Manamancer now has a visual tutorial: nine short steps on real screenshots, from starting a deck to buying its cards. It takes about five minutes, signed in or not.
Manamancer
Manamancer has a tutorial. It shipped with version 1.9.2 on October 2, 2026, and it lives behind the ? button in the top bar — or directly at manamancer.com/tutorial.
The honest reason it exists: the site does a lot, and until last week most of it was only discoverable by clicking around. Clicking around is a fine way to learn a tool you already like and a poor way to decide whether you like it. The tutorial is the short version — your first deck, start to finish, in about five minutes.
What it covers
Nine steps, in the order you would actually take them:
- Start a deck — generate one, open a precon, or build around a commander. All three end in the same builder.
- Build — search, add and organize. Every change saves as you go.
- Tag — group the deck by what each card does, not just its card type.
- Read your stats — curve, land drops, interaction, an estimated bracket, sample hands.
- Ask the AI Agent — a second opinion on a Commander deck, with every suggestion checked against the card index, legality and your commander's colours.
- Make it yours — list, grid or stacks, and what each row shows.
- Playtest — a few solo turns before game night.
- Pick your printings — the art, set and finish. They change the price, never how the card plays.
- Get the cards — send the whole list to one seller, or compare sellers first and pay only for what you are missing.
A bonus chapter covers the collection, sharing, Explore, and adding Manamancer to your phone's home screen.
How it works
Every step is built on screenshots of the real app — 96 of them as of today, 60 taken on desktop and 36 on a phone. Numbered callouts sit on each one: hover or tap a number to highlight that part of the screen, and click any screenshot to enlarge it. A Desktop / Phone switch shows each screen as it looks on your device, and the map at the top jumps straight to any step, so you can skip what you already know.
Reading it needs no account — saving the deck you build does — and the page carries no ads. It reads in all five of the site's languages.
One caveat, because screenshots are a snapshot: the app changes faster than pictures of it. When a screen moves, the tutorial follows, but there can be a short window where a button is not quite where the picture says. If you spot one, tell us: signed in, the bug icon in the top bar sends it straight to us; signed out, the Support page does.
Already know your way around? Signed in, a switch at the top-left of the tutorial hides the ? on all your devices. The tutorial stays in your account menu either way.
Open the tutorial — Your first deck, start to finish, in about five minutes.
May your first deck take five minutes to start and considerably longer to stop tinkering with.
