What sort of jank do ye seek?
I'm not trying to be EDHRec; I am trying to find you new janky cards that connect into what you're doing; that you won't find elsewhere. Further; I don't care for cheap SQL front ends; that force you to format some crazy ass search string. So my focus here; is to provide
- a straight forward front end that works well for typical build constraints
and
- a way you can work from a card for ideas [find similar]
How all this works?
All text fields are inherently regexes; but if you don't know regex's it doesn't matter much. Case is set to insensitive, other than actual regexs. Card name is easy going in that it will insert a wild .* in place of any spaces in a search; so 'gob shoot' is equivalent to 'gob.*shoot'which will find goblin sharpshooter. Fields; that you did not pick a choice; are ignored.
Must be / allowed to be / Not allowed to be checkboxes
Must be, enforces results must have all checked colors, but they can have more. Allowed to be, is kind of obe; but says results can contain that color. Not allowed to be, forbids results to have that color. Usually, you should just use the not allowed and pick the colors you don't want. If you are after multicolor specifically, then you need to use must be. Today; i don't have great support for that though, cause if you pick must be red / green / blue, you will get only cards with at least all 3; and no results for just red /green for example.
Format
Format enforces legality checks; there is a dont_care if you want to see everything. Note, some genius decided crap like stickers, are legal in commander. I will be adding a no sticker checkbox at some point. Also some cards; you'd think would be illegal are legal. If in doubt; go out to scryfall.
Sort
Sort by just controls the order of results. EDHRec, is popular to janky [popular have lower edhrank value]. Price is low to high. CMC is total CMC low to high. Salty is using EDHRec salt score; salty to bland...
Set
Set is textual [so there isn't 50000 fucking thousand items in the pick list; ya, i'm looking at you card kingdom. If you want spiderman; put in spiderman. If you wanted secrets of strixhaven, just secrets would work cause that's the only regex match with secrets and all the sets.
Only commanders
The "Only Commander potential" checkbox; limits results to potential commanders.
The "No Dups" checkbox limits results to no duplicates; and trys to pick 'cheap' version of the single card. So if you want to see 50 versions of sol ring ala card kingdom, uncheck this.
Allowed Types
The allowed types; works as an 'or' of the checked fields. So enchantment or artifact could be passed through for example, but if you didn't want artifact creatures, you could use the not allowed types and check creature.
Not allowed Types
The not allowed types; same thing in that if something matches any [or] of your checks it does not end up in the results.
Subtype and supertype
Subtype; is where 'vehicle' or elf would go. Supertype; is where you can put something like legendary. Those both; are products of the database (dont blame me)
The text fields
Text Ands
All text ands must be met. Each is independant; not ordered from the others. Note, if you put gain forestwalk in a single field it will force exactly that. Often you are better off with putting gain, and forestwalk, in seperate fields as that is more forgiving.
Text Nots
Text Nots: same deal. You generally just want single words here. Cards with these matches will get culled from the results
Text Ors
Text Ors: These are a little more tricky. These work in parellel, so if you want to find stuff with double strike; or first strike you'd put first strike in one 'or field'; and then put double strike in the next. Then; all results would have one or the other.
CMC / Power / Toughness
Each of these is low <= thing <= high. So if you want CMC 2; put both left and right fields to 2. If you want no more than 3; you'd put just a 3 in the right one. Note; today CMC is total CMC; so rooms for example; have the total cmc. I plan to differentiate these at some point, but have not got there.
Random
Random will give you a random card that meets you filter criteria. [other than text feilds]
Jank
Jank is random; but will only give a card that is has an EDHREC score > 15000. For both random and jank; the next page in the results will get you another card with same criteria
Note newer cards often don't have significant EDHREC scores; and it also depends on when i pulled that data.
After a search
After searching and looking at your catch! Each result has a find similar button; this will sort out top 120 highest similar cards while also observing most of your filter criteria.[but not the and / not / or textual fields ] This is just using a word scoring / matching algorithm; against the card you started from vs all other cards that meet your filter. Since magic's wording is all over the place; it can't work perfectly. This is not synergy. This is just similar in words only so it works best with flavorful cards, where the algo has room to work.
Examples
You are working a deck that is red / green / black ; that likes to play things from exile. You like 'furious rise'; and you want some other cards that maybe do something like that. So; you
Note for the above example; if you had picked must be red /green/ black; it would fail because furious rise, is strictly red. And if you had picked allowed to be red/green/black ; it would work; but on the find sim results, you would see cards that were generally r/g/b; but there'd also be cards with white and blue simply because they are allowed.
Another Example
Say you want a janky black commander; you'd do:
All text fields are inherently regexes; but if you don't know regex's it doesn't matter much. Case is set to insensitive, other than actual regexs. Card name is easy going in that it will insert a wild .* in place of any spaces in a search; so 'gob shoot' is equivalent to 'gob.*shoot'which will find goblin sharpshooter. Fields; that you did not pick a choice; are ignored.
Must be / allowed to be / Not allowed to be checkboxes
Must be, enforces results must have all checked colors, but they can have more. Allowed to be, is kind of obe; but says results can contain that color. Not allowed to be, forbids results to have that color. Usually, you should just use the not allowed and pick the colors you don't want. If you are after multicolor specifically, then you need to use must be. Today; i don't have great support for that though, cause if you pick must be red / green / blue, you will get only cards with at least all 3; and no results for just red /green for example.
