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!
Same here. Minutes of my life I can't get back!
All keywords can be found here: Hearthstone Gamepedia Keywords
Only for english clients.
Someone should list all the search keywords. Or is it already there somewhere?
BROTHER!!!
Awesome keywords! Using them since they've been implemented. One of the finest additions to the filters imo.
Good post, thanks! I did not know about the 'extra' searchtag and I will make use of that to dust most of my extra golden cards, as I don't care for most of them.
I would like a feature that allows me to lock a particular duplicate I have and disenchant the rest. There are a few cards I think that may be nerfed in the future and I can't do a mass disenchant if I want to keep them, instead I have to manually disenchant what I don't need.
I knew about and frequently use most of these but 'extra' was one I wasn't aware of and felt the manager was missing. Great post!
I didn't know this, got rid of all my golden cards and got me a new legendary :)
Do you really need to use this to find golden cards? Can't you just type golden?
It is way easier to see only the extras this way than paging thru your entire collection and looking at each card to see if you have any extra golden ones... not to mention how it disappears from the results as soon as you DE all the extras so you can see if you got them all.
so... maybe don't jump to be so rude to posters before you think for a few seconds.
How was he rude?
"Extra" can work better if your golden cards are necessary to have a full set--say if you have only one normal and one golden copy of an Epic card, or you own a Legendary only as a Golden. No risk of accidentally dusting something you don't have a spare copy of.
that's true having two copies, one normal and another golden it wont show.. But generally i dont DE golden if i got only 2 copies and if i am going to use those. And missing shows you both single copy of normal and golden card.
there was a really cool search option that blizzard removed for no particular reason and its insignificant but i like searching cards by artists name since i admire alot of the artists that basically are involved in every card game (physical/digital) .. wish they bring it back
Are you sure? I thought they changed it so you had to enter a keyword, or the artist's whole name or something...
*one Google search later* Yes, here's the syntax:
"To search for a particular artist, simply type in artist:name to find cards by the named artist (for example, artist:alex or artist:horley; the name can be first or last, but cannot include spaces)."
http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/20056284/search-your-hearthstone-collection-like-never-before-3-17-2016
You can also do "Owned: (X)" to show how many card you own X copies of