MTG deck price calculator

By the ScryPrice team · Updated July 15, 2026

A deck price calculator should tell you what your decklist costs to actually buy, shipping included. Most of them just sum a column of best-case singles prices. That gap is where you overpay.

What the MTG deck price calculator does

Paste a decklist. ScryPrice reads every line, matches each card against 170,000+ indexed singles, and pulls live prices from three stores: TCGplayer, Card Kingdom, and ManaPool. Prices refresh daily, and card data comes from Scryfall and MTGJSON, so names, sets, and printings resolve cleanly.

Then it does the part a spreadsheet can't. Instead of showing you the cheapest seller for each card in isolation, it solves for the lowest total (item price plus shipping) across the whole list, and gives you a ready-to-buy cart link for each store in that cheapest split. It's free, and there's no account to make. You can run your list right now and see the number.

What you can paste in

Drop in a standard decklist as plain text: one card per line, quantity followed by card name, the same format decklists export in. ScryPrice matches each line to a real printing, so a full 60-card Constructed list or a 100-card Commander deck prices in one pass. If a name is ambiguous, it resolves to a valid printing instead of dropping the card.

Why cheapest-per-card isn't cheapest overall

Here's the trap. You sort each card by lowest price, buy from whichever seller wins that card, and feel like you got a deal. But most marketplaces charge shipping per seller. Fifteen cards from fifteen different sellers means paying shipping fifteen times. Those small fees stack into real money, and they quietly erase the savings you thought you found.

ScryPrice consolidates. It weighs the item savings from spreading out against the shipping cost of doing so, then lands on the split that's genuinely cheapest once everything ships. Sometimes that's one store. Often it's two or three. The math is boring and the difference isn't. This is the whole reason the tool exists, explained in full on how ScryPrice finds you the cheapest cart.

The shipping thresholds that decide your split

Each store ships differently, and those rules are what tip a decklist toward one store or a combination. The calculator bakes them in:

This is why a $40 cart and a $95 cart behave completely differently. Nudge one card and you cross a free-shipping line, or drop below it. For ManaPool, ScryPrice uses ManaPool's own optimizer to get the real consolidated total rather than estimating. If you want the store-by-store detail, see TCGplayer vs Card Kingdom and ManaPool vs TCGplayer.

Controls that change the price

Two settings do most of the work:

• Minimum condition floor. Set the worst grade you'll accept across five levels: NM, LP, MP, HP, DMG. Loosen it and you open up cheaper played copies. Keep it at NM and the total climbs, but the cards arrive clean. Your call.
• Cheaper-printing substitution. Turn this on and ScryPrice can swap in any printing of the same card. Functionally identical for play, often much cheaper. An older or less flashy printing of a staple can cut a real chunk off the total. Leave it off if you want specific printings only.

Between condition and printing, the same decklist can span a wide price range, and you get to decide where on it you sit.

What you actually get back

Not a wall of prices to sort yourself. You get the cheapest split named outright, a cart link per store so you can check out in a couple of clicks, and per-card links if you want to inspect or adjust anything. Buy from the stores it points you to, and you've paid the lowest total it could find.

Rough costs by format before you paste a list

Want a gut check first? These are ballpark ranges, not quotes. Real totals move with printings, condition, and reprints:

• Pauper: roughly $30-60
• Standard: roughly $100-250
• Commander (EDH): roughly $30-200+, depending on how deep you go
• Pioneer: roughly $150-400
• Modern: roughly $200-600+

For a deeper breakdown of what drives those numbers, read how much it costs to build a Magic deck. Building EDH specifically? The Commander deck price calculator is tuned for 100-card singleton lists, and the Modern deck price calculator handles the pricier 60-card end.

Is this the cheapest way to buy the deck?

For buying a full list across these three stores, yes. That's the entire job. ScryPrice optimizes the total instead of the individual card, which is the lever almost everyone leaves on the table. Whether one store wins outright or a two- or three-way split does, the ranking is decided purely by the delivered total, so the "cheapest" label always means cheapest to your door. See the cheapest way to buy MTG decks for the full logic.

That never changes which option ranks cheapest. The ranking is the total, full stop. Ready to see your number? Walk through buying a deck online the cheapest way, or just paste your list and let the calculator do it.