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EDIT: There's actually a forum post detailing these better than I did here, thanks /u/SoneEv

https://forums.mtgarena.com/forums/threads/46567

Ok so I'm not sure how much of this public knowledge or if this all actually documented somewhere, but I managed to brute force some advanced search features using the text box. Someone put a lot of love into this thing.

name: - Search for cards only with name 

text: - Search for cards with text containing 

cmc: - Search for converted mana cost cards 

power/toughness: - Search for creatures with either power or toughness of 

type: - Search for cards of type 

color: - Search for cards of color  (c is colorless), you can also use '+'s to specify multiple colors, 
                    e.g. color:b+g will search for cards that are both black and green

rarity: - Search for cards of rarity common/uncommon/rare/mythic

set:  - Search for cards of set 
      or
e:  (credit /u/angrypz)

or - Describe how to include options
         e.g 'pirate human' will get cards that only both pirates and humans
             'pirate or human' will get cards that are either pirates or humans
             'color:u or color:b' will get cards that are either blue or black 
              NOTE: 'and' doesn't seem to work with 'color', use '+'

'-' - Remove entries matching search  from the result

Now, I can already hear people asking, "ok.... why do I care there's already buttons for these options?" Well, sort of, and they work in addition to the button options (also notice the power/toughness one, that one seems useful). The benefit of the text options is it gives you super fine control over the results.


Example 1: I want to search for all the cards that are either Red or Black and Blue. This is impossible with filter buttons. But with text this is easy:

color:r or color:u+b

will return all cards that either red or blue and black. Similarly

color:r+w or color:u+b

will return all boros or dimir cards. Cool!


Example 2: I want to find all the Rat creatures but Pirates comes into the search results.

type:rat -type:pirate

Example 3: I want to find all the cards that synergize with pirates that aren't pirate creatures

pirate -type:pirate

Example 4: I want all the cards that aren't green

-color:g

One step further, I want all the cards that aren't just green, use above and select G filter button! Neat!

I'm sure there's probably other hidden stuff I haven't found and I'm sure most people won't find this super useful, but sometimes it's hard to find the cards you want in a deck and these seem to help me out. Let me know if you guys find any other secret options.

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over 5 years ago - /u/wotc_beastcode - Direct link

Originally posted by InvictusSum

Any idea if you can search for cards by the number you have in your collection? IE, I want to see all the cards I have playsets of.

I tried 'number:x', 'num:x' and 'collected:x', but no joy.

Heck yah you can! This is one of my favorite pieces (advanced filters were a weekend project I did for fun).

You can use "owned" or "q" to filter on how many you own

Ravnica Allegiance cards you have a playset of:

e:rna q=4

Ravnica Allegiance card you have less than a playset of:

e:rna q<4

Or let's say you wanted to see what's needed to complete your Common/Uncommon playset of Ravnica Allegience:

e:rna q<4 (r:c or r:u)

I'll post more when I get some time. :D

over 5 years ago - /u/wotc_beastcode - Direct link

Originally posted by wotc_beastcode

Heck yah you can! This is one of my favorite pieces (advanced filters were a weekend project I did for fun).

You can use "owned" or "q" to filter on how many you own

Ravnica Allegiance cards you have a playset of:

e:rna q=4

Ravnica Allegiance card you have less than a playset of:

e:rna q<4

Or let's say you wanted to see what's needed to complete your Common/Uncommon playset of Ravnica Allegience:

e:rna q<4 (r:c or r:u)

I'll post more when I get some time. :D

Oh. But I should note. Because I didn't want to bust the existing functionality for a pet project, the text search is

combined with the button filters. So if you want to see things you don't own from a text search, remember to pop in to the Advanced Filters section (the button by the colors that has sliders on it) and make sure "Not Collected" is turned on.