I realize it's been a long time since I last released an update, but hopefully the new advanced search functionality rolling out with 1.5.45.001 will make it worth the wait.
The first thing you'll notice is that on deck and card managers, instead of seeing two "view" buttons (one for list view and one for image view), you'll now see a search button and a single view button. The view button now displays the icon for the active view, and when clicked will display a menu with all view options. The search button displays a menu with two options when clicked: Advanced Search and
Reset Filters.
First off,
Reset Filters is a handy way to quickly clear any search, color, or type filters you have active, as well as a way to quickly clear your new advanced search.
Finally, Advanced Search is going to provide you with every tool you could want for filter down to specific subsets of your decks or card pool, with numerous properties to filter against, several choices of operators for each, and pre-configured options for filters like card subtype or rarity. The user interface also makes it very easy to string together a Boolean expression of multiple filters using AND, OR, NOT, and grouping parentheses.
Below are some screenshots showcasing a few scenarios for the new Advanced Search functionality.
- Deck Filter Options | Open
- Card Filter Options | Open
- Devotion Deck Search | Open
- Here's a search you might run when building a devotion deck where you need mono-color cards that have no generic part of their cost. It showcases the use of "AND" to string multiple filters together.
- WU Flyers and Soldiers | Open
- Here's a search you might run when building a WU deck where you want flyers for offense and soldiers for support. It showcases the use of the grouping parentheses to evaluate part of the expression first, then evaluate that part against the rest.
Please let me know if there are other filter options you'd want under Advanced Search or if any of the current ones aren't working quite right. Note that one I do have planned is to filter decks that contain 1 or more copies of a specific card.
Thanks.
-Dan