Best Basket Optimiser
The cheapest card is rarely the cheapest order. Postage is charged per store, so a shopping list split across five shops to save a few cents on each card routinely costs more delivered than buying the whole list from two. This works out which combination of stores actually costs least; the Best Basket guide prices one whole deck both ways.
Give it the cards you want and it searches store combinations for the lowest total including postage. Any signed-in account sees its own delivered total; with Pro it also shows the best one-store and two-store orders beside it, so you can see what splitting the order actually saves. Usually the answer is not the split with the cheapest individual cards.
Postage is each store's own checkout rate, measured for orders of different sizes and values to addresses across your market, never guessed. A store we have not measured yet is marked as an estimate, and the store's checkout is always final; the questions below cover regions, tracked and untracked letters, and free-postage thresholds in full.
The cheapest way to actually buy a whole deck or card list — not just the lowest price per card, but the lowest delivered total across US stores once each store's real postage is counted — measured from its own checkout, not guessed. Buying each card from its cheapest store usually spreads your order over a dozen stores and buries you in postage; this searches for a better split. It shows that split store by store, beside the best one-store and two-store orders: 3 plans a month with a free account, as many as you like with Pro.
Sign in to price your list, delivered
A free account shows what your list costs delivered, from how many stores, and how much less that is than buying each card's cheapest copy, plus 3 store-by-store plans a month. Pro plans without a limit.
Just want per-card prices? The deck and list pricer needs no account.
Read next
- Best Basket: Cheapest Way to Buy a DeckA worked example: pricing a whole deck as one order instead of card by card
- The Cheapest Way to Start RiftboundEvery way into the game compared on cost, from a ready-made deck to singles
- Currency Conversion Fees on Card PurchasesWhat an overseas store's currency conversion adds to the total
Frequently asked questions
Is Best Basket free?
Mostly. Any signed-in account can see its own delivered total — what the list costs delivered, from how many stores, and how much less that is than buying each card's cheapest copy separately — up to 5 times a day, and 3 full store-by-store plans a month (the best one-store and two-store orders beside it and a link for every card), shared with Buy this list and Finish this set. A plan counts only when you open it, and the allowance resets on the 1st of each month (UTC). RiftCompare Pro plans without a limit.
Does it account for shipping?
Yes — that's the whole point. Buying each card from its individual cheapest store usually spreads an order over a dozen stores and buries the saving in postage. Best Basket searches store combinations for the lowest total including each store's postage, and with Pro it also shows the best one-store and two-store orders beside it. The postage is each store's own checkout rate, measured for orders of different sizes and values to addresses across your market (in the US: New York, Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco): the store's rate name, whether its name says it's tracked, where a cheap untracked letter stops being offered, and the order value where postage goes free, if it ever does. It starts from your region and prices it at the address we measured there, or at the dearer of the two either side of it; leave it unset and it uses each store's highest. An order bigger than any we measured is marked 'from', a store we haven't measured yet is marked as an estimate, and the store's own checkout is always final.
What can I paste in?
Any decklist or card list, one card per line — with quantities ("3 Jinx, Loose Cannon") or plain names. A set code like (OGN-251) picks that exact printing. Section headers are skipped, and any line we can't match is listed back to you rather than dropped. A list is priced up to its first 200 lines, and the page tells you when yours runs past that. Signed in, you can also send your watchlist and tick "Skip copies I already own", or price what replacing your binder would cost.
Is the cheapest split guaranteed to be the cheapest possible?
It's the cheapest the search finds, not a proof — with free-shipping thresholds there's no fast exact answer. It is never dearer than buying each card's cheapest copy separately, or than the single-store and two-store orders shown beside it so you can compare. The single-store order is the cheapest one store offers; the two-store order is the cheapest split the search finds, shown only when it beats buying everything from one store. One exception: where an order is bigger than any the store's checkout was measured on and its postage was still rising with size, the search allows for it to keep rising, so an order resting on that store's 'from' figure can show a slightly lower total than the one it picks.
What does minimum condition do?
Pro lets you set the lowest condition you'll accept: Near Mint only, Lightly Played or better, or anything. Best Basket, Buy this list and the deck price watch then only use listings at or above it, so the cheapest plan can't quietly include a heavily played copy. Each line still shows its condition. If nothing at that grade is in stock, the card is shown as not covered rather than filled with a played copy. Without Pro your total counts each store's cheapest copy in any condition and tells you how many played copies that includes. A new session starts on Lightly Played or better, and your last choice is remembered.
Can Best Basket plan the rest of a set?
Yes. Choose "Finish a set" (or press "Plan the purchase" on your set checklist), pick the set and whether to count the base set or every printing we track, and it prices the cards you are missing, one copy each, with everything you own left out. You can limit it to one rarity and leave out cards dearer than a price you set. Any signed-in account sees the total, postage and store count for its own list, and can open the store-by-store plan as one of its 3 free plans a month; Pro shows it every time, at the minimum condition you set. One plan holds up to 200 cards: if you are missing more, it plans the 200 cheapest first, says how many more are not included, and offers the next 200. Cards no tracked store has in stock are listed apart and are not in the total. It prices non-foil listings only, and a set that has not been released has nothing to plan yet.
Do I need Pro just to price a list, not buy it?
No — the free deck and list pricer at /deck needs no account at all if you only want per-card prices. A free account gets 3 store-by-store plans a month; Pro is only needed for more.