Search for Cards

The Card Library view can display a set of cards filtered in many ways (e.g. show only cards from specific editions, colours or with arbitrary text). You can start from one of the built in saved filters and refine your search from there. As an example you want to create a zombie deck that you can play in an upcomming Standard tournament.

Start by selecting the Standard Cards saved filter from the Saved Filter list:

Screen shot of the Card Library saved filter list

The Card Library will now be displaying all cards available for current standard edition tournaments. Finding Zombies for your deck will be callenging. To further filter the contents of the card library press the Edit Card Filter button ( Edit Card Filter command button) select Black under the Colours drop down and Creature under the Type drop down.

Screen shot of the Edit Filter dialog for finding black creatures

Press OK to see the results in the card library:

Screen shot of the Card Library displaying black creatures in the standard editions

This filtered list is much shorter than all the cards available in standard edition tournaments but there are many more non-zomibe creatures than zombie creatures in this list. Lets just show zombie creatures. To accomplish this press the Edit Card Filter button ( Edit Card Filter command button) and switch the filter dialog into advanced mode by pressing the Advanced >> button then turn on the Restrict to selected sub types check box, press the Select Subtypes... button and ensure that only the Zombie sub type entry is checked in the Sub-type List dialog (expand the creature type tree and clear all the check boxes by clicking on the Creature check box then scroll to the bottom and check the Zombie check box).

Sub-type List dialob box showing a sub-type of Zombie selected

Press OK in the Sub type List dialog

Press OK to see the results in the card library:

Screen shot of the Card Library displaying black zombie creatures in the standard editions

That list is a much shorter list to review. Sorting the list by colour and name is not very helpful in this situation. To help find creature cards that fit into a variety of points on the mana curve you can sort the list by casting cost and then power. Clicking on the Card Library view's column titles sorts the list by the clicked column. Holding down the <CTRL> key adds a column to the sort order or changes the sort direction of an already sorted column. To get the sorting we want for our Zombie deck; click the Casting Cost column title in the library and then hold down the <CTRL> key and click on the P/T column title twice. Now the zombie creatures will be sorted by mana cost from cheapest to most expensive and from most powerful to least powerful for each casting cost.

Screen shot of the Card Library displaying black zombie creatures in the standard editions sorted by their casting cost and power

Now we can examine the list and look for zombie creatures that fit into our mana curve for the deck.

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Edit Card Filter - Advanced Mode
Edit Card Filter - Simple Mode
Card Library view