Hello everyone! Eddie here. Hopefully you found the tips in the video to be helpful. If you have any questions or would like me to help craft a search for a particular type of card then just comment on the video. I'll do my best to keep up with feedback and I am sure my fellow Scryfall veterans will chip in as well. Best of luck finding those perfect cards!
A couple other search tricks I like using: • lore:[text] will search the name, rules text, and flavor text for the text, useful if you want to find all the cards that mention a character somewhere. • date>=[set] will show cards from that set and any sets released after it. I haven’t used regular expressions much, but here’s a couple I know about: • \d{1,} is a substitute for any number (ex. o:/gain \d{1,} life/ will find every effect that gains you life). • \w{1,} is a substitute for any combination of letters without spaces (ex. o:/draw \w{1,} cards/ will return every effect that draws multiple cards).
I just started using the lore feature myself. I didn't know you could use a set as a criteria for the date function though; that's awesome! My favorite RegEx is the super basic fo:/word.*other.*words/ format to search for multiple terms that interest you that may or may not have other content between terms in a particular line of text. Stuff like fo:/when.*enters.*battlefield/ as an example.
I've been telling everyone to use scryfall for the past two years. That's probably the main reason getting back into magic after 13 years has been so easy.
For mana sinks I use something like "(fo:/{[WBURG]}:/ or fo:/{[\d]}:/ or fo:/{[\d][WBURG]}:/)". You can add your CI and should be good to go. But I'm sure there are other/better ways.
I've been using Scryfall for a few years now, and I must say that it's head and shoulders above Gatherer. One thing that it does that Gatherer only wishes it could do is filter out Vanilla cards. To do so, go to Advanced Search > scroll down to Criteria (after Rarity) > Select Vanilla from the drop down menu > Click the green IS so it turns into a red NOT > then hit "Search with these options". If you're playing Commander (which, let's face it you probably are), you can further filter the search results by selecting "Commander" under Formats. And you can also filter out card types and colours too. Another good trick to know (but probably obvious to most people who know how search engines work) is that both Scryfall and Gatherer are programmed in the way that if you only know part of the card's name, you can enter it and probably still find it on the first page. For example, if you enter "ass hat" into Scryfall or Gatherer, then you will get Lord of Shatterskull Pass, Shatter Assumptions, and Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass. Also, congratulations on turning six years old. 😂. But seriously, just typing in part of a card's name is quicker than typing the whole name.
Is it really? 8 mana, six of which have a color requirement. And both Kurkesh and Golos already needs to be around. The deck would need more than just Golos to justify the slot for Kurkesh. Otherwise the whole thing is just too late game, and too shaky.
Pro tip when finding cards for commanders like Blim: type in stuff like "can't" or "at the beginning of your upkeep," sort by EDHREC Rank... and skip to the last page and work your way backward!
*secret tech* if your running a deck that fills your graveyard a bit (graveyard recursion/mill effects), Mausoleum Secrets turns into a Demonic Tutor for about $1.
You can also type “or” into the search bar (you can use parentheses if you want to make sure it applies the or to the right place) Ex: (type:instant cmc=2) or color:red
This was a super helpful video. I've used scryfall before but only ever with the advanced search function, I thought that was the best way to do it because it says "advanced" lol. Played around with searches a bit already and can tell this is going to be useful. Thanks Mitch and Eddie, I'd love to see more content like this!
Really cool, i didnt know the full oracle command, so thats nice. Another big one probably is is:permanent (and also -is:permanent/not:permanent) to grab static effects so you don't always have to put in -t:sorcery -t:instant . You also showed parenthesis, but didn't explicitly talk about them, but they are super useful for separating "or" statements from the rest of everything , since or takes everything from the right vs everything from the left if not in parentheses.
This is exactly what I recommend to Mitch when he showed me his -t=instant and -t=sorcery method. Parentheses are excellent but felt perhaps a bit too in-depth for a video format. Totally recommend using them though! Nested conditions are so useful sometimes.
I am entirely dependent on Scryfall to build my commander decks. I avoid looking at EDHRec until I'm basically done, just in case I missed something really good, but I haven't been playing nearly long enough to function without Scryfall. And then I do the actual building in TappedOut. Which has a few frustrating limitations but it's still much better than a spreadsheet.
I also like how scryfall can use the "or" logical operator and parentheses. For an enchantress, I typed "o:whenever (o:aura or o:enchantement)" for example.
@CommandersQuarters @Eddie_CQ When will you donyour next gameplay-video? Last one was so awesome, that i build an Arixmethes-Deck. I loved this card since first time, but had no idea in which direction she should be build. Now i use her in every UG-Deck as Landramp 😅
Time to brew some decks this weekend and look for cards for my current decks. I just put together Araumi and I don't want it to have the same win conditions as all other ones. Hope I can find some.
