Token finder
Which tokens does your deck actually need?
Paste a decklist or import from Archidekt, Scryfall, Deckbox or TappedOut, and get every token it can create — told apart properly, so the 3/3 Beast and the 4/4 Beast are two rows and not one — with a suggested number of each to buy and your pick of printing.
Tip: every card counts — a Sword that makes Servos or a land that makes a Treasure is easy to forget.
Turning up with the right tokens
Tokens are the part of a Commander deck people forget until the moment they need one. You resolve the card, you reach for the token, and it is not in the box — so a die or a scrap of paper stands in and everyone spends the rest of the game asking what it is. Working out the list in advance takes a few minutes; working it out at the table takes the fun out of the turn.
The awkward part is that token names are not unique. Magic has printed ten different cards called Beast, sixteen called Soldier, and a great many more where the name matches but the power, colour or abilities do not. A deck running two different Beast makers usually needs two different Beast cards, and any list that groups by name will quietly tell you otherwise. This tool groups by what is actually printed on the token, which is why its rows sometimes look repetitive — they are not.
How many of each is enough?
There is no exact answer, because it depends how the game goes. What the tool does instead is read the cards making each token and reason from them: a one-shot effect that makes four Insects suggests four, a repeatable one suggests around six, and something whose count grows with your board — Krenko, or a Plant for every land — suggests a proper stack. Running a token doubler doubles the suggestion. Every row explains its own number, and you can change any of them before you buy.
Two tokens, one card
Token cards have been printed double-sided for years now, with a different token on each face — Foundations has 26 such cards, Duskmourn 32. So a shopping list that treats every token as its own purchase overstates what you actually need to buy. Where two of your tokens share a card, that is called out above the list with a link to the exact printing.
The catch worth knowing: a card only shows one face at a time. It saves room in the box and turns two purchases into one, but it cannot be both tokens on the battlefield simultaneously — so a deck making one Snake and twelve Zombies still buys twelve Zombies.
Common questions
+ − How does it know which tokens my deck makes?
Every card on Scryfall lists the tokens it creates as related parts, and that mapping comes from the same data Wizards uses to print them. The tool reads it for every card in your list, so it catches tokens from cards you might not think of as token makers — a Sword that makes Servos, or a land that makes a Treasure.
+ − Why does it list several different Beasts?
Because "Beast" is ten different cards. There is a 3/3 green one, a 4/4 green one, a 3/3 black one with deathtouch, a 5/5 green one with trample and several more, and they are not interchangeable at a table. Most token lists group by name and tell you to buy one Beast when your deck actually needs three different ones. This one groups by the token's actual identity, so each row is a distinct card to buy.
+ − How are the quantities worked out?
From the text of the cards that make each token — how many it creates at once, whether it can do it again, whether the count scales with your board, and whether your deck runs a token doubler like Parallel Lives. A card that makes one Snake but only while you control none suggests one; Krenko suggests a stack. Every number shows its reasoning and you can adjust any of them before buying.
+ − What are two-in-one token cards?
Most token cards printed in the last few years are physically double-sided, with a different token on each face — Foundations alone has 26 such cards and Duskmourn has 32. One piece of cardboard covers two of your needs, so the tool shows them above the main list with a link to that exact card.
+ − How do you know which tokens share a card?
From MTGJSON, which records how tokens are grouped onto physical products. Scryfall, which everything else here runs on, cannot answer it — it catalogues each face of a two-sided token as its own separate card and records nothing about the back. The pairing table is rebuilt weekly so new sets appear on their own.
+ − If one card has both tokens, do I still need two?
Sometimes, yes. A double-sided card only shows one side at a time, so it saves room in your deck box and turns two purchases into one, but it cannot be both tokens on the battlefield at once. If your deck makes one Snake and twelve Zombies, you still need twelve Zombies — the shared card just covers the Snake and one of them.
+ − Does the price include the tokens?
Scryfall does not carry prices for tokens, so the tool does not show a total. In practice most common tokens run between about $0.20 and $0.70 each on TCGplayer, so a full set for a deck is usually a few dollars.
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