The Pokémon TCG has had a rich and varied history, and unlike something like Magic The Gathering which has had only two major card designs—”Retro” and “Modern”—the Pokémon TCG has had at least… four.

If you want to start making your own custom fake cards, the easiest thing to do is just choose the card design you like the most and start from there. But maybe you want to try something different? This page aims to cover all the major card design families from over the years, as well as provide you with links on where you can download blanks for your own use. Some downloads are free, some are paid; regardless, this page will cover the best and/or historically significant blanks ever released.

Consider that different iterations of the same design family (such as Dark Pokémon,  Pokémon-EX, etc) are not considered a unique blank but simply part of that design family. If you want to see more about those, check out the Getting Back Into Making Fake Cards page.

Many card scans were pulled from PkmnCards.com; used with permission!

 

Japanese Base Set

I’m planning on this release, as it’s a simple matter of just converting my Japanese Neo with newer borders.
Japanese Gym

I guess this counts as a separate family, even though all they did was remove the flavor text box with a gym badge. Anyways, this should be easy to make once I finish the Japanese Base blanks. I even have the gym badges done up!
Japanese Neo

I made a Neo Gendai release for these blanks! It covers not just all the types of cards found in the original Japanese Neo releases, but it also includes custom designs (Dragon-type, Fairy-type). There’s even an English version of this design, emulating the style of speculation blanks we used to make before Neo Genesis was released. Neat! Download links below:

If you want more info about what is in these blanks, visit this page: Japanese Neo Blanks

Shadowless – 1st Edition Base Set

I’m surprised that no one, after all these years, ever made a set of these blanks… so I ended up making them myself! This is the complete collection of Shadowless blanks, including types that were never made for them (Darkness, Metal, Dragon, Fairy).

If you want more info about these blanks, click here: Shadowless Blanks
Unlimited – Unlimited Base Set through Team Rocket
Gym – Gym Heroes & Gym Challenge
Neo – Neo Genesis through Neo Revelations

 
Neo Destiny – Neo Destiny

This is a weird situation where the style was updated for some reason to—among other things—add a shadow underneath the info bar and other minor changes. Honestly I don’t think anyone is going to make a full set of blanks for these unless they’re a friggin mad-lad.
Card-E – Expedition through Skyridge

EX with Card-E – EX Ruby/Sapphire through EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua
EX without Card-E – Hidden Legends through EX Power Keepers
DPP – Diamond/Pearl through Platinum Arceus
HGSS – HeartGold & SoulSilver through Call of Legends

BW-XY
XY Evolutions

Aschefield has some great XY Evolutions blanks here!
Sun/Moon

Need some great Sun/Moon blanks? Aschefield has you covered!
Sword/Shield

A full set of Sword/Shield blanks can be found at Aschefield’s DeviantArt page:
Scarlet/Violet

Aschefield has a wonderful collection over on his DeviantArt page!
Pokémon TCG Pocket

Aschefield has a full collection of Pocket blanks available for purchase here:

 

PokeCardMaker.net — the internet’s premiere online card designer. You might have already known about this site!

  • Covers card blank templates by Aschefield from Black & White through to modern Scarlet & Violet
PokeTCG.app — another up-and-coming TCG card online designer that’s takes the opposite approach, covering the early years of the TCG.

  • Covers designs between Base Set up through Card-E, using a blank template design of their own creation. Pretty cool!

 

These never disappeared from the internet! You can still download PA!’s classic blanks at the following links, including all the various styles, types, and versions.

  • 1st Generation Blanks — these are the very original, very first set of blanks released by ANYONE on the internet, back in 1999! Boy have things have changed since then…
    • Blank downloads
      • Covers only the Classic style in Standard borders
      • No symbol files or fonts available either, but you can simply utilize any of the ones available below.
  • 2nd Generation Blanks — this was the first update to Nick15’s blanks, an attempt to focus on authenticity
  • 3rd Generation Blanks — this was the last update to Nick15’s blanks, which focused more on quality
    • Single download packs (blanks, symbols and fonts)
      • Basically the “single download packs” are “all-in-one” downloads which include the all basic necessary files for faking
      • Individual symbols and font files can also be downloaded on that page
    • Individual blanks download
      • Covers Classic, Gym, Neo, Neo Gym, Card-E and EX styles
      • Standard, Dark and Light borders available
      • Includes Bug, Diamond, Dragon, Ghost, Ice, Plastic, Poison and Techno-Organic types

Pretty nifty archive of all of my old blanks, eh? Well, barring the very first versions of my blanks, which I’ll need to bring back somehow. Sla, I got nothin’.

 

Alveinhero on the PA! Discord has originally contacted me about this after I mentioned in a post that Pokémon Zeo‘s blanks all seem to be offline. Apparently Zeo superfans kyatt7 and angurisneo had archived whatever they could of Zeo‘s blanks a while back, and so Alveinhero sent me whatever blanks he could of that original archive. And since I still get a few hits from people searching for Zeo‘s old blanks (see pic below)… I guess, for the sake of posterity, we’ll have a collection of Zeo‘s blanks here on PA!. At least until Zeo decides to come back online and bring them all back again. BEHOLD! THE SECOND COMING OF ZEO IS UPON US! (They’re in line right behind Jesus.)

Screenshot of Google Search Results that visitors found PA! with

That said, not all of Zeo‘s original blanks were archived. In fact, the only sets of blanks which were complete are their Card-E and Neo Gym blanks… though I’m sure you could splice some of their blanks together to recreate other blanks of their’s. Anyways, below is the full list of blanks that is part of the Zeo Blanks Archive:

Look good to you? Well, just click on the link to download the archive (34.2 MB .RAR download):

  • Download Zeo Blank Archive
    • The archive also includes a base collection of Trainer and Energy blanks, including Zeo‘s classic “Dark Trainer” blank, as well as Energy and other handy symbols.

Of course if you happen to have any Zeo blanks left over and would like to contribute to the archive, then send them our way! Alternatively, if anyone higher up on the Zeo inner staff wants to be the ones to host their blanks archive, by all means go for it! I’ll post a link instead to send everyone your way. In the mean time tho, this’ll have to do.

  • And just to address any potential elephants in the room; any grudges left over from back then evaporated a long time ago. It’s frankly childish to have one last this long. This is for the sake of fans who wanted to see their favorite blanks online again, seeing as the demand for them is still there.

Enjoy!