MtgSearchParser

A parser for search strings for finding Magic the Gathering cards. Inspired by magiccards.info.

Name:

• Birds of Paradise
• "Birds of Paradise"
• !Anger (Match the full name)

Rules Text (Oracle):

• o:Flying
• o:"First strike"
• o:{T} o:"add one mana of any color"
• o:"whenever ~ deals combat damage"

Types (Oracle):

• t:angel
• t:"legendary angel"
• t:basic
• t:"arcane instant"

Colors:

• c:w (Any card that is white)
• c:wu (Any card that is white or blue)
• c:wum (Any card that is white or blue, and multicolored)
• c!w (Cards that are only white)
• c!wu (Cards that are only white or blue, or both)
• c!wum (Cards that are only white and blue, and multicolored)
• c!wubrgm (Cards that are all five colors)
• c:m (Any multicolored card)
• c:l or c:c (Lands and colorless cards)

Color Identity:

• ci:wu (Any card that is white or blue, but does not contain any black, red or green mana symbols)

Color Indicator:

• in:wu (Any card that is white or blue according to the color indicator.)

Mana Cost:

• mana=3G (Spells that cost exactly 3G, or split cards that can be cast with 3G)
• mana>=2WW (Spells that cost at least two white and two colorless mana)
• mana<GGGGGG (Spells that can be cast with strictly less than six green mana)
• mana>=2RR mana<=6RR (Spells that cost two red mana and between two and six colorless mana)
• mana>={2/R}
• mana>={W/U}
• mana>={UP}

Power, Toughness, Converted Mana Cost:

• pow>=8
• tou<pow (All combinations are possible)
• cmc=7
• cmc>=*

Rarity:

• r:mythic
• Format:
• f:standard (or block, extended, vintage, classic, legacy, modern, commander)
• banned:extended (or legal, restricted)

Artist:

• a:"rk post"

Edition:

• e:al (Uses the abbreviations that are listed on the sitemap)
• e:al,be (Cards that appear in Alpha or Beta)
• e:al+be (Cards that appear in Alpha and Beta)
• e:al,be -e:al+be (Cards that appear in Alpha or Beta but not in both editions)
• year<=1995 (Cards printed in 1995 and earlier)

Is:

• is:split, is:flip
• is:vanilla (Creatures with no card text)
• is:old, is:new, is:future (Old/new/future card face)
• is:timeshifted
• is:funny, not:funny (Unglued/Unhinged/Happy Holidays Promos)
• is:promo (Promotional cards)
• is:promo is:old (Promotional cards with the original card face)
• is:permanent, is:spell
• is:black-bordered, is:white-bordered, is:silver-bordered
• has:foil

Language:

• l:de, l:it, l:jp (Uses the abbreviations that are listed on the sitemap)

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mtg_search_parser'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install mtg_search_parser

TODO: Write usage instructions here

1. Fork it ( http://github.com//mtg_search_parser/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request