I was doing some pretty heavy adding to my collection tonight when I came up with an idea that I think will make adding/detailing cards 100x easier. I'm thinking it would be beneficial to switch to a type of "Tree" display for the cards. There would be a main "card" topic where you add your total number and see your total price for that "stack" and what not. Then you can click a + button to expand the list of cards. From there you can assign set, foil, condition, and any other important defining factors that vary from each copy of a card. For Example:

+Birds of Paradise: 6 Copies: Market Value - Undefined

The main "card" hub would turn into a list looking like this.

-Birds of Paradise: 6 Copies: Market Value - (blank)
l-Set - (blank) : (blank) Copies: Condition - (blank) (Pull Down Menu) : Foil? (blank)(check box) : Market Price - (blank) : Market Value - (blank) : Remove Row?
l-Set - (blank) : (blank) Copies: Condition - (blank) (Pull Down Menu) : Foil? (blank)(check box) : Market Price - (blank) : Market Value - (blank) : Remove Row?
l-Set - (blank) : (blank) Copies: Condition - (blank) (Pull Down Menu) : Foil? (blank)(check box) : Market Price - (blank) : Market Value - (blank) : Remove Row?
l-Set - (blank) : (blank) Copies: Condition - (blank) (Pull Down Menu) : Foil? (blank)(check box) : Market Price - (blank) : Market Value - (blank) : Remove Row?
l-Set - (blank) : (blank) Copies: Condition - (blank) (Pull Down Menu) : Foil? (blank)(check box) : Market Price - (blank) : Market Value - (blank) : Remove Row?
l-Set - (blank) : (blank) Copies: Condition - (blank) (Pull Down Menu) : Foil? (blank)(check box) : Market Price - (blank) : Market Value - (blank) : Remove Row?

The final product would look something like this.

-Birds of Paradise: 6 Copies: Market Value - $60.00
l-Set - 4th Edition : 2 Copies: Condition - Fine (Pull Down Menu) : Foil? No(check box) : Market Price - $15.00 : Market Value - $15.00
l-Set - 6th Edition: 1 Copies: Condition - Fine : Foil? Yes : Market Price - $15.00 : Market Value - $15.00
l-Set - 6th Edition: 1 Copies: Condition - Good : Foil? No : Market Price - $10.00 : Market Value - $10.00
l-Set - Magic 2011: 2 Copies: Condition - Good : Foil? Yes : Market Price - $10.00 : Market Value - $20.00
l-(Add New Row?)

I know this would probably be a huge pain in the ass for you to code Gadd... but I truly believe that this would be a MASSIVE improvement over the current Excel/Spreadsheet style that the system currently uses. It would make adding cards a LOT easier and it would add a level of depth to adding condition details to each card that no other system has ever offered before with such ease.

http://www.mtgstudio.com/forum/posting.php?mode=edit&f=10&p=9398

Keeping the core MTG Studio card pool up-to-date has got to be a lot of work. Work that could otherwise be spent on developing lovely new features. So, a suggestion:

Why not crowd-source the updating of the card pool file?

It would mean having 100s of people all sending through corrections, updates etc. You could vet them and release a new card pool.

It would mean that the development of a new edition, i.e. Conflux, would begin at the spoiler stage (people already want to note which cards they are going to buy) and would be almost instantly available come the release.

The ideal is (1) a mechanism whereby people can freely submit content, (2) a pool of people who can approve content and (3) a mechanism to update the client, as you suggest.

You do comment though that there are a number of manual steps in the process which take time and effort. It is this kind of activity, e.g. entering the FAQ, that benefits from crowd-sourcing. This does not mean errors enter into the process as you control it through content approval. It does mean that some of the strain is distributed through willing contributors.

What would be interesting is the database understanding Draft and Approved content. People could then choose whether to see Draft content, e.g. cards entered pre-release. This allows for a mechanism by which people can already start to build, say, Conflux decks in anticipation of the release.

Ultimately I see it as it an upfront expenditure (submission, approval, download mechanisms) for a long term reduction in effort.