Board game card templates

Event, item, encounter and rule-reference card layouts sized to match the rest of your box. Open one in ShuffleKit and it becomes your project, with a column behind every field on the card.

Card size
Poker, 2.5 × 3.5 in (750 × 1050 at 300 DPI)
Includes
Four card types, a shared back, and a sample deck
Fields
Name, artwork, type, cost, keywords, effect, two values
Output
Edit in the browser, export PNG, SVG or a print PDF

The template

Broadsheet Event and Item Card Template preview
Broadsheet Event and Item Card Templateby ShuffleKit

Broadsheet Event and Item Card Template

by ShuffleKit

A flat two-colour board game card set: event, item, encounter and reference fronts with a shared back, poker sized and print-ready. Every frame is editable shapes and type rather than a flattened image, so the palette is yours to change. Comes with a six-card sample deck.

5 designs6 sample cards9 fields

Fields you get: Name, Artwork, Subtitle, Cost, Traits, Description, Flavor Text, Attack, Defense

Use this template free

From this template to a boxed deck

A board game's cards are rarely one kind of card. These templates are built as a set, so the event, item and encounter fronts share a grid and a back and still read as different cards on the table.

  1. Add the template to a project

    Free, and it copies the four fronts, the back, the fields and the sample cards into a project of your own.

  2. Put your cards in the sheet

    One row per card. Type them in, or import the CSV you have been balancing in a spreadsheet and map your column names onto the template's.

  3. Point each card at the design it belongs on

    Right-click a design and use it for the cards that match a column value, so every event card draws on the event front and every item on the item front without touching them one at a time.

  4. Print the deck

    A print-ready PDF with bleed and cut lines for a home printer, or send the deck to a print-on-demand partner from inside the project.

What size are board game cards?

Poker is the safe answer and what these templates use: it is what card sleeves, deck boxes and print-on-demand partners are cut for. The smaller sizes are worth knowing about if the cards have to share an insert with something else.

CardInchesMillimetresPixels at 300 DPI
Poker — these templates, and most board games2.5 × 3.563.5 × 88.9750 × 1050
Bridge — for hands of a dozen cards or more2.25 × 3.557.2 × 88.9675 × 1050
Mini — player aids, tokens, money1.75 × 2.544.5 × 63.5525 × 750
Tarot — one card per player, read at arm's length2.75 × 4.7569.9 × 120.7825 × 1425

A print-on-demand partner will ask for an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge on top of these numbers — 825 × 1125 for a poker card. Mixing two sizes in one box is normal; mixing two sizes in one deck is not, because they cannot be shuffled together.

Every card size, with the bleed figures

Prefer a blank file?

Poker size at print resolution, with the cut line and safe zone on their own layer. No account needed.

Questions about board game card templates

Everything you need to know before getting started.

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Are these board game card templates free?

Yes. Adding a template to your project is free, and so is editing it. Paid plans cover higher export volumes and printing, not access to the templates.

Can one project hold event, item and encounter cards at once?

Yes, and that is what this set is for. The designs live side by side in one project, and each card draws on the design that matches it, so the whole deck exports in one pass.

Can I change the colours?

Yes. The frames are shapes and type rather than a flattened picture of a frame, so the plates, rules and panels are ordinary elements you can recolour, move or delete.

Can I import the cards from a spreadsheet?

Yes. Import a CSV and map your columns onto the template's fields, and every row becomes a card on the design.

How do I print them?

Export a print-ready PDF with bleed and cut lines and print it on cardstock, or send the deck to a print-on-demand partner from inside ShuffleKit and get cut, sleeved-size cards back.

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