Commander games you’ve played in 2024\. We’re excited to unveil **Playgroup.gg Rewind** 202...

When we at Playgroup.gg heard that MagicCon 2024 would be held in Amsterdam, it felt like the stars had aligned. With Amsterdam being our hometown and two of our team members calling it home, we knew we couldn't miss this opportunity. To cut it short, ex...

A new day, a new Playgroup.gg app release! This will be the last app release while we focus on our MagicCon attendance, we hope to see you there! **Features** * Added an option to select a Commander as guest user: A new question has been added to t...

Hi everyone, Today we are releasing Playgroup 3.2 which we dubbed: "The mobile release". As we spoken about before, we've always developed Playgroup with a tablet in mind. We need to display quite a lot of data and that doesn't always fit on smaller p...

Hey folks, Today we are releasing Playgroup 3.1 which has been a long time coming and comes with a bunch of new cool features. First up though we wanted to introduce our Playgroup supporter packs. In order to keep the development of playgroup.gg goin...

It would help us a ton if as many people as possible could fill out this [questionnaire](https://forms.gle/dHEgwtfyyHPaq8KR8). Playgroup.gg has partnered up with a team of information visualization researchers from a University to develop a dashboard for...

Hi folks, After the release of Playgroup Beta 3 early this month we've been focussing on upgrades to the website, in this post we wanted to take you on a guided tour on some of the new stuff we've added. **Introducing Jomar** ![Jomar pushing update...

Playgroup is working together with information visualization researchers from INESC-ID and the University of Lisbon, Portugal to create the ultimate data visualization tool for EDH players and they need your help! If you have the time please fill out [this ...

A new year, a new Playgroup release! **New Features** Resume/save games: It is now possible to resume a game from where you left it. It doesn’t matter if the app crashed, battery died or you just quit the game halfway, the game will be saved and ready t...

After two months of dedication, we're thrilled to announce version **2.2.0**. The major highlights of this release include support for guests and in-playgroup deck borrowing. **Guest Support** Over the past few months, the most sought-after feature wa...

Heya, Playgroup 2.1.0 is now available on all platforms. These are the hilights: ## Pause It's now possible to pause the game, such an amazing new innovative feature, much wow. Pause will automatically be enabled if the app loses focus (by navigatin...

We've got a couple of updates for you today: ## Global Commander stats We've just released a new feature to the website: [Commander leaderboard](https://playgroup.gg/commanders) and [Commander profile pages](https://playgroup.gg/commanders/1290-jodah-...

Hi, It's been quite some time but after several months of intensive development, incorporating 15,000 lines of code, removing 2,000 lines, and modifying over 300 files, we are pleased to announce that Playgroup 2.0 is now available. We have redesigned...

Hi everybody, We’ve just deployed the new design for the Playgroup website in preparation for the upcoming release of Playgroup 2.0. Along with this new design comes three new features that I want to quickly run by you. ## Global Deck elo rating We’v...

An other day, an other release! The Playgroup Life Counter and Stats tracking app version 1.3.0 is now available. #### New Features - Easy login: Players can now quickly login to the app as a member of their selected playgroup by selecting it from a li...

Hello everyone, In this blog post, I would like to discuss the different types of Magic: the Gathering players we have identified, the features that they require, and the order in which we have decided to implement these features. Our team at Playgrou...

Hi, Playgroup 1.2.0 is now available on Android, iOS, Windows, Linux and HTML5. ***What's new*** **Undo engine** It's now possible to undo actions, if you make a mistake you can undo the last action quickly via the "undo last action" button or br...

Hi folks, Playgroup 1.1.0 is now available on all supported platforms, you can grab the latest version over at https://playgroup.gg/download 🎆 ***What's new:*** **Total overhaul of all drag and drop actions.** Our initial plan for attack declara...