I also pair well with Kurkesh (or Rings of Brighthearth) if you draw me later! 14:30 I'm not quite $5, but as of this posting, I'm $3.08 for my Modern Masters 2015 printing. Please reprint me until I'm a budget card again!
Can’t say enough how happy I am for this episode. I started using tapped out first and the deckbuilding is good but the search engine is nowhere near as good as scryfall, so help and tips using scryfall is great.
Just as an FYI, searching "mill" will include all cards before mill was added as a keyword. Best search engine, these days I usually only use EDHREC to get the obvious cards that I need, most of the legwork comes from scryfall. Will be using the "fo:" function now, thanks for the tip!
This is true! Anything errata'd to be mill will appear that way. Magic has so many weird variants that I still like full oracle so you find stuff like Search for Azcanta and Underrealm Lich, which don't technically have "Mill" on them.
This is incredibly helpful. I would always go to the mtg database and search keywords in specific colours. Luckily the decks I build are out there so it's usually less then a hundred results but still. Thanks for the great advice guys! Time to find some more synergy for my boros Samurai
I've been trying to build a Livio+Tormod deck for the past couple of days and it has been very difficult because no one else has made this deck seemingly anywhere online. Thanks for the advice! I will now stop using gatherer lol
A bit tricky since classics like the Shock lands include the term “Enters the Battlefield Tapped” but then negate that with an optional payment. Same with the check lands and Battlebond lands. However! I did concoct a Frankenstein URL that accounts for those haha scryfall.com/search?q=%28-t%3Dbasic+-fo%3A%2Fenters.*the.*battlefield.*tapped%2F+t%3Dland%29+or++%28-t%3Dbasic+t%3Dland+fo%3A%2Fenter.*battlefield.*tapped.*unless%2F%29+or+%28-t%3Dbasic+t%3Dland+fo%3A%2Fif.*you.*don%27t.*enters.*tapped%2F%29&unique=cards&as=grid&order=edhrec
I have always had a hard time finding cards that specify a certain tribe, rather than just being that tribe. Mostly have difficulty looking for cards that say when (some specific creature type) enters the battlefield, do something.
so the advanced search is great for this. you wanna specify the phrase on the card you're looking for including that tribe in the “text” box so that scryfall searches the text on the card. ex: "when another merfolk enters the battlefield". you want to purposely leave some of it a little vague so that you can look thru all the options. if you duplicate the text of a card exactly, more often than not scryfall will pull up just that card if there's no strictly better than version. if you were doing the opposite and looking for cards of the tribe like tribal sorcery/instant or creature; you wanna type that into the "type" box. the "o:" search would also work for the text you're looking for but one thing they didnt mention is that you need to "o:" for each individual word when searching that way. the type box can be used not only for card types but anything else that would be in that same field on a card. so if we're looking for "shaman equipment" you can type that in “type and it will bring up anything that fits.
this was really informative especially since I don't use scryfall. in fact I typically use mtg gatherer, would you guys ever talk about why one or the other has pros/cons? based on the commentary it sound like theres more input requirements for scryfall but the advanced search on gatherer prompts a lot of this and gives both inclusion and exclusion opportunities inherently. id love to hear thoughts!
10 yr EDH player here. I haven't built a deck in three years now, I have 18 decks currently. I used gatherer for the most part which has fallen out of fashion. My favorite part of gatherer is the commentary. This would often lead to other suggestions and ways of using the cards. The best example of this is Averice Totem 1 cmc artifact- 5:exchange totem with target non-land permanent. If you pay five and target your worst permanent i.e. kobold you can hold priority and target the best permanet in response. This results with you exchanging the kobold with the best permanent and you keep the totem. Lot's of mana I know and they can't have 5 mana up, but I have controlled many games this way and opps. often won't tap out when they see this, which is a win. Saddly no one comments or uses gatherer anymore.
It's all a matter of personal preference, but a wide variety of players have found a solid template to be about 10 ramps spells, 10 card advantage spells, 5-10 slots for targeted removal and board wipes, 37-40 lands, and the rest for whatever your core strategy is. Bonus points if you can find cards that fit more than one category! Ex: Sakura-tribe Elder is both ramp as is great in sacrifice and graveyard decks.
When I'm building a deck, I start of planning it on deckstats.net while looking for cards on the Gatherer. Once I'm 90% complete, I pop over to EDHREC to help fill in games and see what I may have missed. I feel like people underestimate how powerful the Gatherer is if you know how to use the proper inputs for it. Though, I do hate stumbling across an awesome card that turns out to be pricey.
Oh I have a perfect card I found my Oloro deck, “Sire of Stagnation” it’s a great eldrazi I that provides board and card advantage. I can”t quite remember how I found it, probably just searching up online “good esper cards” or “good dimir cards” but it does great things for my deck and is in like 5% of all commander decks. Very underrated
I am new to commander, my commander is Ramos. What would recommend to sprinkle in a balance between card draw, counter spells, ramp, and crushing face? Any help would be appreciated, and thank for your expertise.
