Custom Playmats – Your Art, With or Without Card Zones

A playmat is the cloth-topped rubber mat you play trading card games on. It gives your cards a smooth, clean surface, keeps them off a sticky or scratched table, and marks out your side of the game. A custom playmat is the same mat printed with an image you choose instead of a store design: your own drawing, a commissioned piece, a photo of your pet, your group's logo or your favourite deck's art.

Custom TCG playmats are popular for the same reason custom sleeves and deck boxes are: the mat is the one piece of your setup everyone at the table looks at for the whole game. A mat with your own art is easy to spot in a crowded store, makes a lasting gift for a player, and turns a deck you love into something you see every time you sit down to play.

Making your own playmat on this page takes a few minutes, and nothing is printed until you order. The builder works the same on a phone and on a computer.

• Upload your image. Drop a PNG, JPG or WebP file (up to 40 MB) onto the upload box, or browse for it. The print check under the upload tells you straight away whether the file is soft, good or sharp at 24″ × 14″.
• Place it. Fill covers the whole mat and crops what doesn't fit; Fit shows your whole image and fills the space around it with a blur, a matching colour, white or black; Stretch fits it exactly by changing its proportions. Zoom in, rotate it and use Move image on the preview to drag it where you want it.
• Choose Without Zones or With Zones. Without Zones keeps your art clean, edge to edge. With Zones prints card guides over it: pick your game, a zone style and a zone colour.
• Check it in 3D and AR. Turn the mat on the page to see the print, the stitched edge and the thickness, then open it on your phone to place it on your own table at real size.
• Add it to your cart. If your image needs it, we sharpen it up for print and email you a proof to approve before printing.

Magic players search for custom playmats more than any other group, and for good reason: a playmat is part of how you play Magic, from the battlefield where your permanents sit to the library, graveyard and exile piles beside it. Our custom MTG playmats print any art you like, and with zones on they add a Magic layout over it: a wide battlefield, a lands row, and slots for your library, graveyard and exile.

Commander players get their own layout. The Commander mat moves the battlefield over to make room on the left for a commander slot, a life total box and a commander tax box, so the things you track every turn have a home. If you'd rather start from a finished design, browse our MTG playmats; if you want your own, this builder makes custom magic playmats from any image.

A Pokémon playmat with zones is one of the most useful mats for newer players and for anyone teaching the game. The Pokémon layout prints the Active Spot, the five Bench slots, the Stadium slot, the six Prize cards (in their two overlapping columns), the deck and the discard pile, so every card has its place on the mat.

Pokémon has more than a dozen zone styles, from Classic name-tab frames to pixel-art, Pokédex and Battle Screen looks, and every one can be printed in the zone colour you choose. Ready-made art is in our Pokémon TCG playmats; for a custom Pokémon playmat, upload your own and pick a style.

Every game has its own field, so every game gets its own zone layout. Yu-Gi-Oh! mats print the five Main Monster Zones, the five Spell & Trap Zones, the Field Zone, the two Extra Monster Zones, the Graveyard, Banishment, Extra Deck and Deck. One Piece mats lay out the Character Area, the Cost Area, the Leader, Stage, Life, DON!! deck, deck and trash. Disney Lorcana mats carry a 0–20 lore track across the top over the play area and the inkwell.

The builder also covers Riftbound (with its 0–8 score track), Star Wars: Unlimited (ground and space arenas either side of your base and leader), Digimon (with the 10–0–10 memory gauge), Gundam (shield area, battle area and resource area), Flesh and Blood (the equipment, hero, weapons, arsenal and combat chain as the rules lay them out), Dragon Ball Super Fusion World, Final Fantasy, Cardfight!! Vanguard, Weiß Schwarz, Union Arena and Sorcery: Contested Realm. Playing something that isn't listed? Universal prints plain, unnamed card slots that work for any game.

Looking for a finished design instead? See our Yu-Gi-Oh! playmats, One Piece playmats, Riftbound playmats and Gundam Card Game playmats, or everything in TCG playmats.

Choose Without Zones if the art is the point: a commission, a photo or an illustration you want to see whole, with nothing printed over it. It's also the right choice if you play several games on the same mat, since a clean mat works for all of them.

Choose With Zones if you want the mat to help you play: zones keep a busy board tidy, make it easier for opponents and judges to read your side of the table, and are a real help when you're learning a game or teaching it to someone else. The zones are printed in thin, clear lines over your art, and you choose how they look and what colour they are.

Zones only help if you can see them at a glance, so the builder lets you match them to your art. Auto chooses for you: it reads how light or dark your image is and prints black lines on light art and white lines on dark art. For art with both light and dark areas, a strong colour often reads better than either: lime, amber or coral stand out on deep blues and purples, while blue, violet or black hold up on pale, sunny art.

Look at the 3D preview with your real art loaded rather than the stand-in, and turn the mat as a player would see it across the table. If a zone disappears into a detailed part of the picture, try another colour or another zone style; the plain outline style is the lightest touch, while themed styles add frames and labels that are easier to find on very busy art.

Many games come with several zone styles on top of the plain outline: Pokémon, Magic, Commander, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Lorcana, Riftbound, Star Wars: Unlimited and Digimon all have themed frames to pick from, each drawn to the same card sizes so your cards fit whichever style you choose. The style previews in the builder are drawn with the real zones, in your chosen colour, so what you see is what is printed.

