Board and Card Games

3:07 PM

@Andrew Beat my by seconds! I posted a wrong answer, then reread the question, and then was about to post the exact same search you did.

Andrew

3:25 PM

@Rainbolt yeah I saw your answer pop up there, after I posted mine I was going to comment on the issues with it heh.

Malco

4:18 PM

@Andrew gatherer is a bit wonky I find sometimes. I have been using it less and less, though it is pretty good for quick searches

and the advance search is pretty intuitive even if it dosen't quite work sometimes

I like what you did for searching flavour text though, pretty clever.

Andrew

4:53 PM

@Malco Thanks, sometimes you just have to think, what are the minimum requirements, and for words in english, the requirements are vowels.

Malco

It makes me curious to see if there is any flavour text that dosen't contain any vowels...

Andrew

Still not sure how it matched cards with no flavor text, their blank text string in their database could be " " rather than "" or null, I tested if they trimmed the ends of the search string, they don't

Some onomatopoetic flavor text? Possible though not sure how to build a search string for that, to say has text but does not contain these characters

OPs stated intention was to get the text as a tattoo, before doppelgreener edited the question, so something like that wouldn't be what they were looking for in this case anyways.

murgatroid99

Extremely Slow Zombie variant A

Malco

Ahha I found one!

-(ft:a or ft:e or ft:i or ft:o or ft:u or ft:y) (ft:/\w/)

yup that was it

of course it would be an unstable card

murgatroid99

Also, at least on scryfall, a search for ft:" " -ft:/a|e|i|o|u|y/ finds every double sided cards with flavor text on the back face

Malco

5:03 PM

Also I like your search string for scryfall better, I am going to move it into the answer

murgatroid99

I just edited it, so make sure you have the latest one

Interestingly, it finds one more card than your search does

doppelgreener

I just realised, since Scryfall expanded regex to cover flavor text (and card name) you can search ft:/*/ with it. Which means: flavor text search, going by regex (because of the slashes), with a regex of * (which means any character at all)

no wait, one sec

murgatroid99

@doppelgreener I tried that but it also finds reminder text, plus some other things I don't understand

doppelgreener

I am WRONG. You need ft:/(\w+|\d+)/ which means a regex search for "anything with some letters or numbers in it"

murgatroid99

I'm pretty sure \w includes \d

doppelgreener

5:07 PM

* searches for any number of any characters including none at all, so that search just gives you every magic card ever.

@murgatroid99 you are RIGHT. so ft:/w+/ will do it.

scryfall.com/search?q=ft%3A%2F%5Cw%2B%2F

murgatroid99

You just need \w.

doppelgreener

yes good

"has a letter or number in it somewhere"

murgatroid99

And that's the suggestion I made, which Malco included in his answer

doppelgreener

noice

Here's a fun search: all the magic cards that have no space in their flavor text.

Andrew

@murgatroid99 Variant D also

murgatroid99

5:17 PM

Yeah. That didn't show up separately in the Scryfall search

Malco

Part of scryfall's default search settings. I think you include ++ to have all printings show up

For instance @doppelgreener search goes from 27 to 54 when you unroll it:

scryfall.com/…

but not as useful as you have duplicates

haha, was looking through the list and this card has some pretty aggressive flavour text:

img.scryfall.com/cards/normal/en/ugl/63.jpg?1509843338

doppelgreener

@Malco Correct. You need to put the ++ at the very beginning of your search terms.

Malco

going back to the flavour text Q, interestingly b:ktk c<=rb -c:c ft:/*/ search in scryfall includes acid-spewer dragon

it must have some sort of secret flavour text...

doppelgreener

@Malco Because it needs to be ft:/\w/, not ft:/*/

* includes nothing at all

Malco

ah

doppelgreener

5:28 PM

You might notice the edit I performed on your answer :)

Malco

I did

Andrew

Apparently on gatherer, Fate Reforged is not part of Khan's block

doppelgreener

@Andrew !?

