Scryfools
Every year on April Fools' day, the Scryfall team has a tradition of putting up a gag to surprise people with. They last a day or two, then go away again. We've started collecting them here for people to see again, and to spill some of the beans on how they were made. We hope you enjoy them!
— love, Scryfall team
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2026
Scryfall '97: Web 1.0 edition
Most assets came from resource sites. Our team members made several custom webring images and the Dootscape icon, and a friend of the team provided Tamiyo.
We've made some updates since the live launch. Check the Help menu for full credits.
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2025
Balatro Jokers
The homepage card collage was replaced with Balatro jokers, complete with hover tooltips showing their names, effects, and rarities.
The custom Magic-themed balatro cards were rendered by Sabin Harkin. You can read our post about it here.
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2024
Damaged Cards
The homepage card collage was replaced with heavily damaged cards, each linking to a full view of the damage.
You can read the story behind these cards in this Reddit post.
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2023
Yu-Gi-Oh!
The homepage card collage was replaced with Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, each linking to a match that showed a quick game with no interaction.
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2022
Playing Cards
The homepage card collage was replaced with a standard deck of playing cards, each linking to Wikipedia's April Fools' Day article.
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2021
Defend the Hedrons
This Space Invaders clone was made by Scarlett from scratch inside a week just before April Fools.
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2018
Dreadmaw in Dominaria
It's March 2018. Colossal Dreadmaw has just shown up in the last three sets in a row: in Ixalan, in Rivals of Ixalan, and again in Masters 25. Previews for the next set, Dominaria, are happening right now.
Naturally, we had to prank people with a fake Colossal Dreadmaw in Dominaria as well.
We collaborated with April King, who tweeted out an announcement of the preview.
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