[Bug] Card Prices Don't Show on Some Versions of Cards

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IAmTheBeard avatarIAmTheBeard
{"ops":[{"insert":"First off, great work on the site so far. I want this site to get better everyday. And thus:\n\nCard prices not displaying correctly. I've seen it a few times now. Cards in the deckbuilder that don't show prices correctly on some versions of a card. The only example I have right now is the DDA version of "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Genju of the Cedars"}},{"insert":". It seems to be tied the version of the card, as the price is still blank when switching between price origins/currencies (I've switched between Card Kingdom and Cardmarket).\n\nIt sucks when you try to get an idea of a deck's total price but cards don't show their value correctly, and thus makes the total price lower than it actually is.\n\nI hope you have a great day! \n"}]}
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Thanks for the kind words!\n\nUnfortunately the state of magic data online is.... not always the best. Basically Wizards has never really added unique IDs to every card, set codes are different across sites, etc. What this means is that it can be very difficult to match up certain cards across every set/ printing/ etc. That's why some of the cards have no price on them, we were just unable to match them programmatically and going through all 30k+ cards by hand just isn't an option. Someday I'm sure we'll touch up our price linker, and if there's a bug we'll fix it. But to get it to match absolutely 100% of the cards 100% of the time is just not worth the time it'd take.\n\nIdeally, someday what'd be nice is to allow a crowd sourced function that a user could say here's a Card Kingdom link, it matches to this card, or something like that. But even that can be prone to issues. Even so, I feel like a crowdsourced data set would be the best way to go in the long run. \n\nI feel like I'm just rambling at this point-- so I hope this helps make sense of why some of the prices are missing. Sorry, I wish I could have given a more positive answer! Hopefully this actually answers your concerns though. If not, feel free to provide a bit more context and I'll answer as best I can. \n\nCheers,\nMichael\n"}]}
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