Comparison

Magic vs Decksmith

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Magic

Engage in strategic match-3 battles by collecting cards and building powerful decks. Recruit iconic characters, cast spells, and defeat opponents in various game modes. Join a global community and compete in tournaments for rewards.

Highlights
  • Match-3 RPG gameplay
  • Collect and craft cards
  • Recruit Planeswalkers
  • Build powerful decks
  • Real-time PvP battles
  • Daily challenges and events
  • Story mode campaigns
Features
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Magic: Puzzle Quest blends the original match-3 RPG classic with the lore and flavor of Magic: The Gathering. Recruit your favorite Planeswalkers, collect exclusive cards and build powerful decks. Summon the deadliest spells and lethal creatures on the battlefield to defeat your enemies in match-3 battles! FEATURES ● Join a community of over 2.5 million players worldwide! ● Recruit your favorite Magic: The Gathering Planeswalkers and master its abilities to enhance your strategies. ● Show off your skills on the battlefield and devise your own strategies to defeat opponents around the world in real-time PvP and different new events. ● Quest Journals! Access to daily challenges varying your play style and earn rewards! ● Craft powerful cards to build the perfect deck and battle enemy Planeswalkers in different tournaments. ● Play with your friends! Join a coalition to play with millions of players around the world and win bonus rewards in tournaments. ● Take on epic battles in the Story Mode and complete all Chapters! ● Compete in Standard events with your favorite cards, summon the deadliest spells, and unleash powerful creatures. COLLECT AND CRAFT CARDS Collect and craft some of Magic: The Gathering’s deadliest spells like Ghoulcaller's Harvest and creatures like Tiamat. MATCH MANA GEMS TO CAST SPELLS Mana gems are the core of your strength and power. Match-3 or more in a row to collect enough power to cast deadly spells and creatures. WIN REWARDS AND CLIMB THE LEADERBOARDS Enter daily events and Player-vs-Player (PVP) tournaments and show off your skills on the battlefield. Climb the leaderboards and win awesome rewards including mythic and rare cards from the latest sets! RECRUIT YOUR CHAMPIONS FOR BATTLE Find the latest Planeswalkers from Magic: The Gathering, recruit and pair them with your best deck and enter the arena fully prepared to decimate the competition: Make a pact with Liliana to summon an endless, undying horde of minions! Team up with the hotheaded Chandra and burn down the battlefield by casting fire, fire, and more fire! Or scheme darkness plans using spells to manipulate artifacts bringing them to life with the talented artificer Tezzeret. Each Planeswalker comes with unique abilities to activate and enhance your cards or wreak havoc on your opponents. Build up their levels and watch their abilities grow into an unstoppable force! NOW WITH VIP MEMBERSHIP PLANS! ● 3 plans provide players with more rewards and early access to special content ● 1 Week Basic Plan ($4.99 USD), 1 Month Master Plan ($14.99 USD), and 1 Month Pro Plan ($29.99 USD) durations ● You may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase ● Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period ● You can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase ● Privacy policy and Terms of Use: https://bit.ly/2WMpKSD JOIN OUR COMMUNITY! ■ Facebook: www.facebook.com/MagicPuzzleQuest ■ YouTube: www.youtube.com/MagicTheGatheringPuzzleQuest ■ Twitter: www.twitter.com/MtGPuzzleQuest ■ Instagram: www.instagram.com/MagicPuzzleQuest The app is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese. Developed by Webcore Games Game and Software ©2023 D3 Go! TM & ©2023 Wizards of the Coast LLC

About

Decksmith

Effortlessly manage your Magic: The Gathering collection with real-time card scanning and price tracking. Build and validate decks for various formats, analyze their composition, and connect with a community of players. Enjoy offline access and robust privacy controls.

