Personal Decks

Some games ask each player to bring their own deck. Build that deck at the table the normal way, save it to a file on your own computer, and load it back the next time you play. Nothing is stored on your account and nothing counts against your storage.

Turning It On (Host)

Open Room Options in the bottom toolbar and find Personal Decks. There are two separate switches:

• Allow saving decks to a file: players can save a deck from this table.
• Allow loading decks from a file: players can bring a deck file into this table.

They're independent, so you can let people take a deck away without letting outside cards in, or the other way round. With both switches off, the My Decks button is hidden for everyone, including you, and turning either one back on brings it straight back.

There's a third switch worth turning on alongside them: Allow copy, paste & duplicate. Most decks want more than one copy of some cards, and copying is host-only by default, so without it a player can't build a deck with three of the same card.

Both switches are remembered with the room, and they're stored in a Saved Table Setup, so a setup you share can arrive with personal decks already enabled.

Saving a Deck

1. Build the deck at the table like any other: drop cards onto each other, draw from a pile, arrange it how you want. See Cards & Decks. For more than one copy of a card, select it and press Ctrl+D to duplicate it, or right-click it and choose Duplicate. If those aren't there, ask the host to turn on Allow copy, paste & duplicate in Room Options.
2. Select the deck. It has to be a single deck or token stack, not a loose card and not several objects at once.
3. Click My Decks in the bottom toolbar, then Save to File.

Your browser downloads a small .json file named after the deck. The file lists your cards by reference: the name and component identity of each card, its face-up or face-down state, and the order they were in. It does not contain any artwork, so it stays tiny and it can't be used to copy someone's card images.

Loading a Deck

Click My Decks, then Load from File, and pick a deck file. The deck appears at the center of your view with the cards in the exact order you saved them, each one keeping the face it had, under the name you saved it as.

A loaded deck is an ordinary table object, so everyone in the room can see it once it lands. Shuffle it, draw from it, or deal from it exactly like any other deck.

Which Decks Will Load

A deck file only rebuilds where its cards actually exist, which means the same project it was saved from, in any room or setup for that project. Cards from a project the host has attached as a dependency count too. See Host Controls for how dependencies work.

• A file saved from a different project is refused, with a message saying so.
• If a card has since been deleted from the project, it's skipped. The rest of the deck still loads and a message tells you how many cards were left out.
• Renaming a card is fine. Cards are matched by their component first, and only fall back to matching on name.

Related: Cards & Decks · Deck & Stack Builder · Saved Table Setups · Host Controls