MTG Scanner - Dragon Shield

Dragon Shield

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About this app

Dragon Shield - MTG Scanner & Card Manager is the ultimate app for Magic: The Gathering players, collectors, and traders. Instantly scan Magic cards in any language, check real-time prices, build competitive MTG decks, and track your collection’s value over time.
Whether you’re a casual player or a seasoned competitor, this app gives you everything you need to master your Magic experience.

Social & Friends
- Add and connect with friends in the app
- View friends’ collections, decks, wishlists, and trade lists
- Share your own lists and discover cards through your network

Scan & Identify Cards
- Instantly scan cards in any language with advanced image recognition
- Get real-time translations of foreign-language cards
- Check up-to-date prices from TCGPlayer and CardMarket
- Track 30-day card price history with interactive charts
- Access format legality, oracle text, and official rulings

Collection Manager
- Organize your Magic cards into custom folders with images
- Track collection value and monitor price changes over time
- Export collections to csv or text for backups and trades
- Use powerful filters such as set, color, mana cost or rarity
- Built-in card price tracker for your entire MTG collection

Deck Builder
- Build and manage MTG decks with full sideboard support
- Add cards directly from your collection
- Export decks to csv or text for tournaments or sharing
- Analyze deck stats: mana curve, color balance, card types, and more
- Perfect for both casual deck building and competitive play

Trade Smarter
- Compare trade values instantly between players
- See who’s ahead in the trade and by how much
- Use wishlists and trade lists to organize deals

Price Trends
- Track Magic cards rising or falling in value
- Filter by format, set, or time range
- Monitor winners and losers directly from your own collection

Weekly Collection Emails
- Receive automatic weekly summaries of your collection
- Stay updated on value changes, additions, and pricing trends

Dragon Shield – MTG Scanner & Card Manager is built for collectors, traders, and competitive players alike. Scan, price, trade, and build decks — all in one app, powered by Dragon Shield.

Ratings and reviews

This app went pay or else. they updated the scanner tool and added a "pro" version that you have to pay for. They then edited the basic one so that it does not work nearly as well. I get adding new functions and what not, but making the old version intentionally bad, ya that is not customer focused. I will be switching to another app, as this one has sucked for a while but I kept with them trying to by loyal, but they do not feel the same.

Until recently, the app was great, but flawed. As of the last update, the push for Premium is so obnoxious, so intrusive, that after every 10 or so cards you get a 10 second unskippable premium ad that you have to interact with to dismiss. That, and missing cards such as a basic 2/2 zombie creature token, makes this an absolutely unusable option for inventorying purposes unless you're willing to fork over $3/month for an experience you had before they pay-walled it to strongarm cash out of you.

I want to love this app, but...it's difficult. Without premium you get a ton of ads, which is tolerable, they're not too intrusive and they're just for premium. The main issue I have is after 2 weeks of use I've had 3 desynchronizations requiring uninstalling and reinstalling to sync correctly again. I've slowly scanned in thousands of cards and it's depressing to load the app back up to see nothing but zeros. Easy to use, convenient to look up cards, but connection issues are a problem.

What’s new

Improved Fast Scanner performance
Improved Stability