CardCastle MTG vs Decked Builder Remastered
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CardCastle MTG
Digitally manage your Magic: The Gathering card collection. Scan cards using your device's camera to add them to your inventory, check real-time prices, and browse your collection. Build decks using the companion web platform.
- Scan cards with camera
- Real-time card pricing
- Digital card inventory
- Browse and edit collection
- Deck building (web platform)
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The best Magic players are organised. Quickly and effortlessly create a digital inventory of your Magic: The Gathering cards with the CardCastle app. Browse your collection, get real-time prices and build decks on the CardCastle web platform. Features: • Use your camera to scan cards into your CardCastle collection • Check real-time prices of cards with a simple scan • Browse and edit your CardCastle collection
Decked Builder Remastered
This app is a comprehensive tool for Magic the Gathering players to build, analyze, and test their decks offline. It includes a full card database, collection management, and pricing information to help with trades. Players can also share their decks with friends and sync across devices.
- Offline Magic card database
- Deck construction and testing
- Collection management
- Card pricing integration
- Deck sharing and import/export
- iCloud syncing
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Decked Builder Remastered brings back the perfect companion for your Magic: The Gathering hobby, taking care of everything related to deck building. Use it to find the right card for your deck, together with pricing information so you will never be on the bad end of a trade. Build your deck, analyze it, and finally share it with your friends. A true successor to the acclaimed Decked Builder! FEATURES: * The entire Magic card database, at your fingertips - Instant search results with no Internet connection, because the database is stored on your device - Search for cards by any combination of card expansion, rarity, color, color identity, type or mana value - Searches also allow full card text lookup - Includes digital-only cards, hidden by default; show them with one switch in Settings * Build and analyze your decks, right on your device - Build deck listings and sideboards - Analyze your deck: legality, Commander Brackets, Game Changers, the mana curve, and the tokens it needs - See which cards your deck needs that your collection is missing * Manage your collection - Manage your collection of cards - Find cards within your collection using the same powerful search engine used for deck building - Manage multiple collections for all your different needs, such as your for-sale collection or your MTG Online collection * Prices and card art - Card prices are shown as you build, in decks, collections and search - Card art is retrieved automatically and cached on your device * Share with your friends - Share a deck from the Share menu - Import and export .dec files for other editions of Decked Builder - Import deck lists from text * Look and feel - Built for iPhone and iPad, with Light and Dark Mode DECKED BUILDER ACCESS (OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION) Everything in the card database (search, card details, prices) is free. You can also build up to 5 new decks, keep a collection, and scan cards with Card Cam (the first 50 cards you add) at no cost. Decked Builder Access unlocks unlimited decks, unlimited Card Cam, and merging and duplicating collections. Your subscription also supports the continued development of Decked Builder Remastered. - Plans: $1.99 per month, or $9.99 every 6 months. - Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cdn.deckedbuilder.com/site/decked-privacy-policy.htm Decked Builder Remastered is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. Magic: The Gathering and related marks are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC. Card data, images, and bundled mana-symbol assets acquired through Scryfall are provided by Scryfall.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CardCastle MTG at 88% against Decked Builder Remastered's 6%. CardCastle MTG also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Decked Builder Remastered's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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
Both are free to download. Decked Builder Remastered sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. CardCastle MTG asks for nothing beyond the download.
CardCastle MTG holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CardCastle MTG has 378 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of CardCastle MTG's written reviews are positive against 6% of Decked Builder Remastered's.
CardCastle MTG ships an update every 2 months, Decked Builder Remastered fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CardCastle MTG | Decked Builder Remastered |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (378 ratings) — better | 1.6 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.6% of reviews — better | 6.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 378 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | OzGuild Pty. Ltd. | Dennis Gill |
Customer experience
CardCastle MTG
Decked Builder Remastered
Bugs and requests
CardCastle MTG
Reported bugs
3 issues- Scanning issues with certain card types
- Occasional app crashes or freezes
- Login/account problems
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to manually add/edit cards
- Improved deck management functionality
- Option to view total collection value
- Compatibility with more card types (e.g. foils, alts)
Decked Builder Remastered
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CardCastle MTG
No in-app purchases
Decked Builder Remastered
- Monthly Remastered$1.991 Month
- 6 Month Remastered$9.996 Months
Questions
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