Open your Collection, click the search bar, and type refund. That filters your whole collection down to the nerfed cards that currently qualify for a full Arcane Dust refund, so you can disenchant them and get every speck of dust back. That's the whole trick. Below I'll walk you through it and cover the timing stuff that actually matters.

The Quick Version

1. Head to My Collection from the main menu (or from the deck selection screen).

2. Click the search bar at the bottom of the collection screen.

3. Type refund and hit enter.

4. Any card that's eligible for a full dust refund will show up. Right-click it and disenchant for 100% of its crafting value.

That's it. The "refund" keyword is a built-in search term Blizzard added specifically for this. You don't need a tracker, a spreadsheet, or a third-party site.

Why "Refund" Works

The collection manager supports special search keywords on top of card names and stats. Refund is one of them, and it's the one you want here.

When a card gets substantially nerfed (not just a minor technical tweak), players get a two-week window where they can disenchant it for its full dust value instead of the usual 25% you get from normal disenchanting. The "refund" search pulls up exactly the cards sitting in that window, so you don't have to remember which cards got hit in the last patch.

This matters because of the math. Normally disenchanting only gives you a quarter of a card's cost back. A full refund means you can break down the nerfed card, get all your dust, and put it toward something you actually want to play.

When You Can Do This

The refund window opens once the balance patch goes live and lasts about two weeks. After that, the affected cards drop back to the normal 25% disenchant rate. So if a card you don't care about got nerfed, grab the full refund before the window closes.

A couple of timing notes:

• Open your packs first. If you disenchant a card and then open a pack that would have contained it, the duplicate-protection system treats you as not wanting that card, which can throw off what you pull. Open packs, then disenchant.

• You can recraft later without losing dust. Disenchanting a card and crafting it back during the refund window is a wash, so if you're unsure whether a card will still be playable after the nerf, you lose nothing by waiting until the end of the window to decide.

Cards That Don't Get a Refund

Heads up: not everything that gets nerfed is eligible. Some cards are non-craftable, like the free cards Blizzard hands out through the rewards track or ahead of an expansion. Since you can't craft those with dust in the first place, you don't get a dust refund when they're changed. The "refund" search just won't list them, which is the game telling you there's nothing to claim.

Golden and Signature versions of an eligible card disenchant at their own higher rates, and those refund at full value too during the window.

Other Handy Collection Searches

While you're in there, a few more keyword searches are worth knowing:

• missing - switches you to crafting mode and shows cards you don't own, or don't own two-plus copies of. Great for finishing out a set.

• school:fire (or any spell school) - lists every card of that spell school. Typing just the school name like fire works too.

• rune - finds Death Knight cards by their rune requirements.

The search bar also handles a bunch of nicknames and shorthand. Type snip or snap and you'll get SN1P-SN4P, for example, since Blizzard added alternate terms for cards with hard-to-type names.

A Quick Word of Caution

Don't disenchant a nerfed card just because you can. If you think the card might still see play after the change, hang onto it. Worst case, you craft it back and lose nothing during the window. But disenchant the cards you genuinely won't use, because once the two-week window passes, you're back to getting only 25% of the dust value.