Welcome to the format! I tend to lean heavier into card draw and ramp than some people to increase consistency. I go for about ten of each. For counterspells and other control cards, anywhere from 5-10 is solid. The rest is up to you! Make it your own. Here are three searches to get you started chock full of multi-color cards to get the most bang for your buck from Ramos: Card Draw: scryfall.com/search?q=c%3E1+fo%3A%2Fdraw.*card%2F&unique=cards&as=grid&order=edhrec Ramp: scryfall.com/search?q=%28c%3E1+fo%3A%2Fland.*onto.*battlefield%2F%29+or+%28c%3E1+produces%3E0%29 Counterspells: scryfall.com/search?q=c%3E1+fo%3A%2Fcounter.*target.*spell%2F
The problem with Korkesh is that with toughness of 3 it is susceptible to all kinds of removal. You will spend more time picking it out of the Command zone than actually using it.
I'm new to commander, and I love your channel! I was thinking about putting together a red/blue wizard artifact deck. What is your opinion of Dalakos, Crafter of Wonders as a commander? Maybe not running Sol Ring because of his ability?
I like Dalakos a lot. Definitely caught my eye. Seems like he went a bit under the radar but totally could be built cohesively. My only word of caution is to avoid going too many directions. He mentions equipment as well as artifacts plus your callout of wizard tribal is a lot to support in a single deck. I think if you want a stronger deck, you'll still want Sol Ring. However, excluding it for flavor or budget reasons is totally reasonable.
A lot of these Scryfall specific code searching you guys are talking about, Gatherer already has built into it with no tricks. Example, search when dies in rules text area, undying cards will come up. Gatherer advanced search is a lot more user friendly. Hope Scryfall is giving you some kickback for advertising for them though :)
Scryfall has a deck builder?! I love using scryfall but couldn’t find a great deck building site for a while. Ended up at Archidekt which is great, but flipping between scryfall and it gets old fast. I will definitely check out scryfall’s deck builder now! Thanks for the fo: tip. Wondered why I couldn’t find some cards that I knew the reminder text of and wouldn’t show up using o:. I’ve been using c
Oh yes, a channel that promotes actually good charities, keep up the good work mitch, I know we had the altered cards but will you do a christmal special for charity?
Oh, that's an interesting combo. I like that! Well it looks like you'll at minimum be in Jund colors to pull that spice off so if you don't already have a commander picked, you'd likely want one that can enable your graveyard shenanigans or help you find your two combo pieces. Lots of good options to be sure. Lord Windgrace would let you return any lands you may have incidentally milled for additional value. Vaevictis Asmadi the Dire would let you sacrifice useful creatures to reuse their ETB effects. Adun Oakenshield gets you pure style points and, well, Korvold is Korvold. For searches, this would be my starting point: "id:GRB fo:/put.*bottom.*library.*any.*order/". This uses that Regular Expressions feature I talked a bit about to find any cards in the Jund color identity that mention the words put, bottom library, any, and order in the full oracle text. Scry effects will be useful of course, and this will let you use Grenzo directly. scryfall.com/search?q=id%3AGRB+fo%3A%2Fput.*bottom.*library.*any.*order%2F To include Gurzigost, I think you're simply going to want the all start mill effects. A search like this should do the trick: "id:GRB fo:/put.*into.*graveyard/ -fo:/shuffle.*into.*library/" This will find any Jund cards that put cards into your graveyard as part of the effect while ignoring things like the big Eldrazi and Vigor that shuffle themselves into your library. scryfall.com/search?q=id%3AGRB+fo%3A%2Fput.*into.*graveyard%2F+-fo%3A%2Fshuffle.*into.*library%2F&unique=cards&as=grid&order=edhrec
I have a morphon the boundless deck and I spun it to be a dinosaur deck I have zacama and the other primals in the deck I am looking for cards that can ramp me efficiently and fast hopefully before turn 4 or 5
I've been using scryfall for 2 years now and I still struggle with the tool. The other day I tried searching for all cards with "{T} : Add mana any color pool" and was dissapointed with the results =/
Kurkesh + aetherflux resovoir. for 1 red you can shoot 2 people for the cost of 50 life, if you have 100 life and 2 red mana open, then congrats, you have won the game. so you can put that into your Jhoira deck to make it even more broken.
