MTG Deck Import

Deck import is useful because Commander decklists rarely start in a clean format. Players copy lists from Moxfield, Archidekt, Discord, tapped-out text blocks, notes apps, or screenshots they manually typed back into text. That usually means the list includes section headers, mixed quantity formats, or a few small typos. The main goal of this page is to turn that messy input into something you can review quickly without cleaning every line by hand first.

Once a list resolves, you can inspect the card groups, land count, and overall structure before you spend time goldfishing or shopping. That matters because a rough list can hide real deckbuilding issues. A deck may look like it has enough lands until you realize several lines were not read correctly, or a creature package may look deep until you notice the same card was pasted twice. Cleaning the list early gives you a much better starting point for the mana base calculator, the hypergeometric calculator, and the deck price calculator.

Start with the basic sanity checks. Look at the total card count, the land count, and the commander line if your list includes one. Commander players on Reddit often point out that a list can feel correct while still hiding small copy mistakes that change the totals in ways you would never notice by skimming the raw text. If the counts look wrong, fix that before anything else. A clean count makes every later decision more trustworthy.

After that, review the grouped sections with a deckbuilder mindset. Are your creatures, mana rocks, and interaction showing up where you expect them to be. Does the deck look overloaded with one class of card. Does the unresolved list contain one typo or does it reveal a whole copy-paste issue from an export format. This page works best when you treat it like a first pass audit. Clean the structure here, then move to card search, mulligan math, or pricing once the list actually reflects the deck you want to test.

The buy button is meant to save time, not replace judgment. It opens a store search seeded from the list you just reviewed so you can jump into availability and pricing faster. That is helpful when you already know the deck is structurally correct and you want to check whether a few missing cards are easy pickups, whether a mana base upgrade is realistic, or whether a group of staples is more expensive than expected.

Use it after you finish the import pass, not before. If the unresolved list still contains mistakes, the store search will carry that mess forward. Players comparing lists on community forums often discover that the cleanest shopping step comes after the list is verified by type and by name. If budget is your next question, the deck price calculator is usually the better next stop because it totals the whole deck before you look at individual purchases.

The page is built for normal text-based Commander decklists. It handles formats like 1 Sol Ring, 1x Sol Ring, or simple card-name lines without the quantity repeated in a special export style. It also does well with common headers such as Commander, Deck, Sideboard, Maybeboard, or category labels copied from deckbuilding sites. That matches how players actually move decklists around in the wild.

If your source list includes extra set codes, collector numbers, or notes after the card name, you may still get a good result, but it is better to paste the cleanest version possible. The goal is not to force a perfect export format. The goal is to accept the way most players actually share lists, then recover gracefully when the paste is imperfect.

A cleaned import is often the difference between vague tuning and useful tuning. Once the list is readable by card type, you can ask much better questions. Are there enough early plays. Is the ramp package dense enough. Did the removal count slip because two modal cards were carrying more weight in your head than they do on paper. Those are the same questions that show up constantly in Commander discussion threads, and they are much easier to answer when the list is grouped instead of pasted as one long wall of names.

This also helps when you are comparing versions of the same deck. Import the first version, review the shape, then swap in the second list and compare how the sections change. That is a faster way to spot whether your update really added more card draw, more cheap interaction, or a healthier mana base than relying on memory alone.