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Mulligan Labs – multiplayer Magic: The Gathering in the browser

Mulligan Labs – multiplayer Magic: The Gathering in the browser

by vrennat·Apr 16, 2026·3 points·3 comments

AI Analysis

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Browser-based MTG playtester with no signup, but Cockatrice and XMage do this free.

Strengths
  • Authoritative game server validates all actions server-side
  • Imports decklists from Archidekt and Moxfield directly
Weaknesses
  • Deckbuilder is just ok, mobile support not great
  • Cockatrice and XMage already serve this niche free
Category
Target Audience

Magic: The Gathering players who want to test decks online

Similar To

Cockatrice · XMage · Untap.in

Post Description

Mulligan Labs is a browser-based playtester for Magic: The Gathering. No account or install needed. Just create a room, share the link, import a decklist from Archidekt or Moxfield, and play with mouse and keyboard (mobile support is not great right now).

Stack: SvelteKit on Cloudflare Workers, PartyKit (Durable Objects) for the authoritative game server. Clients propose actions over WebSocket; the server validates and broadcasts state.

Up front: my background is networking and my cofounder's is industrial design — neither of us had shipped a codebase like this before. We built it over the last 5 months with heavy Claude assistance. Happy to get into what that actually looked like in the comments.

It's rough in places (the deckbuilder is just ok right now) but the core multiplayer loop is solid and we have played a ton of games on it with our Commander pod. We'd love feedback, especially from anyone who's played Cockatrice/XMage/Untap and has opinions on what a browser-native version should feel like.

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