Good questions.

Yes. Every feature, at every seat, for every player. There are no ads, no trial and no paid tier that unlocks anything. Supporters fund development and get a thank-you, never a feature. How supporting works.

Spell Sanctum is an app for the host's Mac or Windows PC. Open it like any other app: it starts the table on your computer, makes a private link through Cloudflare's free tunnel, and shows the table in its own window with the link already copied.

Your friends open that link in their browser, on a computer, a phone or a TV, and knock to sit down. The game itself runs on the host's computer, never on anyone else's server: the table, its saves and the card images all live there. Close the window and the table closes with it, saved for next time.

No. Spell Sanctum is a fan project, made under Wizards of the Coast's Fan Content Policy and not approved or endorsed by Wizards. Magic: The Gathering and its card images belong to Wizards of the Coast.

No, and neither does anyone else. There's nothing to sign up for: not for the host, not for the players, not on this site.

No. Only the host downloads Spell Sanctum. Everyone else opens the link in their browser, types a name and knocks.

The table runs on your computer and reaches your friends through a private link that's made fresh each time you start. It uses Cloudflare's free tunnel, so you don't open any ports on your router.

The door is locked by default: nobody sits down unless you let them in. Anyone with the link can watch, but hands stay hidden from watchers. Spell Sanctum only serves the game, never your files, and when you close its window the link stops working.

Spell Sanctum isn't code-signed yet, so macOS and Windows may stop and ask the first time you open it. It's fine to continue if you downloaded it from this site. Here's exactly what to click.

Code-signing costs money up front, and it's the first goal on the Support page. Anyone can chip in on Ko-fi. Once it's done, Macs will open the app normally and Windows will show who made it. Windows can still ask for the first few weeks while more people install it.

Each time you start a table, Spell Sanctum starts its server on your computer and then sets up the private link through Cloudflare's free tunnel. That link needs about 30 to 40 seconds before anyone can reach it, so the Spell Sanctum window shows "Waiting for the link to come online" for a while. It's the same on Mac and Windows.

The window turns into your table once the link is ready. Opening it sooner would only show "this site can't be reached", so the wait is on purpose. Leave the window open and the table will appear.

Two to six seats at one table today, plus anyone who'd like to watch. Seven to ten seats are coming with 2.0 on February 23, 2027, free like everything else.

Yes. Anyone with the table's link can pick “Watch the table” and follow the game live, without a seat or a deck. It's handy when every seat is taken, or when someone wants to sit a game out and still be part of the night. Watchers see the board and every play, but never anyone's hand.

Hosting works on a Mac or a Windows PC. Windows is being tested by beta players right now.

Players can use Chrome, Edge or Firefox on any computer.

A phone can hold your hand: scan the QR code at your seat and cast from the couch. A TV can show the whole table for the room, with every hand kept off it.

Yes. It's called Local Mode. Host on a Wi-Fi network, a phone hotspot or a travel router, and friends on the same network join from their browsers. Nothing leaves that network, so it works in a living room with flaky internet, a game store, a weekend away or a convention hotel room.

Spell Sanctum skips the public link, and your setup screen leads with Host on this Wi-Fi. Give the room a name, a color and a shape, plus a four-digit PIN. Friends open the address or scan the code, type the PIN and sit down. Anyone with Spell Sanctum can also find your room under Find a table nearby.

Save your decks while you still have internet. On the host's computer, open a deck and choose Make available offline (about 10 MB each), or use Settings → Offline cards → Get every deck ready to do the lot. Friends can save their decks to the table on an earlier game night. With no connection, a deck only loads if its cards were saved first.

A card with no saved picture still shows up with its name and type line, so the game keeps going. You can also export any deck as a plain .txt file and import it back later.

Your local copy has room for 250 decklists. Settings → Offline cards shows how much space they use and lets you clear it.

They need to be on the same network as you. Some hotel and public Wi-Fi keeps devices apart, and a phone hotspot or a travel router fixes that. On a Mac, their browser may ask to find devices on the local network, and they click Allow. The first time, Spell Sanctum on the host's Mac may ask the same: click Allow there too. On Windows, the host's firewall may ask about Spell Sanctum: tick Private networks and click Allow access.

The PIN is checked on your computer only, and other tables on the same Wi-Fi can't get in. Voice chat is switched off at a Wi-Fi table, since everyone is in the same room.

Yes. Paste a decklist, or import straight from an Archidekt link. From Moxfield, use its Export button and paste the list. Loading a deck shows a quick Rule 0 check: its bracket floor, Game Changers and any banned cards.

Commander. The table is built around it, with 40 life, commander damage and tax, and the command zone. More may come after launch, if supporters vote for it.

Yes, built into the table. Join from Voice in the top bar, then hold Z to talk, or switch to an open mic. A green ring shows who’s talking.

Voice goes straight from one browser to another. If two players can’t reach each other directly, it goes through the host’s computer instead. Only seated players can join, and nothing is recorded. Browsers only share a microphone over a secure link, so friends talk over the table’s https link. The host’s Spell Sanctum window works as it is.

From Scryfall, loaded live and saved on the host's computer so repeat games load faster. Spell Sanctum isn't produced by or endorsed by Scryfall. We're just grateful it exists.

No. This site sets no cookies and runs no trackers or ads. Its fonts load from Google Fonts.

The app sends nothing about you or your players anywhere. It talks to Scryfall for card data, to Cloudflare for your table's link, to this site once each time it starts to ask which version is newest, and to your Discord channel only if you ask it to post the link there.