Head-to-head · Magic singles finders

KC Card Finder vs the big national finders

Both tools do one thing: type a Magic card, see which local game store has it in stock. One is yours, built for the Kansas City metro. One is a national site with 1,200+ stores. Here is the honest, tested comparison.

Yours: drwu-htmls.vercel.app/kc-card-finder Theirs: the big national card finders

Two kinds of websites help you find a Magic card at a store near you. One is yours, made just for Kansas City. The other kind works all over the country. This page shows what each one is good at. Yours knows more Kansas City shops. The big ones work in more cities and have a smarter search box.

The verdict

The big national finders are the stronger general product. Your KC Card Finder is the stronger local one. The big national finders win on reach and search power: 1,200+ stores across the US and Canada, full Scryfall query syntax with set, color, and type filters, and streaming live results. For a Kansas City player specifically, your tool reaches 7 local shops those finders cannot (3 live stores they never added, plus 4 that run on no supported e-commerce platform, which you cover with a direct store search). It also carries a watchlist with price-drop and restock badges, MO/KS side filters, exact-printing display, a listing-error price flag, and phone install. Update, July 2 2026: the 3 KC-area stores those finders had and you lacked are now in your tool. Poke Plug is live singles inventory; Victory Road and Gamers Getaway are added as search-only, because on testing they sell no MTG singles online (Victory Road carries Pokemon singles plus MTG sealed, Gamers Getaway carries graded slabs plus sealed). You now cover every KC store it reaches, plus 7 more. The one gap left to close is search power.

KC Card Finder

dimensions won

Big national finders

dimensions won

Even

roughly tied

Scorecard

Fifteen dimensions. Tap a filter to see only where each tool wins.

This chart shows what each website is good at. Teal means yours is better. Red means theirs is better. Tan means they are about the same.

Dimension	KC Card Finder	Big national finders	Edge
Geographic reach	Kansas City metro only, 18 curated stores	1,200+ stores across the US and Canada, 50-mile radius from any ZIP	Big finders
KC local depth	12 live-inventory stores + 6 direct-search stores = 18 in the metro	11 KC stores, all now covered by you; it still cannot reach 7 you carry	KC Finder
Card search power	Card-name autocomplete only, powered by Scryfall	Full Scryfall syntax: filter by set, color, type, and more	Big finders
Live inventory check	One API call fans out to all 12 live stores, lowest price first, exact printing shown	Streaming results across your selected stores as each responds	Even
Decklist pricing	Any format (Arena, MTGO, Moxfield, plain "4 Bolt"), cheapest local per card	Paste or import from Moxfield and Archidekt, best price per card	Even
One-store optimizer	"Fewest stops" ranks which single shop fills the most of your deck	Shows which store has the most of your cards	Even
Price transparency	Exact printing per price + a flag when a price looks like a store listing error	Straight price comparison across selected stores	KC Finder
Watchlist / alerts	Star a card, next visit badges price drops, rises, restocks, sell-outs	None; search-only, nothing saved to watch	KC Finder
Local filters	Missouri side, Kansas side, live-stock-only, and near-me distance sort	Distance radius + manual store selection	KC Finder
Store discovery	Directions + hours link per store, near-me sort	Store picker with local-pickup flag, WPN-keyed roster	Even
Platform coverage engine	5 platforms live (TCGplayer Pro, BinderPOS, Crystal Commerce, Shopify) + Google fallback	Scales across many platforms, keyed off official Wizards store IDs	Big finders
App feel	Installable PWA, kid mode, shareable ?card= deep links, recent searches	Clean web app, dark/light theme, no install path	KC Finder
Privacy	No accounts, everything in local storage	No accounts, location + store picks in local storage only	Even
Scale + polish	Solo build, single KC API	Funded-looking: analytics, CDN, contact form, 1,200-store index	Big finders
Buy-anywhere fallback	TCGplayer + Scryfall links for the national marketplace	National by design; every nearby store already in one view	Big finders

Dimension

KC Card Finder

Big national finders

Edge

Geographic reach

Kansas City metro only, 18 curated stores

1,200+ stores across the US and Canada, 50-mile radius from any ZIP

Big finders

KC local depth

12 live-inventory stores + 6 direct-search stores = 18 in the metro

11 KC stores, all now covered by you; it still cannot reach 7 you carry

KC Finder

Card search power

Card-name autocomplete only, powered by Scryfall

Full Scryfall syntax: filter by set, color, type, and more

Big finders

Live inventory check

One API call fans out to all 12 live stores, lowest price first, exact printing shown

