Zendikar

Zendikar update is complete.

It has been for a while, actually, but I kept forgetting to update this blog.
Oops.

Latest download info can be found in the Download link to the left.

Anyway, here's the details for this update:


Changes included in the 4.2 version:
> Complete Gather text for every card, including the new October rules changes.
> New sets included: Zendikar, Planechase, and FTV - Exile
> Support for Plane cards
> Introducing a new 'Product' rarity (for booster packs and such).
> Updates to FNM, JGC, and MPR special printings
> Prerelease and Release event cards now included (some with no art for now).
> Several minor fixes, art corrections, and such.
> Improved Database functionality: Simple Search now supports Block and Set selections, previously only available via the Advanced search.

Next update: Shortly before or after Worldwake's release.

Additional Notes:

This update took a little longer than usual (by about two weeks) because of a number of changes to the Magic rules set.

Planar cards were introduced, which required me to make slight modifications to the entire database. I also had to change the search paramaters to allow Planar cards, so I modified the entire search routine to load the Drop-down list from the database.
Now the drop-down for the Simple Search offers Set and Block search filters. Previously, these options were only available through the Advanced Search filter.
Plane cards can be accessed through the Land/Plane button (previously only used for Lands)

Oracle text for a number of cards was changed, and I still had to make lots of changes from the M10 rules overhaul. Because of this, I waited a week after the Prerelease for the Oracle update, and downloaded the entire database as a 20MB text file.
I then spent the next week perfecting a text-parsing program that translated that horrid mess into a readable format, then had a different program compare the two databases and let me look over the changes.
With the help of these two programs, Oracle updates take about two minutes to compile, and less than an hour for me to error-check.

So all future updates should contain complete Oracle text.