Trading card templates for your own TCG

Editable TCG card layouts with the fields a trading card actually needs: name, type line, rules text, flavour text, a cost strip and stat plates. Open one in ShuffleKit and it becomes your project, with the columns already wired to the design.

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Card size
Poker, 2.5 × 3.5 in (750 × 1050 at 300 DPI)
Includes
Card fronts, a matching back, and a sample deck
Fields
Name, artwork, type, cost, rules, flavour, stats
Output
Edit in the browser, export PNG, SVG or a print PDF

18 templates

Quillspire Trading Card Template preview
QuillspireTrading Card

A free trading card template with a classic frame: Creature and Spell fronts and a matching back at poker size, printable blank or filled in. Each card has a name bar with the cost in a disc, a picture window, a type line with a rarity gem, a rules box with flavour text, attack and defense plates, and a set code and card number. Every word sits on a cream plate, so it prints cleanly and takes a pen, or type your cards into the sheet and print them finished. The border takes each card’s faction colour, six of them, and the gem its rarity. Comes with a 24-card sample deck for an original game: creatures and spells with real, playable rules text.

3 designs24 sample cards11 fields
Penwhistle Blank Trading Card Template preview
PenwhistleBlank Trading Card

A free blank trading card template to print and fill in by hand, or to fill in on screen, with a character trading card beside it. The Classic card has a name plate, a cost ring, a picture window, a type line, a text box and Attack and Defense boxes, and while its text box is empty it prints ruled lines to write on. The Character card is for one character: a tall portrait, the name on a banner, a title, Power, Speed and Smarts, and a short bio. The border takes the card's element colour, fire, water, earth, air or shadow, and a card with no element prints a soft grey frame that copies well in black and white. Comes with eight sample cards of invented creatures, four of each kind.

3 designs8 sample cards11 fields
Emberwatch Fantasy Trading Card Template preview
EmberwatchFantasy Trading Card · 39 installs

A dark-fantasy trading card set: six faction frames and a shared back, poker sized and print-ready. Comes with a four-card sample deck you can edit, print or replace.

7 designs4 sample cards8 fields
Filigree Fantasy Card Game Template preview
FiligreeFantasy Card Game

An ornate navy-and-gold fantasy card set: creature, spell, item and domain fronts with a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. Every frame is editable shapes and type rather than a flattened image, so the gilt and the field are yours to recolour. Comes with a seven-card sample deck.

5 designs7 sample cards8 fields
Hardpoint Mecha Trading Card Template preview
HardpointMecha Trading Card

A flat comic mecha set: three unit fronts, a tactic front and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. Milled armour plate, a clipped name banner, a cost strip on the type line and an ATK / DEF bar either side of the unit's class. Every frame is editable shapes and type rather than a flattened image, so the steel and the faction colour are yours to change. Comes with a six-card sample deck.

5 designs6 sample cards8 fields
Delve Pixel Art Trading Card Template preview
DelvePixel Art Trading Card

A pixel art dungeon set: monster, hero, loot and spell fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. Each frame is drawn on a 6px grid as editable shapes, not a flattened image, so it stays crisp at any export size and its colour is one fill to change. A round artwork window on the monster card and a full-width 4:3 one on the other three, a type line with a gem, parchment abilities with a rarity line, and ATK and DEF plates. Comes with a six-card sample deck.

5 designs6 sample cards7 fields
Paragon Superhero Card Game Template preview
ParagonSuperhero Card Game · 31 installs

A comic book superhero set: hero, villain, ally and event fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. Each frame is built from editable shapes rather than a flattened image, so it prints crisp at any size and its colour is one fill to change. Full-bleed art sits under a white name banner with a cost medallion, stat plates for attack, defense and health run down the edge of the art, and a bound type tab heads a rules box with a trait line and flavour. Comes with a six-card sample deck.

5 designs6 sample cards10 fields
Halcyon Full Art Trading Card Template preview
HalcyonFull Art Trading Card · 34 installs

A painted full-art fantasy card set: Water, Fire, Earth and Air fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. The painting runs to every edge of the card, and the name, cost, type line and rules float on it as tinted glass plates with gold rims. Each frame is built from editable shapes rather than a flattened image, so every plate is a fill you can recolour. Attack and defense badges hide themselves on cards without stats, and an Element column picks each card's glass. Comes with an eight-card sample deck.

5 designs8 sample cards10 fields
Aphelion Sci-Fi Trading Card Template preview
AphelionSci-Fi Trading Card

A space opera card set with ground unit, starship, event and upgrade fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. Every part of the frame is an editable shape, so it prints sharp at any size and changing its colour is one fill. The art runs the full width between lit rails. A gold cost plate sits over two aspect plates, and red attack and blue defense hexagons flank the trait bar above a white rules box. The type line at the top decides which front a card uses. Comes with a six-card sample deck.