Wow, what

Andrew

I searched for &block=+![%22Khans%20of%20Tarkir%22]&set=|[%22Khans%20of%20Tarkir%22]|[%22Fate%2‌0Reforged%22]|[%22Dragons%20of%20Tarkir%22]

in addition to the cards that were reprints or reprinted (matched block on the other printing, and set on the khans block printing) I got alot of cards only from fate

Malco

Hurray for Gatherer...

doppelgreener

5:30 PM

gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/… weird

Malco

speaking of which, what is the status for possibly swapping auto card to scryfall? I'm Still all for it but not really sure of what the process is

Andrew

Only the lands, which matched block due to their khans set printing

doppelgreener

@Wizards_Help FYI: Gatherer is not treating Fate Reforged as being part of the Khans of Tarkir block. Search results for "block: khans of tarkir & set: fate reforged" only find 15 cards, the 10 dual-lands and 5 basic lands: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&set=+[%22Fate%20Reforged%22]&block=+[%22Khans%20of%20Tarkir%22]

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Andrew

I was looking for a contact button, I have to call WOTC today anyways I might mention it

doppelgreener

i just ping them on twitter for stuff like this

Andrew

5:36 PM

Yeah understandable, I'll mention it on my call to them.

I have DCI/WER business to handle anyways

doppelgreener

Cool beans

Andrew

5:51 PM

I think I have someone maliciously downvoting me...

Malco

@Andrew Hmmm... is it happening on every question/answer you post?

like even going backwards to previous q and A

Andrew

No, maybe not, but I have been getting more downvotes in the last two days than I have on everything before that. Like a downvote on my gatherer flavor search and on a question regarding .5 rounding in monopoly

it's just a very recent thing I've been seeing, newer answers I give are getting downvotes

doppelgreener

@Andrew fyi @murgatroid99 in case you want to investigate

(moderators have some limited capacity to investigate voting patterns)

Andrew

6:10 PM

1/2 of my total downvotes have been in the last 3 days, and I am pretty sure at least one of them was in retaliation for some comments on another answer that was unclear.

Rainbolt

@Andrew Haven't looked very closely, but was the downvote on your newest answer before or after you fixed it? Seems like there was a problem in the comments. Maybe whoever cast it hasn't come back.

Andrew

@Rainbolt after the fix and after the accept

The downvote on that new one was 33 minutes ago

Rainbolt

Well, if it continues to happen, the votes will be reversed and you'll be rewarded all of the rep you lost

I posted a dissenting answer for this meta post: boardgames.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1129/6692

Andrew

Gotta agree with your position on that one Rainbolt

Rainbolt

@Andrew Did you mean to add a link to this?

Agreed, and the asker here is a prime example of why what is and isn't on topic should be more clearly outlined, perhaps in more places than one. Not everyone reads certain pages, like the tour. — Andrew 1 min ago

Or are you talking about Vaccano

Andrew

6:26 PM

@Rainbolt I was referring to Vaccano who said "I am usually very careful to check the Help Center so I don't post off topic questions"

Andrew

6:38 PM

boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/39900/… does need to be closed for the same legal reasons though

Malco

I VTC'd

murgatroid99

@Andrew I don't see any evidence of voting patterns against you. You've only gotten 5 downvotes in the past week. Two were on an answer that you since deleted, and the others appear to be on answers on which people commented giving reasons for downvoting.

Andrew

@murgatroid99 There was no comments explaining why on the one I deleted. As for the most recent one, all comments that could have lead to a downvote were addressed in my answer's edit at least an hour and a half before the downvote.

doppelgreener

Comments aren't required.

murgatroid99

Right, comments aren't necessary for votes; I was simply referring to them as evidence that people were voting based on the content of the post

And really, 5 downvotes in a week, with two on the same post (and therefore necessarily by different people) isn't really indicative of a pattern of malicious voting

Malco

6:43 PM

The other thing is that Downvotes do just happen sometimes, its hard to get into the voters head and figure out why exactly and they are anonymous by design

doppelgreener

Single votes ought to be seen as white noise from the universe.

