Where the cards come from

40 catalogs.
78+ games.
All open.

Card Hunters HQ doesn't maintain card data itself. Every card you see was first catalogued by a publisher API, a community database, or one of the long-running open archives kept alive by hobbyists. This page credits each one.

Official APIs

Publisher-maintained or publisher-blessed APIs. The closest thing to a primary source for a card.

9 sources

The reference database for Magic: The Gathering. Maintained by a small team since 2016, updates within hours of a new set.

Magic: The Gathering

Community-built Pokémon database covering every print run, region, and Pocket release.

Pokemon TCG · Pokemon TCG Pocket

Yu-Gi-Oh!'s deck-builder community runs this one. Comprehensive English database with format ban-lists.

Yu-Gi-Oh!

Independent Disney Lorcana catalog with full set coverage from First Chapter onward.

Disney Lorcana

Open Digimon Card Game database covering English and Japanese releases.

Digimon Card Game

Community-maintained One Piece Card Game database with effect text and rulings.

One Piece Card Game

Multi-TCG aggregator for newer card games — Riftbound, Gundam, Union Arena.

Riftbound · Gundam Card Game · Union Arena

First-party Final Fantasy TCG card database from the publisher.

Final Fantasy TCG

Official Gods Unchained proto catalog (dev API). Card data (~2260 protos) ingested from the official REST API. Card images are displayed by hot-linking directly from card.godsunchained.com (Immutable's own CDN) — they are never downloaded or re-hosted on our servers, in compliance with Immutable ToS §8.1/§8.2 and Acceptable Use Policy.

Gods Unchained

Dedicated APIs

Single-game APIs maintained outside the publisher, often by the game's competitive community.

7 sources

Official catalog for Grand Archive TCG, including alternate art prints.

Grand Archive

First-party Altered catalog from the developer (Equinox).

Altered TCG

Official Sorcery: Contested Realm card database.

Sorcery: Contested Realm

Cardfight!! Vanguard community database covering English releases.

Cardfight!! Vanguard

Community database for Ashes Reborn with deck-building tools.

Ashes Reborn

KRCG

JSON feed

Long-running Vampire: The Eternal Struggle reference dataset.

Vampire: The Eternal Struggle

Community Databases

Fan-run catalogs that became the de-facto reference for their game. Most predate the publisher's own.

6 sources

The community kept Netrunner alive after FFG dropped the LCG; this is its system of record.

Android: Netrunner

Arkham Horror LCG card list, scenario data, and player deck library.

Arkham Horror LCG

Marvel Champions LCG catalog and deck repository.

Marvel Champions LCG

Lord of the Rings LCG community database, deck builder, and ruling archive.

Lord of the Rings LCG

Game of Thrones LCG (FFG 2nd ed.) community database.

Game of Thrones LCG

Star Wars: Unlimited community catalog, kept current with each set drop.

Star Wars: Unlimited

Digital Card Games

Card data for digital-only games — pulled from official client manifests where the publisher exposes them.

4 sources

Daily snapshot of Hearthstone's card manifest, maintained by HearthSim.

Hearthstone

First-party Riot data feed used while Legends of Runeterra is still receiving live updates.

Legends of Runeterra

Independent Gwent: The Witcher Card Game catalog.

Gwent

Eternal Card Game community database, kept alive after Dire Wolf reduced live operations.

Eternal Card Game

Open Data Repositories

GitHub-hosted card datasets, mostly maintained by single hobbyists. The internet's quiet archives.

13 sources

Open card list for Flesh and Blood, kept up to date by the community.

Flesh and Blood

SWCCGPC

Open data

Star Wars CCG (Decipher) card catalog maintained by the Players Committee — the game has outlived its publisher by decades.

Star Wars CCG (Decipher)

A separate Players Committee repo for the Young Jedi CCG — Decipher's Star Wars prequel spinoff (1999–2001). Headerless pipe-delimited card lists across 9 surviving sets; 98 foil reprint (Reflections) rows are data-only. Different repo from the main SWCCG archive, same org.

Young Jedi CCG

Middle-earth CCG (MECCG) restoration archive.

Middle-earth CCG

LackeyCCG

Open data

Star Trek CCG card data for LackeyCCG, the play-by-play engine.

Star Trek CCG

Chaotic API

Open data

Catalog for the (legitimately strange) Chaotic TCG, which had a website that scanned cards.

Chaotic TCG

fiveringsdb

Open data

Legend of the Five Rings LCG (FFG era) card data.

Legend of the Five Rings LCG

gemp-lotr

Open data

Lord of the Rings TCG (Decipher) — the Players Council still maintains the card list and an online play engine.

Lord of the Rings TCG

Open Duel Masters card data covering English and Japanese releases.

Duel Masters

W40K Conquest

Open data

Warhammer 40,000: Conquest LCG card data from the FFG era.

Warhammer 40,000: Conquest

CC0 preservation archive of Counterplay Games' Duelyst. Card data from decklyst's committed JSON export (636 cards, CC0-1.0); all cards are currently data-only (card art deferred — the only CC0 unit images are packed animation atlases, not static card art). Animated unit sprite rendering is planned. Game shut down in 2020; this is the permanent record.

Duelyst

AGPL-3.0 fan implementation of Genshin Impact's Genius Invokation TCG mini-game. English card data (~2178 entities) sourced from the gi-tcg static-data API — card art is not hosted here (AGPL copyleft avoidance; imageless cards appear in /contribute for community uploads).

Genius Invokation TCG

Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel card data sourced from the yaml-yugi project's static GitHub Pages endpoint (dawnbrandbots.github.io/yaml-yugi/rush.json; ~3,019 cards). Card text is © Studio Dice/SHUEISHA/TV TOKYO/KONAMI and is used here as a fan database under the same precedent as all other Yu-Gi-Oh! data sources on this site. The yaml-yugi project code is AGPL-3.0, but we consume only its published HTTP endpoint — we do not link or distribute the library code. No source image CDN exists for Rush Duel (Yugipedia blocks hotlinking; YGOPRODeck returns 404 for Rush Duel cards); all Rush Duel card images are data-only and backfilled by the community via /contribute.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel

TCGPlayer (via TCGCSV)

One feed covers 40+ smaller TCGs at once. Cards, sets, prices, and images come through TCGCSV's pre-processed dumps of TCGPlayer's catalog.

1 source

Aggregator that re-publishes TCGPlayer's product data as flat CSVs. Without it, half this site doesn't exist.

Battle Spirits Saga · Weiss Schwarz · Force of Will · Star Wars: Destiny · Transformers TCG · WIXOSS · Godzilla TCG · Future Card Buddyfight · World of Warcraft TCG · DragonBorne · MetaX TCG · Munchkin CCG · Dragon Ball Super: Masters · Dragon Ball Super: Fusion World · Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions · MetaZoo · UniVersus CCG · Shadowverse: Evolve · hololive OCG · KeyForge · Dice Masters · Pokemon TCG (Japan) · Dragon Ball Z CCG · Alpha Clash · Elestrals · Akora TCG · Kryptik TCG · Bakugan · Argent Saga · Gate Ruler · Caster Chronicles · Lightseekers · Epic Card Game · Chrono Clash · Exodus TCG · Zombie World Order

If you maintain a card data source that Card Hunters HQ should be crediting and isn't, or if you want a TCG added that we don't yet support, the door is open. Reach us on Discord.

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