Can you make Pokémon cards in Magic Set Editor? The honest answer is: Pokémon is one of the games community templates for MSE cover — but it is community coverage, and it is worth being precise about what that means before you download anything expecting an official Pokémon edition of the program.
What is actually documented
The MTG Wiki’s page on Magic Set Editor lists the games its templates extend to, and that list includes Pokémon alongside Vs. System, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Warlords, Hecatomb and Anachronism. That listing is the documented basis for Pokémon support: MSE was built for Magic, and templates for other games — Pokémon among them — have been made by the community. There is no separate official Pokémon product, and no Pokémon template ships inside the author’s program releases.
Where Pokémon templates come from: the Non-Magic pack
Non-Magic game templates for MSE are distributed through the community’s Full-Non-Magic-Pack on GitHub. The pack’s structure tells you how multi-game support works in practice: its Other - Fonts folder is organised into subfolders by game, because each game’s cards need their own fonts installed. The same frames are the basis of the community’s Non-Magic Set Editor 2.5.8 variant, described on the community downloads page as coming ‘with every non-Magic frame released.’
We are deliberately not naming specific Pokémon template files or versions in this guide. The pack is a living community project — still updated in 2026 — and the accurate list of what it contains is the pack’s own repository, not a third-party page that may lag behind it. Start from our templates hub, which links the pack directly.
How installation works
- Get the Full-Non-Magic-Pack from the MagicSetEditorPacks project on GitHub.
- Copy the pack’s
data/folder into your Magic Set Editor folder, following our template installation guide. - Open
Other - Fonts, find the subfolder for your game, select every .ttf and .otf file in it, right-click and choose Install. - Restart MSE, create a new set, and look for the non-Magic frames in the template choices.
Set your expectations correctly
- Community-made: Pokémon frames exist because community template makers built them, so style and completeness follow the pack, not a publisher’s schedule.
- Program vs. templates: the MSE program itself (final upstream release 2.1.2, 2020) is game-agnostic plumbing — what makes it a Pokémon card maker is the template pack you add.
- Check the pack, not old posts: forum posts and videos age quickly; the pack repository is the only reliable inventory of its current templates.
If you came here hoping for a one-click official Pokémon card maker, MSE is not that — but as a free, offline, set-based editor with community Pokémon templates, it remains a real option. The Yu-Gi-Oh! templates guide shows the same Non-Magic route for another game.