Has no one here ever heard of Gatherer's advanced search (gatherer.wizards.com/pages/advanced.aspx)? Gatherer already does 99% of this stuff (minus the EDHrec integration that they already devalued) > Use "fo:" Gatherer already does that without needing extra commands
@@johanandersson8252 All the cards that have flavor text with the words Some and Magic as well as all the Kamahls. Deck complete! scryfall.com/search?q=%28fo%3Asome+fo%3Amagic%29+or+%28ft%3Asome+ft%3Amagic%29+or+kamahl&unique=cards&as=grid&order=edhrec
If you’re looking in the text which describe sedris (on the right when you click on the card), you’ll see that the true fo is « at the beginning at the next end step ». Scryfall does not merge the both text unfortunatelly
@@killianmoi6128 Exactly. WotC must've errata'd the rules text for Unearth at some point. The rules text now reads, "Each creature card in your graveyard has unearth {2}{B}. ({2}{B}: Return the card to the battlefield. The creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)" No mention of exactly, "at end of turn" any longer.
Man, I've used so much scryfall, that my decks actually miss cards, most of the decks I build stay on 70-80 cards or so, and then I fill in with some random good cards that I find those spots...
@@eddie_cq8276 maybe gatherer got their act together. I tried searching for examples from this video and got same results with less effort than scryfall. Like the Undying thing came up by simply searching text with 'when dies'
I miss the time of TCG when people didn't use all these engines and netdecks. Imagine how fun stuff like hearthstone would be if it didn't support netdecking. Or mtg etc...
Hello everyone! Eddie here. Hopefully you found the tips in the video to be helpful.
If you have any questions or would like me to help craft a search for a particular type of card then just comment on the video. I'll do my best to keep up with feedback and I am sure my fellow Scryfall veterans will chip in as well.
Best of luck finding those perfect cards!
Yo Eddie!
I put that Goliath in my rashmi deck lol it’s such a surprising ability nobody expects
@@firstandlast.1254 Yo!
Man that Eddie guy was great, he should make a TH-cam account so he can comment. What do you think?
@@demolisherman1763 You are a GENIUS!
Scryfall? Back in my day, we just memorized all of the cards.
That was probably before there were 20,000 unique cards. Kinda hard to memorize all of those unless you dedicate your life.
My favorite search is 8::D 8008
Woof my memory fails me now !!
Or use Inquest magazine
my group asks the one guy who knows every card. lmao
A couple other search tricks I like using:
• lore:[text] will search the name, rules text, and flavor text for the text, useful if you want to find all the cards that mention a character somewhere.
• date>=[set] will show cards from that set and any sets released after it.
I haven’t used regular expressions much, but here’s a couple I know about:
• \d{1,} is a substitute for any number (ex. o:/gain \d{1,} life/ will find every effect that gains you life).
• \w{1,} is a substitute for any combination of letters without spaces (ex. o:/draw \w{1,} cards/ will return every effect that draws multiple cards).
I just started using the lore feature myself. I didn't know you could use a set as a criteria for the date function though; that's awesome!
My favorite RegEx is the super basic fo:/word.*other.*words/ format to search for multiple terms that interest you that may or may not have other content between terms in a particular line of text. Stuff like fo:/when.*enters.*battlefield/ as an example.
I've been telling everyone to use scryfall for the past two years. That's probably the main reason getting back into magic after 13 years has been so easy.
Pro tip - if you want to sort by activated abilities, make sure you include a colon : in your advanced search
For mana sinks I use something like "(fo:/{[WBURG]}:/ or fo:/{[\d]}:/ or fo:/{[\d][WBURG]}:/)". You can add your CI and should be good to go. But I'm sure there are other/better ways.
Since zirda discounts activate abilities, there is a related search term on activated abilities on its page
I've been using Scryfall for a few years now, and I must say that it's head and shoulders above Gatherer. One thing that it does that Gatherer only wishes it could do is filter out Vanilla cards. To do so, go to Advanced Search > scroll down to Criteria (after Rarity) > Select Vanilla from the drop down menu > Click the green IS so it turns into a red NOT > then hit "Search with these options". If you're playing Commander (which, let's face it you probably are), you can further filter the search results by selecting "Commander" under Formats. And you can also filter out card types and colours too. Another good trick to know (but probably obvious to most people who know how search engines work) is that both Scryfall and Gatherer are programmed in the way that if you only know part of the card's name, you can enter it and probably still find it on the first page. For example, if you enter "ass hat" into Scryfall or Gatherer, then you will get Lord of Shatterskull Pass, Shatter Assumptions, and Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass. Also, congratulations on turning six years old. 😂. But seriously, just typing in part of a card's name is quicker than typing the whole name.
The Full Oracle Text search is such a lifesaver on Scryfall thanks so much Eddie
Ooh I wasn't sure what I was looking for, but I searched "t:/.*c.$/ ft:/^I.*a\.$/" and I found the perfect card for my deck! Thanks!
Next level stuff there =D
you dirty dog
The sacred text!
The Kurkesh example is amazing... I need to add him to my Golos deck ASAP
Ive had kurkesh since day one
Is it really? 8 mana, six of which have a color requirement. And both Kurkesh and Golos already needs to be around. The deck would need more than just Golos to justify the slot for Kurkesh. Otherwise the whole thing is just too late game, and too shaky.
