Comparison

MTG Trades vs Commandeck

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

Head to head
About

MTG Trades

Manage your Magic: The Gathering card collection and trades with real-time pricing data. Evaluate trades, track loaned or borrowed cards, and maintain watchlists of desired cards. Access a comprehensive database with offline capabilities.

Highlights
  • Card price lookup by expansion/name
  • Trade evaluation
  • Trade history
  • Watchlist of wanted cards
  • Loan/borrow tracking
  • Offline database access
  • Foil and non-foil pricing
Features
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MTG Trades gives you the tools you need for trading Magic cards, right at your fingertips. It includes card prices by expansion or card name, lets you evaluate trades and view your trade history, store a watchlist of wanted cards, and allows you to track cards you have loaned or borrowed. Features: • View price information for every physical Magic card by individual printings. • Supports non-foil and foil pricing for all cards, including many promo cards, tokens and emblems. • Download database and automatic prices updates from within the app, for offline use (requires Premium). • Save cards to various Want Lists so you always know what you're looking for during trades and how much they're worth (requires premium for multiple lists) • Want Lists show total value and can be sorted alphabetically, by price or by rarity. • Enter cards or cash in a new Trade to quickly evaluate the equity of the trade. • Store a history of your past trades along with current and at-the-time price information (requires premium for multiple trades) • Track cards you have lent out or borrowed from other people. • Prices are aggregated from a range of online stores courtesy of TCGplayer.com. • Complete iCloud syncing. • Supports Dynamic Type for altering text size. • Universal app for iPhone, iPad and Mac (as iPad app). • Supports iPad multitasking. This app has been carefully designed to be simple and fast to use. If you have any suggestions for improvements, please suggest them from within the app. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ This app is not produced or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

About

Commandeck

Features
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Commandeck is a Magic the Gathering EDH Commander deck builder for iPhone, built around two questions: what is the format actually playing, and what can you build with the cards you already own? Every number comes with the sample size behind it. DECKS YOU CAN ALMOST BUILD Scan your cards, add them by name or import a CSV from another collection app, and Commandeck holds your collection against the usual deck of over 1,500 commanders. See the decks you are closest to, the key cards you own for each, and what it costs to finish them, partners and backgrounds included. One tap creates the deck with your cards, with the missing ones waiting in the maybeboard. BUY ONLY WHAT YOU ARE MISSING Every decklist, yours or someone else's, marks the cards you already own, and the buy button sends only the missing ones to the shop you choose. UPGRADE ON A BUDGET Pick $25, $50 or $100, keep your bracket, choose what to improve, and get the swaps with prices and how many decks run each card. Any card in your deck shows cheaper alternatives that do the same job. WHAT OTHER PLAYERS RUN Pick any commander and see the cards played alongside it, grouped by theme, with real inclusion rates from Commandeck's own nightly crawl of published decklists. New cards are ranked by the decks that have picked them up since they came out. BRACKETS AND POWER LEVEL See where your deck sits on the official Commander bracket scale, from 1 to 5, and exactly which game changers, tutors, extra turns and land denial put it there. Useful the evening before game night. NEW SETS FOR YOUR DECKS For every new set, even before release, see which cards fit each of your decks and why, and preorder just those. Cards parked in your maybeboard tell you when they get cheaper. COMMANDER DECK BUILDER Build 100-card EDH decks with live checks for singleton, color identity and commander legality. Import a deck from a link or a pasted list, and share it as a link that friends can open on the web without the app, as an image, or as text. ANALYSIS AND OPENING HANDS Compare your mana curve with the average deck for your commander, check your mana base and the roles of your cards, and draw test hands under London mulligan rules with exact odds of keeping, flooding or missing land drops. CARD SEARCH Search every card by name or rules text, filter by color, type and mana value, or point the camera at a card to look it up. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS No sign-up and no advertising. Your decks and your collection stay on your iPhone, and a deck you have already opened stays readable without a connection. The app measures how it is used, with no advertising identifier and nothing sold or shared, and a switch in About turns that off. Card data and images courtesy of Scryfall. Inclusion rates from Commandeck's own crawl of published decklists. Community decklists from Archidekt. Commander play statistics from playgroup.gg, used under CC BY 4.0. Purchase links to TCGplayer may earn Commandeck a commission. Privacy policy: https://commandeck.github.io/privacy.html Commandeck 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.

Screenshots

MTG Trades4 screens
Commandeck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Commandeck at none against MTG Trades's 2. Commandeck also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). MTG Trades's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads and device support 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. MTG Trades sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Commandeck asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MTG Trades ships an update every 2 months, Commandeck every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MTG Trades versus Commandeck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMTG TradesCommandeck
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB23 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperMichael WybrowDavid Ferrandiz

Bugs and requests

MTG Trades

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when deleting cards from lists
  • MKM card images not loading properly
  • Incorrect pricing for some promo and special cards

Requested features

5 requests
  • Integrate with deck building and collection management
  • Add more advanced search and filtering capabilities
  • Implement market pricing options for trades
  • Improve basic lands and foil card handling
  • Provide more detailed price history and trending data

Commandeck

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MTG Trades

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly1 Month trial$0.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly1 Month trial$6.991 Year
None

Commandeck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MTG Trades free?
MTG Trades is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Commandeck free?
Commandeck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MTG Trades or Commandeck have ads?
Neither MTG Trades nor Commandeck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MTG Trades or Commandeck?
MTG Trades ships an update every 2 months, and Commandeck every 8 days. Most recently, MTG Trades was updated on November 6, 2026 and Commandeck on November 10, 2026.

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