Comparison

Decked Drafter vs Card Binder

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

Head to head
About

Decked Drafter

Practice Magic: The Gathering draft and sealed deck skills with a full simulator. Get expert strategy tips, card ratings, and AI opponents to hone your deck-building abilities. Test your creations and improve your game.

Highlights
  • Draft simulator against AI opponents
  • Expert card ratings and strategy tips
  • Practice with various Magic expansions
  • Deck building and testing tools
  • Card sorting by color, type, and rarity
  • View card prices from TCGplayer.com
Features
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Decked Drafter is the only app designed to help Magic: the Gathering players improve their draft and sealed deck skills, featuring a full draft simulator and expert strategy tips and card ratings. The perfect app for any draft or sealed deck fan, players can pick the Magic the Gathering expansion they would like to practice with, then launch into an event against seven other A.I. opponents. Open powerful cards from sets like Scars of Mirrodin and easily sort the contents by color, type and rarity. Then pick the best card for your deck and pass the rest to your opponent, working to build the most powerful deck at the table. Making the right draft pick is never easy, but for the first time ever you're not alone. Marlon Egolf, DraftMagic.com columnist and Grand Prix Boston 2009 Champion, provides a full strategy analysis for each Magic card contained within the app. Improve your strategy skills with the help of these card ratings, which give a detailed look into the power level of each card. His expert ratings are also used to tune the A.I. opponents, making Decked Drafter the closest experience to actually drafting with the pros, and an incredible strategy resource. After the draft is finished, build your deck using the simple interface, swapping cards around with a simple touch. Once the deck is built, test it in the draw simulator, email the list to your friends, or print out the decklist and assemble the deck with your own collection! Or access the handy card ratings and strategy tips at any time, making Decked Drafter the perfect pocket guide for your next draft event. Whether you're a seasoned drafter looking to refine your skills, or a Magic noob just learning how to play, this is the app for you! Learn from the pros by practicing with Decked Drafter, and you will be sure to dominate your next draft! Features - The only Magic the Gathering draft simulator available for the iPhone or iPod touch - Practice drafting against skilled virtual opponents, learning which cards to pick and why - Access ratings and strategy tips for every card on-the-fly Improve your draft and sealed deck skills! Drafting and Sealed Deck - Open virtual packs from actual Magic the Gathering expansions - Sort the contents of each pack by color, type or rarity - Easily pick and pass cards using the simple interface - Stop the action at any time to examine your picks, or sneak a peek at your opponent's - Having trouble? Check Marlon's strategy tips; or press the Suggest button! - View the price of a card, courtesy of TCGplayer.com -- decide if it is worthwhile giving up your pick to select a card that will pay for your entire draft! Deck Building - Add and remove cards from your deck with a simple touch - Easily sort draft picks by type, cost, color or name - Test draw from your deck to see how it performs - Email your decklist to your friends, or print it out and play in real life! - .Dec support lets you easily import your decklist to Decked Builder, Magic Online or Apprentice New to drafting? Learn the rules with the included guide! Notes: Comes complete with access to the entire Scars of Mirrodin expansion. Additional expansions are available for purchase, including Mirrodin Besieged and New Phyrexia. Each of these expansions improves the Decked Drafter A.I. so it can draft with this new set of cards, and of course, features full analysis and strategy tips for every card in the set. We try to target about 100 words of writeup for each card on average, which results in about 23,000 words of strategy tips for just Scars of Mirrodin alone.

About

Card Binder

Manage your Magic The Gathering card collection by scanning and saving cards. View detailed card information, build and validate decks, and track card prices in real-time. Your collection syncs across devices and can be exported.

Highlights
  • Scan and save cards to collection
  • Real-time card price checking
  • Detailed card information (legality, editions)
  • Build and validate decks
  • Commander deck support
  • Cross-device collection syncing
  • Export collection to CSV
Features
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The ultimate Magic The Gathering app. Quickly scan and save all your cards into your Binder collection, check each card price in real-time. You will be able to see a lot of details for each card: legality, all the card editions, first appearance date, and more! Features: - Build your collection quickly scanning all your cards. - Explore card details including the legality, price, editions, and much more. - Build amazing decks with support for sideboard and maybeboard. - Support for commander decks. - Validate your deck and ensure it is legal for any format. - All content is live and automatically updated. - Collection stored and shared between all your IOS devices. - Search for any card, even if it is not in your collection. - Get to know more cards using the explore tab. It will show random cards to you. - No adds, forever. - Dark mode support. - Export and share your collection using .csv files. If you have any question or feedback we'd love to hear from you at support@cardbinderapp.com

