Loot You Can Actually Hold
There's a moment every Dungeon Master knows — the party defeats the dragon, opens the hoard, and then everyone crowds around a laptop or dog-eared rulebook trying to figure out what the Boots of Elvenkind actually do. These Reference Cards cut straight through that. Wizards of the Coast has taken the most commonly awarded magic items from the fifth edition (5e) rules and put them into a physical card format that GMs can hand directly to their players the moment the loot is discovered. Tangible, personal, and earned — exactly how treasure should feel.
What's In The Deck
This set covers the two tiers of magic items your players are most likely to encounter across the early and mid-game: common and uncommon. Common items are the everyday enchantments — useful, flavourful, and easy to distribute freely. Uncommon items are the stuff players get excited about — the Cloak of Protection, the Bag of Holding, the items that start defining a character's identity. Between the 59 common cards and 117 uncommon cards, you're holding nearly 180 indexed, ready-to-distribute pieces of loot that cover the vast majority of what ends up in a standard D&D treasure haul.
Six customizable cards let you create homebrew items or adjust existing ones to fit your campaign without breaking the physical format. The included instruction card walks GMs through how to integrate the deck into their sessions — useful if you're adopting this at an existing table or handing it off to a less experienced DM.
Who It's For
This is a Dungeon Master's tool through and through. If you run 5e campaigns — whether that's a homebrew world, a published adventure like Curse of Strahd or Descent into Avernus, or a rotating one-shot series — this deck removes one of the most consistent friction points at the table. Players benefit too: rather than waiting for the DM to read out an item description, they get a card they can keep in front of them, reference mid-combat, and hand back when the campaign ends. These cards are compatible with both the 2014 fifth edition core rules and the 2024 revised ruleset. No additional purchases required beyond owning the core game — this is a pure quality-of-life upgrade for any table that hands out magic items.
Product Specifications
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
| System | Dungeons & Dragons |
| Edition | 5e (compatible with 2014 and 2024 core rules) |
| Book Type | Supplement — Reference Cards |
| Contents | 59 common cards, 117 uncommon cards, 6 customizable cards, 1 instruction card |
| Format | Card Deck |
| Language | English |