Pro tip when finding cards for commanders like Blim: type in stuff like "can't" or "at the beginning of your upkeep," sort by EDHREC Rank... and skip to the last page and work your way backward!
*secret tech* if your running a deck that fills your graveyard a bit (graveyard recursion/mill effects), Mausoleum Secrets turns into a Demonic Tutor for about $1.
You can also type “or” into the search bar (you can use parentheses if you want to make sure it applies the or to the right place)
Ex:
(type:instant cmc=2) or color:red
For sure! Good tip.
ManaBox is a free mobile app that offers a lot of the same features as Scryfall, so I would definitely recommend it as well
I like mana box.
if you search for like o:"sacrifice ~:" the ''~'' means the card name ;)
This was a super helpful video. I've used scryfall before but only ever with the advanced search function, I thought that was the best way to do it because it says "advanced" lol. Played around with searches a bit already and can tell this is going to be useful. Thanks Mitch and Eddie, I'd love to see more content like this!
Really cool, i didnt know the full oracle command, so thats nice. Another big one probably is is:permanent (and also -is:permanent/not:permanent) to grab static effects so you don't always have to put in -t:sorcery -t:instant . You also showed parenthesis, but didn't explicitly talk about them, but they are super useful for separating "or" statements from the rest of everything , since or takes everything from the right vs everything from the left if not in parentheses.
This is exactly what I recommend to Mitch when he showed me his -t=instant and -t=sorcery method.
Parentheses are excellent but felt perhaps a bit too in-depth for a video format. Totally recommend using them though! Nested conditions are so useful sometimes.
Best episode. Including fo: is changing deck searching and building from now on
I am entirely dependent on Scryfall to build my commander decks. I avoid looking at EDHRec until I'm basically done, just in case I missed something really good, but I haven't been playing nearly long enough to function without Scryfall. And then I do the actual building in TappedOut. Which has a few frustrating limitations but it's still much better than a spreadsheet.
A new episode Close Quarters would definetly help me to find new and exciting cards!
Great video! Was excited when I finished and still had half the video left!
This is a nice intuitive episode thanks guys !
When you find the video in your subscriptions before TH-cam notifies you
When your asscrack itches but people are watching you
I also like how scryfall can use the "or" logical operator and parentheses. For an enchantress, I typed "o:whenever (o:aura or o:enchantement)" for example.
No doubt. Nested conditions like that can but super helpful and save time from doing multiple searches.
This is a really helpful episode!
Good job bois! Loved the episode!
I actually have Kurkesh in my Golos deck.. But thats because I also have a Kurkesh deck that I built when I got him back in 2014.
@CommandersQuarters
@Eddie_CQ
When will you donyour next gameplay-video?
Last one was so awesome, that i build an Arixmethes-Deck. I loved this card since first time, but had no idea in which direction she should be build.
Now i use her in every UG-Deck as Landramp 😅
Time to brew some decks this weekend and look for cards for my current decks. I just put together Araumi and I don't want it to have the same win conditions as all other ones. Hope I can find some.
You're gonna have a wealth of options. Aruami caught my eye as well. So many directions it can go. Enjoy!
I also pair well with Kurkesh (or Rings of Brighthearth) if you draw me later! 14:30 I'm not quite $5, but as of this posting, I'm $3.08 for my Modern Masters 2015 printing. Please reprint me until I'm a budget card again!
Can’t say enough how happy I am for this episode. I started using tapped out first and the deckbuilding is good but the search engine is nowhere near as good as scryfall, so help and tips using scryfall is great.
Just as an FYI, searching "mill" will include all cards before mill was added as a keyword.
Best search engine, these days I usually only use EDHREC to get the obvious cards that I need, most of the legwork comes from scryfall. Will be using the "fo:" function now, thanks for the tip!
This is true! Anything errata'd to be mill will appear that way. Magic has so many weird variants that I still like full oracle so you find stuff like Search for Azcanta and Underrealm Lich, which don't technically have "Mill" on them.
Thanks a ton for this, guys! I've been really struggling to make a Blim deck with edhrec and gatherer, and this is just what I needed.
I hope some day I’ll find my soul card, wherever it maybe
* looks longingly off into the distance *
Amazing topic. I love brewing and am always just googling best cards for X. This is super helpful and gives me better options.
Glad it was helpful!
just WOW, such a valuable episode, you guys are really upping the the game for budget (or any) deckbuilding! Thank you Eddie for this
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is incredibly helpful. I would always go to the mtg database and search keywords in specific colours. Luckily the decks I build are out there so it's usually less then a hundred results but still. Thanks for the great advice guys! Time to find some more synergy for my boros Samurai
I've been trying to build a Livio+Tormod deck for the past couple of days and it has been very difficult because no one else has made this deck seemingly anywhere online. Thanks for the advice! I will now stop using gatherer lol
very helpful, thanks guys. I am looking for a quick expression to search for untapped non basic lands. do you have any suggestions?
