Everything your collection needs, from the first scan to the final playtest.
Pharos is built for collectors who actually use their cards — scanning, tracking, deckbuilding, playtesting, discovery, and collection completion, all in one place.
Scan
The fastest, most accurate card scanner ever made. Sub-second scans on most cards, in any light, on any background.
Track
Know what lives in every deck, binder, box, and list without rebuilding your inventory from memory.
Build
Build decks from the cards you actually own, then see what's missing before you chase upgrades.
Playtest
Playtest full games from the decks you build, directly from the collection you already tracked.
Discover
Find every combo hiding in your collection, and surface the cards that would make your decks stronger.
Complete
Track the cards you still need, follow what you pick up, and keep the path from wishlist to shelf clean.
See the forest and the trees.
Every card that comes in finds its place among your decks, your sets, your connections, and your countless strategies. Every line you might want to play is tracked, stored, and ready.
Pharos was built so you can hold the whole collection in view without ever losing sight of the single card in front of you.
Not a storefront. Not another spreadsheet. A real command center for your cards.
Five years in design before the build began. Every surface here earned its place by solving something a real collection actually needed — not by filling out a feature list.
- Sub-second scans. Unlimited free scanning.
- Every card. Every deck, binder, and box.
- Full-game playtesting. Built from your own decks.
- Collection discovery. Combos, gaps, and next pickups.
Why I built this
I've been playing and collecting Magic since 1995. Everything is sorted by color, then by type, then alphabetically — every card placed by hand, over decades, because that was the only way I'd ever find anything again.
Pharos is the tool I kept wishing existed. Something that knows where a card physically is, so I don't have to hold it all in my head, or spend hours sorting just to find the one card I need. Something that can tell me what my collection is already capable of building. Somewhere along the way the collection outgrew my memory of it, and doing it by hand stopped being enough. This is what I built instead.
I hope you find it as fun and useful as I do.
— Charles Dubuc, founder