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I was just thinking of something along this line, too.  I just bought someone else's collection, and wanted to finish off mine before passing the rest of the cards on to the wife and kids.  I wanted a list of all the cards in a block, populated with the total number I have and no quantity (better than a printed zero) where I do't have any.

To meet my immediate need, I filtered by block (e.g., Innistrad), then copied and pasted the screen output into a spreadsheet. [The export to CSV function is great, but for the few pages of Innistrad cards I had to start with, the copy/paste solution was easier than mucking with the results in Excel.] Once there, I trimmed to only Quantity and card name, and added another column for the number of cards I wanted or needed (typically, to bring my collection up to a quantity of four of each).  The next step is where this feature would have been helpful.

I had to get a complete card list and add rows for each other card in the set I did not have.  Sometimes I pull them from online lists, but this time I had a complete card list from a Fat Pack, so I used that. Then I manually populated all the additional rows.  In the end, I had a complete list of all the cards in the Innistrad block, with three collumns:

Qty. on Hand / Card Name / Qty. Needed

If I'm following correctly (and this is something I thought might be useful if I'm not), I think it comes down to being able to filter based on quantity owned.

So, for instance, you could say via filtering: Show me only Innistrad block cards where quantity owned = 0, and get a list of just the cards you do not own from that block.

Of course, the quantity owned filter could be non-zero as well, so you could do something like: Show me only Innistrad block cards where quantity owned < 4, in order to see just a list of cards where you don't have a complete "play set".

This could also help when marking cards for trade, since you could do something like: Show me only Innistrad block cards where quantity owned > 4, so you could get a list of only the cards where you have more than a "play set" that you can then review to mark some for trade.

Makes sense?

Edit: Of course, you can kind of get around this a little with changing the column sorting, but I've noticed in the past that the order of results can sometimes shift around between pages when sorting by certain columns, making it less than ideal to work with.

Last edited by MMJuno (2012-02-28 16:56:08)

This was a couple of weeks ago that I noticed it happening, but I want to say it was the Color/Cost column. I'll have to test it again this evening when I'm off work and see if I'm still seeing it happen.

Ok, thanks for the report, we will look into it. Definitely a bug in our sorting.