Comparison

Gauntlet vs Decked Builder Remastered

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

Head to head
About

Gauntlet

This app helps Magic: The Gathering players track game lives, build and customize decks, and record game history. It offers detailed stats for players and decks, supports multiple players, and includes a powerful hand simulator.

Highlights
  • Life tracking for up to 6 players
  • Deck building and importing
  • Game history and stats
  • Hand simulator
  • Deck customization with card art
  • Deck organization with folders
Features
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Gauntlet is the most feature packed Magic: The Gathering utility app available. It’s a life tracker, deck builder and record keeper of your games. THE BEST LIFE TRACKER: • Select your deck and the decks your opponents are playing. Player tiles will be updated with the cover art of each deck. • Save the results when the game is over. Select a winner, and each player will have their career and deck stats updated immediately. • Full support for up to 6 players with custom life totals, and a turn randomizer to determine who plays first. • Other features include 21 unique tile colours, 15 unique counters, rolling D6, and a game timer. THE BEST MOBILE DECK BUILDER: • Brew on the go or import your decks from other deck building sites. • Customize your deck with art from any card in the multiverse. • Pick a format and your deck screen adapts to show things like your commander or your signature spell. • Bling out the cards in your deck with foils. • Shuffle up and draw an opening 7 with a powerful hand simulator. • Stay ahead of your competition with deck list data. View your mana curve, pip breakdown, and more. • Export your deck lists as text, or share a link to your profile on social media. • Keep your decks organized with folders, and sort them by name, games played, wins, and format. YOUR GAME HISTORY IN DETAIL: • Every game is saved making it easy to go through previous games and see who played, who won, and which decks came to battle. • Track wins and losses for each deck, and see how your career wins and losses change over time. • Follow your friends to stay up-to-date with their latest brews, deck performance, and game history.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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 aims to bring 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, test 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 as the database is stored locally - Search for cards by any combination of card expansion, rarity, color, color identity, type or mana value - Searches also allow full card text lookup. - Almost every card object available, including digital only cards. * Construct and test your decks, right on your device - Build deck listings and sideboards - Easily test sample draws from the deck * Manage your collection - Manage your collection of cards - Find cards within your collection using the same powerful search engine used for deck building - Easily check for missing cards from your collection that your deck needs - Manage multiple collections for all your different needs, such as your for-sale collection or your MTG Online collection * Integration with external data sources - Card prices are automatically available. Never make a bad trade ever again! - Card art is automatically retrieved and cached locally * Share with your friends - Specially format and email the deck to your friends - Import and export .dec files into other edition of Decked Builder - Automatically sync with your other devices through iCloud - Import text file decks from MTGO This app uses the standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA), found at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Gauntlet4 screens
Decked Builder Remastered3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gauntlet at 83% against Decked Builder Remastered's 4%. Gauntlet also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Decked Builder Remastered's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. Decked Builder Remastered sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Gauntlet asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gauntlet holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gauntlet has 299 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Gauntlet's written reviews are positive against 4% of Decked Builder Remastered's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gauntlet ships an update weekly, Decked Builder Remastered every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Gauntlet versus Decked Builder Remastered: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGauntletDecked Builder Remastered
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (299 ratings) — better1.9 (18 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better3.7% of reviews
Number of ratings299 — better18
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB80 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperScott CampbellDennis Gill

Customer experience

Gauntlet

All ratings299 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral1.0%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative10.0%

Decked Builder Remastered

All ratings18 ratings
Positive22.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative77.8%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive3.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative96.3%

Bugs and requests

Gauntlet

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Developers have seemingly given up (according to one review)
  • App ruined for jailbroken phones (iOS 14 and up)
  • Board scrolls every time life or counters are moved
  • Does not track win-rate for the deck not shown as primary in a match
  • App is very small on iPad Pro

Requested features

19 requests
  • Scan cars to make adding decks easier
  • More precise search engine
  • Faster card loading times
  • Display card prices
  • Scan cards in deck building
Show 14 more
  • Add Android support
  • Add tournament bracket functionality
  • Deeper stat tracking
  • Leave notes about each deck
  • Leave notes about individual cards
  • In-app purchases for donations
  • Add play test cards
  • Better layout for exporting decks to text
  • Feature to track win/loss ratios without starting a game
  • Option for locking board scrolling
  • Android release (mentioned as desired)
  • Manual change of player names when playing 'against yourself'
  • Add friends who don’t use the app to games
  • Add full deck lists

Decked Builder Remastered

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Gauntlet

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Decked Builder Remastered

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Remastered$1.991 Month
  • 6 Month Remastered$9.996 Months

Questions

Is Gauntlet free?
Gauntlet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Decked Builder Remastered free?
Decked Builder Remastered is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gauntlet or Decked Builder Remastered?
Gauntlet is rated higher. Gauntlet averages 4.9 out of 5 from 299 ratings, while Decked Builder Remastered averages 1.9 from 18 ratings.
Do Gauntlet or Decked Builder Remastered have ads?
Neither Gauntlet nor Decked Builder Remastered shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gauntlet or Decked Builder Remastered?
Gauntlet ships an update weekly, and Decked Builder Remastered every 2 weeks. Most recently, Gauntlet was updated on September 10, 2026 and Decked Builder Remastered on September 21, 2026.

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