Terms of Service

Version 2026-08-19 — last updated August 19, 2026

What Manacast is

Manacast is a video table for playing physical Magic: The Gathering cards with other people over live video — four players for a Commander game, or two for a 1v1 duel. It carries video and audio between players and gives you shared, manually-edited counters (life, poison, commander damage, and one counter you can label yourself) that stay in sync and survive a reload.

It does not referee your game. There is no rules engine: Manacast does not know what cards you hold, does not track the stack or priority, and does not enforce or resolve anything about the game you are playing. You and the other players are playing paper Magic; every counter on screen is a number you set yourself, and it means whatever your table agrees it means.

Who can use it

You must meet the minimum signup age required by applicable law in your jurisdiction before creating an account. We check this once, at signup — see the Privacy Policy for exactly what that check keeps and what it discards.

Your account

Keep your password to yourself; you are responsible for activity on your account. Your username is shown to the other players you interact with. Your email address is not — see the Privacy Policy.

Your conduct

You are responsible for what your camera and microphone show and say while connected. Do not use Manacast to harass anyone, or to transmit unlawful content. Every room gives you tools to protect yourself: you can block another player, report them, and — at tables of three or more — vote with the other players to remove them from the game. We may act on a report, including by suspending or removing an account that violates these terms.

Each player's own device also runs an automated safety check against explicit nudity on camera, entirely on that device — we never receive or process your video for this or any other purpose. When a player's device confirms such content from someone else's camera, it hides that video for them and sends us a short report about the event (who, which room, when, and the category — never any image). If enough players' devices independently report the same person at the same table, that person's video session is ended automatically and the event is set aside for a human on our team to review. Any consequence beyond that moment — suspension or removal of an account — is decided by a person, not by software.

What an account gets

Manacast is free. Every account gets the same thing: join the matchmaking queue for a four-player Commander pod or a two-player duel, and play. There is nothing to buy, no paid tier, and no part of the site held back behind one.

Leaving a matchmaking game before it ends counts as a loss for you. The other players carry on without you, and if they all agree to start a new game they may offer your seat to someone else. You can join a new queue straight away.

No warranty

Manacast is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind, including any warranty that it will be available, uninterrupted, or free of errors. It runs on a single server; treat any given session as something that could drop, and expect the room to try to recover the connection rather than to never fail.

Ending your account

You may delete your account at any time from your account settings. Deletion is permanent and removes the data described in the Privacy Policy. We may also suspend or terminate access for an account that violates these terms.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. Whenever the text changes, the version and date at the top of this page change with it, and that is the version your acceptance record refers to. Continuing to use Manacast after an update means you accept the current version.

Manacast is an independent, unofficial project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Wizards of the Coast. Magic: The Gathering is a trademark of Wizards of the Coast LLC; this site does not use any Wizards of the Coast trademark, logo, or card imagery.