Desktop app that turns Magic: The Gathering card images into true 1200 DPI print-ready proxies using AI upscaling on your own GPU — free, offline after setup, no upload limits.
Unlike web-based proxy builders (which embed ~300 DPI images into a "1200 DPI" PDF), Cardwright reconstructs real detail with per-card AI model selection, then builds guillotine-ready — or cutting-machine-ready — sheets with print-shop features.
- Real AI upscaling to 2976×4160 px (1200 DPI at 63×88 mm) on your GPU via Vulkan. No GPU? It falls back to high-quality resizing.
- Automatic per-card model choice: paper scans, digital renders and photorealistic art each get the model that suits them, with a manual override per card.
- Already high-res? The AI step is skipped automatically instead of bloating the file.
- Parallel processing, retry of failed cards, status filtering.
- Type a card name and a gallery opens with every printing of it, thumbnails and all — you see what you are about to upscale before committing to it.
- Switch source without leaving the gallery: Scryfall, Gatherer, MPC Autofill, Pokémon (TCGdex) and Yu-Gi-Oh (YGOPRODeck). MPC bleed edges are trimmed automatically; picking a Yu-Gi-Oh card switches the card size to 59×86 mm. Pokémon cards are 63×88 mm, the same as Magic.
- Best scan picks the sharpest printing of a searched name for you, keeping the same artwork — a weak scan is exactly what upscaling magnifies.
- Card language: fetch printings in any of the 11 languages Scryfall carries. Applies to name lookups and decklists; cards never printed in that language come back in English and are listed, rather than failing.
- Pasting a Scryfall or Gatherer link goes straight to the queue — you already chose the printing, so nothing second-guesses it. Gatherer links use the Gatherer image, never a substitute.
- Decklist paste:
1 Card Name (SET) 123 [matte] *F*, exact printings by set + collector number. Archidekt and Moxfield deck URLs too. - Tokens: optionally add every token the deck's cards make — taken from Scryfall's own data, so it's exact.
- Import a decklist with the art coming from Gatherer instead of Scryfall,
or load an MPC Autofill order
.xmlto get exactly the art you picked there. - Local files (PNG/JPG/WEBP/AVIF/…) and drag & drop.
- Double-faced cards fetch both faces and stay paired.
The preview is a workspace, not a picture — what you see is what prints.
- Scroll through every sheet, not just the first.
- Drag a card to reorder it anywhere in the layout.
- Right-click a card to duplicate it, remove it from the PDF, or delete its file from the output folder.
- Add cards… to pull more in mid-export.
- Magnifier on hover to inspect detail at print resolution.
- Build a PDF straight from picked files, without using the queue.
- Print only selected sheets (e.g.
1or1-3,5). - Export presets — save and reload named configurations.
- Layouts: 3×3 portrait, 4×2 landscape, 7-card Silhouette, plus 3×4 and 4×4 for the bigger sheets — A3 and Tabloid fit 16 cards.
- Card sizes: MTG / Pokémon (63×88), Yu-Gi-Oh (59×86), mini (44×68), tarot (70×120), plus any custom size you enter in mm. Pokémon cards are the same size as Magic cards, so they work as-is.
- Pages: A4, Letter, A3, Legal, Tabloid, A5. Lossless or JPEG PDF, split into one file per N pages.
- Cut guides with adjustable style (cross or corner crop marks), length, thickness and offset; margin ticks; optional rounded corners.
- Edge bleed with selectable colour, page shift for thick-stock feeding.
- Registration marks for print & cut: 3-mark standard and 4-mark CAMEO 5a patterns, with adjustable inset, arm length and thickness.
- Marks follow Silhouette Studio's own published geometry (0.394 in inset, 0.350 in length, 0.039 in thickness), so a sheet lands on a template built in Studio.
- Those marks reach onto the grid, so on a small page they cost card slots. On A3 or Tabloid every layout keeps every slot — including 4×4, sixteen cards a sheet — which makes them the best pairings for machine cutting. Legal keeps all nine in 3×3; on A4 use 4×2 (8) or the 7-card layout (7). If a mark would sit on a card, that slot is left empty and the card moves to the next sheet, and a live hint names the mark inset that would keep them all.
- Guides and margin ticks never print inside a mark's clear area, and turning guides off removes all of them.
- 7-card Silhouette layout: one vertically centred card in the left column plus a 3×2 block, clearing both left corners where a Cameo's key marks sit (clearance goes from ~5 mm to ~49 mm on Letter).
- Mirrored back pages for flip-on-long-edge printing, DFC backs paired automatically, plus a user-supplied or MPC-sourced generic back.
- Back offset and rotation to correct duplex misalignment, and back bleed to survive drift.
- Duplex alignment test: a two-page front/back registration sheet — print it double-sided, hold it to the light, dial in offset and rotation.
- Calibration sheet with 9 colour profiles to match your printer.
- Shadow-lift test sheet — rescues dark details crushed by inkjet plus matte lamination.
- Black border deepening for scans whose border prints as dark grey, in two flavours: Contrast edges (the default) pushes the dark pixels inside a fixed band at the card's edge, so nothing has to guess where the border is; Auto-detect measures the frame and snaps it to black. Both take a per-card override, and you choose which sources get treated at all — MPC art already carries a true black edge, so it is left alone by default.
- Output sharpening. All of it is applied at PDF time — your PNG masters stay untouched.
- Download the latest release from Releases — the
installer (
Cardwright_Setup-x.y.z.exe, per-user, no admin) or the portableCardwright.exe. - Run it. On first launch it downloads the AI engine and models (one time) from their official sources and detects your GPU.
- The app updates itself from within.
Something misbehaving? The Log button in the header opens a log file with the full details of any failure — attach it to a bug report.
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py
Cardwright is free to use but it is not open source. The code is published so anyone can read and audit what the app does — you are welcome to study it, build it for your own use, and send bug reports or pull requests. You may not redistribute it, publish a modified or rebranded version, or sell it. See LICENSE.
- This is an unofficial Fan Content project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast. It ships no Wizards assets; card images are fetched at the user's request from public APIs.
- Card data and images courtesy of Scryfall; this app is not affiliated with Scryfall.
- Yu-Gi-Oh card data and images courtesy of YGOPRODeck; this app is not affiliated with them. Images are downloaded once to your machine rather than hotlinked, per their API terms.
- Pokémon card data and images courtesy of TCGdex; this app is not affiliated with them. Images are downloaded to your machine rather than hotlinked.
- AI engine: Real-ESRGAN (BSD-3). Community models UltraSharp (Kim2091) and High Fidelity are fetched from the Upscayl project and carry non-commercial licenses.
- Registration-mark geometry follows the spec used by silhouette-card-maker (MIT); the 7-card arrangement matches the "SevenCard" template from ProxySheet (GPL-3.0). No code from either project is used — only the published geometry.
- The contrast-edges border treatment is a reimplementation of the approach used by Proxxied (MIT). Their code is GLSL; this is an independent numpy implementation.
- Intended for personal playtesting. You are responsible for how you use the output.
Free for the community. If Cardwright saves you time, donations help keep it maintained:
