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Austere Grim's UltraFancy File Server

Updated Dec 24th 2024. Merry Christmas, It's back.






I provide this server for free, no ads, for fast downloads of forge card image files, so you don't have to use those MeGAsPAM share sites.

This server costs about $20 a month to host, if you feel you've recieved value from this site please consider donating;

Your Support:

Paypal: austeregrim (a) gmail (.) com
As of Dec 2024 I have recieved a number of supporters, thank you for helping. Over the last year I had to take down the site due to the cost, and my uncertain financial stability. Things are still uncertain but I have found a cheaper host. Your support is still needed and appreciated to keep this site alive.




Forge Download:

Get Release Builds of Forge:

Download Forge Release
Desktop:
(Includes mobile build in adventure.)

Here
Android:

Here
Get Snapshot Builds of Forge:

Download Forge Snapshots
Need Help?
Discord Server

Here



Forge Server Backup:

Nightly Forge Server Backup - Backup




Forge Card Image Sets:

Below are the card image sets for forge. Forge server now use Kev's images by default for all new imagery.
Old editions downloaded in Forge will still use old small images sets, to update your old images to current sizes, use the "Full Zip" below.

Forge's Images:

Forges Cards Full Zip

***If you're new you probably want this one.***

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Forges Cards Edition Zips

***If you're returning, you probably just want whats new in here.***

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Just the Tokens

***Just the tokens from Forge's server.***

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YouTube:

I also have a youtube channel! YouTube.com/austeregrim

Subscribe to help me out! - I do Live Plays, Help and Tutorials, and soon plan on giving away card packs while opening boosters.

Alongside that I'm planning on starting an ebay page to sell excess individual cards I have.



Installing Card Image Sets:

When you've downloaded a zip of card images, these images will need to be extracted to the appropriate forge cache location. By default it's something like:

Windows:
You'll need to show hidden files.

C:\Users\austeregrim\appdata\local\forge\Cache\pics\cards\
Android:
You'll need a file browser that can look into and edit the obb directory.

/android/obb/forge.app/cache/pics/cards/
Linux:
You probably don't need my help.

/home/austeregrim/.cache/forge/pics/cards/
MacOS:
Use: Command+Shift+/ to show hidden files.

/Users/austeregrim/Library/caches/forge/pics/cards/

Within the card directory will either be all the editions listed as folder, or just an image for every card name, depending on your settings in forge. If you download the edition zip sets, be sure you extract to the correct edition folder.



Arena Files:

Some links below may be broken and fixed over time, since arena updates so often and ripping the data is a manual process I might miss it or break it. I'm sorry.

Card Design Elements 130Mb

This is a zip file of "CDC" files (card design components), this includes images like card borders, backgrounds, and other assets. This should not include card art or anything specific to a single card.
MP3 Files 252Mb This zip contains all MP3 music and action files from arena. This is limited to menu music, match music, and things like that. This was used to design a custom arena sound and music theme. This does not include the many voice overs from voice actors like for "spark", or the voices of jace, chandra, etc.
All Graphics Archive 7.5GB+
This is a 7z archive of all the graphics elements ripped from arena. It's large, and useless unless you're looking for something specific.This does include Card Art files.

How to use the "card art" files in the archive above:

You can extract all this from your arena files using Asset Studio below. In the asset archive is all the card images for arena, but these files aren't named by their card's title. Image files are named by their ArtID, and the ArtID database is in a file in your arena folder...

MTGA\MTGA_Data\Downloads\Raw\Raw_cards_***.mtga ... this file is a JSON table file.
You can use something like Dadroit JSON Viewer to open this.


However, the JSON does not have the titles.
It does relate the titleId and artId.
The titleId record is in a file in your arena folder...

MTGA\MTGA_Data\Downloads\Raw\Raw_CardDatabase_***.mtga ... this file is a SQLite database.
You can use a database browser DBeaver to open it.


So, in the localization table in the CardDatabase file, you can search for the title of the card you're looking for.

Use the LocId to search in the Raw_cards json file, this should match a titleId and show an associated artId.
The artId is in the title of the png image.

Easy, I know!


For Example:

The card "Price of Fame" is LocId 272753 in CardDatabase SQLite Database File,
in Cards json titleID 272753 relates to artID 404849 in the Raw_cards JSON File,
in Assets\Core\CardArt\404000\ is 404859_AIF.png and that is the image for the card.

Cards SQLite Database:
Price of Fame's LocId is 272753

 
Cards JSON:
LocID/TitleID of 272753, Card 1432, ArtID is 404849


Card Image in Folder:
In folder 404000, ArtID 404849 is 404849_AIF.png.

I'm sure someone can write a python script to associate a card to it's image, it's just sqlite and json, and the files are already on your computer.


Asset Studio GUI is used to extract the graphic files from the arena files.
Wwise Unpacker is used to extract the audio files from the assets. (Then converted manually or with wwise.)




ScryFall Downloader:

I created a downloader for ScryFall images, it's a simple script that reads the bulk-data database, and scrubs for files locations based on the input options, then downloads and spits them into the correct locations. With additional card data put into the exif if you want.

It requires python, and some python modules Pillow and piexif.
Oh, it requires some modifications for non-windows systems because of path statements... I'm "planning" on fixing that.

http://download.austeregrim.net/scryfall_downloader_v2.5.py - Nov 21 2021

You need to download the "All Cards" Bulk JSON from scryfall here first:
https://scryfall.com/docs/api/bulk-data

Make sure you have a destination folder ready to go with enough space, run the python script, answer the questions, and let it rip.
png files are 1.5 to 2mb each, jpgs are significantly smaller. - Don't abuse ScryFall! Be kind!





This site is not associated with Magic the Gathering or Wizards of the Coast. This is just storage hosting for the graphics and assets provided primarily for kev's Super LQ cards for Forge, but also the extracted files from Arena, and as a nightly mirror of cardforge's fileserver.

Nothing on here is copyrighted except to their original owners. This server was established in 2021, content is updated nightly and as files are uploaded.