Commander (EDH) deck price calculator

By the ScryPrice team · Updated July 15, 2026

A Commander deck is 100 singles, all different. That's the whole pricing problem right there. Singleton means no playsets to buy in bulk and 100 separate line items scattered across dozens of sellers. A calculator that just sums each card's cheapest price will lie to you about what the deck really costs.

Why EDH is the hardest deck to price by hand

Sixty-card formats let you buy four of a card at once. Commander doesn't. Every slot is a unique card, so a finished decklist is 100 individual purchases, and the price you see next to each card is almost never the price you pay. Here's why.

Most marketplaces charge shipping per seller. Buy all 100 cards from wherever each one is individually cheapest and you might be paying shipping to 30 or 40 different sellers. That "cheapest" cart quietly becomes one of the most expensive ways to build the deck. The savings on a $0.25 common vanish the second you add a shipping charge to grab it.

So the real question a deck price calculator has to answer isn't "what's each card's lowest price" but "what's the lowest total once shipping is in the cart." Different numbers. For a 100-card list they can be very different.

How the Commander deck price calculator works

Paste your decklist. ScryPrice reads all 100 cards, looks up live prices across TCGplayer, Card Kingdom, and ManaPool, and solves for the cheapest total including shipping. It doesn't just rank cards. It works out how to split your list across stores so you pay the fewest shipping charges. The output is a ready-to-buy cart link for each store in that cheapest split, plus per-card links so you can check anything by hand.

It's free, no account, and prices refresh daily across more than 170,000 indexed cards. Card data comes from Scryfall and MTGJSON, so your Sol Ring and your reserved-list bomb resolve to the right printings. Want the full mechanics? Here's how ScryPrice finds you the cheapest cart.

Paste a decklist from Moxfield, Archidekt, or EDHREC

You don't need a special export. ScryPrice reads standard decklist text, a quantity and card name per line, which is what every major deckbuilder produces. Copy your list straight out of Moxfield, Archidekt, or an EDHREC average deck, drop it in, and the calculator matches each line to the right card.

Matching runs on Scryfall and MTGJSON data, so near-duplicate names and reprints resolve correctly. Flip on cheaper-printing substitution and it'll price any printing of a card instead of the one your list happened to name.

Shipping is the whole game

The three stores charge shipping differently, and that's exactly what the optimizer weighs:

For ManaPool, ScryPrice uses ManaPool's own optimizer, so the consolidated total you see is the real number, not an estimate. No single store wins every time. A budget deck might ship entirely from TCGplayer for free; a deck full of dual lands and staples might lean on Card Kingdom's $99 threshold. The split is the savings.

Where the savings actually hide in a Commander list

Two levers move the price of an EDH deck more than anything else.

• Condition floor. ScryPrice lets you set a minimum condition across five grades: NM, LP, MP, HP, and DMG. For a deck you're going to sleeve and shuffle at a kitchen table, dropping from NM to LP or MP on your non-foil staples shaves real money off the total with zero gameplay difference. Set the floor once and it applies to the whole list.
• Cheaper-printing substitution. Commander doesn't care which printing you run. Turn this on and ScryPrice swaps in any cheaper printing of the same card, so a reprint from a Commander precon can replace an expensive original. Across 100 cards, those swaps add up fast.

What a Commander deck actually costs

Commander has the widest price range of any format, and that's the good news. Treat these as rough ranges, not quotes, because your commander and your staple choices swing the total hard:

• Commander (EDH): roughly $30 to $200 or more
• Pauper: roughly $30 to $60
• Standard: roughly $100 to $250
• Modern: roughly $200 to $600+

A budget precon-style upgrade sits near the low end. A cEDH list packed with fast mana and dual lands sits at the top. Because it's singleton, you decide the price by choosing which staples you'll pay for and which you'll approximate with budget cards. For a deeper breakdown by format, see how much it costs to build a Magic deck, or the Modern deck price calculator if you also build 60-card lists.

Common objections, answered

Isn't buying from one store simpler? Sure, and sometimes one store genuinely is cheapest once shipping is counted. ScryPrice tells you when that's true. When it isn't, the split usually saves more than the mild hassle of a second cart costs you.

It never changes which option ranks cheapest. The ranking is the ranking.

Which store is better overall? Depends on your list. If you're weighing marketplaces directly, TCGplayer vs Card Kingdom and ManaPool vs TCGplayer break down where each one wins.

Price your deck now

Drop your 100-card decklist into ScryPrice, set your condition floor, flip on cheaper printings, and read the cheapest split off the page. No account, no cost, a real cart link for each store. If you want the broader strategy first, start with the cheapest way to buy a Magic deck.