Complete List of All 71 Textless Cards in MTG

Pedro Furtado (djorso) November 19, 2025 Collecting, Deckbuilding, MTG Cards

Counterspell | Illustration by Ryan Valle

MTG players have always loved to personalize their decks with versions of their cards that are out of the ordinary. For a while, the only way to do this was to have a foil print of a card or a card in a different language, like Japanese or Russian.

MTG began card frame innovation in the late 1990’s with full-art lands and lands without text boxes, which eventually led to cards with full-art and no text box – or simply, textless cards of all kinds.

Today, we dive into the world of textless cards in MTG, right from the beginning with 2009 staples like Blightning and Lightning Bolt, to newer sets like Avatar: The Last Airbender, with cards like Prince Zuko and Katara, the Fearless.

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What Are Textless Cards in MTG?

Cryptic Command | Illustration by Wayne England

Textless cards don’t have any kind of text box to explain their rules. They only have the name of the card, its mana cost in the upper right corner, and the rest is full, glorious art. There’s no rules text or flavor text at all. In the case of creature cards, we also have power and toughness on the bottom right part of the card, exactly where you’d expect it.

Textless cards are an alternate version of regular cards with a text box, so there will always be the standard, original version for referencing rules.

Gallery and List of Textless Cards

Avatar: The Last Airbender Textless Cards

Headliners

Store Championship Promos

Miscellaneous Others

What’s the Point of Textless Cards?

Back when MTG didn’t have that much focus on stylistic cards or cards with different arts, cards that looked different than the regular frame were very rare. Some sets, like Unglued and Unhinged took it a step further and were the first ones to supply full-art lands for the five basics, something that’s become common practice in regular MTG sets. From 2005 on, textless cards were part of the Magic Player Rewards program to reward players that took part in tournaments.

Cards like Terror, Fireball, and Mana Leak were offered in the first wave, and these were all classic cards with text that tournament players know by heart, with recognizable art, too.

The thing is, textless cards aren’t without their shortcomings. It’s one thing to have Lightning Bolt, a card that just says “Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target” on a textless card. It works for a 10/10 vanilla creature like Gigantosaurus, too. However, WotC printed Cryptic Command in textless version, a card that sees a lot of tournament play, and one that has four modes to be aware of. This can create some situations when the blue player must explain all the different stuff the card can do to a possibly skeptical player.

Source: Reddit

But that was in 2009, and they’ve learned, right? Wrong. Recently, complicated cards like Thalia and the Gitrog Monster or Omnath, Locus of Creation were rewarded as textless Store Championship cards, so you might face one of these, as well. Textless versions of complicated cards like Questing Beast don’t exist (yet), but the community can meme with these.

How Do You Get Textless MTG Cards?

Besides buying the older ones, you can get textless MTG cards in several ways. Many of these are given as a Store Championship prize. The most recent one was Goddric, Cloaked Reveler in April, 2025, and Avacyn's Pilgrim as a MagicFest 2025 attendance promo in February of the same year.

Command Tower and special versions of Venom-themed full-art lands are available through Secret Lair drops.

Some MTG sets have textless versions of their most sought-after cards in Collector Boosters. Traveling Chocobo and Sothera, the Supervoid, for example, can be found in their respective sets’ Collector Boosters. Avatar: The Last Airbender also has its own textless cards in Collector Boosters.

Of course, you can also buy textless cards as singles from online retailers and your local game store (LGS).

Are Textless Cards Legal in MTG?

Yes, they’re legal in MTG, including organized play. If you need to know the specific text of a card in a tournament context, you can always call a judge and ask for the official English text. That’s very similar to situations when players play with cards in other languages, or when cards are mistranslated. Also, lying about the real text of a card can get you disqualified.

Are Textless Cards Expensive?

Some of them are really, really expensive. Most of the textless cards aren’t staples in Constructed MTG, so they’re under $5 or $10. However, some of these cards’ textless versions sell for more than $60 since they’re multi-format staples and very sought-after cards:

Then we have the total outliers. Urza's Saga, a land that's already a $30 card in its regular version, has a Store Championship textless version that’s sold at around $800. The singularity foil version of Sothera, the Supervoid is listed at nearly $1,500. And that’s nothing compared to the The Soul Stone in cosmic foil, which, according to TCGplayer, is listed at $30,000, with a copy that has already sold at around five times that amount. There’s also serialized golden Traveling Chocobos selling at $200 thousand apiece.

Wrap Up

Silence | Illustration by Wayne Reynolds

These days, MTG offers players a lot of ways to customize our cards between alternate frames, special foil treatments, or just some nice, textless cards that highlight the game’s iconic art. The demand for these is very high, of course, so expect prices to be premium, for the most part. And if you’re playing with newer players, they probably won’t enjoy the textless experience as much, so make sure you play your textless cards with experienced players.

What’s your take on textless cards, guys? Do you have any in your prized collection? Let me know in the comments section below or over in our Draftsim Discord.

Thanks for reading, and stay safe!

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Pedro Furtado (djorso)

Pedro started playing Magic way back when in Fourth Edition. After a long hiatus, he now plays mostly MTG Arena Standard and Limited. His biggest MTG regret is trading a bunch of Force of Wills for Serra Angels.