Trade Magic: The Gathering cards with the friends you actually play with

The trade-tool layer is what turns "I see your Wrenn and Six in the binder" into "we agreed on the swap, and I'm bringing the cards Friday." MTG Burrow's MTG trade tool is the transactional half of the site: once you've found a card someone in your group owns, the trade tool handles the request, the back-and-forth, and the record of what changed hands. It works inside an existing playgroup — the people you already trade Magic cards with — instead of pairing you with strangers.

This page is for the mechanics of trading. If you haven't yet uploaded your collection or browsed your friends' cards, start at the digital trade binder, which is the layer underneath this one. The binder is what makes everyone's collection visible. The trade tool is what moves cards from one binder to another.

Send and track MTG trade requests with your group

A trade request on MTG Burrow starts with a card you want and a card you're offering. Search the group binder, click propose a trade, pick what you'd give in exchange, and send. The other player gets a notification, can counter or accept, and the trade lives as a tracked record on both accounts until you mark it complete after the in-person handoff. No more text-thread archaeology to remember which deal was offering which Cyclonic Rift. The MTG trade request app keeps the conversation tied to the specific cards, not buried in chat.

The MTG trade tracker view collects every active and historical trade in one place. You can see who you owe a card to, who owes you, and which trades are still pending pickup. For groups that trade often — weekly Commander pods, draft leagues, regular game-night crews — the trade history becomes a useful low-key ledger of who has helped you finish which deck.

Built for free trading inside your playgroup

There is no commission on trades. There is no marketplace fee. There is no shipping address (the trades happen in person at game night). The trade tool exists because it makes trading among friends easier, not because it monetizes the volume. Trade MTG with playgroup members the way you already do — face to face, at the table — but with a tool that remembers what was agreed.

This is also why MTG Burrow's positioning differs from TCGplayer or Cardsphere. Those are excellent transactional marketplaces for trading with strangers; they need escrow, feedback systems, and shipping integration because the trust layer is missing. Inside a playgroup, the trust layer is already there — you'll see the other player on Friday. The tool you need is much smaller: a way to propose, a way to confirm, and a record of what was agreed. That's what the MTG trade tool here provides, and nothing more.

Find groups to trade with: MTG playgroup search

If you're new to MTG Burrow and don't yet have a group set up, the MTG playgroup search helps you find groups to trade with. Existing playgroups can mark themselves discoverable, and you can search by location, format focus (Commander, Pauper, Modern), or trade-friendliness. New players, players who recently moved, and players whose old playgroup drifted apart can pick up trading partners through the playgroup search and start contributing to a shared binder right away.

The playgroup search is auth-gated because group privacy depends on opt-in membership, but it's how new users in particular start using the trade tool — find a group, join their binder, see their cards, send the first trade request.

Get started

Sign up for a free account to send your first trade request. Already a member? Log in to check the trade-tracker view. The trade tool depends on at least one shared binder, so you'll want to either join a group through the playgroup search or start one with friends who use the collection tracker. For a deck-driven trading workflow, the deck-build search tells you exactly which cards your decklist needs that you don't yet own. Tracking sets in parallel? The set completion tracker handles that workflow. Migrating a collection from elsewhere first? See the import page.