About ExploreTCGSets

What this site is

ExploreTCGSets is a free, unofficial fan encyclopedia of trading card game sets. It lists every set of a game in release order and lets you open every card in them. Each game has its own pages, its own look and its own history section.

Right now it covers the Pokémon Trading Card Game (345 English and Japanese sets), Magic: The Gathering (996 releases) and Disney Lorcana (26 sets and releases) and the One Piece Card Game (60 boosters, decks and promo lists). Yu-Gi-Oh! is planned.

The site started as LearnPokémon (learnpokemon.fun). Every old LearnPokémon address now forwards to its new home under /pokemon/.

Who makes it

ExploreTCGSets is a personal fan project. It is not a company, a store or an official database, and it has no accounts. To reach the person who runs it, write to [email protected].

Where the cards come from

• Magic: The Gathering: card data, card images and set symbols come from Scryfall, used under its API guidelines. Images load straight from Scryfall and are never altered. Art crops show the artist’s name. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.
• Disney Lorcana: card data and card images come from Lorcast, loaded straight from Lorcast and never altered. Each card’s Disney story comes from LorcanaJSON. ExploreTCGSets uses trademarks and/or copyrights associated with Disney Lorcana TCG, used under Ravensburger’s Community Code Policy.
• One Piece Card Game: card data comes from the official English card list at en.onepiece-cardgame.com, by way of Punk Records, an open copy of that list. Card images, the same official scans, load straight from Limitless TCG and are never altered. Release dates come from Bandai’s product announcements.
• Pokémon, English: sets, logos, symbols and card images come from the Pokémon TCG API.
• Pokémon, Japanese: Japanese set lists come from TCGdex, carried over from LearnPokémon. Japanese card scans load from Pokécardex.
• Pokédex: species names, types, stats and official artwork come from PokéAPI.
• Booster photographs: from the ptcg-assets library by 1niceroli, one web-sized packshot per set where one exists.
• History pages: every Lore page lists the sources its facts come from.

The data is refreshed by scripts that follow each source’s usage guidelines, and checked automatically after every refresh (set counts, card counts, missing images and dates).

Original artwork

The landscapes behind the Magic, Disney Lorcana and One Piece pages and this home page are drawn by code made for this site, and so are the hexagon set emblems on the Lorcana timeline and the ship’s-wheel emblems on the One Piece timeline. The painted landscapes behind the Pokémon pages are original art made for LearnPokémon. The ExploreTCGSets mark (three fanned cards around a star) is original too. None of these are official artwork or logos.

How it stays free

The site is free to use and always will be. It shows Google AdSense ads to cover its costs, and it uses Google Analytics to count visits. The Privacy Policy and Cookies pages explain both. There are no prices on the site, and nothing on it is for sale.

Fan content notices

ExploreTCGSets is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.

ExploreTCGSets is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures, or The Pokémon Company. Pokémon and all related names are trademarks of their owners.

ExploreTCGSets uses trademarks and/or copyrights associated with Disney Lorcana TCG, used under Ravensburger’s Community Code Policy. We are expressly prohibited from charging you to use or access this content. ExploreTCGSets is not published, endorsed, or specifically approved by Disney or Ravensburger.

ExploreTCGSets is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Bandai, Bandai Namco, Shueisha, Toei Animation or Eiichiro Oda. One Piece Card Game card images and text are ©Eiichiro Oda/Shueisha, Toei Animation and ©BANDAI.

Yu-Gi-Oh! is a trademark of its owners. ExploreTCGSets is not connected to Konami.