Modern deck price calculator

By the ScryPrice team · Updated July 15, 2026

Modern is where Magic gets expensive. The format leans hard on fetchlands, dual lands, and format-defining staples that hold value for years, so a competitive deck routinely lands in the 200 to 600 dollar range or more. A Modern deck price calculator tells you what your list actually costs to buy today, and where to buy it for the least.

What a Modern deck price calculator actually does

Most people think pricing a deck means adding up each card's cheapest listing. That number is a fantasy. It ignores the single biggest cost after the cards themselves: shipping.

Here's the problem. Most marketplaces charge shipping per seller. If your fetchlands come from one seller, your removal from another, and your sideboard from six more, you pay shipping again and again. The "cheapest" cart on paper can end up costing more than a smarter one that buys from fewer places.

ScryPrice solves for the lowest total, item price plus shipping, across TCGplayer, Card Kingdom, and ManaPool. Prices are refreshed daily, card data comes from Scryfall and MTGJSON, and there are over 170,000 cards indexed. Paste your decklist, and it returns a ready-to-buy cart link for each store in the cheapest split, plus per-card links so you can check every line. It's free and there's no account. For the full mechanics, see how ScryPrice finds you the cheapest cart.

Why Modern hits your wallet harder than other formats

Modern's card pool is deep and its staples are premium. The mana bases alone carry a lot of the cost, and many decks share the same expensive lands and interaction. That's good and bad: good because those cards keep their value, bad because you feel every one at checkout.

Rough ballparks by format, so you know where Modern sits:

These are ranges, not promises. A budget Modern brew can come in well under the low end, and a fully optimized tier-one list with a stacked mana base can run past the top. The point is simple: at Modern prices, how you buy matters as much as what you buy. For a wider look at build costs, read how much it costs to build a Magic deck.

How the shipping math works across three stores

Each store handles shipping differently, and that's exactly what the calculator weighs when it builds your split:

For a full Modern deck, you'll usually clear TCGplayer's $35 threshold easily, and often Card Kingdom's $99 one too. But the real savings come from consolidation. Instead of ten sellers and ten shipping charges, ScryPrice groups your cards into the fewest, cheapest shipments. For ManaPool it uses ManaPool's own optimizer so the consolidated total you see is the real one. Curious which single store wins for your list? Compare TCGplayer vs Card Kingdom and ManaPool vs TCGplayer.

Trim the price without changing the deck

You don't have to swap cards to spend less. Two controls do the work for you:

• Minimum condition floor. Set the lowest grade you'll accept across five grades: NM, LP, MP, HP, DMG. Dropping from NM to LP on played staples often shaves real money, and for a deck you're going to sleeve and shuffle, LP plays identically. Keep the floor at NM only where you care about it.
• Cheaper-printing substitution. Turn this on and the calculator will consider any printing of the same card. A fetchland from an older set plays the same as the shiny new one, and the price gap can be large. The card is unchanged in your 75; only the art and set change.

How to price your Modern deck, step by step

1. Copy your decklist, mainboard and sideboard, in any standard text format.
2. Paste it into ScryPrice.
3. Set your minimum condition floor and decide whether to allow cheaper printings.
4. Read the cheapest split: a cart link for each store involved, with per-card links to verify.
5. Check out at each store in the split. That's it.

For a walkthrough that covers buying start to finish, see how to buy a Magic deck online and the broader guide to the cheapest way to buy a Magic deck.

Modern versus other formats you might be pricing

If you play more than one format, the same tool prices all of them. A Commander list behaves differently, one copy of many cards instead of playsets, so the split tends to look different; the Commander deck price calculator covers that. For a format-agnostic starting point, the general MTG deck price calculator works for any 60-card or Commander list.

Whatever you're building, the principle holds: the cheapest cart is not the sum of each card's cheapest price. On a 200-to-600-dollar Modern deck, letting a calculator solve for the real total, shipping included, is the difference between a fair price and an inflated one.

That never changes which option is ranked cheapest. The ranking is always the lowest real total for your list, full stop.