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Mana Pool vs. Hoard

These aren't competing products. Mana Pool is a marketplace and trade platform. Hoard is a repricing agent. And Hoard doesn't currently reprice listings on Mana Pool. Say that plainly before anything else.

By Christopher Neale, Founder at Hoard

Start with the limitation, because it decides whether the rest of this page is useful to you: Hoard does not currently reprice listings on Mana Pool. Hoard's public roadmap covers eBay, Shopify, Cardmarket, and Whatnot as future repricing targets — Mana Pool isn't one of the marketplaces on that list right now. If Mana Pool is where most of your sales happen, Hoard is not going to solve your pricing problem today. That's the honest answer, not a hedge.

With that said, Mana Pool and Hoard aren't really the same category of tool, so it's worth being clear about what each one is and who each one is actually built to serve, before getting into where the two might work side by side for a seller running both channels.

Mana Pool's job: marketplace and trade, not pricing

Mana Pool is a marketplace and trade platform for Magic players and sellers: a place to list, sell, and trade cards. It is not a repricer and doesn't claim to be one. Mana Pool has no native autopricing built into the platform itself. Sellers who want their Mana Pool listings priced automatically depend entirely on third-party tools that integrate with it: SortSwift, TCG Sync, CardCastle, and others each offer some form of Mana Pool pricing support. If you're selling primarily on Mana Pool and want automated pricing there, one of those tools — not Hoard — is what you need.

The TCGplayer side of a Mana Pool seller's business

Hoard reprices TCGplayer listings, not Mana Pool listings. If your business is TCGplayer-first with Mana Pool as a secondary or supplementary channel, Hoard covers the TCGplayer side well: scheduled automated repricing, floors and ceilings, watch-only preview, and weekly receipts on every run. Your Mana Pool listings would still need one of the tools above, or manual attention, since Hoard doesn't touch them.

If Mana Pool is your primary channel and TCGplayer is secondary or nonexistent for you, Hoard isn't the right tool for your main problem. That's not a knock on Mana Pool — it's a straightforward statement of what Hoard does and doesn't cover today.

Why the gap exists

Hoard's repricing engine is built around the TCGplayer seller API and TCGplayer's own listing model — condition, finish, and per-card pricing rules that write back to a TCGplayer store. Mana Pool runs its own listing and pricing model, and connecting to it would mean building a separate integration from scratch, not flipping a setting. That's real engineering work, and it hasn't happened yet. Naming it here instead of glossing over it is the point of this page.

The sellers Hoard is built for today are ones whose main storefront, sales history, and buyer base sit on TCGplayer. If your customers are actually on Mana Pool rather than TCGplayer, the third-party tools listed above are already doing the job Hoard would need to do for you.

Feature Mana Pool Hoard
What it is Marketplace and trade platform Repricing agent
Native autopricing No Yes, for TCGplayer
Reprices Mana Pool listings Via third-party tools only No, not currently
Reprices TCGplayer listings No Yes
Where to price Mana Pool listings today SortSwift, TCG Sync, CardCastle, others Not supported
Fee model Marketplace fees on Mana Pool sales Flat monthly by sync frequency, TCGplayer only

Which one you actually need

If you sell mostly on TCGplayer and Mana Pool is a smaller, secondary channel, Hoard handles the part of your business that carries the most listings and the most pricing work — your TCGplayer store — while your Mana Pool listings stay on manual pricing or whatever tool you're already using there. If Mana Pool carries most of your sales volume, look at the tools built for it, not at Hoard.

Hoard doesn't have a fixed timeline for Mana Pool support to announce here — the roadmap items with public commitments are eBay, Shopify, Cardmarket, and Whatnot. If that changes, this page will change with it.

In the meantime, running two tools for two channels isn't unusual for sellers who list in more than one place. There's no conflict in pricing TCGplayer with Hoard and Mana Pool with SortSwift or TCG Sync at the same time — they're scoped to different marketplaces and don't touch each other's listings.

If TCGplayer is your primary channel, see what Hoard does with it

Connect your TCGplayer store and look at market coverage, underpriced listings, and movers before any price changes. Your Mana Pool listings are untouched either way.

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