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Magic Album - Feature Requests

boolean queries (new)

 

merged wish of vallis, charmer and Nexensis

strings such as "a or b", "a not b", "a (b or c)", "a or (b c)" would be quite powerful since multilevel filtering is out of the question for MA (IIRC).

notable comment by vallis:
"Magic Workstation has the ability to do more elaborate searches than does Magic Album, and this is the only reason I haven't uninstalled it yet. Magic Album is superior in every other way."
Last edited by Goblin Hero on 09 Jun 2011, 06:21, edited 1 time in total.

Comments

Posted by valintepes » 20 Feb 2012, 03:36

I think this is a great idea. I would like to say that online search engine-esque logical operators would be nice.
For example:

For the Secondary:Oracle filter:
+"sacrifice a creature:" -", sacrifice"

this'll mean MUST INCLUDE to the first string, giving all cards that have activated abilities that sacrifices a creature as a cost....
and MUST NOT have the second string, which should filter out for the most part anything that has other parts to the cost other than the sacrifice.

most importantly this allows & something and ! something else, which adds to the search capability tremendously.

Posted by skibulk » 14 Nov 2012, 22:21

This is the main reason I still use Magic Workstation. It has multiple search fields for inclusion and exclusion. I think that only one is necessary though. Simple (parenthesis), commas(,) and minus signs (-) should provode all the functionality needed.

Of course the literal phrases "OR" and "NOT" could be used as well. "AND" could be assumed. This would reduce collisions with phrases like 'Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life.'; 'Target creature gets -1/-1.'

Some Examples:

Code: Select all
Destroy Target
=====
Destroy AND Target


Code: Select all
Destroy, Target
=====
Destroy OR Target


Code: Select all
-(Destroy, Target)
=====
NOT (Destroy OR Target)


Code: Select all
(Destroy Red), (Destroy Blue)
=====
(Destroy AND Red) OR (Destroy AND Blue)


Oh and quotes in the search could indicate an exact match string. So the query 'Whenever a creature' will match 'Whenever a blue creature'. But the query '"Whenever a creature"' will not match.
Last edited by skibulk on 14 Nov 2012, 22:31, edited 3 times in total.

Ticket details

  • Ticket ID: 63
  • Project: Magic Album
  • Status: New
  • Component: Card Filter
  • Project version: (unknown)
  • Priority: Normal
  • Assigned to: (unassigned)
  • Reported by: charmer
  • Reporter's tickets: List all tickets
  • Reported on: 01 Apr 2011, 16:48
  • Last visited by charmer » 29 Dec 2012, 21:22.
 
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