Yu-Gi-Oh card maker for your own monsters, spells and traps
Pick a frame, type a name, set the level and the attribute, and drop in your art. The card redraws as you type, and when you have a set of them, it prints as a real deck.
Card generators stop at one card
Most card generators are a form and a download button, and the next card starts from an empty form. That works for a single fan card. Forty monsters, spells and traps need the cards kept as a list, a frame for each kind of card, and a way to fix a typo in the frame once for all forty.
1Start from the Riftcall frames
Normal, effect and fusion monster fronts, a spell and a trap front, a back, and fourteen sample cards to write over. Or draw a frame of your own in the same editor.
2Fill in each card
Name, type line, effect text, ATK and DEF are columns in a sheet. Level lights up to twelve stars and Attribute sets the gem, so each card is one row in the sheet.
3Export or print the set
PNGs to share, a Tabletop Simulator sheet, or a print PDF with bleed. Print & Ship orders a poker-size deck from The Game Crafter, cut and boxed.
What goes on each card
Eight columns, one for each part of the card. A spell or a trap uses four of them and leaves the monster columns empty.
| Field | What it holds | How you fill it in |
|---|---|---|
| Name | The card's name, along the bar at the top | Type it. |
| Attribute | The coloured gem at the end of the name bar | Pick one of six from a list: Ember, Tide, Gale, Stone, Radiant or Shade. |
| Level | The row of stars under the name, from 1 to 12 | Type a number and that many stars light up. |
| Artwork | The square picture in the middle of the card | Upload your own (600 by 600 pixels fills it exactly), or generate one from a description. |
| Type line | The monster's kind in square brackets, such as [Wyrm / Effect], or the kind of spell or trap, such as [Spell / Quick] | Type it, brackets included. |
| Effect or flavour text | What the card does, or a few lines of story on a normal monster | Type it. A fusion monster's first line names the monsters it is made from. |
| ATK and DEF | The attack and defence points along the foot of a monster | Two number columns, left empty on a spell or a trap. |
| Card Type | Which of the five fronts the card is drawn on | Pick Normal Monster, Effect Monster, Fusion Monster, Spell or Trap from a list. |
What the maker does with each card
Type 4 and four gold stars light up under the name; type 10 and ten do. No star layer to show or hide by hand.
Six attributes, each a coloured gem with its own mark. Pick one from a list and the badge in the corner changes to match.
Set a card to Spell and it moves to the green spell frame, which has no level stars and no stats and prints its type up in the header. Effect, fusion and trap cards do the same.
Upload a picture and it fills the square window, cropped to fit. The same picture can sit on several cards without being uploaded twice.
Describe a monster and generate a picture for it in the editor, from the 20 image credits a month on the free plan. Leave it alone if you draw your own.
Print the PDF at home on cardstock, or order the set from The Game Crafter through Print & Ship at poker size, with a card back of your choice.
Cards from the sample set
The template comes with fourteen cards, all invented for it: two of each kind of monster, four spells and four traps. Five of them, and one other frame for the same kind of game:
- Effect monster
Emberclaw Wyvern
Level 7 with the Ember gem, 2600 ATK and 2000 DEF, and four lines of effect on the orange front.
- Normal monster
Mossback Colossus
Level 5 with the Stone gem, and a few lines of story where an effect would go, on the gold front.
- Fusion monster
Twinfang Chimera
Level 8 with the Gale gem, on the violet front. The first line of its text names the two monsters it is made from.
- Quick spell
Starfall Barrage
The green spell front: no stars, no ATK or DEF, and [Spell / Quick] up where the level would be.
- Counter trap
Mirror Snare
The magenta trap front, laid out like a spell, with its text running to the foot of the card.
- Another trading card frame
Quillspire
Creature and Spell fronts with a cost disc, a rarity gem and attack and defense plates. The border takes each card's faction colour, and there are six.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know before getting started.
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Is this the official Yu-Gi-Oh card maker?
No. ShuffleKit is not affiliated with or endorsed by Konami. The frames are an original design called Riftcall that uses the layout duel card games share, and none of Konami's frames, attribute symbols, level stars or logos are in it. Use it for monsters you invent, not to copy real cards.
Is it free?
You can try it free on your first set: one project of up to 120 cards, enough to design your cards on the frame before you pay anything. Downloading PNG, SVG, PDF and Tabletop Simulator files starts on the Hobby plan at $4 a month billed yearly, and Print & Ship is on the Indie plan.
What goes on a Yu-Gi-Oh style card?
From the top: the name, with the attribute badge at its end, then the level as a row of markers, then the picture. Under the picture sits the type line in square brackets, such as [Wyrm / Effect], then the effect text, or flavour text for a normal monster, and the ATK and DEF line along the foot. Spells and traps drop the level and the stats, and their type line moves up to where the level would be and names the kind of spell or trap, such as [Spell / Quick].
What size are the cards?
Poker size, 2.5 by 3.5 inches, which is 750 by 1050 pixels at 300 DPI. Real Yu-Gi-Oh cards are the smaller Japanese size, 59 by 86 mm. The Game Crafter prints no deck at that size, so these frames use the size it does print. The template page explains how to print them down to Japanese size at home.
Can I make a whole set of cards?
Yes. Every card is a row in the project's sheet, so a set of forty is forty rows, and you can import them from a CSV if you have written them in a spreadsheet. Change the effect frame once and every effect monster follows.
Can I sell a game I make with it?
Yes, if the cards are yours. The Riftcall frames are ours and original, so a game built on them, or on a frame you draw yourself, is yours to publish. Fan cards that reuse a real game's names, art or logos are a different matter, and are for personal play only.
Can I use my own frame instead?
Yes. Every part of the Riftcall frame is a layer you can move, recolour or delete, and you can put a PNG frame of your own underneath instead. Keep the star and gem layers and the Level and Attribute columns go on driving them.
Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in the browser on Windows, Mac, Linux and ChromeOS, and a project saves as you work.
Can it generate the cards for me?
Yes, if you want it to. Describe your monsters to Shufflo, the assistant in the editor, and it writes the cards into the sheet: names, levels, attributes, effects, ATK and DEF. The image tool then draws a picture for each card from its row. You can change every word afterwards. The AI trading card generator.
Do I need an account?
For the maker, yes. A free account holds the project the frames install into, so your cards are still there next time. The blank frames and the layout guide on the template page download without one. The Yu-Gi-Oh style card template, with blank frames.
I want to make a whole game, not just a few cards.
Then start from the TCG maker. It covers the rest of a trading card game: more kinds of card, a card back, a rules document, playing it online with friends and a printed deck. Riftcall is one of the frames you can use there, and the trading card templates have others. The TCG maker.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! is a trademark of Konami. ShuffleKit is not affiliated with or endorsed by Konami. The Riftcall frames and sample cards are an original design and contain none of Konami's card art, symbols or logos.
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