🃏 Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Card Scraper

If you run a card shop, build MTG price trackers, or manage a large collection, this tool pulls structured Magic: The Gathering card data fast. Search by color, type, format, mana cost, set, or any Scryfall search syntax and get back clean records with images, prices, legalities, and oracle text.

The Scryfall MTG Scraper collects Magic: The Gathering cards with names, mana costs, types, rarities, set info, pricing in USD/EUR/Tix, format legalities, oracle text, and card images.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🃏 Card details - names, mana costs, type lines, power/toughness, loyalty, and oracle text
• 💰 Live prices - USD, USD foil, EUR, and MTGO Tix values for every printing
• 🎨 Card images - high quality card art URLs ready to embed or download
• 📜 Format legalities - Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Pauper, Brawl
• 🔍 Advanced search - use Scryfall's full search syntax for precise targeting
• 📊 Set info - collector numbers, release dates, artists, and set codes
• 🏆 EDHREC ranking - see how popular a card is in Commander decks

🔧 Input

• Search Query - any Scryfall query string (e.g. t:creature c:red, name:phoenix, pow>=5)
• Set Code - filter by a specific set (e.g. mh3, neo, bro)
• Format - only cards legal in Standard, Modern, Commander, etc.
• Sort Order - release date, name, mana cost, price, EDHREC rank, and more
• Max Items - free users get 10 cards, paid users up to 1,000,000

{
    "query": "t:creature c:red",
    "format": "commander",
    "order": "edhrec",
    "maxItems": 100
}

📊 Output

Each card record contains 35+ fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

📌 Field	📄 Description
🖼️ imageUrl	Normal card art URL
📝 name	Card name
🔮 manaCost	Mana cost symbols
🧙 typeLine	Full type line (e.g. "Creature - Dragon")
📜 oracleText	Card rules text
⚔️ power	Power value (creatures)
🛡️ toughness	Toughness value (creatures)
💎 rarity	common, uncommon, rare, mythic
📦 set	Set code
💵 priceUsd	Current USD price
💶 priceEur	Current EUR price
✅ legalStandard	Legal status in Standard
👑 legalCommander	Legal status in Commander
🎨 artist	Card illustrator
📈 edhrecRank	EDHREC popularity rank

{
    "imageUrl": "https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/...",
    "name": "Lightning Bolt",
    "manaCost": "{R}",
    "cmc": 1,
    "typeLine": "Instant",
    "oracleText": "Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.",
    "colors": ["R"],
    "rarity": "common",
    "set": "m11",
    "setName": "Magic 2011",
    "priceUsd": 1.49,
    "priceEur": 0.92,
    "legalModern": "legal",
    "legalCommander": "legal",
    "artist": "Christopher Moeller",
    "edhrecRank": 45,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

💎 Why Choose the Scryfall MTG Scraper?

Feature	Our Tool	Manual Browsing
Bulk card extraction	✅ Up to 1M cards	❌ One at a time
Full Scryfall search syntax	✅ Yes	⚠️ Limited web UI
Format legalities	✅ All formats	⚠️ Must click each card
Prices in USD/EUR/Tix	✅ Included	⚠️ Scattered
Structured export	✅ JSON, CSV, Excel	❌ HTML pages
Scheduled price tracking	✅ Daily runs	❌ Not possible

📋 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Configure - enter your Scryfall search query and filters
3. Run It - click Start and get card data in seconds

No coding, no browser tabs, no manual card-by-card clicks.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 🛒 Card shops - track retail prices across the entire catalog and reprice inventory
• 💹 Price trackers - build daily snapshots of card values for investor dashboards
• 🎮 Deck builders - pull every legal card for a format to power deckbuilder apps
• 📚 Collection managers - import card metadata into your collection tracker
• 🤖 MTG bots - feed Discord bots with card lookups, prices, and images
• 📈 Market research - analyze price movements across sets, rarities, and formats

❓ FAQ

🔮 What is Scryfall? Scryfall is the largest Magic: The Gathering card database, covering every card ever printed with high resolution images, prices, and rulings.

🔍 Can I use Scryfall's advanced search syntax? Yes. The query field accepts the full Scryfall syntax, including things like t:creature c:red cmc<=3, name:phoenix, legal:commander, set:mh3, and more.

💰 How current are the prices? Prices update daily from TCGplayer, Cardmarket, and MTGO Cardhoarder, so each run pulls the latest values.

📦 Can I filter to just one set? Yes. Use the Set Code field (e.g. mh3 for Modern Horizons 3) or include set:mh3 in the query.

🎨 Are card images included? Yes. Every card comes with an image URL in the imageUrl field.

🔗 Integrate Scryfall MTG Scraper with any app

• Make - automate card data syncs
• Zapier - trigger price alerts
• Slack - post new card releases to a channel
• Google Sheets - maintain a card inventory spreadsheet
• Webhooks - trigger workflows on completion

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🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify documentation for platform guides
• Contact us at Tally contact form

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Scryfall, Wizards of the Coast, or Magic: The Gathering. It collects only publicly available card data.