Hearthstone ProTip: Disenchanting Your Non-Golden Duplicates More Easily
And we're not talking about the mass disenchant button!
Hearthstone's Collection Manager is a lot smarter than many give it credit. The development team has added certain keywords to the search engine which helps you find exactly what you need, in our case today, those pesky duplicate cards.
For most, the mass disenchant button works wonders. If you have 3 of a card or an extra legendary, you can very easily hit this button to make them all go away and use that new dust to craft one of those new overpowered Quest cards. But what about that golden card you don't want because you already have two non-golden copies, or the inverse?
Simply entering "extra" into the search field will bring up all your cards that you can potentially discard to bring you back down to the two copies of each limit. In my case, I prefer Golden cards so as I click on the normal versions and disenchant them, the Collection Manager removes each card from the extra listing when I hit the max copies you can use in a deck.
This has saved me plenty of time when I'm trying to maximize my dust return from those pesky card packs which give me dupes as I previously would painstakingly go through my collection and do the same thing. I hope this helps you too!
Bonus: Missing Cards in Your Collection
What if you wanted to find just the missing cards in your collection to see if you have anything worthy of crafting? Well you can do that too by typing in "missing" into the Hearthstone collection manager's search box!
The missing keyword will immediately bring you into crafting mode and show you cards that you don't have two total copies of (or 1 for Legendaries). This can be very useful to remind yourself of any cards you may want to grab a second of that you could potentially include in your next deck creation or simply a way to help complete that entire collection, provided of course you have the dust!
I really should consider crafting The Black Knight...
Origin Story
These keywords haven't always been in Hearthstone. They were added back in Patch 4.2.0 which introduced Lady Liadrin, More Deck Slots, and the Old Gods pre-order among other features.
This post was inspired by a recent reddit thread. It seems to not be very common knowledge!
Wait... what?
It's a murloc, right?
Already knew the extra keyword.
But why the non-golden? Goldens are just eye candy, much more valuable to get more dust to help completing a collection, unless you are one of the few who can afford 4 digit sums a year in this game.
Remember dusting 1 golden = 1 card of the same rarity you can craft. Non-goldens you need 4+ to get the same value.
I agree if you are a budget player def dust every golden card you can, but if you are a $50 per expansion type guy like me, I find the golden cards are so cool to look at I would rather keep them. If I'm in a real bind I guess I can part with some, but right now with the refunds from the Hall of Fame movement, I am sitting on 7k dust or so, may craft a few more legendaries once the meta settles more.
Thank you very much for this info. It' very useful! I knew only about "new" keyword before...
Thanks for the post! Very helpful!
Cool to know, thx, diddnt know that untill now ! Great feature!
P.S.: I searched now for the german translations ... just go here:
http://eu.battle.net/hearthstone/de/blog/20056284/durchstöbert-eure-hearthstone-sammlung-wie-noch-nie-zuvor-17-03-2016
my hero. Saved me of one google search. :D
*g* no problem sir ^^
Thank you so much for this "extra" keyword tip.
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Good tip, i play since beta and i did not know these two keywords.
this is not a dick measuring contest y'know
great tips thanks alot ! got me almost 3k dust from d/e extra cards. and that was only for standard.
i try to use only Golden cards if i can so this helpt alot to craft new golden ones :D
and from wild i got about another 1.5k dust so again big thanks
for non-native language, here the keyword translation inside Hearthstone client for Portuguese-BR users:
Source: http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/pt/blog/20056284/uma-nova-forma-de-pesquisar-na-sua-cole%C3%A7%C3%A3o-de-hearthstone-17-03-2016
I also did now know you could use those keywords. Thanks for sharing!
I already know this and using it regularly. But thanks for sharing. Its useful and will help those who still doesn't know about it. As well for missing- you can use Missing common, missing rare, missing epic as well. and clicking on any expansion it gives you missing commons,rares, epics for particular expansion. But sometimes missing only shows cards that you have one copy of. In that case clicking crafting button gives you necessary results.
These are actually my go to keywords when visiting the crafting page.
Maybe good to remind players that there are numerous keywords as well like looking for 5 attack minions for your druid giant deck.
Wow thank you, didn't know about the 'extra' thing... just gained myself 1200 dust from disenchanting my extra normal cards :D
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