Keeping a wishlist and buying from it

More than one list, on purpose

Make a list per reason rather than one enormous one. The obvious splits:

• One per deck you are assembling, so you can buy a deck's worth at once instead of picking at several.
• One per set you are completing.
• A someday list for expensive things, kept apart so it does not make every total look frightening.

Splitting matters because the subtotals are the useful part, and a single list of two hundred cards has a total that tells you nothing you can act on.

Getting cards onto a list

• From a search. Find the card and send it across. Works for anything, whether or not you own a copy.
• From a deck. A wish deck marks the cards you do not own with a Need badge, and the whole gap goes to a list in one step. This is the most useful route: it produces a shopping list that finishes a specific deck.
• From the Set Analyzer. Every card missing from a set, filtered however you like, added at once.
• From the scanner or Rapid Card Adder. The queue can go to a wishlist rather than your collection, which is handy at a shop when you are noting things rather than buying them.

Reading the list

• Cards group by type, and each group shows how many cards it holds and what they come to. The lands subtotal is often the surprise.
• Collapse the groups you have already decided about, so the list stays readable when it gets long. There is a collapse-all for when it gets very long.
• Set a quantity where you need more than one, so a playset of something shows its real cost rather than a quarter of it.
• Notes are per card. Useful for the reason you wanted it, which you will not remember in three weeks.

Actually buying them

• Each card has a button through to a retailer, with the search already filled in.
• Set your region first. The retailer list changes between the UK, Europe and the US, and a link to a shop that will not post to you is worse than no link.
• For a whole list, some retailers take a pasted block of names at once, which is far quicker than adding cards one at a time.
• Prices shown are estimates from the card data, not live quotes from a shop. Treat them as a guide to whether a list is a ten pound job or a hundred pound one.

After the cards arrive

Nothing moves on its own. When a parcel turns up, add the cards to your collection and take them off the wishlist. The quickest way is the scanner: point it at the stack you just opened.

If you are tracking what things cost you, log the purchase in Card Buyer/Seller at the same time. Splitting one order total across the cards it bought takes a moment then, and is guesswork later.

Wishlists and everything else

A wishlist holds cards you do not own, so it never affects your collection totals, set completion or what a deck can draw on. It travels in the Excel workbook and the Wizbook backup, so a list survives moving between devices.