What’s new
Card Forge ships fast
The user-visible highlights, newest first. For where we’re heading next, see the roadmap.
July 6, 2026
Cloud accounts and publishing (rolling out)
- Optional sign-in with a magic link — no passwords, and no local feature ever requires an account
- Claim your @username and publish a card design to its own public page, complete with a shareable preview
- Public creator profiles at /u/username showing everything you've published
- Publishing embeds your working template into the page, so custom-template cards finally survive sharing
July 6, 2026
Pack opening, remastered
- A new opening cinematic: strip tear, card extraction, full 3D flip reveal, and escalation that adapts to the rarity of what you pulled
- Design the expansion box itself — your sets now sit on the shelf in a box you styled
July 5–6, 2026
The holo engine grows up
- Gold and silver stamped-foil relief for names and strokes
- New finishes: Amazing spill, Glossy sheen, and a retuned Shiny-V
- One-click subject/background split — your card's subject can now break out over the frame border
- Border & frame presets: classic, vintage, metallic, textured, inset-line
July 5, 2026
3D hero scenes
- New cinematic scenes for viewing your cards in 3D, with per-scene lighting and effects like moths and fireflies
- Every card's share page can open straight into the 3D viewer
July 3–4, 2026
Editor 2.0
- The editor was redesigned end to end — cleaner control panel, faster access to layers, art, and finishes
- Smart alignment guides: layers snap to card center, edges, and each other while dragging
- Save any card's frame as your own reusable template
July 1–2, 2026
Games become worlds with real pages
- Each game now has a landing page with its banner, rules text, card types, and formats
- A guided wizard for creating a new game from scratch
Late June 2026
The collecting era
- Mint designs into a real collection — every copy gets its own serial number and provenance history
- Group designs into sets with editions, rarities, and configurable pack odds — then open packs for real pulls
- Trade with other collectors via share links, browse binders, track your stats, and earn achievements
- Marketplace preview with listing flow and fee math
June 21, 2026
Card Forge is born
- A free, browser-based trading card editor: layers, templates, holographic foils, and share links that carry the whole design inside the URL
- Local-first from day one — no account, your data stays in your browser