Gatherer and Wikipedia set codes can be used in "e:" when they differ from our choices: ++e:lea/en
Readings for Japanese card names have been added, and are searchable: えいこうのめざめのてんし
Set intersection/union: e:al,be,un not e:al+be+un (Cards that were printed in Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, but not in all of them.)
You can search by year, but this might be incorrect at times, and it doesn't work for promotional cards at this time. year<=2000 pow>10
The untap symbol is {Q} and the snow mana symbol {S}: o:{Q}o:{S}
New operator is:reprint, use in combation with e: ++e:pc2/en not:reprint (Cards that are new in Planechase 2012.) Might have bugs for older editions and promotional cards.
Gleemax now does finally have a converted mana cost of 1'000'000!
This is amazing and unexpected! OK, some of this is just good sense, but support for ~, for * in power and toughness, the is:reprint operator, set intersection? Those I certainly didn't expect.
I must point out, though, that the problem with the is:funny operator remains, and seems to have also affected the border-color operators. Namely, there are several cards which should be listed as funny and silver-borded, but are currently listed as not funny and black-bordered.
(Also, the Unglued and Unhinged basic lands currently still count as funny, though arguably this is OK; they don't count as silver-bordered, I notice.)
Also, currently * in power/toughness/cmc... well, I'm not sure I'd say it really works -- but then again, there are only currently 114 *-cards, so I suppose that it works at all means it's good enough to get it down to the point where the rest can be processed by hand. So yay!
First, I wanted to thank you for your outstanding work and excellent site. It's vastly superior to Gatherer!
I do have a few questions about the new release:
Did this release shorten the limit on the Query box? I had a few lengthy queries that I'd saved (I'm building a cube and looking for opinions from the other players) and the Query box seems to be cutting off after 134 characters now.
Similarly, should the site be having problems with URLs longer than 287 characters? I can't get it to work correctly longer than that. (If I paste in a query longer than 134 characters it works up to a point even though not everything displays in the Query box.)
Is there a way to look for multiple cards with one limited exactly? Say, something like
"Hornet Queen" OR !"Vigor"
I know this is a malformed query, but the results surprised me:
"Hornet Queen" OR "Tornado
It returns Desert Twister, which sort of makes sense if it understands synonyms, but Deranged Hermit?I figured this one out. The foreign languages had "tornado" in the name.
Lastly, what level of donations are you looking for? I know anything would be appreciated, but would $25 be a meaningful contribution or is it just a drop in the bucket?
I'll change those seven promos to be funny and silver-bordered.
Thanks, glad to finally have that fixed, that's been bugging me for some time.
* is tricky. How do you compare "*+2" and "7-*"?
Ugh, Shapeshifter really screws everything up, doesn't it? It would be so much easier if there were no Shapeshifter. (Though it could be worse: Imagine if Molten Sentry had also been templated as */7-*, or if Aquamorph Entity had been templated as */6-*!)
The obvious answer for handling *'s is to treat the presence or absence of * as a second independent dimension (i.e. use a partial order), and have "-*" be even less than "no *", but I agree this produces weird results in the case of Shapeshifter. (Its results are also in some sense meaningless, but I think that's inevitable in dealing with *.) On the other hand, it's just the one card, and it seems to me that probably any system will produce weird results in the case of Shapeshifter, so maybe that's not so bad. In any case, like I said, it's a relief to finally be able to deal with * at all, and thank you a ton for that.
Regardless of how you ultimately handle that, though, there is one part of *'s behavior that does seem honestly unreasonable. Namely, that a search for * any of power, toughness, or CMC brings up anything with a * in any of the three, rather than being confined to the appropriate attribute. If you could find the time to fix that, that would at least make the results for * less confusing.
Color Identity still doesn't work right. (For instance, searching "Apocalypse, Color: Blue: Exclude others, Color Identity:Blue/Red won't come up with Jilt.)
7/15/2007: If Sengir Vampire deals nonlethal damage to a creature and then a different effect or damage source causes that creature to be put into a graveyard later in the turn, Sengir Vampire's ability will trigger and it will get a +1/+1 counter.
with change
7/15/2007: If Sengir Vampire deals nonlethal damage to a creature and then a different effect or damage source causes that creature to be put into a graveyard later in the turn, Sengir Vampire's ability will trigger and it will get a +1/+1 counter.
