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The Gestic Play Tester is a free goldfishing (solitaire) tool. Shuffle a deck, keep or mulligan your opening hand, and play through your turns to see how consistently it performs — with real card art, counters, trackers, tokens, and dice.
Everything you need to goldfish a deck
A full digital tabletop for one player: move cards freely between zones, keep score, and try out lines — without an opponent and without setting up in real life.
Drawing & the library
- Opening hand with the London mulligan, including choosing which cards go to the bottom.
- Draw one card, or draw several at once.
- Search / tutor your library for any card.
- Scry, surveil, reveal the top card, and mill.
- Send the top card anywhere, or reshuffle at any time.
The battlefield
- On a phone, tap a card and choose where it goes; on desktop, drag cards between zones.
- An auto-sorted board that groups lands, creatures, and everything else.
- Tap or untap from a phone card menu or with a desktop click, plus untap all, tap all, and proliferate.
- Double-faced and transforming cards flip to their real back face.
- Real card art from Scryfall, with tap-to-inspect on phones and hover-to-zoom on desktop.
Counters & card changes
- +1/+1 and −1/−1 counters, loyalty, and many other types — plus custom counters.
- Set a custom power/toughness, or make a token copy of any card.
- Rotate a card 180°, dim it, and attach oracle text or your own notes.
Tokens, markers & emblems
- A searchable token catalog from Scryfall, with real art, power/toughness, and abilities.
- Recently-used tokens for one-click re-adds.
- Emblems with art, and one-click designations: the Monarch, the Initiative, City's Blessing, Day/Night.
- Add any card to the battlefield by name.
Trackers
- Life, poison, energy, and experience counters.
- A per-color mana pool and a turn counter.
- A running game log of every action.
Dice & screen sharing
- Roll a single die or several at once (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20, d100), and flip a coin.
- Every roll shows a large on-screen result and is written to the log — ideal for playing over a shared screen.
Commander & quality of life
- Automatic command zone and 40-life detection for Commander / EDH decks.
- Undo, adjustable card sizes, and full keyboard shortcuts.
- Open any deck straight from Gestic, entirely client-side.
Three steps to a test game
Open a deck
Launch the Play Tester from a deck in your Gestic collection. Your commander and card printings come along automatically.
Keep or mulligan
You start with a seven-card hand. Keep it, or take a London mulligan and choose which cards to put on the bottom.
Play it out
Draw, play lands and spells, tap for mana, make tokens, and track your life and counters. On a phone, tap a card to see its actions; on desktop, press ? for shortcuts.
Touch controls
On a phone, tap a card to read it and choose Play, Tap or Untap, Move, or Counters. Swipe sideways through your hand or scroll the battlefield without playing a card. Draw, End turn, and Undo stay close to the hand; the labeled pile and Tools controls open the rest of the game.
Keyboard shortcuts
With a mouse and keyboard, hover a card and press a key to move it. A few keys work anywhere in the game.