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	99,987	Example Cards
es	sp	Spanish	46,008	Example Cards
fr	fr	French	50,076	Example Cards
de	de	German	49,739	Example Cards
it	it	Italian	45,592	Example Cards
pt	pt	Portuguese	38,610	Example Cards
ja	jp	Japanese	53,083	Example Cards
ko	kr	Korean	15,314	Example Cards
ru	ru	Russian	21,569	Example Cards
zhs	cs	Simplified Chinese	40,504	Example Cards
zht	ct	Traditional Chinese	23,441	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