Would make things a whole lot more clear, at a first glance.
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Color Identity still doesn't work right. (For instance, searching "Apocalypse, Color: Blue: Exclude others, Color Identity:Blue/Red won't come up with Jilt.)
I didn't even realize that these were issues until you noted them all out, and then as I went through them, noticed how much work you've been doing and noticed how much smoother things ran.
New operator is:reprint, use in combation with e: ++e:pc2/en not:reprint (Cards that are new in Planechase 2012.) Might have bugs for older editions and promotional cards.
Thank you so much. These two additions are ones that I have desperately wanted for a while now.
I have no idea if it's already being planned or worked on, but at the risk of seeming greedy, can I ask if there's consideration for adding the ability to search by watermark? Currently, Gatherer is the only card database I'm aware of that has that functionality, and I'd love if it were part of the magiccards.info suite of search parameters as well.
That's cool to see more tags to use
I perfer magiccards.info over Gatherer anyway, but what's more is Gatherer doesn't include some cards like ones Garfield made for himself like Proposal and Splendid Genesis
Edit: I read your description of the search query, but not the query itself, which made my previous reply look pretty silly...
What you're asking for is for the "require multicolored" box to work differently for color identity than it does for color. I think that request makes sense, since what you want that box to do is find all cards that have a color identity of both red and blue, but it instead searches for all multicolored cards with that identity.
So, "ci:urm" should return not only blue-red cards like Call the Skybreaker and Cerebral Vortex, but also monocolored cards with a multicolor color identity like Jilt and Desperate Ravings.
Thus, "c:!u ci:urm" should find all mono-blue cards with a blue-red color identity, such as Jilt.
If you want to find only the multicolored cards as it does now, you would search for "c:urm ci:urm".
I agree with this request, it would make searching for certain commander cards easier
Edit 2: and of course it's only now that I notice I'm necroing ever so slightly. Ah well, this thread is still on the front page... Also, still agree with the request
One more thing I'd like to ask for for the future, whenever you next get around to considering things to add:
It would be very useful if you could either add something like $ and ^, or add a special sequence that matched a word boundary, like perl's \b. The reason being, say right now I want to search for cards that use the word "red", or let's say cards with "red" in the name. Right now there's no way to do that. If I search "red", I get any word that includes red. I can demand " red ", but that won't work if red is the first or last word in the name, like, say, Circle of Protection: Red. But if I loosen it up to, say, " red" to allow for red to be at the end, now I've got spurious stuff like Archon of Redemption. So if I could do:
"^red " or " red " or " red$"
or better yet,
"\bred\b",
that would help a lot. (Of course the former's not perfect as not all word boundaries are spaces, but, that's part of why I'm suggesting the latter. In particular, if you're searching in text, you could have periods and commas.)
I didn't even realize that these were issues until you noted them all out, and then as I went through them, noticed how much work you've been doing and noticed how much smoother things ran.
Example: show me all cards printed in Alpha through Magic 2012:
e:al+be+un+rv+4e+5e+6e+7e+8e+9e+10e+m10+m11+m12
Here is an exhaustive list of improvements:
Cards with Æ in their name are correctly sorted.
Negative power and toughness is supported: pow<0
You can search for Phyrexian and split mana: mana={UP} mana>={2/U} mana>={W/U}
Search for Russian card names is case-insensitive: ангела
A lot of promotional cards have been reorganized and their comments and numbering fixed. This might be a work in progress.
The is:, not:, has:, hasnot: operators have been made consistent, and all combinations work. is:vanilla pow=5 not:vanilla pow=5
Wildcards in power and toughness can be searched for: pow>=* (There might be a bug or two with this, but it's good enough for now.)
