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Scryfall @scryfall.com · Mar 25

Hey: This is your reminder that if you love what we do, please also consider supporting us on Patreon. You also get access to our private supporter Discord server and you can talk directly to our team and report issues. www.patreon.com/scryfall

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creating a Magic: The Gathering search engine

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · 22h

Not yet. They didn't preview any imagery or actual prints, so we're going to need to work out what exactly we're indexing first.

Scryfall @scryfall.com · 2d

Not as a sort, but there is a filter, e.g. here's the cards with a USD foil price of at least $5:
scryfall.com/search?q=usd...

usdfoil>=5

6,850 Magic cards found where the foil USD price >= 5

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · 3d

(is:hybrid also works!)

You can also search for hybrid costs in rules text using a regex:
scryfall.com/search?q=o%3...

(\smh is a custom symbol, the letters standing for scryfall, mana, hybrid.)

o:/\smh/

156 Magic cards found where the text matches the regex /\smh/

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Logan // Seraph Six @seraphsix.com · 4d

The @scryfall.com is:gamechanger / is:gc search it up-to-date with these changes. Expect them to trickle down to your favorite deck building sites today.

scryfall.com/search?q=is%...

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · 7d

Cards.

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · 10d

Until now. 👀

Scryfall @scryfall.com · 15d

First look at the Turtles is now up!
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐀

scryfall.com/search?q=set...

set:tmt,tmc,pza,ttmt,ttmc include:extras

38 Magic cards found where the set is one of “tmt”, “tmc”, “pza”, “ttmt”, “ttmc”

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · 15d

It's one of the growing pains of introducing Printed Names as a thing. Eleven uses those, as well as all of the OM1 cards that have alternate names.

You can read about that here:
scryfall.com/blog/through...

Through the Omenpaths added, plus English printed text support · Scryfall Blog

Find out how Scryfall is handling data entry for Through the Omenpaths.

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · 15d

Next year then :D

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · 16d

We don't track magic or non-magic IP, since that's not a well defined category we can outline objectively. We just track product lines like Universes Behind.

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LoadingReadyRun @loadingreadyrun.com · 19d

This week on TapTapConcede!

There's a never ending number of opinions about Magic out there, but we think the majority of the player base agrees, Scryfall is an invaluable resource.

So this week Graham sits down with the founder of Scryfall, Corey Csuhta for a chat! youtu.be/8D-3dbB5Sqw

A Brief History of Scryfall || TTC Ep569

YouTube video by LRRMTG

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · 18d

Our keyword classification reflects cards that intrinsically have a keyword ability, or which perform a keyword action.

“Venture into the dungeon” is listed under section 701 Keyword Actions (as 701.49). Becoming the monarch and taking the initiative are not. That's pretty much all there is to it.

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Logan // Seraph Six @seraphsix.com · 19d

Hey you should watch this @loadingreadyrun.com Tap Tap Concede about @scryfall.com :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D-3...

A Brief History of Scryfall || TTC Ep569

YouTube video by LRRMTG

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · 21d

MDFC stands for Modal DFC, as in the things from Strixhaven. Then there's TDFC, for Transforming DFCs, like Werewolves.

You want not:dfc, which captures any/all types of DFC.

scryfall.com/search?q=o%3...

o:transform not:dfc not:extra

16 Magic cards found where the text includes “transform” and the cards aren't double-sided and the cards are not Scryfall “extras”

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · 24d

We have a Discord for supporters. We don't have a public all-access discussion board.

If you mean, say, “black border legality”, you've discovered the nebulous feature that it doesn't exist: it's tournament formats and just specifying the qualities you are and aren't looking for all the way down.

Scryfall @scryfall.com · 24d

We don't track historical legality information on site, sorry!

However, MTG Wiki has a timeline of ban list changes in a great bredth of formats: mtg.wiki/page/Banned_...

Banned and restricted cards/Timeline

Wizards of the Coast occasionally announces bans and restrictions of cards in sanctioned Magic formats. In the past, these announcements were made through an organization called the DCI.

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · 28d

We grab them from Gatherer. :)

Scryfall @scryfall.com · 28d

For comprehensive rules, this particular social media person often uses Yawgatog: yawgatog.com/resources/ma...

Also, we're obliged to note the MTG Fandom wiki is deprecated; they're at mtg.wiki now!

That page on MTG Wiki: mtg.wiki/page/Soulbond
Our blog post about it: scryfall.com/blog/the-mtg...

Magic: The Gathering Wiki

The new home of Magic: The Gathering's unofficial encyclopedia. Explore the cards, story, rules, and history of the world's first collectable trading card game.

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · 28d

Rulings get managed by Wizards; we don't really add our own! There's a lot of things that can go poorly explained or be confusing, and it's enough of a task for us to just manage the cards that exist.

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · Sep 23

It'd have to get enough recognition and longevity. We have an FAQ here: scryfall.com/docs/faqs/wi...

Will you add support for my community format?

How does Scryfall decide to support a format?

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · Sep 16

Also, the main problem people run into is that Arena doesn't have that little “= SPM 066” information in the footer you find for Universes Within cards. That means it's harder to find out *which* cards are equivalent to what; we've done the linking to help people find out.
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Magic Data Science @mtgds.bsky.social · Sep 14

It's amazing that I can't join SPM to OM1 by joining on manaCost, typeline, and text.

I'm not even doing anything complicated -- @scryfall.com and many others are making heroic efforts to align these sets.

To borrow a MaRo-ism, I'm not sure the juice is worth the squeeze.

Scryfall @scryfall.com · Sep 16

Through the Omenpaths was more like Universes Within, which we originally treated like the reskinned cards, but Omenpaths pushed things to a point where we couldn't actually treat them like reskinned cards anymore and had to figure out a different technical way to handle them.
scryfall.com/sets/slx

Universes Within (SLX) Card Gallery

A visual spoiler of all 30 cards from Universes Within in Magic: The Gathering.

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Scryfall @scryfall.com · Sep 16

However, the Terminus of Return is *not* The Soul Stone. It doesn't have a flavor name, it has an altogether separate name. It has an altogether different type line and even different abilities. It's an “equivalent card”. (Which we're deciding to handle as a reprint.)

The Soul Stone, an Infinity Stone from Spider-Man

The Terminus of Return, a Terminus Stone from Through the Omenpaths

Scryfall @scryfall.com · Sep 16

Count Dracula from VOW is *just* Sorin. It uses Sorin's name again as an indicator below the name bar, it uses Sorin's type line, it even uses Sorin's name in its text. (It would be a while later that Wizards decided to use the flavor name in printed text as well.)
scryfall.com/card/vow/337...

Count Dracula, a reskin of Sorin from Vow.

Scryfall @scryfall.com · Sep 16

Basically: it is not like the reskins. Those are reprints that have a flavor name — they have a second name bar. These are not reprints with a flavor name, they are “equivalent cards” with a different *name*, and that requires different tech to reflect correctly.