A bit tricky since classics like the Shock lands include the term “Enters the Battlefield Tapped” but then negate that with an optional payment. Same with the check lands and Battlebond lands.
However! I did concoct a Frankenstein URL that accounts for those haha
scryfall.com/search?q=%28-t%3Dbasic+-fo%3A%2Fenters.*the.*battlefield.*tapped%2F+t%3Dland%29+or++%28-t%3Dbasic+t%3Dland+fo%3A%2Fenter.*battlefield.*tapped.*unless%2F%29+or+%28-t%3Dbasic+t%3Dland+fo%3A%2Fif.*you.*don%27t.*enters.*tapped%2F%29&unique=cards&as=grid&order=edhrec
@@eddie_cq8276 Amazing, you are a scryfall savant!
Amazing content as always, just found the audio volume to be a bit too low.
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I have always had a hard time finding cards that specify a certain tribe, rather than just being that tribe. Mostly have difficulty looking for cards that say when (some specific creature type) enters the battlefield, do something.
so the advanced search is great for this. you wanna specify the phrase on the card you're looking for including that tribe in the “text” box so that scryfall searches the text on the card. ex: "when another merfolk enters the battlefield". you want to purposely leave some of it a little vague so that you can look thru all the options. if you duplicate the text of a card exactly, more often than not scryfall will pull up just that card if there's no strictly better than version. if you were doing the opposite and looking for cards of the tribe like tribal sorcery/instant or creature; you wanna type that into the "type" box. the "o:" search would also work for the text you're looking for but one thing they didnt mention is that you need to "o:" for each individual word when searching that way.
the type box can be used not only for card types but anything else that would be in that same field on a card. so if we're looking for "shaman equipment" you can type that in “type and it will bring up anything that fits.
Hi Eddie
Hi Evan
Nice tips! Scryfall is the bomb
this was really informative especially since I don't use scryfall. in fact I typically use mtg gatherer, would you guys ever talk about why one or the other has pros/cons? based on the commentary it sound like theres more input requirements for scryfall but the advanced search on gatherer prompts a lot of this and gives both inclusion and exclusion opportunities inherently. id love to hear thoughts!
Holy shit, I work in website marketing and know all about RegEx! I didnt know I could put that knowledge to improve my magic game
I use it all the time now!
Dude that is a nice shot, nice camera. The one where it shows you and Eddie. Nice quality.
10 yr EDH player here. I haven't built a deck in three years now, I have 18 decks currently. I used gatherer for the most part which has fallen out of fashion. My favorite part of gatherer is the commentary. This would often lead to other suggestions and ways of using the cards. The best example of this is Averice Totem 1 cmc artifact- 5:exchange totem with target non-land permanent. If you pay five and target your worst permanent i.e. kobold you can hold priority and target the best permanet in response. This results with you exchanging the kobold with the best permanent and you keep the totem. Lot's of mana I know and they can't have 5 mana up, but I have controlled many games this way and opps. often won't tap out when they see this, which is a win. Saddly no one comments or uses gatherer anymore.
Great tips! Can you search for multiple words at once? ex: fo:converted mana cost -fo:zombie
You want to put the words in quotation marks to keep it as one phrase
Eddie's awesome lol
I love scryfall. I build my decks on deckstats but use scyfall to mine for gems for the decks I am building.
They go together like peanut butter and jelly.
I just want to play edh with Eddie some day.
One card I have that really isn’t used much, Breathstealers Crypt. Love the card.
Commanders brew did an awesome random wish board deck.
When that next episode of close quarters coming my guy love the play group
I really want to build a deck, but I don't know how to balance it like, how many board wipes, how many ramps, how many creatures etc.
It's all a matter of personal preference, but a wide variety of players have found a solid template to be about 10 ramps spells, 10 card advantage spells, 5-10 slots for targeted removal and board wipes, 37-40 lands, and the rest for whatever your core strategy is. Bonus points if you can find cards that fit more than one category! Ex: Sakura-tribe Elder is both ramp as is great in sacrifice and graveyard decks.
@@eddie_cq8276 Thank you very much Eddie :D
When I'm building a deck, I start of planning it on deckstats.net while looking for cards on the Gatherer. Once I'm 90% complete, I pop over to EDHREC to help fill in games and see what I may have missed. I feel like people underestimate how powerful the Gatherer is if you know how to use the proper inputs for it. Though, I do hate stumbling across an awesome card that turns out to be pricey.
I like building decks around a commander that no one else is building (jank) thanks for more ways to ignite my johney fire.
Gotta love some jank!