5 designs6 sample cards9 fields
Wildcrest Cartoon Trading Card Template preview
WildcrestCartoon Trading Card

A bright cartoon fantasy card set with Tide, Sun, Grove and Forge fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. Every part of the frame is an editable shape, so it prints sharp at any size and changing its colour is one fill. The art sits in an octagonal window ringed in stone, with a faction medallion over it and a class and a cost medallion at its foot. A silver-rimmed name banner sits over a cream rules panel with a type plate across its foot. Each card's faction picks its front, with that faction's colour, mark and corner weapons. Comes with an eight-card sample deck of animal-folk heroes.

5 designs8 sample cards7 fields
Zenith Anime Trading Card Template preview
ZenithAnime Trading Card · 26 installs

An anime creature-battle card set: Sun, Sea, Shade, Flame and Wild fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. A pearl foil border runs round a metal frame in each realm's colour, with a cost shield over a white name plate, a race bar, a wide art window with faceted corners, a type bar over a pale rules panel, and a power plate beside a rarity chip. Each frame is built from editable shapes rather than a flattened image, so every plate is a fill you can recolour. The power plate hides itself on spells, and a Realm column picks each card's frame. Comes with a ten-card sample deck.

6 designs10 sample cards10 fields
Rumpus Monster Card Game Template preview
RumpusMonster Card Game

A casual monster card game set of masked beasts: Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. The painting fills a frame in each rarity's colour, under a torn parchment name plate, a kind tag over the left edge, a cost plaque between two hourglasses, a tabbed parchment rules panel and a red attack ribbon with crossed swords. Each frame is built from editable shapes rather than a flattened image, so every plate is a fill you can recolour. The ribbon hides itself on spells, and a Rarity column picks each card's frame. Comes with an eight-card sample deck.

5 designs8 sample cards7 fields
Chassis Token Card Template preview
ChassisToken Card · 30 installs

A sci-fi token card set with each faction printed in its own single ink: Carbon, Cobalt, Oxide and Verdigris fronts plus a shared back, at poker size (2.5 × 3.5 in) and ready to print. HUD line-work frames a tall art window, with the name in a tab at the top, the rarity and type on plates at the bottom left, the rules on a solid band and attack and defense in a box in the corner. Every line and plate is an editable shape you can recolour. On a card with no stats the box hides itself, and a Faction column picks each card's frame. The sample deck has eight cards: four constructs and four relics.

5 designs8 sample cards8 fields
Stonewake Retro Card Game Template preview
StonewakeRetro Card Game

A retro pixel token card set: Slate, Cinder, Azurite and Malachite fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. Each card is a wall of 16-bit stone blocks around a square recessed artwork window, with a chunky pixel name plate, a type line, a rules plate, and a power box printing attack and defense either side of a slash. The wall is built from editable paths rather than a picture of one, so every shade of it is a fill you can recolour, and the quarry you pick for a card chooses its front. The power box lifts off a card with no attack, so one front serves creature tokens and the markers a game leaves on the table alike. Comes with an eight-card sample deck.

5 designs8 sample cards7 fields
Cantrip Spell Card Game Template preview
CantripSpell Card Game

A spell card set for a casual duelling card game: Cinder, Gleam, Thorn, Brine and Hex fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. A single rendered object floats on a saturated colour ground under a burst of rays, with the school's emblem on a disc in one top corner and the cost on a cream diamond in the other. A parchment panel across the bottom drips the school's colour over its top edge and carries the name in capitals, the rules centred beneath it, and a line of flavour text in the footer. The frame is built from editable shapes, so the ground, the drips and the emblem are fills you can recolour, and the school you pick for a card chooses its front. Comes with a ten-card sample deck of spells.

6 designs10 sample cards6 fields
Waymark Land Card Game Template preview
WaymarkLand Card Game

A land card set for a trading card game, painted as soft anime landscapes, with Coastal, Woodland, Highland, Fenland and Meadowland fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. The painting fills the whole card inside a thick rounded border in the terrain's colour, with the name on a long rounded pill across the top, the resources the land gives on a second pill beside it, the card type on a small tab, and a rounded rules panel across the lower third carrying the rule in typewriter text. Every part of the frame is an editable shape, so the border, the pills and the tab are fills you can recolour, and the type line you write on a card picks its front. Comes with a ten-card sample deck of invented places.

