Cards and sets
Searching for cards
How to quickly find what you're looking for.
Pitchstack keeps a card search box within reach wherever you are — in the navigation bar on the website, and on the Cards tab in the app. When searching for a card you can use "free text" as a general search term. To get more specific, you can use a special syntax to filter your results.
Query syntax
Rather than typing a general search term, query syntax can be used for abstract searches. Query syntax is powerful and allows you to search by a variety of card properties.
To illustrate, to search for warrior cards from Heavy Hitters with cost two or less, you could use the query of...
c:warrior s:HVY cost<=2Anything Pitchstack does not recognize as a term is treated as part of the card name, so you can mix the two freely: blood c:warrior searches for "blood" among Warrior cards.
Card terms
| Key | Short | Matches | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
class | c | The card's class | c:warrior |
type | t | The card type | t:action |
subtype | st | The subtype | st:attack |
talent | tal | The talent | tal:draconic |
keyword | kw | A keyword on the card | kw:dominate |
color | colour | red, yellow, blue, or none | color:red |
double | doublefaced, two-sided | true for double-faced cards only, false to exclude them | double:true |
Number terms
Numbers take a comparator (>=, <=, >, <), or a plain value for an exact match.
| Key | Short | Also accepts | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
cost | co | cost<=2 | |
pitch | p | pitch:1 | |
power | pow | pwr, attack | power>=6 |
defense | d | def, b, block | defense<3 |
health | hp | life, li | hp:20 |
intelligence | i | intellect | i:4 |
Printing terms
| Key | Short | Matches | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
set | s | The set code. setcode also works | s:HVY |
rarity | r | The rarity | r:majestic |
artist | art | The illustrator | artist:"name here" |
language | lang | The printing language | lang:en |
Note: Wrap a value in double quotes when it contains a space, as in the artist above.
Legality terms
Written as a status and a format. A status that a format does not use will match nothing, so the last column is worth a glance.
| Term | Matches | Formats |
|---|---|---|
legal: | Cards legal in the format | cc, blitz, commoner, silverage |
banned: | Banned cards | cc, blitz, commoner, upf, ll, silverage |
suspended: | Suspended cards | cc, blitz, commoner, silverage |
restricted: | Restricted cards | ll |
livinglegend: | Cards that have aged out into Living Legend | cc, blitz |
Filters
If query syntax isn't your thing, no worries! On the search page, the Filters button opens the full set of fields. This allows you to manually "build" your query without needing to know the syntax.
Filters expose all properties that can be used in the query syntax. These are broken into the following...
- Card: search term, class, type, subtype, talent, keyword, color, and whether the card is double-faced.
- Numbers: cost, defense, pitch, power, health, and intellect. Each takes a range, so you can ask for cost 2 or less, or power 5 and above.
- Printing: artist, set, rarity, and language.