Absolutely so ( :
Oh I have a perfect card I found my Oloro deck, “Sire of Stagnation” it’s a great eldrazi I that provides board and card advantage. I can”t quite remember how I found it, probably just searching up online “good esper cards” or “good dimir cards” but it does great things for my deck and is in like 5% of all commander decks. Very underrated
Perfect cards my mtg soul mate
Sol mate*
Bowl plate
Eddie’s name just became 10x more iconic #Cyberpunk2077
Oh god. I just looked into this because of your comment. This ought to be fun.
I am new to commander, my commander is Ramos. What would recommend to sprinkle in a balance between card draw, counter spells, ramp, and crushing face? Any help would be appreciated, and thank for your expertise.
Welcome to the format! I tend to lean heavier into card draw and ramp than some people to increase consistency. I go for about ten of each. For counterspells and other control cards, anywhere from 5-10 is solid. The rest is up to you! Make it your own.
Here are three searches to get you started chock full of multi-color cards to get the most bang for your buck from Ramos:
Card Draw: scryfall.com/search?q=c%3E1+fo%3A%2Fdraw.*card%2F&unique=cards&as=grid&order=edhrec
Ramp: scryfall.com/search?q=%28c%3E1+fo%3A%2Fland.*onto.*battlefield%2F%29+or+%28c%3E1+produces%3E0%29
Counterspells: scryfall.com/search?q=c%3E1+fo%3A%2Fcounter.*target.*spell%2F
The problem with Korkesh is that with toughness of 3 it is susceptible to all kinds of removal. You will spend more time picking it out of the Command zone than actually using it.
I'm new to commander, and I love your channel! I was thinking about putting together a red/blue wizard artifact deck. What is your opinion of Dalakos, Crafter of Wonders as a commander? Maybe not running Sol Ring because of his ability?
Interesting choice, havent seen too many decks with him. Thinking about "Shuko" for free haste
I believe Jimmy ran this deck on Command Zone. Would be work searching out the video for cause he has a deck tech on it.
I like Dalakos a lot. Definitely caught my eye. Seems like he went a bit under the radar but totally could be built cohesively. My only word of caution is to avoid going too many directions. He mentions equipment as well as artifacts plus your callout of wizard tribal is a lot to support in a single deck. I think if you want a stronger deck, you'll still want Sol Ring. However, excluding it for flavor or budget reasons is totally reasonable.
A lot of these Scryfall specific code searching you guys are talking about, Gatherer already has built into it with no tricks. Example, search when dies in rules text area, undying cards will come up.
Gatherer advanced search is a lot more user friendly.
Hope Scryfall is giving you some kickback for advertising for them though :)
No kickback, I promise. I just love the site. If Gatherer is your jam, then go for it!
i've used this maybe 20 times for my fynn the fangbearer deck
quickest time i have ever popped up on a video
essentially this video is lifehacks for the scryfall website
That's the goal!
Ok guess its time to test scryfall i have just been using mtg familar for years maybe i am missing out.
Scryfall has a deck builder?!
I love using scryfall but couldn’t find a great deck building site for a while. Ended up at Archidekt which is great, but flipping between scryfall and it gets old fast. I will definitely check out scryfall’s deck builder now!
Thanks for the fo: tip. Wondered why I couldn’t find some cards that I knew the reminder text of and wouldn’t show up using o:.
I’ve been using c
I'm pretty sure you're spot on. the c
@@eddie_cq8276 double checked using Golos, yep!
I'm pretty sure Mitch is saying "That shit's deadly" at the 6:58 mark....
I can confirm he said, "That's just deadly." But both seem applicable =)
Very nice video 💪 wouldn't mind some tips for deckstats.net
Stonks
If you type in your commander, and it's not new, there's bound to be a deck on EDHrec.
_cries in portal three kingdoms_
I think that Ghirapur Orrery is an about include in red, white and boros decks
Oh yes, a channel that promotes actually good charities, keep up the good work mitch, I know we had the altered cards but will you do a christmal special for charity?
I have been using scryfall a lot recently and thought I've became a pro but now i know im still a noob in this field
Just using a search like Scryfall already sets you apart from most deckbuilders!
I've been wanting to build a deck with Gurzigost and Grenzo, Dungeon Warden. What kinds of searches or cards would you recommend?
Oh, that's an interesting combo. I like that! Well it looks like you'll at minimum be in Jund colors to pull that spice off so if you don't already have a commander picked, you'd likely want one that can enable your graveyard shenanigans or help you find your two combo pieces. Lots of good options to be sure. Lord Windgrace would let you return any lands you may have incidentally milled for additional value. Vaevictis Asmadi the Dire would let you sacrifice useful creatures to reuse their ETB effects. Adun Oakenshield gets you pure style points and, well, Korvold is Korvold.
