Scryfall Mtg Skill — Data skill for Claude Code

Scryfall — Claude Code skill

An [agent skill](https://claude.com/claude-code) that teaches Claude Code to look up real *Magic: The Gathering* card data via the [public Scryfall API](https://scryfall.com/docs/api) instead of answering from memory — mana cost, rules text, type, power/toughness, format legality, price, and images.

Built for anyone building/tuning decks with Claude's help who's tired of it guessing a card's cost or text from memory.

What it solves

• Reliable data source: every lookup returns real Scryfall data, not the model's memory.
• Full advanced search syntax: the same syntax used on scryfall.com (c:, t:, o:, f:, usd, etc.), documented in `references/search-syntax.md` — including gotchas like c:g (includes green) vs c=g (exactly green).
• Local, offline name lookup: scripts/card_lookup.py queries a local SQLite index built from Scryfall's own oracle_cards bulk data (~38,000 cards) instead of the live API — a full 100-card decklist resolves in well under a second, with zero network calls and no rate limit to manage.
• Stays current on your terms: scripts/update_bulk_data.py checks Scryfall's real updated_at timestamp for the bulk data and only re-downloads when there's something newer — safe to run anytime, a no-op when already current.
• Rate limit respected everywhere else: advanced search (/cards/search) still hits the live API, since it depends on the whole database — the skill and its docs make sure that stays within Scryfall's hard 2 requests/second limit.

Installation

Claude Code skills live in `~/.claude/skills//` (personal, all projects) or in `.claude/skills//` inside a repository (that project only).

**Option 1 — clone straight into place:**

git clone https://github.com/feruiz/scryfall-mtg-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/scryfall

**Option 2 — clone elsewhere and symlink** (handy if you want to pull updates via `git pull` in a sepa