Search filter requires exclusion
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Posted on June 12, 2014, 5:24 a.m. by Haemogoblin
Is it/could it be possible to exclude things from search terms? I'm all kinds of tired of seeing 90% EDH decks. Browsing by hub is practically pointless as EDH is in all hubs. This would be useful for all sorts and searches.
Maybe it's just that the average EDH player on this site is more likely to use hubs? Like, they might not tag their deck 12-post or Rock, because those are archetypes for specific formats. But the general stuff? Color combos, aggro, combo, control, tokens, counters, creatureless? I feel a lot of non-EDH players aren't gonna tag their stuff like that, whereas an EDH deck needs as much description as possible, due to archetypes having much more variance.
That said, if I wanna look up a mono-blue creatureless EDH deck, to give me ideas on one of my decks, the ability to exclude Modern and Legacy and Standard in my search would actually be pretty nice.
June 12, 2014 11:20 p.m.
can't you just search for mono blue creatureless then select edh as well? that doesn't require exclusion.
i think the OP is talking about normal hub browsing.
June 13, 2014 5:18 a.m.
Haemogoblin says... #5
I am indeed. If I wanted to look up a deck with any particular theme I have no way of removing the plethora of decks which have no value to me or my search. This in turn leads me to get frustated with the site, the submitting users and the internet in general all because I'm illogically inconvenienced by something which shouldn't even affect me. Sometimes you want to check out something different but with the setup we have at the moment it's heavily biased towards more of the same, even though it's varied by nature.
A good example would be last week, 2 friends came over and we decided to play other peoples decks for a change. It was decided that we would choose a tribal deck each, just so they have a similar synergy. It took us about an hour to pick through things that weren't EDH decks. During games I was browsing for my next deck to play, even 45min-1hr games weren't long enough to digest and sift through the random mess without waiting at the end of a game to find a new deck.
I know I sound whiney about something which is basically just inconvenient so I apologise for that. But it really irks me when I know the information I want is here, just EDH FRENZY ATTACK gets you right in the eyes.
June 13, 2014 10 a.m.
I agree with the OP. Exclusion would be immensely useful. It would greatly reduce the amount of time I have to spend if I decide to look for deck comparisons.
June 13, 2014 4:08 p.m.
Is it hub browsing or advanced searching? for the latter case why not select the other formats you want?
June 13, 2014 4:39 p.m.
I also agree with OP. The current search functions for the advanced deck search is quite useless. For example, if I search: Aggro, B/R Rakdos, standard format, and sort by rating, the first result is a B/W Boros deck. Each term in the search tags is defaulted to an OR search rather than AND.
Basically, advanced search just needs Boolean functionality.
Also kind of related: some old decks that were marked as standard still show up when searching for standard decks even though they've long been out of rotation; the creator just hadn't updated it.
June 13, 2014 5:47 p.m.
Haemogoblin says... #9
Selecting multiple hubs also rules out anything in, for example, standard that doesn't then have any further hub tags.
I should probably have clarified it's both hub browsing and advanced deck searching lol.
I think options like gatherer has, specifying and/or or not would be ideal for everything across the board
June 13, 2014 5:51 p.m.
The problem, yeaGO, is that when you search via hubs currently, in order to exclude edh you would need to select every other format. Which, in its current state, would require several search windows. Also, if I am not mistaken, those without formats picked would not display in any of those searches.
An exclusion could be useful, but if it would take a lot of effort and time, I wouldn't bump it up in the priority list, because I am sure you are working on several things at all times for this site.
Ciao.
yeaGO says... #2
Hmmmm that's interesting. Can we get some more comments about this?
June 12, 2014 9:12 a.m.