For searches, this would be my starting point: "id:GRB fo:/put.*bottom.*library.*any.*order/". This uses that Regular Expressions feature I talked a bit about to find any cards in the Jund color identity that mention the words put, bottom library, any, and order in the full oracle text. Scry effects will be useful of course, and this will let you use Grenzo directly.
scryfall.com/search?q=id%3AGRB+fo%3A%2Fput.*bottom.*library.*any.*order%2F
To include Gurzigost, I think you're simply going to want the all start mill effects. A search like this should do the trick: "id:GRB fo:/put.*into.*graveyard/ -fo:/shuffle.*into.*library/" This will find any Jund cards that put cards into your graveyard as part of the effect while ignoring things like the big Eldrazi and Vigor that shuffle themselves into your library.
scryfall.com/search?q=id%3AGRB+fo%3A%2Fput.*into.*graveyard%2F+-fo%3A%2Fshuffle.*into.*library%2F&unique=cards&as=grid&order=edhrec
Clearly if Gatherer brought back user comments, it would regain it's top spot in the MtG universe.
If only.
I’ve been to Lodestone Coffee and games. Minnesota, right?
Indeed. Great shop.
I have a morphon the boundless deck and I spun it to be a dinosaur deck I have zacama and the other primals in the deck I am looking for cards that can ramp me efficiently and fast hopefully before turn 4 or 5
Hopefully creatures not so much as spells. My playgroup has a person that has a counter deck
I already found it
It's sol ring
I’m trying to pay attention to the episode, but I can’t stop looking at Mitch’s hat and thinking “does that say STD?”
I've been using scryfall for 2 years now and I still struggle with the tool.
The other day I tried searching for all cards with "{T} : Add mana any color pool" and was dissapointed with the results =/
OMG this is the track that sounds like the Arcade Fire song XD (lies! lies!)
Kurkesh + aetherflux resovoir. for 1 red you can shoot 2 people for the cost of 50 life, if you have 100 life and 2 red mana open, then congrats, you have won the game. so you can put that into your Jhoira deck to make it even more broken.
Has no one here ever heard of Gatherer's advanced search (gatherer.wizards.com/pages/advanced.aspx)? Gatherer already does 99% of this stuff (minus the EDHrec integration that they already devalued)
> Use "fo:"
Gatherer already does that without needing extra commands
I hate building decks, but I love playing h ahaha.
I need perfect cards for my Prismatic Piper deck.
Hmm. I'm gonna go with 99 Wastes.
@@eddie_cq8276 No, he needs a best friend like Kamahl and some magic.
@@johanandersson8252 All the cards that have flavor text with the words Some and Magic as well as all the Kamahls. Deck complete!
scryfall.com/search?q=%28fo%3Asome+fo%3Amagic%29+or+%28ft%3Asome+ft%3Amagic%29+or+kamahl&unique=cards&as=grid&order=edhrec
Now i know why Skyfall sometimes dont Show me some things.
Exactly
I always thought a mana ability is an ability you pay (only) mana for...
Will it work on an iPad
For some reason “Sedris, the Traitor King” does not show up for fo:”at end of turn” Any thoughts?
If you’re looking in the text which describe sedris (on the right when you click on the card), you’ll see that the true fo is « at the beginning at the next end step ». Scryfall does not merge the both text unfortunatelly
@@killianmoi6128 Exactly. WotC must've errata'd the rules text for Unearth at some point. The rules text now reads, "Each creature card in your graveyard has unearth {2}{B}. ({2}{B}: Return the card to the battlefield. The creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)"
No mention of exactly, "at end of turn" any longer.
I can recommend mtgassist.com
Search for a card and it gives you a whole section dedicated to cards similar to the one you searched for.
I always felt like I wasn’t using scryfall correctly
Man, I've used so much scryfall, that my decks actually miss cards, most of the decks I build stay on 70-80 cards or so, and then I fill in with some random good cards that I find those spots...
I just use increasingly Janky cards if i miss slots.
@@kingfuzzy2 also
I tried scryfall after using gatherer for years. Couldn't get it to work as smoothly as gatherer
There's a bit of a learning curve for sure.
@@eddie_cq8276 maybe gatherer got their act together. I tried searching for examples from this video and got same results with less effort than scryfall. Like the Undying thing came up by simply searching text with 'when dies'
@@maidenless_tarnished That's great! Definitely a good default IMO. There are pros and cons to both platforms. Use whatever feels right to you!
This video is so helpful. Thank u Eddie and Mitch. Aka the hawtest MTG TH-camrs. 😂😂😂
I used to look at edhrec a lot. Now not so much, their card selection tends to be quite generic.
mtgassist.com is a great resource for finding cards similar to a certain card.
Step 1 : Find this video
I miss the time of TCG when people didn't use all these engines and netdecks. Imagine how fun stuff like hearthstone would be if it didn't support netdecking. Or mtg etc...
That's true, but the problem is not the search engine of course, is net decking and copy-pasting
@@stoneshovel24 yeah. Inspiration Vs copy paste