Explore
What this surface is
Explore is the discovery half of DeckScope — the parts that are about the game rather than about your collection. It is split across two routes.
| Route | Surface | Sidebar entry |
|---|---|---|
/cards | Card Catalog | Explore → Card Catalog |
/explore | Banlist, News, Resources | Explore → Banlist & Resources |
The split is deliberate: Card Catalog is heavy, filter-driven browsing and got its own route so it does not have to share a tab shell with three light reference pages.
Card Catalog (/cards)
Browsing over the full card catalogue with the standard card filter set and a view-mode toggle (list / thumbnail / gallery, defaulting to list).
Two deep-link parameters are supported:
| Parameter | Effect |
|---|---|
?archetype=<setcode> | Pre-filters to an archetype. Numeric set codes only. |
?engine=<slug> | Pre-filters to the cards of a named engine |
The engine filter resolves the slug through the engine detail lookup and then filters by passcode. It is capped at 2,000 passcodes — the same cap the catalog query enforces server-side — so a very large engine is truncated rather than failing the request. A slug that does not match the expected shape (lowercase letters, digits and hyphens) is treated as absent rather than forwarded.
Explore tabs (/explore)
Page header: Discover / Explore — “Browse cards, community decks, banlists, news, and resources.”
| Tab | ?tab= | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| Banlist | banlist | Forbidden and limited lists |
| News | news | Game and product news |
| Resources | resources | External reference material |
The sidebar’s “Banlist & Resources” entry links to /explore?tab=banlist, so
Banlist is what you land on from the nav. An unrecognised tab value falls
back rather than rendering an empty shell.
Card detail
Individual cards open at /explore/cards/<passcode>. That route is public — a
signed-out visitor sees the same page a signed-in one does. See
Public surfaces.
Related workflows
Related references
- Inventory — your own copies, as opposed to the catalogue
- Combos — combo and engine intelligence
- Community — public decks and profiles
- Public surfaces — what a signed-out visitor can reach