6 designs10 sample cards5 fields
Marigold Hand Drawn Trading Card Template preview
MarigoldHand Drawn Trading Card

A hand-drawn token card set for a trading card game, with Creature, Land, Artifact and Enchantment fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. An illustration fills the top of a near-black card inside a cream rim, with the name on a long rounded banner across the top, the type line on a second banner over the picture's foot with a small gold set coin at its end, a black panel below carrying the rules and an italic flavour line, and a green box in the corner printing power and toughness either side of a slash. Every part of the frame is an editable shape, so the banners, the coin and the stat box are fills you can recolour, and the type line you write on a card picks its front. The green box hides itself on a card with no numbers, so a land, a treasure and a blessing sit on the same frames as the creatures. Comes with an eight-card sample deck of invented tokens.

5 designs8 sample cards7 fields
Hushwood Full Art Token Card Template preview
HushwoodFull Art Token Card

A full-art token card set for a trading card game, with Colorless, White, Blue, Black, Red and Green fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. A painting fills the card from the top edge down, its two lower corners rounded off into black, with the name on a long pill across the top, the type line on a second pill under the picture, a box at that pill's end printing power and toughness either side of a slash, and one line of rules in the black band beneath. Every part of the frame is an editable shape, so the pills and the box are fills you can recolour, and the colour you pick on a card chooses its front. The box hides itself on a card with no numbers, so a treasure or an enchantment sits on the same frame as the creatures. Comes with an eight-card sample deck: six creatures, a treasure and a shrine, painted in an old forest.

7 designs8 sample cards7 fields

From this template to a printed deck

A downloadable file gives you one card and a lot of copy-paste. A template here opens as a project, where the design and the card list are separate things.

  1. Add the template to a project

    Free, and it copies the designs, the fields and the sample cards into a project of your own. The author's later changes never reach your copy.

  2. Put your cards in the sheet

    One row per card, with a column for each field the design uses. Type them in, or import a CSV and map your own column names onto the template's.

  3. Change the design once

    Move an element, swap the frame, restyle the type. Every card on that design follows, whether there are four of them or four hundred.

  4. Export or print

    On Hobby and up, export PNG or SVG for digital play and Tabletop Simulator, or a print-ready PDF with bleed and cut lines. On Indie, Print & Ship sends the deck to The Game Crafter without leaving the project.

What size is a trading card?

The question that arrives on this search more than any other. The templates here are poker sized, which is what print shops expect and what the sleeves on the shelf are cut for.

CardInchesMillimetresPixels at 300 DPI
Poker — these templates, and most print runs2.5 × 3.563.5 × 88.9750 × 1050
Euro poker — Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon2.48 × 3.4663 × 88744 × 1039
Japanese — Yu-Gi-Oh!2.32 × 3.3959 × 86697 × 1016
Bridge — for hands of a dozen cards or more2.25 × 3.557.2 × 88.9675 × 1050

Poker and euro poker differ by half a millimetre, which is why one sleeve fits both. 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.

Every card size, with the bleed figures

Prefer a blank file?

Print resolution, with the bleed, the cut line and the safe zone on their own layer. No account needed.

Questions about trading card templates

Everything you need to know before getting started.

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Are these trading card templates free?

Yes. Adding a template to your project is free, and so are editing it and playtesting it online. Exporting print files starts on the Hobby plan and Print & Ship is on Indie, so no template is kept behind a plan.

What size are the cards?

Poker size, 2.5 by 3.5 inches, which is 750 by 1050 pixels at 300 DPI. That is the standard trading card size and the one print shops expect.

Is there a blank trading card template I can download?

Yes, below, with no sign-up. It is 825 by 1125 pixels, a poker card at 300 DPI with an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge, and the cut line and safe zone are marked. The SVG opens in Illustrator, Affinity, Inkscape or Figma, and the PNG in Photoshop, Canva or anything else. For a finished frame rather than a guide, Quillspire, the first template on this page, prints its creature card blank: name bar, cost disc, picture window, rules box and both stat plates, every one left clear for a pen.

Can I use these for sports trading cards?

The blank download works for any trading card, sports included, because it only sets the size, the bleed and the safe zone. The designs on this page are built for game cards, with a cost, rules text and stat plates, so a sports card is better started from the blank file.

Can I print cards made from these templates?

Yes. Every template here is built at a printable size. The Hobby plan exports a print-ready PDF, and Indie sends the deck to a print-on-demand partner from inside ShuffleKit.

Do I have to start from scratch to change the design?

No. Adding a template copies its designs and fields into your own project, so you can move elements, swap artwork, rename fields or replace the frame entirely. Your copy is yours.

Can I use my own spreadsheet of cards?

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

Is there a character trading card template?

Yes. Penwhistle's Character card is about one character: a tall portrait, the name on a banner, a title, Power, Speed and Smarts, and a short bio. Its Classic card is a blank trading card that prints ruled lines in its text box while the box is empty, for cards filled in by hand. The Penwhistle blank and character trading card template.

Ready to build your card game?

Start with Quillspire Trading Card Template, or open any other template above.