Card Slinger TCG Scanner
Card Slinger TCG Scanner
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What is the Card Slinger?
This tool is designed to assist in scanning a large number of MTG or TCG cards at once using a card scanning app of your choice on your phone.
The card slinger fits both sleeved and un-sleeved cards, and accommodates standard sized MTG, Pokemon cards and more. Apps that work with this device are ManaBox app →, TCG scanner, Dragon Shield, and more!
The Card Slinger funnels cards as you toss them into the scanning zone, centering the cards so that the scanning app can do its job quickly and efficiently, allowing you to scan card after card faster than any other manual method. This is a significant improvement over moving cards in and out of the frame one at a time by hand, and you can scan over 150 cards before needing to empty the tray. The card slinger is strong, fits cards precisely, and makes short work of large quantities of cards in need of scanning.
The card slinger is the first of its kind device, don't accept imitations!
The card slinger comes in 2 versions, Card slinger Lite, and the Card Slinger, for sleeved and un-sleeved cards
The Card Slinger model fits sleeved cards, and just pop in the tray, and scan un-sleeved cards too! Don't need to scan sleeved cards? Then the Card Slinger Lite model is just for you. The sleeved base of the Card Slinger is suited to sleeves maxing out at the size of dragon sleeve format. ** Scanning in sleeved cards successfully is dependent on lighting conditions, angle, sleeve type, and application, some patience and experimentation is required **
** as these photos are of the preproduction unit, the final item shipped may have a slightly different surface finish and appearance **
A Quick FAQ
What app is used In the videos? Manabox! This is an android, and iOS native app, it has settings to auto add cards that are scanned, and make sounds, tally costs, etc. It’s awesome, and has the best card recognition success rate of any I have tested. It can export to most deck building and collection management sites like moxfield and archidekt. Here is a quick video of my settings and use of ManaBox → . I like use the “prefer foil” checkbox to scan foil items in bulk separately from std non foil cards, with sound on! Here is a very helpful mana box getting started guide →
Can you scan sleeved cards? Yes, results depending on application, it is suggested to experiment with lighting and the space you are in for best results. The card slinger fits sleeved cards of various sleeve types! The Card Slinger Lite fits only un-sleeved cards.
What types of phones work with it? Most all! if it lays flat, and has a camera of set to the right of the phone, or center, it will work great. The better the camera, the better the apps will work.
Is it sturdy? Will it support a phone? Hell yeah its sturdy! Its made to be as tough as possible.
Does it damage the backs of cards? No, not that I can tell, I have scanned in thousands of cards with my pre production units, and I can't find any damage
Does it damage the corners of cards? Again, as above, no! Not that I can see from scanning thousands of cards
Is it possible to damage cards while scanning using the sling box? 100% it is possible, and it's possible to damage cards using any method if you are rough, but it is fully avoidable. careless or use too much force when handling cards. From what I can tell, this method of using the card slinger does less damage to cards than any mechanical method.
I have a 3d printer, can I just print my own? Yes you can! Here is a link to the latest files!
This is NOT an official mana box product, or in any way shape or form affiliated with them, mana box is just the best scanning app out there for MTG
Let customers speak for us
from 23 reviewsThe scanner app you use will be a big factor in how well it works. I used mana box which worked extremely well, when I used unsleeved cards it had zero errors and the majority of cards got picked up right away. The only thing that slows you down is when you have multiples in a row, the app doesn't rescan so you have to manually count and increment the count on the app
As far as the tower itself, it's perfect. The phone tower is adjustable left to right so your camera position can be dialed in perfectly. It does a great job of funneling the cards into the chute. I found the best rhythm when I would rest the next card on the lip, and as soon as the app made the ping sound, flick the end of the card so it shoots to the back wall of the chute and falls down. You can go really fast, I did a 7k collection in the span of a few hours (I did it while I was on mute on a meeting for work)
I received my slinger last week and put it through its paces. It functioned well and made a long tedious task of sorting jumbo boxes of bulk MtG card much faster. It performed as described. I added a button LED to the underside to give better lighting. Well done, I would recommend to anyone else looking at to go ahead and pull the trigger.
Great device and works as advertised. Hope to see more from this creator in the future!
Best device I’ve ever used to help me scan my collection!!! Highly recommend it
Has made my sorting process easier and is really sturdy
It has helped me start sorting my entire collection, the build quality is great, and it works great with Manabox to scan my cards
The slinger works great. Mine came broken in the box and same day they sent out another with a pack of cards inside for no charge. Was wonderful working with them
Great customer service, had a mess up with usps but it was resolved.
I got back into Magic in August of this year, and kind of went a little overboard by buying entire play booster boxes just about every week! I’ve really been struggling, trying to figure out how to best catalog my collection both to save me money for not purchasing too many copies of certain expensive cards, but also to help with deck building. With the card slinger 2.0, I finally have a quick, easy, convenient way to do just that. It works perfectly both for sleep and sleeved cards, and has helped me go through thousands of cards in the span of just two days already!
I bought this after I bought a different 3D printed one on Etsy. Took a while to get used to the design of this one but now I prefer it. I can’t think of a single issue with it. I’ve ran a few thousand cards through it and have many more thousands to go. 6 STARS!