# Browsing Cards

To browse Magic cards you would need Card Info and MTG Database views.

MTG Database View shows all available cards store in local database. By default database will be created from the software but then it is up to you to keep it up to date, by performing cards update.

Card details and scanned card picture are shown in the Card Info view. It shows card image if available (downloads it from internet), and also shows card name, description and type below the image. Click on the card in any of the tables to see card info in this view. See more details in Card Info View reference.

## Sorting

You can sort by any column by clicking on the column header in the views that display card tables. If you click again sorting order is reversed. You can also see more columns, control is available from "Preferences..." menu of the view menu .

## Filtering

You can filter cards in the view by opening filter. Filter action is on view toolbar and also available from the view menu. You can select one of more criteria from the filters.

Currently filter dialog has the following pages: Basic Filter, Sets Filter and Location filter (only for My Cards view).

Items that belong to the same group (such as Color) would be selected using logical OR. Items that belong to different groups would be selected using logical AND.

For example and you select colour Blue and White and Type Creature and Enchantment, you will get all creatures and all enchantments that are Blue or White (including multicolors).

See details in Filter Dialog reference. You can also filter cards by name, type and colour using quick filter - the bar on top of card tables (since 1.2).

## Grouping

Grouping is also available from the action bar of view menu, there is few fields and field combination you can group by. For example one of the grouping for Magic DB view is "Core/Block/Set/Rarity".

## Search

You can bring up search control using Ctrl-F key or using view menu "Find...". It allows you to find a card in the view by name (or part of name). Found card will be automatically selected.
You can also type first letter of each word in a card name as uppercase, which is called camel case completion, for example if you type "ESMB" it should match with "Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder".

See details in Search Bar reference.

## Other Actions

Some other actions available from main menu, context menu (right click) or from view menu (triangle button in the view header ). See also MTG Database View reference.

You can changes layout of your views but dragging them around by the header. If you get lost you can reset to original layout using menu "Window->Reset Perspective..."

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