Support the developer
Support The Pod Companion
Every tool here is free and stays free. No unlocks, no premium tier, and no Charitable Levy on your spells. If the site has earned a coffee, this is where to buy me one.
Payments run through Buy Me a Coffee for now. Nothing on the site unlocks either way.
Charitable Levy · Art by Eli Minaya
The mana base tools, the deck audit, the game logger and its stats, and the app when it ships: all of it is free, and that isn't a promotional period. Free is the point. The bills come out of my pocket and my evenings, so if a tool here fixed your mana base, or your pod finally settled the going-first argument with real numbers, and you feel like chipping in, this page is how. No pressure, and no unlocks: supporting doesn't buy features, because nothing is locked.
Three ways to chip in
Monthly Supporter
$3 a month
A coffee a month. It covers a slice of the hosting bill, and it tells me better than any analytics chart that this site is worth the evenings.
All support currently runs through Buy Me a Coffee. The payment itself happens on their site, and you confirm the amount there before anything is charged.
Coming later: pay directly on this page. Direct card payments are planned, powered by Stripe, with the preset amounts above charged exactly and no detour through a third-party page. Same policy as the app: I'm not going to promise a date. The buttons above will simply stop detouring when it's ready.
Where your support goes
Server costs
Hosting, the domain, and the database that keeps your game logs, decks and collections safe and synced. It's the baseline bill that exists whether or not anyone chips in, and it grows with every new account.
Card data processing
Nightly jobs that keep card data, printings and market prices current across the tens of thousands of Magic cards the tools search through.
Feature development
The deck builder, the collection manager, pod stats, and a backlog that grows faster than the evenings do. Support buys build time.
Mobile app development
The Android life tracker that will record your games automatically at the table, plus the unglamorous costs around it: store fees and test devices.
Other ways to help
Not in a position to chip in? Genuinely fine. The best support is using the site.
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Share a tool with your pod
Send the mana base calculator or the deck audit to the friend whose deck keeps stumbling on colors. Neither one needs an account.
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Report a bug or a wrong number
A price that looks off, a page that breaks, a stat that can't be right. Email me and I will fix it.
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Log your games
Every logged game makes the public stats a truer picture of Commander at real tables, and your pod gets its own numbers back.
Log a game →
Thanks either way, and go brew something interesting.
Gant