Organize cards with tags
Use dimensions, categories, and tags to look at your deck by game plan, budget, or your own priorities. Choose global tags for reusable card labels and deck tags for a single list.
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What tags help you see
Card types tell you what a card is. Brewing tags let you describe why you want it in your deck: perhaps it makes mana, protects your creatures, or is an upgrade you want to buy later.
A card can have several tags, so you can describe its role in your game plan and its place in your budget at the same time. Start with the questions you want your decklist to answer, then build a small set of labels around them.
Three levels: dimension, category, tag
Think of the three levels as folders within folders: a dimension contains categories, and each category contains individual tags. You apply the individual tags to cards.
For example, Game plan → Mana → Ramp reads as: look at my game plan, focus on mana, and find cards I use for ramp. Each tag belongs to one category, and each category belongs to one dimension.
| Level | What it means | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Dimension | The broad way you want to look at your cards. | Game plan or Budget |
| Category | A group of related tags within that dimension. | Mana within Game plan |
| Individual tag | The specific label you attach to a card. | Ramp within Mana |
Build a system around your needs
These are examples you can create and adapt, rather than required names. Choose categories that give you useful broad groups, then add tags when you need more detail.
| Dimension | Category | Example tags | How you could use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game plan | Mana | Ramp, Fixing | Review cards that help you cast your spells. |
| Game plan | Interaction | Creature removal, Board wipe, Protection | Check how your deck answers threats and protects its plan. |
| Game plan | Win conditions | Combat finisher, Combo piece | Identify cards that turn your setup into a win. |
| Budget | Keep | Affordable staple, Worth the splurge | Mark cards you want to keep within your spending plan. |
| Budget | Upgrades | Buy later, Find a cheaper option | Separate future purchases from cards you want to replace. |
| Testing | Review | Try next, Possible cut, Overperformed | Remember what to test or change after your next games. |
One card, several useful labels
You could give Sol Ring Game plan → Mana → Ramp and Budget → Keep → Affordable staple if it fits your budget. One label explains its job; the other explains your decision to keep it. Neither replaces the other.
A card can also do more than one job within the same dimension. You might label a creature that produces mana with both Game plan → Mana → Ramp and Game plan → Win conditions → Combo piece if it is part of a combo in this deck.
Budget and testing labels record your judgment. A tag such as Affordable staple does not set a price limit or update automatically when prices change.
Global tags and deck tags
Scope tells you where a tag applies. It is separate from the three-level structure: both global and deck tags belong to a category and dimension.
A global tag belongs to your player profile. When you attach it to a card, that label follows the card across your decks. Use it for a description you expect to reuse, such as tagging Sol Ring as Ramp. Removing that global tag from the card also affects how the card is tagged in your other decks.
A deck tag applies to the card in one specific deck. Use it for a job or decision that depends on that list, such as Combo piece, Possible cut, or Buy later. The same card can have a different role in another deck without carrying this label over.
For example, give a mana-producing creature a global Ramp tag and a deck-specific Combo piece tag. It will appear as Ramp across your decks, and as Combo piece in the deck where that combo matters.
Global means across your own profile, not every player’s account. Visibility is a separate setting that controls who can see a tag; choosing global scope does not make it public.
Create and apply your tags
Open Brewing Tags to manage your labels. The page groups them by dimension and category, and lets you filter by either level or search by tag name.
Quick creation from a card
- In Change tags, choose or create a dimension, then type
category/tag, such asMana/Ramp. - When creating a tag here, an unmarked name makes a deck tag. Add
!at the start or end, such asMana/Ramp!, to create a global tag. - If you enter only a tag name, it goes into the Default category within the selected dimension.
- Select New tag. Choose or create a dimension and category, then enter the tag name.
- Choose Global player scope for a reusable card label, or Specific deck scope and a deck for a label that applies only there. Choose visibility separately, then create the tag.
- Open your deck from Brewing and use a card’s Change tags action. Select a dimension, then select the tag to attach it to the card.
Review your deck from different angles
In the deck’s display controls, group by Tags and choose a dimension. Choose Categories for a broad overview, or Single Tags for the individual labels.
With the example Game plan dimension, Categories brings your Ramp and Fixing cards together under Mana. Single Tags lets you inspect Ramp and Fixing separately. Switch to Budget to review what you want to keep or upgrade using the same decklist.
Cards with several matching labels can appear in more than one group; they are still the same cards in your deck. Cards without a tag in the selected dimension appear as Untagged, which can help you spot cards you have not classified yet.
Start with one dimension and a few tags you will actually use. Add another dimension when you have a different question to answer, such as what to buy next or what to test.
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