How the Card Price Checker Works
Type any Magic: The Gathering card name and the checker pulls up every printing that card has ever had, from its first set to the newest reprint, each with its current price. A base set common and a borderless mythic can be the same card with wildly different values, so seeing them side by side is the fastest way to know what a card is really worth and which version to buy or sell.
Use the Price control to switch between market and average, and the Order control to put the cheapest or the most expensive printing first. Every row has a buy link that opens that exact printing on TCGplayer.
Where Do the Card Prices Come From?
Prices are TCGplayer market prices, the same numbers you see when you shop on TCGplayer, delivered through Scryfall's daily pricing feed. Because every printing carries its own TCGplayer product, each buy link takes you straight to that specific version rather than a generic search.
How Often Are Prices Updated?
The underlying TCGplayer prices refresh about once a day, and the checker fetches the latest values live every time you search. That is plenty of accuracy for buying, selling, trading, and valuing a collection. For minute-by-minute movement on a single hot card you would still watch the live TCGplayer listings.
Why Does the Same Card Have Different Prices?
A card can exist in dozens of printings, and each one is priced on its own. Set of origin, rarity, foil treatment, borderless and extended art frames, promos, and simple scarcity all move the number. That is exactly why the checker lists every printing instead of a single average. The cheapest legal copy for play can cost a fraction of the flashiest collector version of the same card.
What Is the Difference Between Market and Average?
Market shows the current TCGplayer price for a printing, and for a printing sold in more than one finish it uses the cheapest finish so you see the least it costs to own. Average takes the mean of that printing's finishes, so a version with a pricey foil reads higher than its non-foil alone. Switch between them to sort the list the way that matters for your decision.
How Do I Find the Cheapest Version of a Card?
Set Order to lowest first and the cheapest printing jumps to the top. Non-foil copies almost always beat foil, etched, and special frames, so if you only need the card for a deck, grab the least expensive printing that is legal in your format. When you click through to TCGplayer you can narrow further by card condition to shave off a little more.