Zone colour works for every game and every style. Auto prints black lines on light art and white lines on dark art; you can also choose one of eleven ready-made colours (white, black, lime, amber, coral, red, pink, violet, blue, teal or grey) or mix any colour you like with the hue and shade sliders, or type in a hex code to match your art exactly.

The standard TCG playmat size is 24″ × 14″, about 61.5 × 35.5 cm, and that is the size of our custom playmats. It is the single-player size used for Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Lorcana and most other card games, so it fits a standard play space at a store table and in most playmat bags and tubes.

Every card slot in our zone layouts is 2.7″ × 3.7″ (68 × 93 mm). A standard-size card (2.5″ × 3.5″, 63 × 88 mm) in a sleeve is around 2.6″ × 3.6″ (66 × 91 mm), so it sits inside the slot with a little room to spare, and smaller Japanese-size cards such as Yu-Gi-Oh! fit with more. If you need room for two, see our two-player TCG playmats.

Every custom playmat is built like our ready-made ones. The top is a micro-woven cloth that lets sleeved and unsleeved cards slide into place without snagging and protects them from table wear. Under it is a 3 mm cushioned neoprene layer that makes cards easy to pick up and gives the mat a solid feel, and the base is textured natural rubber that grips the table so the mat doesn't shift mid-game.

Your art is dye-sublimated into the cloth, a heat-transfer print that goes into the surface rather than sitting on top of it, so it doesn't crack or peel and resists UV, friction and regular play. The edges are stitched all the way round to stop fraying and peeling, and the print runs edge to edge.

For a sharp custom playmat print, use an image of about 3,600 × 2,100 pixels, which is 150 DPI at 24″ × 14″. The print check under your upload measures your file against the size and shows it as soft, good or sharp, with the DPI, as soon as you add it. Landscape images suit the mat's shape best; portrait images can be rotated, or placed with Fit so nothing important is cropped.

A smaller image isn't a dead end. If your file is low resolution, we sharpen it up for print and email you a proof to approve before anything is printed, so you see the result first. A few tips for the best result:

• Keep faces, text and logos at least 0.6″ (1.5 cm) in from the edge, clear of the stitching.
• With zones on, check the preview so key parts of your art sit between the zones rather than under a card slot.
• Use the original file rather than a screenshot or a photo of a screen; it's always sharper.
• Only upload art you have the right to print: your own work, a commission you're allowed to use, or your own photos.

A playmat is a wide landscape shape, 24 by 14, which works out to about 1.71 to 1. That's very close to a 16:9 widescreen image (1.78 to 1), so wallpapers, screenshots of game art and widescreen photos fit almost perfectly: with Fill, only a thin strip is cropped from each side. Square and portrait images need more care, because Fill will crop a lot of the top and bottom to cover the mat.

For a square or portrait image you have three good options. Rotate it in the builder if it reads well sideways; use Fit to show the whole image and fill the sides with a blurred version of your art, a matching colour, white or black; or use Move image and zoom to choose exactly which part fills the mat. The 3D preview updates as you go, so you can try each one in seconds.

If you're asking an artist to draw your playmat, give them the brief a printer would. Ask for a landscape piece at 3,600 × 2,100 pixels or larger (or any size at the same 24:14 shape), delivered as a PNG or high-quality JPG. Ask them to keep characters' faces, signatures and any text at least 0.6″ (1.5 cm) in from every edge, so nothing important sits on the stitching.

If you plan to add zones, tell the artist which game it's for and share a screenshot of the zone layout from this page, so they can leave calmer areas where the card slots go and put the most important part of the picture where the cards won't cover it. Upload the finished file here to check its sharpness and preview it with zones before you order.

The mat on this page is a live 3D model of your playmat: turn it to see the print, the stitched edges and the 3 mm profile, and zoom in to check the detail. On a phone, View on your desk opens it in AR so you can place it on your own table at its real size, next to your real cards and deck box, before you order.

Cleaning a playmat is simple. Our playmats can be washed by hand or in the machine: if yours gets dirty, wash it by hand or on a gentle cycle with cold water, then let it air dry flat. Don't use bleach and don't iron it. To keep the surface smooth between games, store it rolled rather than folded, and if it arrives with a curl from being rolled, lay it flat for a few hours and it settles on its own.

Yes, many players do: a playmat is a large cloth-topped rubber mat, much like a desk mat. If you want a pad made for your mouse, though, our custom mouse pads use a fabric surface built for precise control and come in sizes from small pads to full desk mats, with the same upload, 3D preview and AR as this page.

The image you place here works on every Padrift builder. Put the same art on a custom mouse pad for your desk, a custom area rug in crushed or plush velvet for the floor of your game room, or custom wall art as a poster, canvas or framed canvas for the wall above your table. Every builder shows your design in 3D and in AR before you order.

Playmats with your own art are a common sight at local game nights and official events. Rules on artwork and printed guides vary by game and organiser, so if you're playing at a competitive event, check its rules before you go; a clean mat without zones is the safest choice when you're not sure.

Custom playmats also make memorable gifts for the card game player in your life, and a great way for a game store, team or community to put its own logo on the table. Each mat is made to order, so a single mat is as easy to order as several.