diff --git a/src/components.tsx b/src/components.tsx
index 158fdc0..4e4a72f 100644
--- a/src/components.tsx
+++ b/src/components.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {
   useCallback,
   useContext,
   useEffect,
+  useLayoutEffect,
   useRef,
   useState,
 } from "react";
@@ -896,6 +897,35 @@ function CardInfoTile({ card }: { card: PreviewCard }) {
   );
 }
 
+type PreviewPane = "card" | "info";
+
+/** Segmented control for the compact (one-pane-at-a-time) click preview:
+ * front face / back face (double-faced cards only) / info tile. */
+function PreviewPaneToggle({
+  hasBack,
+  showBack,
+  pane,
+  onSelect,
+}: {
+  hasBack: boolean;
+  showBack: boolean;
+  pane: PreviewPane;
+  onSelect: (pane: PreviewPane, back: boolean) => void;
+}) {
+  const btn = (label: string, active: boolean, onClick: () => void) => (
+    <button className={active ? "active" : ""} onClick={onClick}>
+      {label}
+    </button>
+  );
+  return (
+    <span className="view-toggle">
+      {btn(hasBack ? "Front" : "Card", pane === "card" && !showBack, () => onSelect("card", false))}
+      {hasBack && btn("Back", pane === "card" && showBack, () => onSelect("card", true))}
+      {btn("Info", pane === "info", () => onSelect("info", showBack))}
+    </span>
+  );
+}
+
 function ClickPreviewModal({
   state,
   onClose,
@@ -908,15 +938,64 @@ function ClickPreviewModal({
   const { card, showBack } = state;
   const hasBack = !!card.back_image_uri;
   const rotatedBox = useRotatedPreviewBox(hasBack);
+  const backdropRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
+  const modalRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
+  // Compact mode: when the full layout (art + info tile) would be taller than
+  // the viewport — i.e. on phones, where the tile wraps below the art — show
+  // one pane at a time behind a Front/Back/Info toggle instead of making the
+  // user scroll. Decided by measuring the full layout itself: every resize
+  // drops back to it, and the layout effect below re-measures and switches
+  // before paint, so there's no flash and no feedback loop (compact mode is
+  // never what gets measured). The art's size doesn't depend on the image
+  // having loaded (see `.preview-modal-img`), so measuring on mount is exact.
+  const [compact, setCompact] = useState(false);
+  const [pane, setPane] = useState<PreviewPane>("card");
+  const [measureKey, setMeasureKey] = useState(0);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const onResize = () => {
+      setCompact(false);
+      setMeasureKey((k) => k + 1);
+    };
+    window.addEventListener("resize", onResize);
+    return () => window.removeEventListener("resize", onResize);
+  }, []);
+  useLayoutEffect(() => {
+    const backdrop = backdropRef.current;
+    const modal = modalRef.current;
+    if (compact || !backdrop || !modal) return;
+    const cs = getComputedStyle(backdrop);
+    const avail = backdrop.clientHeight - parseFloat(cs.paddingTop) - parseFloat(cs.paddingBottom);
+    if (modal.getBoundingClientRect().height > avail) setCompact(true);
+  }, [compact, measureKey, card, showBack]);
+
+  const selectPane = (next: PreviewPane, back: boolean) => {
+    setPane(next);
+    if (back !== showBack) onFlip();
+  };
+
   // Both faces are always in the DOM when the card has one; a wide-viewport
   // media query shows them side by side (no flip needed), while a narrow one
   // shows only the "active" face and the flip button toggles between them.
   return (
-    <div className="preview-modal-backdrop" onClick={onClose}>
+    <div className="preview-modal-backdrop" ref={backdropRef} onClick={onClose}>
       <div
-        className={`preview-modal ${hasBack ? "preview-modal-dfc" : ""}`}
+        ref={modalRef}
+        className={[
+          "preview-modal",
+          hasBack ? "preview-modal-dfc" : "",
+          compact ? "preview-modal-compact" : "",
+          compact && pane === "info" ? "preview-modal-show-info" : "",
+        ]
+          .filter(Boolean)
+          .join(" ")}
         onClick={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}
       >
+        {compact && (
+          <div className="preview-modal-bar">
+            <PreviewPaneToggle hasBack={hasBack} showBack={showBack} pane={pane} onSelect={selectPane} />
+            <IconButton icon={Icons.close} label="Close (Esc)" onClick={onClose} overlay />
+          </div>
+        )}
         <div className="preview-modal-faces">
           {/* Only the front face can be horizontal (Battles) — a transformed
               Battle's back face is always a normal, correctly-oriented
diff --git a/src/styles.css b/src/styles.css
index 72b0ba4..7da7c7d 100644
--- a/src/styles.css
+++ b/src/styles.css
@@ -2018,10 +2018,19 @@ tbody tr:hover {
 .preview-modal-faces {
   position: relative;
 }
+/* Sized explicitly (Scryfall "normal" images are 488x680) rather than from
+   the image's intrinsic size, so the box is already its final size before the
+   image loads — ClickPreviewModal measures the layout on mount to decide on
+   compact mode. Same result as the old intrinsic sizing capped at 90vw/90vh;
+   `--preview-img-h` is the height budget, shrunk in compact mode. */
+.preview-modal {
+  --preview-img-h: 90vh;
+}
 .preview-modal-img {
   display: none;
+  width: min(488px, 90vw, calc(var(--preview-img-h) * 488 / 680));
+  aspect-ratio: 488 / 680;
   max-width: min(720px, 90vw);
-  max-height: 90vh;
   border-radius: 18px;
   box-shadow: var(--shadow-lg);
   border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.08);
@@ -2075,6 +2084,43 @@ tbody tr:hover {
     display: none;
   }
 }
+/* Compact mode (see ClickPreviewModal): the full layout would be taller than
+   the viewport, so a toolbar (pane toggle + close) shows one pane at a time —
+   a single face, or the info tile — with the art shrunk to fit the height
+   left over after the backdrop padding, toolbar and gap. */
+.preview-modal-compact {
+  /* A column (not the base wrapping row) so the toolbar stretches to exactly
+     the visible pane's width instead of the row's full 96vw. */
+  flex-direction: column;
+  flex-wrap: nowrap;
+  align-items: stretch;
+  --preview-img-h: calc(
+    100vh - 48px - env(safe-area-inset-top) - env(safe-area-inset-bottom) - 36px - 16px
+  );
+}
+.preview-modal-bar {
+  flex-basis: 100%;
+  height: 36px;
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  justify-content: space-between;
+  gap: 12px;
+}
+.preview-modal-compact .preview-modal-faces {
+  display: block;
+}
+.preview-modal-compact .preview-modal-img:not(.active) {
+  display: none;
+}
+.preview-modal-compact .preview-modal-img:not(.preview-modal-img-rotated) {
+  max-width: min(720px, 90vw);
+}
+.preview-modal-compact .preview-modal-close,
+.preview-modal-compact .preview-modal-flip,
+.preview-modal-compact:not(.preview-modal-show-info) .preview-info,
+.preview-modal-show-info .preview-modal-faces {
+  display: none;
+}
 .preview-modal-close {
   position: absolute;
   top: -14px;