Press

Resources for journalists, creators, and partners covering CardForge.

Elevator pitch

CardForge is an AI-powered Pokémon TCG deck builder for competitive players. CardForge’s AI suggests cards to round out your list, autocompletes a list to 60, explains how your deck plays, and ranks your worst matchups against the current tournament meta — pulled from live results. Card data, deck health & statistics, and PTCGLive export stay free; Pro adds the AI tools on top. Built solo, in public, by one developer who plays the game.

Hero screenshot

Hi-res screenshots available on request — email support@cardforgeapp.gg.

Founder bio

Dan Chan is a solo developer based in Vancouver, BC, building CardForge as a sole-proprietorship business. He has been playing the Pokémon TCG competitively for the better part of a decade and started CardForge after one too many evenings spent fighting the in-game deck-builder’s search. CardForge has been in open development for ~10 months, with a public roadmap, weekly Discord changelogs, and a beta community testing every release. Dan writes the code, designs the UI, ships the AI integrations, and answers the support email at support@cardforgeapp.gg.

Brand assets

Logos are PNG. SVG variants are coming with the designer-final brand refresh shortly after public launch.

• Wordmark — dark variant (PNG) — for light backgrounds
• Wordmark — light variant (PNG) — for dark backgrounds
• Logo mark — dark variant (PNG) — favicon / square contexts on light backgrounds
• Logo mark — light variant (PNG) — favicon / square contexts on dark backgrounds

Please reserve at least 0.5× the anvil-mark height of clear space around the logo. Don’t recolor, skew, or drop-shadow.

Quick facts

• Product: AI-powered Pokémon TCG deck builder
• Public launch: Monday June 29, 2026
• Soft launch: Monday June 22, 2026 (existing beta community)
• Pricing:Free for building, search, sharing, deck health & statistics, and PTCGLive export. CardForge Pro at $4.99/mo or $44.99/yr adds AI card suggestions, AI strategy guide, AI matchup analysis, and AI autocomplete to 60.
• Built by: Dan Chan, solo developer, Vancouver, BC
• Tournament data: Sourced from the public Limitless TCG API

Contact

Press inquiries, interview requests, and Pro review codes: support@cardforgeapp.gg.

CardForge is an unofficial fan project and is not affiliated with Nintendo, The Pokémon Company International, Creatures Inc., or Game Freak Inc. See our fan-content notice for details.