# Endstep

> Endstep (https://endstep.cc) is a free, browser-based online table for playing
> Magic: The Gathering. Draft a cube, build a deck, and play real games against
> people or bots, one-on-one or in three- and four-player pods. Nothing to
> install, no card collection to buy, no paid tier.

Endstep is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the
Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy.
It is not approved, endorsed by, or affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Magic: The Gathering and all related properties are © Wizards of the Coast LLC.

## What it is

Games resolve through [Forge](https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge), the
open-source Magic rules engine, running headless on the server. The browser
displays what the engine reports and sends back the player's choices; it holds
no rules logic of its own. The card pool is roughly 94,000 cards: the engine's
full pool, not a curated subset.

Everything is free. Development and hosting cost both time and money, so a
Patreon exists for people who want to help; it grants a name treatment and a
vote on the roadmap, and deliberately grants no gameplay advantage, no
exclusive art, and no queue priority.

## Pages

- [About](https://endstep.cc/about): what Endstep is, how it works, what it
  costs, and a FAQ.
- [Formats](https://endstep.cc/formats): the full list of supported formats,
  including constructed, cube draft, set draft and sealed.
- [Changelog](https://endstep.cc/changelog): every shipped update, newest first,
  generated from the same source as the in-app "What's New" panel.

## Formats we uniquely support

These are the pages most likely to be useful, because these formats are hard or
impossible to play anywhere else online:

- [Momir Basic](https://endstep.cc/formats/momir-basic): no deckbuilding. Sixty
  basic lands and the Momir Vig avatar in the command zone; `{X}, Discard a
  card` makes a token copy of a random creature with mana value X.
- [Winston draft](https://endstep.cc/formats/winston-draft): the two-player
  draft. Three piles seeded from a shuffled stack; take a pile, or pass and feed
  it a card before looking at the next.
- [Richman draft](https://endstep.cc/formats/richman-draft): two players, a
  fifteen-card pack each, one simultaneous pick per round over 36 rounds. Every
  unpicked card is reshuffled back into the shared pool.
- [Shared Library / Forgetful Fish](https://endstep.cc/formats/shared-library):
  both players draw and cast from one shared library and share a graveyard.
  Hand, battlefield and exile stay private. The player who draws from an empty
  library is the one who loses.
- [Multiplayer pods](https://endstep.cc/formats/multiplayer-pods): three and
  four seats at one table, free-for-all or in teams, with bots available for any
  unclaimed seat and attacker-first combat targeting.

## Also supported

Constructed against the engine's own format catalogue (Vintage, Legacy, Modern,
Pioneer, Standard, Pauper, Commander, and a no-banlist casual mode), cube
building and drafting with CubeCobra import, set draft and sealed, best-of-three
with parallel sideboarding, spectating, and full phone and tablet support.

## Not indexable

The application itself is behind authentication. Game, lobby, draft, deck and
profile routes hold no public content and are excluded in
[robots.txt](https://endstep.cc/robots.txt).