Cantrip vs Decked Builder Remastered
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cantrip
Easily build and manage your Magic: The Gathering decks. Search and filter cards from any set, and quickly add, remove, or sideboard cards with intuitive gestures.
- Powerful deck builder
- Card search and filtering
- Add/remove cards with swipe
- Sideboard management
- Supports all card sets
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Cantrip is an poweful and easy to use deck builder for Magic: The Gathering. With Cantrip you can filter and search for cards from any set. Building decks is quick and easy using Cantrips deck builder which lets you add, remove, and sideboard cards with a swipe.
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 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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cantrip at 57% against Decked Builder Remastered's 4%. Cantrip also leads on rating (3.9 vs 1.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Decked Builder Remastered's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Decked Builder Remastered sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Cantrip asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cantrip holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Cantrip's written reviews are positive against 4% of Decked Builder Remastered's.
Cantrip ships an update every 4 months, Decked Builder Remastered every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cantrip | Decked Builder Remastered |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (15 ratings) — better | 1.9 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 3.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | White Bridge Labs | Dennis Gill |
Customer experience
Cantrip
Decked Builder Remastered
In-app purchases
Cantrip
No in-app purchases
Decked Builder Remastered
- Monthly Remastered$1.991 Month
- 6 Month Remastered$9.996 Months
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