DeckCheck x Convoke: Card Scanning Is Here

Partnership

DeckCheck x Convoke

If you don't know what Convoke is, oh boy are you in for a treat. Whether it's their card recognition tech or their online webcam platform, they've been quietly building some of the most useful tools in the space. And since the early days of both DeckCheck and Convoke, we've talked about working together to some degree.

Same community, same passion, complementary tools. It was one of those things where the conversation kept coming up: "We should really integrate." Well, now we finally have.

Starting today, DeckCheck has a built-in card scanner powered by Convoke's AI recognition engine. You can scan your physical cards directly into your DeckCheck collection using your phone or webcam—no app download, no third-party tool, no friction. Just point, tap, and it's in. And, above all, it's really good.

The Scanner

How It Works

The scanning experience is built right into DeckCheck's Collection page. Here's the flow:

1. Open your Collection and tap Add Cards → Scan Cards.
2. Your camera opens with a scan zone overlay. Place any Magic card in the frame.
3. Tap anywhere on the card to identify it. Convoke's AI does the rest.
4. You'll see the card name, set, image, and details appear instantly. Accept it, adjust the quantity, foil state, or printing if needed, and move to the next card.
5. When you're done, all your scanned cards are batch-added to your collection in one shot.

The scanner supports foil, non-foil, and etched treatments. You can toggle a Prefer Foil setting if most of your cards are foiled. There's even a flashlight toggle for low-light scanning. Your entire scan session is saved locally, so if you accidentally close the scanner, your progress is still there when you come back—just don't clear your cache while you're doing this and you'll be good.

Under the Hood

Powered by Convoke

Let me be clear about something: DeckCheck didn't build its own card recognition model. Convoke did. They've spent a lot of time and effort training and refining an AI engine that can identify Magic cards from camera images with remarkable accuracy in not-so-great conditions, and that's what powers every scan you do in DeckCheck.

Convoke handles the identification, DeckCheck handles the collection management and UI/UX, and the result is something incredible. It's the kind of integration that only happens when two teams trust each other and share the same goal: make Magic players' lives easier.

Sustainability

Scan Limits

Running an AI recognition model that's as accurate as Convokes' is has a real costs that can't be ignored. That being said, I understand that players are used to being able to do this for free and so I'm trying to thread the needle here without simply raising the costs across the board to accomidate. So, to keep this feature sustainable for everyone, each account tier comes with a new monthly scan allowance:

Your scan count resets on the first of every month. Even on the free tier, 250 scans a month is enough to digitize a couple of Commander decks or sort through a trade binder. If you have a subscription, you're getting a significantly higher ceiling that should cover even heavy collection work.

When you hit 80% of your monthly limit, you'll get a heads-up so there are no surprises. And if you do run out mid-scan, your scanned cards are always saved—you just can't scan in more until the reset or buy more allowance.

Bulk Scanning

Scan Booster

If you're the kind of player who has boxes of cards to catalog—maybe you just picked up a collection, or you've been meaning to digitize everything for years and you want to scan it all in on DeckCheck, monthly limits might not cut it. That's what the Scan Booster is for.

For $10 (one-time, not a subscription), you get 1,000 card scans that never expire. They sit in your account and are only consumed after your monthly allowance runs out. You can buy as many as you need, and they stack.

The Scan Booster is available on the Subscriptions page and scans are added to your account instantly.

Get Started

Start Scanning

Head to your Collection, tap Add Cards → Scan Cards, and try it out. If you've got feedback or run into anything, let me know in the comments below or hop in the Discord.

And if you haven't checked out Convoke yet, go give them a look at convoke.games. They're doing great work for the Magic community, and this is just the beginning of what we're building together.