DnD Magic Item Cards 5e | 2014 and 2024 Editions, Illustrated Backs, Printable Dungeon Master Gifts

NEW - 2024 EDITION INCLUDED (SRD 5.2). Your download now holds two complete sets: the 2014 rules (SRD 5.1) you already know, and the 2024 revision (SRD 5.2) with 757 magic items on 811 cards. They are separate PDFs, so nothing is mixed up - print whichever edition your table plays. Both are laid out on the same grid and share the same illustrated backs.

NEW - ILLUSTRATED CARD BACKS. An engraved card back for the whole collection. Print them on the reverse of the card sheets and the deck stops looking like a printout. Every back sits exactly on the same grid as the fronts, so one cut serves both sides. Prefer plain backs? Simply do not print that page - nothing else changes.

Every magic item in the SRD, on its own card, ready to hand across the table.

The party opens the chest, you deal out a card. No reading a description aloud from a book while five people wait to find out what they got.

WHAT YOU GET

284 cards covering all 237 magic items, nine to a sheet, with cut guides.

Six decks sorted by rarity - Common and Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare, Legendary and Artifacts, Varies by Form, plus the complete catalogue. Print the tier your party has earned.

Every card carries the item type, its rarity, and the full rules text. Attunement is printed only when the item needs it, with the restriction spelled out - by a spellcaster, by a paladin, and so on. 125 of the 237 items need attunement, and every one of them says so.

COLOUR-CODED BY RARITY

The bar across the top is grey, green, blue, purple, orange or red - the same scale your players already read at a glance. A pile of cards sorts itself without anybody reading a word.

87 percent of the catalogue fits on a single card. Longer items continue onto a second, marked 1/2 and 2/2, with nothing abbreviated. Where an item carries a long table - the Wand of Wonder, the Deck of Illusions - the table is split across cards with its heading repeated, so a continuation card is never a column of numbers with nothing to explain them.

CARD SIZE

63 x 88 mm - standard poker size, so they fit sleeves and deck boxes you already own.

WHO IT IS FOR

A DM who wants loot to feel like something handed over, and a player who is tired of asking what their own item does.

THE FILES

24 PDFs in two downloads. Each of the six decks comes in A4 and US Letter, and each of those in colour and in a printer-friendly build for saving ink. The printer-friendly version is the same document in pure white, nothing removed. Download A4 or US Letter - whichever your printer uses.

Print at 100 percent, or Actual size - not Fit to page, or the cards will not match sleeves. Every file opens with a page explaining how to print, how to read a card, and a key to the rarity colours.

Compatible with Fifth Edition. Instant digital download - nothing is posted.

Made with AI assistance: the layout and supporting text of these cards were designed with AI assistance, then edited, checked and laid out by hand. The item text itself is licensed SRD 5.1 content, reproduced under CC-BY-4.0 with the attribution included in every file.