Card Search Syntax
Every card search box (the Cards page, the deck builder, collections, the commander picker and in game card search) understands Scryfall style shortcuts. Type them alongside a name or on their own: t:elf o:draw finds elves that draw cards, and llanowar c:g finds green cards named Llanowar.
Keys#
| Key | Searches | Example |
|---|---|---|
o: or oracle: |
Rules text, by word. Quote a phrase. | o:"enters the battlefield" |
t: or type: |
Type line: card type, subtype or supertype | t:elf |
c: or color: |
The card's own colour, using the letters w u b r g, or c for colourless |
c:rg |
id: or identity: |
Colour identity, at most these colours | id:wu |
mv: or cmc: |
Mana value | mv<=3 |
r: or rarity: |
common, uncommon, rare, mythic, or c, u, r, m |
r:m |
s:, set: or e: |
Printed in a set, in any printing | s:dmu |
kw: or keyword: |
Keyword ability | kw:flying |
f: or format: |
Legal in a format (edh works for Commander) |
f:pauper |
Keys and values don't care about capitals. Repeat a key to need both: t:legendary t:elf finds legendary elves.
Comparisons#
Mana value takes : or = (exactly), <=, >=, < and >, so mv>4 means 5 or more.
Colour takes : and >= (has at least these colours), = (exactly these) and <= (only these, colourless included). c:rg finds cards that are at least red and green, three colour cards included. c=rg finds red and green cards only. This is the colour printed on the card, the same as Scryfall, so a colourless artifact with a red ability is still colourless. For colour identity, which also counts mana symbols in a card's rules text, use id:.
Identity id:wu means at most white and blue, the same as the deck builder's identity filter. id=wu and id>=wu mean exactly and at least those colours of identity, the same as the colour filter menu.
Leaving cards out#
Put - in front of any key to leave those cards out. t:creature -t:legendary finds creatures that aren't legendary, o:draw -o:discard finds card draw without discard, and -c:r, -mv>=4, -r:m, -s:lea and -f:modern drop red cards, cards costing 4 or more, mythics, cards ever printed in Alpha and cards legal in Modern.
How it fits with the filters#
The filter menus still work. When a filter and the search box set the same thing, what you type wins for identity, mana value, rarity and set. c: adds to the colour filter rather than replacing it, since one reads a card's own colour and the other its identity. Format is the exception: the filter wins, so the deck builder keeps your deck's format. Oracle text, type and keyword add to whatever the filters already ask for.
The set filter menu looks at the printing the search shows for each card, while s: checks every printing.
Anything the search doesn't recognise searches as part of the name, so a card like Circle of Protection: Red still finds itself. Next to a key, even one or two letters narrow by name: t:elf bo finds elves with "bo" in their name.
o: matches whole words, so o:elf finds "Elf" but not "Elves". Plain words in the search box still match names and rules text as before.