No! We only compare CardTrader Zero listings with each other. The same card can be cheaper on Cardmarket, or among CardTrader listings that are not CardTrader Zero. Always check both before buying. The Reference € column, which comes from Cardmarket prices, is a quick first check.

Listings that sellers send to CardTrader's hub instead of shipping them to you directly. CardTrader checks the cards and ships everything you bought in one package, so you can buy from many sellers and pay shipping once. We only look at these listings, because a cheap single card shipped separately by one seller can end up costing more once shipping is added.

We check prices several times a day, and a cheap copy can sell minutes after we see it. CardTrader's data can also be slightly behind its own website. The time of the last check is at the bottom of every page, and Best of the week shows which deals were sold or removed.

We compare the minimum (the cheapest listing) with the next best price (the cheapest comparable listing above it). Both of these must hold:

1. you save at least 2 €;
2. the discount, 1 - minimum / next best, is at least a threshold that depends on the next best price p:

threshold = 45%                               if p ≤ 2 €
threshold = 45% - 27% × ln(p / 2) / ln(25)    if 2 € < p < 50 €
threshold = 18%                               if p ≥ 50 €

ln is the natural logarithm; ln(25) appears because 50 / 2 = 25, so the threshold goes exactly from 45% at 2 € to 18% at 50 €. The logarithm means that every time the price doubles, the required discount drops by about 5.8 points: 31.5% at 10 €, 25.7% at 20 €. Cheap cards need a big discount to be interesting, expensive cards a smaller one.

Example: next best 10 €. The threshold is 31.5%, so the minimum must be at most 6.85 € (and at most 8 € for the 2 € rule, which here is the weaker one).

The next best price must be the same card, same foil or nonfoil, and pricier than the minimum. We look first at listings in the same language as the minimum; only if there are none, at any language. Condition doesn't matter. So a cheaper copy in another language can be skipped. Tick "Same language only" to see only same-language comparisons.

Condition isn't used to pick the next best price, so a Played minimum can be compared with a Near Mint copy: part of the gap is just the normal price difference between conditions. Check the conditions on CardTrader, or pick the ones you want in Advanced filters. Our ranking also penalizes worn copies (see below).

With a score between 0 and 1, the product of four numbers:

score = d × S × A × C

d = 1 - minimum / next best      the discount
S = saving / (saving + 10 €)     how much the saving matters
A = 100 € / (100 € + minimum)    how affordable the card is
C = condition of the cheapest copy

• d is the discount: 0.67 if you pay 10 € instead of 30 €.
• S is 0 when you save nothing, 1/2 when you save 10 €, and gets close to 1 for big savings: the first euros saved matter a lot, the hundredth much less.
• A is about 1 for cheap cards, 1/2 for a 100 € card, 0.1 for a 900 € card. Without it the most expensive cards would always win, because they save the most euros.
• C is 1 for Mint and Near Mint, 0.9 Slightly Played, 0.75 Moderately Played, 0.6 Played, 0.45 Heavily Played, 0.3 Poor.

Deal	Condition	Score
30 € → 10 €	Near Mint	0.40
30 € → 10 €	Poor	0.12
60 € → 40 €	Near Mint	0.16
55,000 € → 33,000 €	Near Mint	0.001

"Hot right now" also only shows English cards with a same-language comparison, a minimum between 20 and 100 € and no ⚠. "Best of the week" shows the deals seen in the last 7 days without ⚠, including those already sold. The main deals table uses the sort you choose instead.

The next best price looks unrealistic: more than 5 times the reference price, or more than 20 times the minimum when there is no reference. It's often a placeholder listing (like 9,999 €), so the discount may be overstated. The minimum is still a real price. Tick "Hide ⚠ warnings" to hide these rows.

The daily price of that exact printing from Scryfall, which takes its euro prices from Cardmarket. It's never used to compute the discount. If the minimum is close to the reference, the card isn't unusually cheap: the other copies on CardTrader are just expensive.

They aren't tournament legal (different backs or gold borders), so we hide them, together with tokens and art cards. Gold-bordered World Championship Decks cards are accepted in Premodern, so they appear when you choose Premodern in the Format filter.

They appear in Best of the week. Active: still a deal at the last check. Sold or removed: the cheap listing is gone. Repriced: the listing is still there but no longer a deal, because its price changed or other listings did.

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