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Master Setter Pokémon TCG Catalog MCP Server

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Master Setter Pokémon TCG Catalog is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Pokémon TCG cards in 14 languages: 196k cards, 272k printings, deepest Korean/Thai/Chinese.

Uptime history 49 days of history · worst day 53%
49 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
241 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 13 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

13 Oct a tool description was rewritten get_api_key
13 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for get_api_key

Master Setter Pokémon TCG Catalog does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 81.2% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add pokemon-tcg --transport http https://api.master-setter.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://api.master-setter.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.pokemon-tcg]
url = "https://api.master-setter.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pokemon-tcg": {
      "url": "https://api.master-setter.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "pokemon-tcg": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.master-setter.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

cards
list_cards_in_set
Every card in a set, ordered by number (e.g. set ja-sv4a, th-sv1v, zh-tw-sv1s).
search_cards
Search Pokémon TCG cards by name. Names are stored in each card's own language (search Korean cards with Korean, e.g. 피카츄; Japanese with ピカチュウ). Filter with lang.
api
get_api_key
Create a free API key (English cards, 250 requests/month) for an email address. Free keys are for PERSONAL, NON-COMMERCIAL use only: confirm that with the user before setting personal_use=true. Commercial use, other languages, printings and images need a paid plan (POST /v1/billing). Pass the key as Authorization: Bearer <key>.
card
get_card
One card by id (e.g. en-base1-4, ko-sv4a-190) with all of its printings/variants (1st Edition, holo, reverse holo…).
get
get_set
One set by id (e.g. ko-sv4a) with card_count computed from the cards actually present.
sets
list_sets
Sets (expansions, promos, decks) for a language, newest first. 14 languages; deepest coverage of Korean, Thai, Indonesian and Chinese.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.master-setter.com/mcp streamable-http answering 221 ms 10 min ago

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Master Setter Pokémon TCG Catalog — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Master Setter Pokémon TCG Catalog do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_api_key, get_card, get_set, list_cards_in_set, list_sets, search_cards. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Master Setter Pokémon TCG Catalog working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 241 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Master Setter Pokémon TCG Catalog?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Master Setter Pokémon TCG Catalog need an API key?
No. Master Setter Pokémon TCG Catalog completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Master Setter Pokémon TCG Catalog?
It answers our handshake in 241 ms on average, which is faster than 59% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.