CardForge
CardForge Pro

CardForge Pro tells you what your decklist is missing.

CardForge is a free Pokémon TCG deck builder. Pro compares your decklist against the current meta and tells you exactly what to change.

From inspiration to a tournament-winning deck.

The Pro features work as one workflow, each picking up where the last one left off.

  1. Step 1

    Build your list

    Search every card from every set in one place. Your deck stats and archetype comparison update as you build, and all of it stays free.

    Free for everyone
  2. Step 2

    Fill the gaps

    Autocomplete takes half an idea and hands back a ready-to-play deck, built from your cards and from real tournament lists. Card suggestions work the other way and name what you're missing and how many copies to run. No more staring at 47 cards wondering what the last 13 are.

    • AI autocomplete
    • AI card suggestions
  3. Step 3

    Check for consistency

    Opening-hand odds show exactly how often you'll see the cards that decide your turn, next to the counts tournament lists actually run. CardForge's AI reads both and tells you what to cut and what to add. If your list already lines up, it says so instead of inventing changes.

    • Opening-hand odds for your key cards
    • AI consistency recommendations
  4. Step 4

    Know the field

    Matchup analysis rates your list against every deck at the top of the meta, down to weakness, resistance and prize trade. The strategy guide hands you the turn-by-turn line, the combos that carry the deck, and how it closes. Sit down for round one already knowing your win conditions.

    • AI matchup analysis
    • AI strategy guide
  5. Step 5

    Play and log it

    Export to Pokémon TCG Live in one click, play your games, then log the results in the Battle Journal. Both are free, and the journal is what powers the last step.

    Free for everyone
  6. Step 6

    Learn from your results and iterate

    Log 10 games and CardForge's AI compares your matchup record against how tournament lists of your archetype perform. You'll know whether your losses come from a fixable list or a matchup that's just hard.

    • AI coaching on your logged match results

How CardForge keeps it honest

Every Pro feature starts from the same place: your decklist as it stands right now. Plenty of cards share a name across printings and don’t do the same thing, so CardForge sends the exact one you built with rather than letting the model guess.

Then CardForge checks every card the AI recommends. It matches card names against the real card pool, drops anything that isn’t legal in your format, and recalculates copy counts from your own deck. A recommendation that would leave you with an illegal list, or with a card that doesn’t exist, never reaches your screen.

Pro has two limits you should know about. Tournament data comes from the Limitless public API and covers recent events, so a deck nobody is playing yet has nothing to compare against, and CardForge says so rather than inventing a baseline. Coaching needs 10logged games with a deck before it says anything, which makes it the one Pro feature you can’t judge in an afternoon.

Questions about Pro

What is CardForge Pro?
CardForge Pro is the paid tier of CardForge, a free Pokémon TCG deck builder. Pro reads the real text on every card in your list, compares it against recent tournament decks, and recommends what to change. It costs $4.99 per month or $44.99 per year.
What stays free on CardForge?
Card search and the full card database, deck building and saving, deck stats and archetype comparison, opening-hand simulation, the Battle Journal, tournament and meta data, public deck sharing, and one-click Pokémon TCG Live export. Pro is an AI layer on top of all of that. CardForge doesn't put card data behind a paywall.
Why isn't CardForge Pro free?
CardForge charges for Pro because every AI answer costs real money to produce, and that cost grows with use rather than with traffic. Card data, deck building and Pokémon TCG Live export stay free.
Does CardForge Pro come with a free trial?
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.
How much does CardForge Pro cost?
CardForge Pro is $4.99 per month or $44.99 per year, which is about 25 percent less than paying by the month. Both plans include every Pro feature, and you can cancel at any time.
Do I need Pro to see tournament and meta data?
No. Archetype usage, win rates, core cards and matchup tables are free for everyone on CardForge's meta pages, and so is the panel that compares your deck's counts against them while you build. What Pro adds is CardForge's AI reading that data for your specific list.

See what Pro says about your deck.

Keep building for free as long as you like. When you want a second opinion on your decklist, Pro is ready. It also removes ads from every page and helps keep CardForge running.

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.

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