Comparison

Decked Drafter 2 vs Decksmith

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

Head to head
About

Decked Drafter 2

Enhance your Magic: The Gathering draft and sealed deck skills with an interactive simulator. AI bots adapt to evolving strategies, helping you train for tournaments and build winning decks.

Highlights
  • Full draft simulator
  • AI draft bots that learn
  • Sealed deck simulator
  • Deck building tools
  • Mana curve and statistics
  • Test draws
  • Share decklists
Features
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Decked Drafter 2 is the follow up to Decked Drafter, the app designed to help Magic: the Gathering players improve their draft and sealed deck skills. Making the right draft pick is never easy, and strategies are continually changing. Decked Drafter 2 AI bots are continually learning from human pics, adapting to changing metas as they are discovered. Want to improve your draft and sealed deck skills in a more interactive manner? Start training to win at your next Limited tournament, and give Decked Drafter 2 a try! What’s new - Learning AI adapts to new draft and sealed metas - Multi-lingual support - Decked Drafter is now free (ad-supported)! Draft features: - Full draft simulator - AI draft bots that get better over time, learning from the picks of human players - Full sealed deck simulator - Easy to use swipe controls Deck building features - Add and remove cards from your deck with a simple touch - View mana curves and other deck statistics - Easily sort picks by type, cost, color or name - Test draws from your deck to see how it performs - Share your decklists with your friends - Easily import your deck lists to our other app, Decked Builder

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

Decked Drafter 24 screens
Decksmith4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Decksmith at 100% against Decked Drafter 2's 0%. Decksmith also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.3). Decked Drafter 2's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Decksmith holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Decked Drafter 2 has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Decked Drafter 2's written reviews are positive against 100% of Decksmith's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Decked Drafter 2 versus Decksmith: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDecked Drafter 2Decksmith
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB24 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperTJ SoftWaldemar Schneider

Customer experience

Decked Drafter 2

All ratings6 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative66.7%

Decksmith

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

In-app purchases

None

Decked Drafter 2

No in-app purchases

None

Decksmith

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Decked Drafter 2 free?
Decked Drafter 2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Decksmith free?
Decksmith is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Decked Drafter 2 or Decksmith?
Decksmith is rated higher. Decked Drafter 2 averages 2.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Decksmith averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Decked Drafter 2 or Decksmith have ads?
Neither Decked Drafter 2 nor Decksmith shows ads.

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