Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Scryfall

The 20 closest trading card database alternatives to Scryfall, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Scryfall? The closest matches are TCGplayer, BoardGameGeek and Wowhead. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Scryfall

Scryfall scryfall.com

Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Search

A fast, powerful, comprehensive Magic: The Gathering card search.

Wikidata: unofficial search engine for Magic: The Gathering cards

Top 10K · #3,963 English 8 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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Summary by Claude

A searchable database of Magic: The Gathering cards with advanced query syntax, set listings, card images, prices and previews of upcoming sets, plus a public API.

Who it’s for
Magic: The Gathering players and collectors
Business model
Affiliate links and advertising

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Scryfall’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

QuizletEventbriteGiphyLiquipediaWowheadBoardGameGeekTCGplayer

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Scryfall

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Scryfall, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    TCGplayer tcgplayer.com Top 10K English

    Your Trusted Marketplace for Collectible Trading Card Games - TCGplayer

    Buy Magic: The Gathering Cards, Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards, Pokémon Cards, One Piece CCG, Digimon TCG, Flesh and Blood, Lorcana, CCG Supplies, and more.

  2. 02
    BoardGameGeek boardgamegeek.com Top 10K English

    online database of board games, game designers and game publishers worldwide

  3. 03
    Wowhead wowhead.com Top 10K English

    World of Warcraft News and Guides

    The largest World of Warcraft (WoW) information site, featuring guides, news, and information on classes, gearing, professions, raids, transmog, and more.

  4. 04
    setlist.fm Top 10K

    setlist.fm - the setlist wiki

    Over 10,680,000 concert setlists of more than 481,400 artists including tour and song statistics, personal statistics, videos and much more.

  5. 05
    Liquipedia liquipedia.net Top 10K English

    Liquipedia

    esports encyclopedia

  6. 06
    Giphy giphy.com Top 10K English

    GIPHY - Be Animated

    GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.

  7. 07
    Gartner gartner.com Top 10K

    company

  8. 08
    Metal Archives metal-archives.com Top 10K

    Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives

    website on heavy metal bands

  9. 09
    CoinGecko coingecko.com Top 10K

    Challenge Verification | CoinGecko

    crypto market website

  10. 10
    The Pirate Bay thepiratebay.org Top 10K English

    Download music, movies, games, software! The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site

    Download music, movies, games, software and much more. The Pirate Bay is the galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site.

  11. 11

    DDoS-Guard

  12. 12
    Google google.com Top 100 German

    Google

    search engine by Google LLC

  13. 13
    Eventbrite eventbrite.com Top 1K English

    Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do

    Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do

  14. 14
    JustWatch justwatch.com Top 10K German

    JustWatch - The Streaming Guide

    All your streaming services in one app.

  15. 15
    Quizlet quizlet.com Top 10K English

    Captcha Challenge…

    online studying platform

  16. 16
    MyAnimeList myanimelist.net Top 10K English

    MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community

    Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!

  17. 17
    Jusbrasil jusbrasil.com.br Top 10K Portuguese

    Jusbrasil

    Brazilian company

  18. 18
    kayak.com Top 10K English

    Search Flights, Hotels & Rental Cars | KAYAK

    KAYAK searches hundreds of other travel sites at once to find the information you need to make the right decisions on flights, hotels & rental cars.

  19. 19
    MyDramaList mydramalist.com Top 10K English

    Asian film and drama database

  20. 20
    1337x 1337x.to Top 10K English

    website that provides a directory of torrent files and magnet links used for peer-to-peer file sharing

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to scryfall.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Scryfall uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Scryfall is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

Analytics
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Email hosting
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Email delivery
  • Postmark TXT v=spf1 include:spf.mtasv.net include:spf.messagingengine.com ~all
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=-EhUP9EEavEDBJx1h3lrSVvO5bpGk5fsO66Muq-QYCU
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=GEG4Kmzvu2RnomWRd3BHhqXxm8CnIbnmdtSUtqXCPEo

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