Card languages

Magic is printed in many languages, and real collections mix them freely. Silvane treats a copy's language as part of what the card is — not a footnote. A Spanish Cultivate is Cultivar wherever you meet it, you can find it by typing either name, and everything you do with it — reading it, repricing it, trading it — happens in its language.

Names in the card's language

Any non-English copy shows its printed name first, with the English name as a smaller suffix so nobody gets lost:

Cultivar (Cultivate)

This works everywhere cards appear: search results, binders and lists, Owned Cards, decks, views, the scan tray, card detail and the edit screen. Foreign prints also carry a small language badge (ES, JA, DE…) on tiles and print cells, and card detail shows the language spelled out ("Spanish") next to the rarity.

Card detail speaks the language

Open a foreign card and the page follows it:

• Rules text renders in the printing's language (fetched online — see Offline). One tap on the EN toggle flips to the English oracle text and back, double-faced cards included.
• Type lines stay English on purpose — Instant and Creature are game vocabulary, and keeping them stable keeps rules conversations sane.
• Other Prints lists the printings in that card's language, so a Japanese card shows you the Japanese printings. A row of language tabs (EN · ES · JA · …) above the rail reloads it in any other language the card was printed in — Scryfall's language row, inside the app.

Find cards by any name

Type a name in any language and Silvane resolves the card — no filter, no setting:

• Cultivar, Blitzschlag, Anel Solar, 太陽の指輪 — each finds its card in the Search tab, the add-to search, and searches over what you own.
• Accents are optional: aves del paraiso finds your Aves del paraíso (Birds of Paradise).
• Searching what you own with a foreign name narrows to your copies in that language — Cultivar surfaces the Spanish copies, not every Cultivate you own. A hint row ("Showing your cards for…") tells you when a translation kicked in.

The advanced Language filter does a different job — narrowing results to prints in a language. Details in Search and Filters & presets.

Change a copy's language

Every copy's language is editable from its edit screen — in the binder's grid view, long-press the card, select it, and hit Edit in the bulk bar. Silvane keeps the physical reality honest — a language isn't a label, it's a different printed object:

• The Language picker only offers languages the print actually exists in. No inventing a Korean copy of a set that never printed Korean.
• Picking a language 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. We call these printings language twins.
• Finishes are guarded too: if your quantities sit on a finish the selected printing was never made in, Save explains the conflict and waits until you zero the finish or pick another printing.
• Change print lists printings in the copy's language, and if you pick a printing that only exists in one language (a Japanese-exclusive alternate art, say), the copy's language follows the printing.

Scanning foreign cards

Scanned cards land in the tray with a Language row: pick the language of the physical card in your hand and the draft re-keys onto the language twin before it ever reaches your binder — exactly like the edit screen.

Importing foreign cards

• URL imports resolve real foreign printings. Moxfield, for example, reports a German card as the English printing plus a language value — a German Lion's Eye Diamond used to import as English art with a DE tag. Silvane now finds the actual German printing when one exists.
• Plain text and CSV imports match English names only (for now) — see Importing.

Shared pages and the assistant

Language travels with your cards beyond the app:

• Share links show visitors the same localized names, badges, and card pages — a shared Spanish binder reads in Spanish, and visitors can search it by printed name (accents optional).
• MCP assistant reads include the printed name and language, so an AI going through your collection knows Cultivar and Cultivate are the same card in different clothes.

Offline

Your copies' names and languages live on your device, so everything above 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 full language list when editing a copy — offline, the picker offers the current language and English, and widens once you're back online.