Flags added/improved: is:spell, is:timeshifted, is:old, is:new, is:future, is:black-bordered, is:white-bordered, is:silver-bordered, has:foil
Color Indicator: in:wu
Cards referred to in rulings are linked: Stigma Lasher
The lastest fifty promotional cards can be found here: http://magiccards.info/additions.html
You can use ~ to refer to the card name when searching the Oracle text: "&v=cards&s=cname">o:"destroy ~"
You can search for loyalty: loyalty<4
Gatherer and Wikipedia set codes can be used in "e:" when they differ from our choices: ++e:lea/en
Readings for Japanese card names have been added, and are searchable: えいこうのめざめのてんし
Set intersection/union: e:al,be,un not e:al+be+un (Cards that were printed in Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, but not in all of them.)
You can search by year, but this might be incorrect at times, and it doesn't work for promotional cards at this time. year<=2000 pow>10
The untap symbol is {Q} and the snow mana symbol {S}: o:{Q} o:{S}
New operator is:reprint, use in combation with e: ++e:pc2/en not:reprint (Cards that are new in Planechase 2012.) Might have bugs for older editions and promotional cards.
Gleemax now does finally have a converted mana cost of 1'000'000!
Bonus query: ++(e:al or e:m12) l:en e:al+m12 not t:basic (Cards which were printed in both Alpha and Magic 2012, without basic lands, compared side by side.)
Please let me know if you find a bug here: http://magiccardsinfo.wufoo.com/forms/z7x4z5/
And we are still working on adding search and sort by average price. Often requested, but more tricky to implement that you would think.
Hannes, your hard work is so appreciated! I love Magiccards.Info so much more than the Gatherer, and these updates are fantastic.
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I must point out, though, that the problem with the is:funny operator remains, and seems to have also affected the border-color operators. Namely, there are several cards which should be listed as funny and silver-borded, but are currently listed as not funny and black-bordered.
These cards are the promo versions of: Circle of Protection: Art, Mise, Booster Tutor, Goblin Mime, Granny's Payback, Ashnod's Coupon, and Ass Whuppin'.
(Also, the Unglued and Unhinged basic lands currently still count as funny, though arguably this is OK; they don't count as silver-bordered, I notice.)
Also, currently * in power/toughness/cmc... well, I'm not sure I'd say it really works -- but then again, there are only currently 114 *-cards, so I suppose that it works at all means it's good enough to get it down to the point where the rest can be processed by hand. So yay!
* is tricky. How do you compare "*+2" and "7-*"?
Thanks.
I do have a few questions about the new release:
I know this is a malformed query, but the results surprised me:Super excited for all of these features, especially the one in bold
Nice DSL you have going there.
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Thanks, glad to finally have that fixed, that's been bugging me for some time.
Ugh, Shapeshifter really screws everything up, doesn't it? It would be so much easier if there were no Shapeshifter. (Though it could be worse: Imagine if Molten Sentry had also been templated as */7-*, or if Aquamorph Entity had been templated as */6-*!)
The obvious answer for handling *'s is to treat the presence or absence of * as a second independent dimension (i.e. use a partial order), and have "-*" be even less than "no *", but I agree this produces weird results in the case of Shapeshifter. (Its results are also in some sense meaningless, but I think that's inevitable in dealing with *.) On the other hand, it's just the one card, and it seems to me that probably any system will produce weird results in the case of Shapeshifter, so maybe that's not so bad. In any case, like I said, it's a relief to finally be able to deal with * at all, and thank you a ton for that.
Regardless of how you ultimately handle that, though, there is one part of *'s behavior that does seem honestly unreasonable. Namely, that a search for * any of power, toughness, or CMC brings up anything with a * in any of the three, rather than being confined to the appropriate attribute. If you could find the time to fix that, that would at least make the results for * less confusing.
Current post- Grand Prix KC Modern Postmortem (7/7/13)
This, please! I've had dozens of annoying occurrences of "Click [ card ] link, see unreadable text, baffled."
[card=Jace Beleren]Jace[/card] = Jace
Magic CompRules
Scry Rollover Popups for Google Chrome
The first rule of Cursecatcher is, You do not talk about Cursecatcher.
Ex: http://magiccards.info/m12/en/107.html
status quo
with change
Would make things a whole lot more clear, at a first glance.