Highlights
  • Real-time card scanning
  • Automatic price tracking
  • Format-aware deck building
  • Collection inventory management
  • Offline access
  • Community features
  • Privacy controls
Features
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Your entire Magic collection, in your pocket. Decksmith turns your iPhone into a card scanner, a price tracker, a format-aware deck builder and a social hub for players — wrapped in a fast, beautiful, native interface. Point your camera at a card and it is recognised in real time. Name, set, rarity, artwork and current market price are filled in automatically. No typing. No spreadsheets. — SCAN. TAP. COLLECTED. — • Real-time card recognition straight from the camera — no manual entry • One-tap confirm adds the card, its artwork and its full data to your collection • Pick the exact printing you own, set foil or non-foil, and track multiple copies • Every card image is stored on device, so your collection stays gorgeous offline — KNOW WHAT IT'S WORTH — Live market prices in USD or EUR. Decksmith keeps the price you paid alongside today's value, for every single card, so you can see at a glance what your collection has done — card by card and as a whole. Refresh whenever you want an update. — A DECK BUILDER THAT KNOWS THE RULES — Build for Standard, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Pauper or Casual. Decksmith enforces deck size and copy limits for the format you chose, gives Commander its own dedicated slot, and tells you the moment a deck is legal. — SEE THE SHAPE OF YOUR DECK — An automatic mana curve, card-type distribution and average mana value for every deck you build. Spot the missing two-drop before your opponent does. — FIND ANY CARD, INSTANTLY — Search the full Magic card database or your own collection. Filter by colour, rarity, card type, set, mana cost, foil finish and double-faced cards. Sort by name, price or date added. Switch between grid and list whenever it suits you. — SMART LISTS — Build lists that fill themselves. Save any combination of filters as a smart list — trade binder, EDH staples, everything foil under €5 — and it updates itself as your collection grows. Or curate a list by hand. Give each one its own icon and colour. — YOUR CARDS, FULL SCREEN — A gallery mode built for staring at cardboard. High-resolution art, glowing foil borders on your foils, pinch to zoom into the tiniest detail, swipe from card to card. Double-faced cards flip with a tap. — EVEN BETTER TOGETHER — Join the Decksmith Community and the app opens up: publish decks with one tap, collect likes and comments, follow the players whose brews you love, browse their collections and decks for inspiration, send friend requests, and keep up with everything in a live activity feed. — PRIVACY YOU ACTUALLY CONTROL — The whole app works offline, with no account and no sign-up — your collection lives on your device. Create an account only if you want cloud sync across your iPhone and iPad, or the community features. Then decide exactly what is visible: profile visibility, whether you are discoverable, and whether new decks default to public or private. Block anyone. Export or delete your data at any time. — IMPORT AND EXPORT, NO LOCK-IN — Bring your collection with you via CSV from the popular collection and deck-building sites, or restore a full Decksmith backup — collection, decks and lists included. Export your data to a single file whenever you like and share it via AirDrop, mail or cloud storage. — BUILT LIKE AN APPLE APP — Written from scratch in SwiftUI. Dark from the first pixel, tuned for 120 Hz, alive with haptics, and quick everywhere it counts. No subscription. No ads. No account required. Card data and images provided by Scryfall. Decksmith is an unofficial fan app and is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Wizards of the Coast. Magic: The Gathering is © Wizards of the Coast LLC. Start scanning. Start building.

Screenshots

Magic4 screens
Decksmith4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Decksmith at 5.0 against Magic's 4.4. Decksmith also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and in-app purchases (none vs 11). Magic's advantage is ratings volume (4.4K vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.2 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Magic sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Decksmith asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Decksmith holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magic has 4.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Magic's written reviews are positive against 100% of Decksmith's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Magic ships an update monthly, Decksmith every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Magic versus Decksmith: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagicDecksmith
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (4.4K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.4K — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.2 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size275 MB24 MB
Age rating12+9+
Developer505 Go Inc.Waldemar Schneider

Customer experience

Magic

All ratings4,414 ratings
Positive86.3%
Neutral3.5%
Negative10.2%
Written reviews1,240 reviews
Positive61.8%
Neutral9.9%
Negative28.3%

Decksmith

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Magic

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes during battles
  • Inability to delete cards from decks
  • Rewards not properly credited after matches
  • Facebook login issues
  • Planeswalker abilities not functioning correctly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Offline mode
  • More deck customization options
  • Better matchmaking system
  • More frequent content updates
  • Improved customer support

Decksmith

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Magic

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Plan$14.991 Month
  • Master Plan$29.991 Month
One-time9
  • Starter Pack$1.99
  • Small Mana Crystals$4.99
  • Starter pack$4.99
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  • Training Pack$4.99
  • Mana Crystals$9.99
  • Special Offer Pack$14.99
  • Big Mana Crystals$19.99
  • Huge Mana Crystals$49.99
  • Super Huge Mana Crystals$99.99
None

Decksmith

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Magic free?
Magic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Decksmith free?
Decksmith is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Magic or Decksmith?
Decksmith is rated higher. Magic averages 4.4 out of 5 from 4.4K ratings, while Decksmith averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Magic or Decksmith have ads?
Neither Magic nor Decksmith shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Magic or Decksmith?
Magic ships an update monthly, and Decksmith every 3 weeks. Most recently, Magic was updated on October 11, 2026 and Decksmith on October 4, 2026.

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