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Sorry to hear this. What kind of availability issues have you experienced?

This is possible with this filter: http://deckbox.org/games/mtg/cards?f=331!48Q3JlYXR1cmU* . This works because the Subtype filter actually searches in the card's entire type line.

Do you mean you want to see all the cards that have more than one color, whatever its colors are? Or some exact colors? If the latter, then you can do that with the color filter. If the former, then sadly right now it's not possible.

A temporary solution, which probably is not what you want, and a bad solution, but i'm still going to mention is something like http://deckbox.org/games/mtg/cards?o=d& … .1&s=a. By saying the card should have some color you get rid of the colorless ones, and by sorting by color you get the multicolored ones before the monocolored ones.

Thank you for your email zack, will try to see if it's all I need there tonight. If not, I'll convert it to a xls and put it up online to be filled up.

Thanks theophanya and supitza for your emails and volunteering.

I'll post back tonight.

Yep, we will import both at the same time. If Cryptozoic does not release a document with this new set, then I will create a spreadsheet and collect some emails of people who would like to help out.

Stand by for more information closer to the set realease.

I understand your frustration and I'm really sorry for this delay, but the official publishers of the game did not put out any card reference document. In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm trying to offer a bit of an explanation and disclaimer information in the following paragraphs.

In the very beginning I have got the data from wowtcgdb.com, but that was unreliable so I turned to official channels.

It is really difficult to import data that is from a 3rd party website, that gets it from user submissions, and inputs it manually. There are errors, glitches and problems that crash a parsing script if I'm just empirically parsing html. It takes hours and hours of just messing with stuff to get everything right, each time a new expansion is put out. Then people submit bugs about this parsed data, because inevitably there are errors.

Changing a card's class after I have imported it into the database is not as easy as 3 clicks. Also manual insertion of everything is really time consuming. Information about a single card is distributed in 14 tables. Changing or manually inputting things into that schema would involve a mini administrative application written specifically for that job. Mini administrative application that I did not want to have to write.

At this point in the story came cryptozoic which gave us official card reference documents which are organized and structured to a certain degree. It's not a xls, it's a pdf, and it's not easily parseable either, as my script that gets the info out of it has 600 lines of ruby code full of if conditionals and empirical regex matchings, but hey... at least it's an oficial document that looks identical with each edition (well... almost identical).

Now after 3 editions it seems they are not even bothering to do that even, as it has been a couple of months or 3 since the new edition, and they gave us nothing.

I might have to go back to wowtcgdb.com for information, as they seem to now have a csv file with that edition, but alas, for that I need to write a new script. I don't really expect anything to change in the following week, but anyway... we shall make a decision this weekend, and we'll try to have the cards up one way or another. Maybe the best way would be to create a spreadsheet online that people can contribute info into on set releases. A wiki type of spreadsheet on google docs or something along those lines....

Sorry for the long winded programmer babble, I also just vented a little bit of my own frustration with them

Kargha suggested you maybe disabled your javascript because the dropdown with username and password is actually present in the page, only javascript is used to display it. Really weird that it does not show for you.

I'm not really sure how to debug this problem...

One quick thing you might try would be in Chrome, to enable View -> Developer -> Javascript Console. Then with it open click on login, see if you get any error messages or warning in that console, and send them to us.

P.S. Being logged in on the forum and not on the website is possible and normal sometimes (even if it should not really happen often, and is mostly a side effect of an error -  like in your case).

The new cards will be up this evening.

Well there are not really many situations in which one would like to filter by price i think. In my experience sorting by price already gets you to see the cards in descending order of value.

Do you want to see a listing of cards more expensive than 10$ but sorted by another criteria?

This should be fixed now, thanks for reporting.

I understand why this could be a problem for some people. We will probably add an empty option to the dropdowns, but we will keep the selection as it is now, pointing at a default selected value. The point of the advanced insert was also to help people insert extended information with default values.