When Does Best Buy Restock MTG? Real Monitor Data
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Home · Restock data · Magic: The Gathering
First-party data · updated October 12, 2026

Best Buy restocks Magic: The Gathering
most often at 11AM.

Swooper's monitors watched Best Buy's Magic: The Gathering inventory for 60 days and recorded 316 restock detections. 37% landed overnight (10PM–6AM ET). Here's every number, and what it means for when you should be watching.

316restocks detected
37%between 10PM–6AM ET
11AMpeak hour
60days monitored
By hour

Every detection, by hour of day.

Eastern time. The overnight cluster is the finding, plus a smaller midday wave around 11AM, when Best Buy's daytime inventory sync flips stock back on.

1012A
21
21
123A
7
8
6A
6
7
79A
11
27
1312P
12
15
143P
12
15
136P
18
16
149P
15
18

Hour of day (ET) · 316 detections · red = the overnight window (10PM–6AM)

How to read this A restock here is Best Buy's site flipping an item from out-of-stock to purchasable. The waves are small and sell through fast: the hour a wave lands matters more than how many land in a day.
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The products

What actually restocked.

Every Magic: The Gathering product our monitors caught in the window, ranked by how many times it came back in stock. Prices are Best Buy list prices as our monitors reported them.

Magic: The Gathering - The Hobbit Scene Box (1 Scene Box per Order) - Styles May Vary Magic: The Gathering - The Hobbit Scene Box (1 Scene Box per Order) - Styles May Vary$41.99 154restocks Magic: The Gathering Reality Fracture - Collector Booster Box (12 Packs) Magic: The Gathering Reality Fracture - Collector Booster Box (12 Packs)N/A 75restocks Magic: The Gathering - The Hobbit Collector Booster Box (12 Packs) Magic: The Gathering - The Hobbit Collector Booster Box (12 Packs)$449.99 67restocks Magic: The Gathering Wilds of Eldraine Set Booster Box (30 Packs) Magic: The Gathering Wilds of Eldraine Set Booster Box (30 Packs)$174.99 9restocks Magic: The Gathering Star Trek Collector Booster Box (12 Packs) Magic: The Gathering Star Trek Collector Booster Box (12 Packs)$479.99 5restocks Magic: The Gathering - The Hobbit Collector Booster Magic: The Gathering - The Hobbit Collector BoosterN/A 1restock Magic: The Gathering Avatar: The Last Airbender Commander’s Bundle Magic: The Gathering Avatar: The Last Airbender Commander’s BundleN/A 1restock Magic: The Gathering Reality Fracture - Play Booster Sleeve Magic: The Gathering Reality Fracture - Play Booster SleeveN/A 1restock MTG Marvel Super Heroes Collector Booster Box (12 Packs) MTG Marvel Super Heroes Collector Booster Box (12 Packs)N/A 1restock Magic: The Gathering Secrets of Strixhaven Collector Booster Magic: The Gathering Secrets of Strixhaven Collector Booster$29.99 1restock Magic: The Gathering Secrets of Strixhaven Collector Booster Box (12 Packs) Magic: The Gathering Secrets of Strixhaven Collector Booster Box (12 Packs)$309.99 1restock

Tap any product to view it on Best Buy.

The restock clock

Every weekday, every hour: one map.

All 316 detections mapped weekday × hour, Eastern time. The darker the cell, the more restocks landed there. The dark band is where alarms belong.

Darker = more restocks · the outlined cell is the peak · swipe sideways for all 24 hours

Methodology

How this was measured.

  • Source. Swooper's monitoring stack: our Best Buy monitor's real-time alert feed, logging a detection the moment an item becomes purchasable (including preorder slots reopening, which Best Buy uses heavily). Only confirmed restock events are counted; status changes and new-listing discoveries are excluded.
  • Window. August 14, 2026 – October 12, 2026 (60-day monitoring window).
  • Sample. 316 Magic: The Gathering restock detections across 11 tracked Magic: The Gathering products, 11 of which restocked at least once.
  • Timezone. All times converted to US Eastern.
  • What it is not. This measures online inventory flips at bestbuy.com for the Magic: The Gathering products Swooper tracks, not in-store stocking, and not the entire catalogue.

Numbers refresh as the monitors keep running. Using this in a video or article? Please cite swooperhq.com/restock-data/best-buy-magic, free to reference with attribution.

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