Format
Format enforces legality checks; there is a dont_care if you want to see everything. Note, some genius decided crap like stickers, are legal in commander. I will be adding a no sticker checkbox at some point. Also some cards; you'd think would be illegal are legal. If in doubt; go out to scryfall.
Sort
Sort by just controls the order of results. EDHRec, is popular to janky [popular have lower edhrank value]. Price is low to high. CMC is total CMC low to high. Salty is using EDHRec salt score; salty to bland...
Set
Set is textual [so there isn't 50000 fucking thousand items in the pick list; ya, i'm looking at you card kingdom. If you want spiderman; put in spiderman. If you wanted secrets of strixhaven, just secrets would work cause that's the only regex match with secrets and all the sets.
Only commanders
The "Only Commander potential" checkbox; limits results to potential commanders.
The "No Dups" checkbox limits results to no duplicates; and trys to pick 'cheap' version of the single card. So if you want to see 50 versions of sol ring ala card kingdom, uncheck this.
Allowed Types
The allowed types; works as an 'or' of the checked fields. So enchantment or artifact could be passed through for example, but if you didn't want artifact creatures, you could use the not allowed types and check creature.
Not allowed Types
The not allowed types; same thing in that if something matches any [or] of your checks it does not end up in the results.
Subtype and supertype
Subtype; is where 'vehicle' or elf would go. Supertype; is where you can put something like legendary. Those both; are products of the database (dont blame me)
The text fields
Text Ands
All text ands must be met. Each is independant; not ordered from the others. Note, if you put gain forestwalk in a single field it will force exactly that. Often you are better off with putting gain, and forestwalk, in seperate fields as that is more forgiving.
Text Nots
Text Nots: same deal. You generally just want single words here. Cards with these matches will get culled from the results
Text Ors
Text Ors: These are a little more tricky. These work in parellel, so if you want to find stuff with double strike; or first strike you'd put first strike in one 'or field'; and then put double strike in the next. Then; all results would have one or the other.
CMC / Power / Toughness
Each of these is low <= thing <= high. So if you want CMC 2; put both left and right fields to 2. If you want no more than 3; you'd put just a 3 in the right one. Note; today CMC is total CMC; so rooms for example; have the total cmc. I plan to differentiate these at some point, but have not got there.
Random
Random will give you a random card that meets you filter criteria. [other than text feilds]
Jank
Jank is random; but will only give a card that is has an EDHREC score > 15000. For both random and jank; the next page in the results will get you another card with same criteria
Note newer cards often don't have significant EDHREC scores; and it also depends on when i pulled that data.
After a search
After searching and looking at your catch! Each result has a find similar button; this will sort out top 120 highest similar cards while also observing most of your filter criteria.[but not the and / not / or textual fields ] This is just using a word scoring / matching algorithm; against the card you started from vs all other cards that meet your filter. Since magic's wording is all over the place; it can't work perfectly. This is not synergy. This is just similar in words only so it works best with flavorful cards, where the algo has room to work.
Examples
You are working a deck that is red / green / black ; that likes to play things from exile. You like 'furious rise'; and you want some other cards that maybe do something like that. So; you
1) pick colors can't be white / blue. 2) name filter to furious rise 3) submit 4) on furious rise to the right; hit the find similair box 5) you'll get cards sorted in simailarity, from it.. 6) if wanted all the cards; you could do that without the color restrictions just as wellNote, the algo might not have 'locked' into you vibe exactly; just work through. Often using the Text Nots; can help cut the chaff. I intend on improving the find similair over time; its decent now; mainly the weights of words needs tuning.
Note for the above example; if you had picked must be red /green/ black; it would fail because furious rise, is strictly red. And if you had picked allowed to be red/green/black ; it would work; but on the find sim results, you would see cards that were generally r/g/b; but there'd also be cards with white and blue simply because they are allowed.
Another Example
Say you want a janky black commander; you'd do:
1) select must be black
2) select only commander potential
3) hit jank [Note; you may get a multi-color black guy!]
4) Next page; will get you a new result
5) if you want mono color; select can't be; white/green/blue/red.
The database encodes stuff like mana symbols, as {G} for a green pip for example. So if you want a red mana dork; you'd want to use 'add {R}' in an 'and' text field. But note, you might be better served using the 'or' fields and being more open; such as saying "add" in an "AND" field; and the in the "OR" fields; use {R} in one; and "any" in another. If you did do "add {R}" in a single field that would not find a card that said any; and it would not find a card that had add {G} or {W} for example. Regexs can help you here. In a case like this you could in an "AND" field "add.*{R}" The dot star; is just an open wild card, that will match anything, so it would find anything that had add with {R} anywhere after.
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Thanks to
Wizards being cool with folks putting together sites like this; showcasing their art/artists. Folks at https://mtgjson.com/ ; All data is sourced through thier database(s) Scryfall; the images are sourced from their site. Shout out to cardkingdom; i'm using their prices when available (from database) Also cardkingdom; inspired this whole effort cause i hate all the dups their search kicks out...lol. Guys at EDHRec, The salty and edhrec sort by options are based off their data. And Moxfield; very cool site. Moxfield; again is awesome at deck organization/ building. I love thier site.
EDHRec; does a great job of aggregating desks and providing commonality synergy scores. I don't see any value in imitating or stealing their data. So if you want to see what the crowd is doing go there. The point of this site; is to provide 'new' ideas that maybe will spark some creative new; brews. It's working for me; hopefully it brings new finds to all of you;
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