Card languages

A copy's language is part of what the card is. Silvane stores it, shows the printed name, and re-keys the copy onto the real printing in that language.

How a name is shown

A non-English copy shows its printed name first, with the English name as a smaller suffix:

Cultivar (Cultivate)

The same rule covers reskins — printings that say a different name from the card they are:

The Monstrous Serpent (Koma, Cosmos Serpent)

This applies everywhere cards appear: search results, binders and lists, Owned Cards, decks, views, the Tray and the scan tray, the watchlist, the Ledger, sales, purchases and loans, set pages, deck ideas, the movers, card detail, the card quick view and the edit screen. Foreign prints also carry a small language badge (ES, JA, DE) on tiles and print cells, and card detail spells the language out next to the rarity.

Lists that sort by name sort by what the card says. A foreign print of a reskin shows its foreign printed name, with the oracle name in parentheses.

Card detail

• Rules text renders in the printing's language, fetched online. A toggle in the Oracle Text header flips to the English text and back, double-faced cards included. It is labelled with the language it will switch you to, so it reads English while the printed text is showing.
• Type lines stay English.
• Other Prints lists the printings in that card's language. A row of language tabs above the rail reloads it in any other language the card was printed in.

Changing a copy's language

Every copy's language is editable from its edit screen, in the app and on the web.

• The picker lists the languages the print exists in. Picking one re-keys the copy onto that language's printing (same set, same collector number), so the art, the collector data and the price follow the real object. These printings are language twins.
• More languages lists the rest. Picking one keeps the printing and its picture, and the copy carries that language. Scryfall has no Spanish BFZ basics, so a Spanish BFZ Forest is the English printing held in Spanish.
• Finishes are guarded. If your quantities sit on a finish the selected printing was never made in, Save explains the conflict and waits until you zero that finish or pick another printing.
• Change print lists printings in the copy's language. A printing in another language brings its own; an English printing keeps the copy's language, so a Spanish copy moved to another English-only printing stays Spanish.

The same Language list, More languages included, is on a row of the Tray in the app and on the web, on the scan tray, and on a sale or purchase line in the app. A copy keeps its language on its way to a binder, a sale or a purchase. In the app, Add to on the card detail of a copy opened from a binder or list adds to a binder or list in that copy's language.

Finding a card by its printed name

Type a name in any language and Silvane resolves the card, with no filter to set: Cultivar, Blitzschlag, Anel Solar, 太陽の指輪. Accents are optional in the app; the web's header search is accent-sensitive, so type them there. The full behaviour, including the Language filter that narrows results to prints in a language, is in Search.

Elsewhere

• Importing lands each copy on the printing in the language its source names: a CSV with a Language column (ManaBox, Helvault, Silvane's own or any other), or a Moxfield binder or collection URL. A line that names English or no language lands on the English printing of its set and number; a printing that exists in one language only keeps its language. See Importing.
• Share links show visitors the same printed names and badges, and visitors can search a shared collection by printed name.
• MCP reads carry the printed name and the language.

Offline

Your copies' names and languages live on your device, so everything that displays keeps working offline. Three things need a connection:

• Printed rules text. Offline, card detail shows the English text.
• The Other Prints language tabs. Offline, the rail shows the English printings.
• The printing's languages when editing a copy in the app. Offline, the picker lists the current language and English, and More languages the rest, which keep the printing. The list widens once you are back online.