Screenshots

Decked Drafter4 screens
Card Binder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Card Binder at 4.5 against Decked Drafter's 2.6. Card Binder also leads on ratings volume (537 vs 17). Decked Drafter's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Decked Drafter sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Card Binder sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Card Binder holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Card Binder has 537 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 59% and 59% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Decked Drafter ships an update monthly, Card Binder every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Decked Drafter versus Card Binder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDecked DrafterCard Binder
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.6 (17 ratings)4.5 (537 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.3% of reviews59.3% of reviews
Number of ratings17537 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB132 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperTJ SoftNicolas Yuste Tirados

Customer experience

Decked Drafter

All ratings17 ratings
Positive35.3%
Neutral17.6%
Negative47.1%
Written reviews113 reviews
Positive59.3%
Neutral14.2%
Negative26.5%

Card Binder

All ratings537 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral3.4%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews135 reviews
Positive59.3%
Neutral11.9%
Negative28.9%

User reviews

Decked Drafter

From 17 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Clean and intuitive user interface
  • 📚 Expert card ratings and commentary from experienced players
  • 🎮 Effective practice tool for improving drafting skills
  • ⚡ Works offline without requiring WiFi
  • 🤖 Functional AI drafting opponents

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive per-set pricing ($2.99-$5.99 each)
  • ⏱️ Slow updates for new set releases
  • 🤖 AI drafts unrealistically, ignoring color signals
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and stability issues
  • ❌ Missing card art and image loading problems

Card Binder

From 537 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Efficient scanning
  • 📚 Comprehensive card database
  • 💰 Accurate card pricing
  • 🗂️ Effective card organization
  • 🎨 Visually appealing interface

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Limited free storage
  • 🐛 Scanning issues after updates
  • 🔍 Suboptimal search and filtering
  • 🔀 Difficulty syncing across devices
  • 💰 Expensive paid upgrades

Bugs and requests

Decked Drafter

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • Card art fails to load, showing only card backs
  • Database update stuck at version 78
  • App crashes when adding lands to decks
  • Crashes when clicking feedback button
  • In-app purchases not delivering purchased content
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  • Unable to download new sets after purchase
  • Pack generator hangs at 'downloading 6 images left'
  • Crashes on recent iPhone updates
  • Two-finger swipe required to read cards (poor UX)
  • Inconsistent pack generation (missing guaranteed cards)
  • Redundant cards appearing multiple times in packs
  • Rare cards appearing too late in packs
  • Purchase restore functionality broken
  • RSS feeds broken
  • Image fetching causes UI flickering

Requested features

16 requests
  • 4-pack sealed draft mode
  • Multiplayer drafting with human opponents
  • Locally stored card database and collection system
  • Ability to save and review drafted decks
  • Landscape mode support
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  • Bundle pricing for multiple sets
  • Free access to rotated-out sets
  • MTGO cube draft support
  • Older set availability (Ravnica, Urza's, Time Spiral blocks)
  • Card storage/bookmarking feature
  • Deck rating based on card power levels
  • One-time purchase option instead of per-set fees
  • Ad-supported free version with limited sets
  • Ability to set default draft set
  • Improved bot color-fixing logic
  • Pre-release set availability before official launch

Card Binder

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to recognize certain card names
  • Disappearing foil card data
  • Deck building issues with commander cards
  • Inconsistent set recognition

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to filter cards by set
  • Option to add custom tags to cards
  • Bulk card addition to decks
  • Wishlist functionality
  • Improved sorting and organization tools

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Decked Drafter

One-time10
  • Mirrodin Besieged Set$1.99
  • New Phyrexia Set$1.99
  • Magic 2012 Set$1.99
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  • Innistrad Set$2.99
  • Magic 2013 Set$2.99
  • Return to Ravnica Set$2.99
  • Gatecrash Set$2.99
  • Magic 2014 Set$2.99
  • Theros Set$2.99
  • Shadows over Innistrad Set$3.99
2 purchases

Card Binder

One-time2
  • Space for 100 cards$0.99
  • Space for 1000 cards$4.99

Questions

Is Decked Drafter free?
Decked Drafter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Card Binder free?
Card Binder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Decked Drafter or Card Binder?
Card Binder is rated higher. Decked Drafter averages 2.6 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while Card Binder averages 4.5 from 537 ratings.
Do Decked Drafter or Card Binder have ads?
Neither Decked Drafter nor Card Binder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Decked Drafter or Card Binder?
Decked Drafter ships an update monthly, and Card Binder every 3 weeks. Most recently, Decked Drafter was updated on September 21, 2026 and Card Binder on September 18, 2026.

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