The Complete Guide to Nerd Leagues
In-depth articles covering every feature — from ELO ratings and league management to the deck builder, life tracker, and online play.
Getting Started
Leagues & Seasons
What Is a Nerd Leagues League?
Leagues are the heart of competitive play on Nerd Leagues — persistent groups where you and your friends record games, climb a private ELO leaderboard, and run seasons together. Here's what a league is, what it gives you, and when to start one.
Read more →How to Create a League
Spinning up a league on Nerd Leagues takes about 30 seconds. Here's exactly what you'll fill in, what happens behind the scenes, and what to do next.
Read more →Inviting Players: Invite Codes and Joining a League
Every Nerd Leagues league has a shareable invite code. Learn how to find yours, send in-app invites to friends, and join a league using a code, link, or notification.
Read more →The Commissioner Role: What It Can Do
An MTG league commissioner controls settings, members, seasons, Discord notifications, and flagged-game resolution. Here's exactly what each tool does — and what isn't built yet.
Read more →MTG League ELO: How Per-League Ratings and Standings Work
Each MTG league keeps its own ELO standings. Here's how league ratings start, how every game updates them, and where to find league standings in the app.
Read more →Adding Decks to an MTG League
There's no "add deck" button on a Nerd Leagues league page — and you don't need one. The first time you record a league game with a deck, that deck registers itself, picks up a starting ELO, and slots into the league standings. Here's exactly how it works and what to do if you want to keep a deck out.
Read more →Recording an MTG League Game: How to Log Results to Your League
Recording a league game on Nerd Leagues is the standard Record Game form with one extra dropdown — and that dropdown is what wires the result into your league's standings, ELO, seasons, and Discord channel. Here's how each path works and what changes when you pick a league.
Read more →MTG League Seasons: What They Are and Why You'd Run One
A season is a time-bounded scoreboard inside an MTG league — its own ELO standings that run from a start date to an end date, leaving your league's all-time ratings untouched. Here's what they are, when to use one, and what changes for players when a season is active.
Read more →Creating and Managing MTG League Seasons
How to create, edit, archive, and delete MTG league seasons from your league's Manage page — including the key tradeoff between archive and delete.
Read more →Overlapping MTG League Seasons: How One Game Updates Multiple Scoreboards
How a single recorded MTG league game updates every active overlapping season at once — and why each season's standings can move differently.
Read more →MTG League Season Standings: Reading the Per-Season ELO Tab
Every active MTG league season gets its own pill on the league page. Click one to see standings, an ELO chart, the deck list, and the games — all scoped to that season's date range.
Read more →Commander Pod League: How to Track Your Friend Group's MTG Games
Spin up a Commander pod league for your friend group in two minutes. Track wins, ELO, and deck variety across casual game nights — without the spreadsheet.
Read more →cEDH League: How to Track Competitive Commander on Nerd Leagues
Run a cEDH league with per-deck ELO, seasonal cycles, and dispute resolution. Built for competitive Commander, not casual pods.
Read more →Public vs Private MTG Leagues: How Privacy Actually Works in Nerd Leagues
Wondering whether your MTG league is public or private on Nerd Leagues? There's no toggle — what controls visibility is the invite code and the login wall. Here's the full picture.
Read more →ELO & Ratings
Spoilers & Card Search
MTG Spoilers Hub: What's New in Magic
MTG spoilers happen fast. The Nerd Leagues Spoilers Hub at /spoilers shows you the next set being previewed, recent card reveals, upcoming releases, and Secret Lair drops - all on one page.
Read more →Browse All MTG Sets: Search and Filter the Full Set List
The Browse All Sets page at /spoilers/sets is the full MTG set catalog — search by name, filter by type or Standard legality, or scroll the categorized layout.
Read more →Inside an MTG Set Page: Color Sections, Filters, and Alternate Art
How an individual MTG set page works on Nerd Leagues — color sections, filter and search, the alternate-art group, and the deck view for Commander sets.
Read more →Inside an MTG Card Page: Oracle Text, Pricing, and Printings
What's on a Nerd Leagues card page — full art, oracle text, prices in USD and EUR, every printing of the card, and direct buy links.
Read more →MTG Commander Precons: Browse Decklists by Set
Nerd Leagues collects every Magic: The Gathering Commander preconstructed deck on a single hub page, organized by set. Tiles show commander art, hover stacks reveal partner pairs, and clicking any deck opens its full 100-card decklist with stats, type sections, and copy/import buttons.
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