Turn bulk playing cards into a piece of art.
Drop in a photo and the app figures out which cards would recreate it, using a library of 6,850 real Pokémon cards.
The Gengar example totals 5,185 cards, 929 unique. Built, it is 61 × 85 inches: about 5.1 × 7.1 ft. Drag the picture to see the photo underneath.
Both pictures in this clip came out of the app, from the same photo.
An animation shows a Pikachu card uploaded, rebuilt out of 5,040 Pokémon cards, then magnified to show the individual cards, then rebuilt again in 1,800 cards with no card used more than ten times.
Each one was made using only the default eight sets (the most recent releases).
Drag and drop a photo into the app.
There are 58 Pokémon sets available, from Sun & Moon onward. The most recent eight are selected by default, which is usually enough to get started.
More cards means more detail and a bigger finished piece. Every card is one inch, so a mosaic 36 cards across is 3 feet wide. What you see on screen is exactly what you can create.
You can generate a printable guide that works a bit like a paint-by-numbers kit.
An animation shows thirty printed guide sheets trimmed and taped together, then a one-inch square cut from a card and placed on every square with its number, and the rest of the guide filling in card by card until the mosaic is complete.
Why only bulk cards? The app intentionally ignores valuable cards like illustration rares, secret rares, promos, and most special variants. This project is meant for the thousands of bulk cards sitting in binders, trade boxes and tins that aren’t getting used for anything else.
A free web app that rebuilds any photo as a mosaic made of real Pokémon trading cards. It only uses bulk cards, the commons and uncommons most collectors have boxes of, from 6,850 English cards across 58 sets.
You choose, from a few dozen up to about 5,000. Each card is cut to a one-inch square, so the card count is the finished size in inches: 36 cards across is 3 feet wide, and an 1,800-card mosaic is about 3 × 4.2 feet.
It depends on how you make it, and both are options. When you build it yourself from the printable guide, every tile is exactly one inch square, so each card you cut fits its square. When you order a print, the tiles scale to fit whichever poster size you choose.
Scissors work fine. For faster, cleaner squares, a 1-inch square craft punch does it in one press, and they cost under $10 on Amazon.
English bulk from Sun & Moon onward: commons, uncommons, rares and holo rares. Full arts, illustration rares, secret rares, V, GX and ex cards and promos are left out on purpose, because those are worth more on their own.
The full-resolution picture of your mosaic, the complete card list with the set and number of every card and how many you need, and a printable build guide at exactly one inch per square. Each comes in the version you built and a simplified version that uses fewer different cards.
Yes. Any mosaic can be ordered as a matte poster from 12 × 16 to 24 × 36 inches, printed on demand and shipped within the US. Prices start at $39 with shipping included.
No. The mosaic is made in your browser, and the photo never leaves your device. No account is needed.
No. TCG Mosaic Builder is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Nintendo, Creatures Inc. or GAME FREAK inc.
Upload a photo, adjust the sliders, and see which cards create the image.
Create a mosaic