Streaming results across your selected stores as each responds

Even

Decklist pricing

Any format (Arena, MTGO, Moxfield, plain "4 Bolt"), cheapest local per card

Paste or import from Moxfield and Archidekt, best price per card

Even

One-store optimizer

"Fewest stops" ranks which single shop fills the most of your deck

Shows which store has the most of your cards

Even

Price transparency

Exact printing per price + a flag when a price looks like a store listing error

Straight price comparison across selected stores

KC Finder

Watchlist / alerts

Star a card, next visit badges price drops, rises, restocks, sell-outs

None; search-only, nothing saved to watch

KC Finder

Local filters

Missouri side, Kansas side, live-stock-only, and near-me distance sort

Distance radius + manual store selection

KC Finder

Store discovery

Directions + hours link per store, near-me sort

Store picker with local-pickup flag, WPN-keyed roster

Even

Platform coverage engine

5 platforms live (TCGplayer Pro, BinderPOS, Crystal Commerce, Shopify) + Google fallback

Scales across many platforms, keyed off official Wizards store IDs

Big finders

App feel

Installable PWA, kid mode, shareable ?card= deep links, recent searches

Clean web app, dark/light theme, no install path

KC Finder

Privacy

No accounts, everything in local storage

No accounts, location + store picks in local storage only

Even

Scale + polish

Solo build, single KC API

Funded-looking: analytics, CDN, contact form, 1,200-store index

Big finders

Buy-anywhere fallback

TCGplayer + Scryfall links for the national marketplace

National by design; every nearby store already in one view

Big finders

KC store coverage, store by store

Tested live against a national finder's own store-locator API from downtown Kansas City. After the July 2 update, your tool is a superset: every store it reaches, plus 7 more.

This list shows every Kansas City game shop. A green check means the website knows that shop. A red X means it does not. Yours knows some shops theirs is missing. Theirs knows a few shops yours is missing.

Store	City	KC Card Finder	Big finders
Level One Game Shop	Kansas City, MO	Live ✓	✓
Game Cafe	Independence, MO	Live ✓	✓
Spanky's Card Shop	Kansas City, MO	Live ✓	✓
Collector's Cache	Lenexa, KS	Live ✓	✓
Pulp Fiction Comics & Games	Lee's Summit, MO	Live ✓	✓
MindGames and Magic	Lee's Summit, MO	Live ✓	✓
Larry's Game Store	Olathe, KS	Live ✓	✓
Game Nut	Lawrence, KS	Live ✓	✓
The Geekery	Shawnee, KS	Live ✓	✗ missing
Gators Games and Hobby	Leavenworth, KS	Live ✓	✗ missing
Mission: Board Games	Mission, KS	Live ✓	✗ missing
TableTop Game & Hobby	Overland Park, KS	Search ✓	✗ not on a supported platform
Cardboard Corner Cafe	Overland Park, KS	Search ✓	✗ not on a supported platform
A to Z Comics	Blue Springs, MO	Search ✓	✗ not on a supported platform
Dragon's Hoard	Lawrence, KS	Search ✓	✗ not on a supported platform
Poke Plug NEW	Blue Springs, MO	Live ✓	✓
Victory Road NEW	Overland Park, KS	Search ✓ no MTG singles online	✓
Gamers Getaway KC NEW	Independence, MO	Search ✓ no MTG singles online	✓

Green rows: shops only your tool reaches. The 3 marked NEW were just added, so the big national finders now reach nothing your tool does not. You cover 7 local shops they cannot.

What to add next

Here is a short to-do list to make your website even better.

Done, July 2: Poke Plug is now live singles inventory (native Shopify, verified in-stock pricing). Victory Road and Gamers Getaway are added as search-only, because testing showed they sell no MTG singles online. Your tool now lists every store the big finders reach. shipped
Add Scryfall advanced search: let a user filter by set, color, or type, not only card name. This is the big finders' clearest single advantage over you. biggest feature gap
Stream results progressively so each store shows the moment it answers, instead of waiting on the whole batch. The big finders use an availability stream for this.
Keep what they lack: the watchlist with drop/restock badges, MO/KS side filters, exact-printing display, the listing-error price flag, the search-only fallback stores, and phone install. These are real reasons a KC player picks yours.
Consider a store-request link like theirs, so a shop owner can ask to be added.