About Magic Set Editor and This Site

Magic Set Editor (MSE) is a free, open-source program for designing custom trading cards. This website is an independent, fan-run resource about MSE — it is not the project homepage, and it does not distribute the program from its own servers.

A short, accurate history

Magic Set Editor was created by Twan van Laarhoven. The project was registered on SourceForge in 2003, and its classic 2.0.0 release was published there in 2011. The author later maintained the source code on GitHub, where the latest upstream release is 2.1.2 (2020). Development by the original author has stopped at that version.

Today MSE is looked after by a dedicated fan community. The community’s home is its forum at magicseteditor.boards.net, which distributes the current ready-to-use 2.5.8 packages, and community template packs are maintained in the MagicSetEditorPacks repositories on GitHub — those repositories were still receiving updates in October 2026. In other words: the program is stable and finished, while its templates continue to evolve.

MSE is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0). It was designed primarily for Magic: The Gathering and also supports templates for other games, including Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon, and Vs. System. On SourceForge it is rated 4.8 out of 5 across 24 reviews, with more than 1.8 million recorded downloads (SourceForge project page, checked 21 October 2026).

What this site is — and is not

  • Fan-run and independent. This site was created in 2026 as an independent guide to downloading and using MSE. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Twan van Laarhoven, Wizards of the Coast, or Hasbro.
  • We link; we do not host. Download buttons on this site point to the project’s own distribution channels — the community downloads page, the author’s GitHub releases, SourceForge, and Flathub — plus a clearly labelled third-party mirror on Terabox for readers who cannot reach those channels. We do not operate download servers or a content delivery network for MSE files.
  • We only publish checksums we verified. Where this site lists a file checksum, it is one we calculated ourselves from a file downloaded from the channel in question, and it is labelled as such.
  • We correct mistakes. If a version number, file detail, or link on this site is wrong, tell us via the Contact page and we will fix it.

For the legal details, see the Disclaimer. For how this site may earn commissions from some outbound links in the future, see the Affiliate Disclosure.

Get involved with MSE itself

The living MSE community — template releases, weekly challenges, and support from other designers — is on the community forum and its Discord. This site simply points you there.

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