Malco

a cosmic entity raining on your parade?

Andrew

Fair enough, just the spike in numbers got into my head, 5 in a week out of 8 since I joined BGSE

Malco

7:44 PM

hmm... what are your guys ideas on this question:

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Q: Supplier wanted Pegs and Jokers

I am avid player but live in the uk I had to make my own board I would like to buy a professionally made set But I cannot find anyone in the Uk that makes and sells it Can anyone supply a manufacturer please (Ps cost from USA is about £70 + £70 postage + £12 import tax )

pegs-and-jokers

Rainbolt

@Andrew How do you count the number of downvotes you've received?

i.e., where'd the "8" come from

Andrew

@Rainbolt Counting the number of downvote entries in my rep tab, my account here is only one month old, so everything is still recent.

Rainbolt

@Andrew I can't see downvotes in your rep tab on answers that you deleted. Because I only count 6 total.

Uh oh. Alex P. and I both posted on meta at about the same time. I asked the more general question, and he asked the more specific question. I wonder what will happen :P

Malco

8:02 PM

Do you guys (@Rainbolt and @Alex P)want to try and merge them?

oh can't ping him, not in this chat...

Andrew

@Rainbolt I still do see the two

Rainbolt

I want to keep them separate, but I am biased so please tell me what you think. In my opinion Alex's question makes the same mistake that Vaccano's did. It assumes legal questions are on topic. But don't we need to take a step back and first agree that they are on topic, before we start requesting canonicals?

Metagamer

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Q: Are legal questions on topic?

There seems to be some disagreement as to whether legal questions are in fact off topic. The only information I can find on the topic is Card Game Legal Questions are off topic (apparently) can this be added to the of topic FAQ?, which assumes they are off topic and asks that it be written down s...

discussion on-topic

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Q: Canonical question request: "Is it legal to play a third party's online implementation of a board game?"

Playing board games online through various tool is a huge part of modern gaming culture. Some of those tools are first-party implementations of the game by the original creators or a license-holder. A lot of them, however, are third-party works. It's tricky territory and there are a lot of myths...

discussion on-topic

Rainbolt

Which is a reasonable assumption for Alex to make by the way. Not faulting him. You really should assume something is on topic until proven otherwise, so long as it is about board and card games.

Rainbolt

8:19 PM

This line of code gets me every time I see it...

public class DiskMaker // Heart breaker

Alex Mitan

8:29 PM

@Malco Merge what?

Oh, alex P

Hey guys

Malco

Ah ya sorry about that, Chat has fuzzy mentions so @Alex P will ping you since you are the only alex in chat

@al will too I belive...

Alex Mitan

And what an honour it is

No, that no

Rainbolt

Has to be at least three letters I think

@ale Like this

Alex Mitan

Yep, that pings me

Rainbolt

9:17 PM

I am all meta'd out for the day

Malco

9:38 PM

@Jefromi or @murgatroid99 , New user seems to be having some troubles with the site. Really wants to know about Canasta too...

See here: https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/39897/can-cards-from-an-invalid-meld-be-used-in-a-subsequent-valid-meld
here:
https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/39903/canasta-invalid-meld
and here:
https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/38801/canasta-and-the-rules-on-invalid-melding/38802

Metagamer

1

Q: On-topic help center spring cleaning

All righty folks, the on-topic page in the help center is pretty wordy, and we can probably make it more useful to users by: making it shorter moving the longer details into a canonical "summarize the site scope" meta post We can also proofread while we're at it. So let's do that collaborati...

discussion

Alex Mitan

10:03 PM

@DukeZhou those weren't custom dice though

those ARE the units

Jefromi

11:58 PM

@Malco fwiw I don't get chat pings if I haven't been in the room recently enough, but your custom flag worked fine, thanks for letting us know.

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