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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