Changelog · Open beta

Built in public — what shipped, when

BinderBrew is in open beta. Every meaningful change is logged here. Want a feature? Drop it on Discord, or start with the Premium plan — Premium subscribers get a direct support line for feature requests.

Free during open beta — pricing temporarily withdrawn

v0.5 · 2026-05-23

Every feature is open to everyone — no signup, no payment, no card. Validated deck generation, collection import (up to 30,000 cards), side-by-side variants, archetype-aware ranking, bracket-aware power tuning, and the buy list are all free during open beta.
Pricing tiers and the $5/mo / $48/yr launch price are temporarily removed from the UI while we focus on adoption and feedback. Email launch list still available on /pricing for users who want to be notified when paid plans return.
The /pricing route stays reachable by direct URL but now shows a "free during open beta" message instead of a tier comparison.
"Premium active" badges, save-limit upgrade nudges, and the Subscription card on /account are hidden until paid plans actually launch.
Terms § 5 rewritten to make the "no paid plan today" posture explicit and to remove specific dollar amounts.
When paid plans launch, the v0.4 pricing structure is the planned baseline — current users will be notified by email before any charge.

BinderBrew Premium — one paid tier, monthly or annual

v0.4 · 2026-05-19

Pricing simplified to a single paid plan: BinderBrew Premium at $5/mo or $48/yr (≈ $4/mo on annual).
Free tier now ships unlimited deck builds, full legality checks, and 5 saved decks per device — no caps on the core experience.
Premium unlocks unlimited saves across devices, side-by-side deck variants, WotC Bracket diagnostics, marketplace exports, the scanner beta, and priority support.
Founders pricing locked for the life of every Premium subscription started before public launch.
30-day money-back guarantee on every paid charge. Cancel anytime from your account.
Stripe checkout now supports both monthly and annual billing through one hosted session.
Sign-in / sign-up / account routes scaffolded and noindexed until the auth provider lands.
Cookie consent banner added so GA/Plausible only fire after explicit consent.
Scryfall card images now proxy through /api/cards/image with 24h edge cache so the public API stops getting hit on every page view.

WotC Commander Brackets and affiliate-aware buy lists

v0.3 · 2026-05-18

WotC's 1–5 Commander Brackets are live: pick your bracket and BinderBrew enforces Game Changers, mass land destruction, repeatable extra-turn spells, and known two-card combos against the official list.
A new Bracket diagnostics panel on the Review screen explains exactly which cards push a deck up a bracket.
Roadmap-only features are no longer labelled as if they ship today; the hero card shows 'Owned 41 / 99' instead of a fake AI fit score.
Every marketplace link in the buy list now carries BinderBrew utm parameters, ready for TCGplayer / Card Kingdom / Cardmarket affiliate IDs once approved.
Sol Ring, Mind Stone, Talismans, Signets, Cultivate, and Dockside Extortionist now actually appear in the ramp search (previously missed by the query).
MDFC cards like Bala Ged Recovery report a real mana value instead of 0.
Colorless commanders (Kozilek, Karn) get the correct id:c color filter on Scryfall queries.
Rate limits added on /api/feedback, /api/collection/import, and /api/waitlist. Sheets-bound feedback strips formula-injection characters before forwarding.
SEO: keyword-rich H1 + crawlable workflow links from the homepage, BreadcrumbList JSON-LD on every SEO landing page, per-build sitemap lastmod, and template titles unified to '%s | BinderBrew'.

Open beta launches at binderbrew.com

v0.2 · 2026-05-15

Public open beta: anyone can upload a collection, pick a commander, and generate a legal 100-card Commander deck with a buy list.
Three deck variants per generation (aggressive / midrange / value) with a confidence report.
CSV imports from ManaBox, Moxfield, Archidekt, and pasted decklists.
Local SQLite persistence for saved decks and collection snapshots.
Web analytics enabled.