Fetchland

Six months after a set comes out, the singles get cheap and the fun buy is a pile of the good cards — the rares, the mythics, the extended-art versions with the better frames. Getting them means opening TCGplayer and clicking cards one at a time, watching prices, keeping a running total in your head. Both TCGplayer and Card Kingdom will take a pasted list and fill a cart from it. Neither will write the list.

Tell it a set and a budget

Bloomburrow, rares and mythics, extended art where it exists, fifty dollars. Fetchland reads current prices for every printing from Scryfall, picks the combination that fits the most cards under budget, and hands back the list in the store's own bulk-import format — plain text, so it works at a local shop too. You set the terms: which rarities, a per-card cap, and how you feel about the fancy printings — always take the variant, never, or take it when it costs less than a quarter more.

58 cards for $49.16

Try it

It's rough, it's a single page, and it does the real thing — the list it produces has been pasted into TCGplayer and accepted. Free, no account, nothing to install.

The hard part was what cards are called

Scryfall and TCGplayer disagree about a card's name in four separate ways, each disagreement living in a different place in the data. Extended-art cards carry the treatment in the name. Double-faced cards use only the front face. Phyrexian-language printings are named for the language, not the frame. Etched foils stack a second label on top of the first. Every one of those silently rejects the whole line, and none of them turn up by reading documentation.