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TheMightyQuinn
11-12-2009, 02:35 AM
What card search engine does everyone here on the Source use? I personally use http://magiccards.info, which is down right now. I feel very helpless without it.

So what is your engine of choice? Gatherer? SCG? Something less common?
Phoenix Ignition
11-12-2009, 02:39 AM
www.Cardkingdom.com 's advanced search is usually what I use. Both keyword and "in text" searches to pick out whatever you want.

Yay reach + deathtouch creatures!
Skeggi
11-12-2009, 02:40 AM
If magiccards.info is down I would like to turn to gatherer, but I just can't stand it. Usually I just search for card name on some webshop, because that's what I normally do: look up cards I don't know. Webshops are just as good there and usually not as slow as gatherer. God, I hate gatherer.
TheMightyQuinn
11-12-2009, 02:41 AM
www.Cardkingdom.com 's advanced search is usually what I use. Both keyword and "in text" searches to pick out whatever you want.

Yay reach + deathtouch creatures!

My brother swears by Cardkingdom's engine. I haven't taken a close look lately, so I may have to revisit that one.
MMogg
11-12-2009, 02:48 AM
If magiccards.info is down I would like to turn to gatherer, but I just can't stand it. Usually I just search for card name on some webshop, because that's what I normally do: look up cards I don't know. Webshops are just as good there and usually not as slow as gatherer. God, I hate gatherer.

That's funny, I always use Gatherer. I like the visual spoiler layout and also they have all the card names in the various languages (at least for the most recent blocks). But I admit, I've hardly used others. Sometimes I have used anycraze, but not recently.

Sometimes Gatherer sucks balls in that it won't give me results when I know there are some. :confused:
Illissius
11-12-2009, 06:24 AM
EFNet, /msg datatog search. really the best there is.

Gatherer seems like it might be decent if it weren't buggy as fuck. But it is.
Nihil Credo
11-12-2009, 07:28 AM
Mws.
Aleksandr
11-12-2009, 08:44 AM
Gatherer seems like it might be decent if it weren't buggy, slow and user hostile as fuck. But it is.

fixed.


my personal choice:
www.cernyrytir.cz
quicksilver
11-12-2009, 09:21 AM
I always use cardkingdom.com as well. Unless you need oracle wordings, then you should always use gatherer.