Buylist prices are what stores and vendors will pay you for your cards, and they are typically 40 to 60 percent of the retail market price. If you are looking to sell cards to a vendor rather than to another player, knowing buylist prices before you walk into a store or submit an online order saves time and helps you make informed decisions about which cards are worth selling versus holding.

TCGPlayer's app naturally surfaces buylist information from its own marketplace. If a card has active buylist offers from TCGPlayer Direct or from stores on the TCGPlayer platform, you can see those offers alongside the retail price. This is useful if you plan to sell through TCGPlayer's buylist program, but it only covers the TCGPlayer ecosystem.

Card Kingdom is the other major buylist destination for Magic players, and their buylist prices are often more competitive than TCGPlayer's, especially for staples and format-playable cards. Some scanner apps reference Card Kingdom pricing data, though direct buylist integration is less common. Checking Card Kingdom's buylist manually for high-value cards is still a worthwhile step when preparing a sell list.

Lotus Scan provides market price data from major sources, giving you a baseline to estimate what buylist offers might look like. As a general rule, expect buylist prices to be roughly half of the TCGPlayer market price for standard cards, with better percentages on high-demand staples and worse percentages on casual or bulk cards. Having the market price from your scanner gives you the reference point to quickly evaluate whether a store's buylist offer is fair.

When preparing cards for buylist submission, scan your entire trade or sell pile first to get total market value, then calculate an expected buylist total at roughly 50 percent. This gives you a realistic expectation before you start submitting to buylists. Cards where the buylist-to-retail ratio is above 60 percent are usually in high demand and worth selling to vendors immediately.

For the best results, compare buylist prices across multiple vendors before committing. Card Kingdom, TCGPlayer, CoolStuffInc, and local game stores may all offer different rates on the same card. The time spent comparing is often worth it on cards valued above $10, where even small percentage differences translate to meaningful dollar amounts.