Help & FAQ

What is CardForge?

CardForge is a deck builder for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. You can build legal Standard and Expanded decklists, check them with Deck Health and deck statistics, favourite and learn from community decks, and track your results in the Battle Journal. Pro adds AI-powered card suggestions, matchup analysis, and coaching, plus opening-hand odds for your key cards.

CardForge is an unofficial fan project. See our fan-content notice.

Building your first deck

1. Head to My Decks and click New Deck. Give it a name and pick a format.
2. Use the search panel on the left to find Pokémon, Trainers, and Energy. Filter by format, supertype, type, or set. Click a card to add it to your deck.
3. The right-hand panel shows your current decklist and totals. Drag to reorder; use the quantity steppers to adjust counts.
4. Your deck saves automatically as you build (the status next to the deck name shows where it’s saved). Toggle visibility to Publicif you’d like others to be able to find it on Explore.

Understanding Deck Health

Every deck shows a Deck Health summary while you build. It checks your card counts, Pokémon/Trainer/Energy ratios, format legality, and whether the deck is the correct size for the chosen format. It also shows deck statistics: opening-hand probabilities, consistency scoring, and dead-draw analysis. Anything in red makes the deck illegal. Amber items are warnings worth a look before you submit to a tournament.

Deck Health and statistics are free for everyone, with no account or Pro subscription required. They follow fixed rules, so they won’t tell you which Pokémon to play. They tell you whether your deck is legal and balanced.

What Pro unlocks

CardForge Pro removes ads and adds AI-powered deck-building features:

• AI card suggestions: Recommends cards that fit your deck's strategy and identifies gaps.
• AI strategy guide: Explains how your deck plays: its game plan, key combos, and win conditions, grounded in your exact list.
• AI matchup analysis: Explains how your deck fares against the current meta's top archetypes.
• AI autocomplete: Fills a partial decklist out to 60 cards, choosing legal cards that fit what you have already built.
• Opening-hand odds for your key cards: Calculates the exact probability of opening with the cards you nominate, from your deck's real counts.
• AI consistency recommendations: Reads those odds against tournament lists for your archetype and recommends what to change.
• AI coaching on your logged match results: Turns your own logged matches into specific advice, once a deck has 10 results behind it.

New subscribers get a 3-day free trial on the annual plan. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing. If you don't, it becomes $44.99 for a year.

See Pricing for current plan details. You can cancel any time from Settings.

Known limitations

• Expect the occasional rough edge and the odd missing card image.
• CardForge updates its card pool from a public card API, so brand-new sets can take a day or two to show up. If a specific card is missing, let us know.
• CardForge works on mobile, but it’s built desktop-first. If something feels broken on your phone, send us feedback so we can prioritise it.

Reporting a bug

Click the Feedbackbutton at the bottom-right of any page (it’s hidden on legal and auth screens to stay out of the way) and tell us what happened. We capture the page URL and your browser user-agent automatically, which is usually enough to reproduce the problem.

For anything sensitive or anything that needs a back-and-forth, email support@cardforgeapp.gg.