—Neerdiv, fallowsage
http://magiccards.info/query?q=c%21u+e%3Aap%2Fen+ci%3Aur&v=olist&s=cname
Works for me?
I've been wishing this existed. Awesome updates.
c!u e:ap/en ci:r
Comes up with nothing.
Your color identity search isn't actually searching color identity.
Current post- Grand Prix KC Modern Postmortem (7/7/13)
However, when looking up Humility, the cards in the wording (Opalescence, Worship) aren't hyperlinked.
:symu::symb::symr:Gwendlyn di Corci:symu::symb::symr:
:symw::symu::symb::symr::symg:Sliver Overlord:symw::symu::symb::symr::symg:
:symu::symr:Jhoria of the Ghitu:symu::symr:
Protection from [X] means:
1) It cannot be damaged by [X],
3) It cannot be blocked by [X] and
4) It cannot be targeted by [X].
You can Wrath of God a Black Knight and Damnation a White Knight.
Thank you so much. These two additions are ones that I have desperately wanted for a while now.
I have no idea if it's already being planned or worked on, but at the risk of seeming greedy, can I ask if there's consideration for adding the ability to search by watermark? Currently, Gatherer is the only card database I'm aware of that has that functionality, and I'd love if it were part of the magiccards.info suite of search parameters as well.
R Citizen Cane (Feldon of the Third Path)
I perfer magiccards.info over Gatherer anyway, but what's more is Gatherer doesn't include some cards like ones Garfield made for himself like Proposal and Splendid Genesis
Great job, by the way ^^
My english may suck, so please take it easy
Can you link to the search results by URL so I can look into this?
I'll give you an example:
c!r ci:urm should search for cards that are red and have a blue color identity.
What it finds is:
http://magiccards.info/query?q=c%21r+ci%3Aurm&v=card&s=cname
What it doesn't find is, for example:
http://magiccards.info/isd/en/139.html
Even though that card is clearly red, and has a blue and red color identity.
I hope this helps, and keep up the great work!
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The Winner is Judge [2]
Chasay, Caller of Fire
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[B]This Winner is also Judge [0]
http://magiccards.info/query?q=in%3Ac&v=card&s=cname
My english may suck, so please take it easy
Edit: I read your description of the search query, but not the query itself, which made my previous reply look pretty silly...
What you're asking for is for the "require multicolored" box to work differently for color identity than it does for color. I think that request makes sense, since what you want that box to do is find all cards that have a color identity of both red and blue, but it instead searches for all multicolored cards with that identity.
So, "ci:urm" should return not only blue-red cards like Call the Skybreaker and Cerebral Vortex, but also monocolored cards with a multicolor color identity like Jilt and Desperate Ravings.
Thus, "c:!u ci:urm" should find all mono-blue cards with a blue-red color identity, such as Jilt.
If you want to find only the multicolored cards as it does now, you would search for "c:urm ci:urm".
I agree with this request, it would make searching for certain commander cards easier
Edit 2: and of course it's only now that I notice I'm necroing ever so slightly. Ah well, this thread is still on the front page... Also, still agree with the request
It would be very useful if you could either add something like $ and ^, or add a special sequence that matched a word boundary, like perl's \b. The reason being, say right now I want to search for cards that use the word "red", or let's say cards with "red" in the name. Right now there's no way to do that. If I search "red", I get any word that includes red. I can demand " red ", but that won't work if red is the first or last word in the name, like, say, Circle of Protection: Red. But if I loosen it up to, say, " red" to allow for red to be at the end, now I've got spurious stuff like Archon of Redemption. So if I could do:
"^red " or " red " or " red$"
or better yet,
"\bred\b",
that would help a lot. (Of course the former's not perfect as not all word boundaries are spaces, but, that's part of why I'm suggesting the latter. In particular, if you're searching in text, you could have periods and commas.)
Humility+Opalescence always causes problems
- over 40 casual decks sleeved and ready to go
- EDH: Doran, Doran; Arcanis <3 Artifacts; ROTFLellos; Whistle While You Wort; Scionara, Dragon-san; Mr Mangara Goes to Washington
(with others under construction)