Scripts for Gccg

Here are a number of scripts for Gccg, the Generic Collectible Card Game. Some of the scripts are specific to Magic: The Gathering, while others work with any Gccg game. Many of the scripts are my own creation, while some come from others (with or without modifications by me).

To install these scripts, copy them into the gccg/scripts/ directory (to make them available to all games) or the gccg/scripts/Mtg directory (to make them available to Magic: the Gathering only). You will then need to either restart Gccg, or use the command /eval execute("name of script") to load the script without restarting.

To keep from overloading the server, those commands that access the game server in a loop (/buycards, /givecards, /sellextras, and /undersell) pause for one second after every group of five cards. This may make the scripts somewhat slower than earlier versions, but it avoids slowing down the server for everybody.

The scripts are written in wigy's little language, gccg-script. Documentation for gccg-script (it's pretty weird!) may be found in section 5 of the gccg reference manual

Scripts by Neil Moore:

• alias.include: Define command aliases.
• Buyall.command: Buy all cards on the current page.
• Islegal.command: Check the current deck's legality.
• Manacurve.command: Analyze a deck's mana curve (Mtg only).
• Sellextras.command: Sell extra cards.
• Setstats.command: Per-set card statistics. Currently implements the commands /needed, /needed4, and /needcash4. The first two count the number of cards needed to complete a given set (or 4x the set); the third gives the amount of money it would cost to complete 4x the given set.
• Toplay.command: Bring cards from out-of-play to various zones.
• Undersell.command: Sell cards at the lowest price. Now with protection against predatory undercutting.
• Load.command: Load a saved display (filter + sort) from the command line.
• Wantall.command: Mark all cards on the current page as wanted.
• amclick.key: Use alt-middle-click to paste canonical card names (including the set when necessary) in a format useful for /givecards. Requires the patch amclick.diff to recognize alt-middle-click.
• Saverd.command: Deal with registered (server-side) decks. /saverd can register any number of decks, and /giverd can give a copy to another player.

Scripts by Michael Slone:

• Buy.command: Buy cards.
• Give.command: Give cards to others.
• Mulligan.command: Perform Paris mulligan (mostly Mtg-specific, theoretically applicable to other games).

Other resources

• gccg/scripts/Mtg-all.rules: Ruleset for Mtg T1/T1.5/T2/Extended tables.
• gccg/graphics/avatar/penguin.png: My avatar, drawn by Michael Slone. Now part of the gccg distribution.
• phavewant.diff: patch to add select syntax pwant(player) and phave(player), selecting cards on player's want or have list. Nb this patch is now part of gccg, and is thus of mostly historical interest.
• gather.bash [highlighted]: bash script to fetch a Magic: the Gathering cardlist from WotC's Gatherer database, stripping out HTML and converting to a UTF-8 text file. Supports all the filters supported by the Gatherer web interface, but does not support search. Requires wget, perl, and iconv.

Otherer resources, elsewhere

• Official Gccg homepage, on SourceForge
• Goofball's Gccg wiki
• neric's Gccg page, with an alternate skin.
• Gccg on oetzi's wiki
• Instructions for running a table.

Last Modification: 16 Nov 2006.
Previous Modification: 20 Aug 2006.
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