Getting started as a Mana Pool seller: listings, pricing, orders and keeping stock in sync
Mana Pool is a marketplace for Magic: The Gathering singles where buyers fill a cart across many sellers and compare on price. That shapes everything about selling there: your listings need to be exact, your prices need to move, and your stock needs to be right. This guide walks through the set-up.
How buyers use Mana Pool
A typical buyer builds a decklist, lets the site find the sellers who have the cards, and optimises for total cost including shipping. Being the cheapest copy of a card in the condition the buyer wants is what gets you into the cart. Having the rest of the buyer’s list in stock is what gets you the whole order. Breadth of inventory and sharp, current prices matter more than presentation.
Set up in an afternoon
- Open a seller account and get your API keyComplete Mana Pool’s seller onboarding, then copy your seller API key from the seller dashboard. The key is how inventory tools publish on your behalf.
- Build your inventory onceImport your binder from Manabox, Collectr or a TCGplayer collection export, or import your existing Mana Pool inventory CSV if you already sell there. Every row should be an exact printing with a condition and finish.
- Price against Mana Pool lowMana Pool buyers sort by price, so your reference is the current low in each condition. Set a floor first so a rule never chases a card below your cost to ship it.
- Connect and publishPaste the API key into LGSTome under Settings → Mana Pool, test the connection, then choose Mana Pool in the publish dialog. The preview shows every create, update and removal before it is sent.
- Turn on nightly repricingSet the schedule and rules once. Prices move with the market overnight and the changes publish to Mana Pool on their own.
Orders and shipping
Mana Pool orders sync into LGSTome, decrement inventory and appear alongside your Shopify and eBay orders. Mark them processing, print a packing slip and envelope, buy a USPS label or enter tracking, then mark shipped. Small orders of cheap singles go in a plain #10 envelope; anything valuable should get tracking. Orders you cannot fill can be marked replaced so the buyer is handled promptly.
Selling on Mana Pool and elsewhere at the same time
Most Mana Pool sellers also list on eBay or run a Shopify store. The moment the same copy is in two places you can sell it twice. Keep one inventory, let every sale reduce it and let the tool withdraw the copy from the other marketplaces automatically. A daily audit that reads back what Mana Pool advertises and corrects any oversell closes the remaining gap. The overselling guide explains the mechanics.
What to automate first
- Repricing. It is the single biggest lever on a price-sorted marketplace and the most tedious to do by hand.
- Delisting on sale. Second biggest, because it removes the refund conversations.
- Label buying and tracking. Batch labels for the day and let tracking flow back rather than pasting it in per order.
Try this with your own binder. LGSTome is free for your first 1,000 cards.
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