Languages

Scryfall archives Magic cards in 17 languages (including some unofficial languages).

Each Card object indicates its language in the lang property using an ISO-like code. When available, cards may also include their printed text in printed_name, printed_type_line, and printed_text fields.

Please note that Oracle text is always English, per game rules. Cards printed in non-English languages are a translation of the Oracle text at the time the card was printed, but these texts do not receive errata.

Our support for multiple languages in older sets is limited. We are expanding this data slowly over time.

The current languages are:

Code	Printed Code	Language	Cards	Examples
en	en	English	94,801	Example Cards
es	sp	Spanish	44,647	Example Cards
fr	fr	French	48,596	Example Cards
de	de	German	48,258	Example Cards
it	it	Italian	44,525	Example Cards
pt	pt	Portuguese	38,572	Example Cards
ja	jp	Japanese	51,544	Example Cards
ko	kr	Korean	15,297	Example Cards
ru	ru	Russian	21,533	Example Cards
zhs	cs	Simplified Chinese	40,466	Example Cards
zht	ct	Traditional Chinese	23,424	Example Cards
he		Hebrew	1	Example Cards
la		Latin	1	Example Cards
grc		Ancient Greek	3	Example Cards
ar		Arabic	1	Example Cards
sa		Sanskrit	1	Example Cards
ph	ph	Phyrexian	49	Example Cards