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That seems good! Is the card list limited to things that are tournament-legal? Loopy Lobster was one of the Mystery Booster playtest cards.
It's using the Scryfall API, and this is the query we're making for that card: https://api.scryfall.com/cards/search?q=Loopy+Lobster
I'm not sure why Scryfall can't find it since they serve the page for it.
All of those playtest cards are excluded, it looks like. I think I found the answer here. This URL will find Loopy Lobster:
https://api.scryfall.com/cards/search?include_extras=1&q=Loopy+Lobster
But the
include_extras
parameter also covers things like tokens and planes which you might reasonably decide you don't want. Maybe have it re-run the search withinclude_extras
if the initial search without it comes back empty? Or maybe not, since that could significantly increase the number of API calls. I don't know.That's a good idea, I think re-running it would be pretty reasonable to add in soon.