Card prices

Card prices are an integral part of ManaBox. It has multiple price providers; here is a quick summary of them.

Price providers

TCGplayer

TCGplayer is the largest marketplace in the US for card games. Individuals or stores around the world can list their own products.

TCGplayer provides a few computed prices based on listings and sales on their website. You can see an explanation here: TCGplayer website

Cardmarket

Cardmarket is the largest marketplace in Europe for card games. Individuals or stores around the world can list their own products.

Cardmarket provides a few computed prices based on listings and sales on their website. You can see an explanation in their FAQ, in the section “What are the price suggestions that Cardmarket uses?”: Cardmarket FAQ

Card Kingdom

Card Kingdom is an independent store based in the US specialising in Magic: the Gathering. On top of selling, they also provide services for bulk buying.

Cardhoarder (MTGO)

Cardhoarder provides marketplace services for cards in the Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) game. MTGO uses a different currency called “TIX”, which are the Event Tickets that you can buy in the MTGO store.

Why do some cards don’t have a price?

If the card is from a set that just released, it’s very likely that the reason is that the store doesn’t have an “accurate” price for this card yet.

Another reason a card doesn’t show a price is if we haven’t properly linked it. In these situations the app shows No prices found for this card. If you encounter this, and the card has a page in the corresponding store, you can report it to us.

How often are prices updated?

Prices are updated every few hours for each store.

Can you add support for X store?

Some frequently asked stores are LigaMagic, Star City Games and Face to Face Games. We invest a lot of time making sure that each card (different versions, foil, etc) points to the correct link in each of the stores. On top of this, as far as we know, these stores don’t provide ways for third parties to access prices.

So for now we don’t have plans to add new stores.