These answers are for Decked Builder 2.0. We add to this page when a question comes up more than once. If yours is not here, use the Support page and tell us your device and app version.
Decked Builder 2.0 keeps your decks and collections as files you can see, instead of in a hidden database. Nothing in 2.0 deletes your old library. To use your old decks and collections in 2.0, bring them over (next question).
Open Decked Builder 2.0 on an iPhone or iPad that had 1.0.x set up and synced. If it finds your old library, a sheet called “Bring Your Old Library Over?” shows what it found: your decks, your collections, and any cards that were not attached to a collection. Everything starts checked. Uncheck anything you do not want, then tap Import. Your cards arrive in a new folder called “Recovered Legacy Import” followed by the date.
You can also start it yourself at any time: open Settings, find Older Library, and choose Import Older Library, then pick the library file. If the older library is on this device, Settings also shows Import From This iPhone (it says iPad or Mac on those devices), which opens the same sheet. Each import makes its own Recovered Legacy Import folder. Folders from earlier imports are not changed.
No. Importing makes copies. Your old library is read, not changed. If you stop an import part way, the files written so far are removed. To undo a finished import, delete the “Recovered Legacy Import” folder it created.
Decked Builder 2.0 keeps your decks and collections as files in your Decked Builder folder, and the Decks and Collections lists show what is in that folder. The import does not put your old decks straight into the list. It makes one folder, “Recovered Legacy Import” followed by the date, with a Decks folder and a Collections folder inside it.
Decked Builder cannot move a deck or collection into a different folder, but the Files app can, because they are regular files:
You do not have to move anything. You can open and edit your decks where they are, inside the folder.
If your Decked Builder folder already held decks or collections from an earlier version of the app that kept them as files, they show up in 2.0 again, because 2.0 keeps your library in that folder. Version 1.0.x kept your library in its own database instead and left those files as they were. The import copied your 1.0.x library, which is the current one, into the Recovered Legacy Import folder. So the older copies sit at the top level and the newer ones sit inside the folder. Collections work the same way.
To use the newer copy of a deck or collection, move it out of the Recovered Legacy Import folder with the Files app, as in the answer above. If Files tells you that a file with the same name is already there, it offers to keep both files or to replace the older one. Keeping both is the safe choice: open both in Decked Builder, then delete the one you do not want. Replacing overwrites the older file, so replace only if you have not changed that deck in 2.0 since you imported.
Not Now closes the sheet and asks again the next time you open the app. Don’t Ask Again stops the offer. Either way you can import later from Settings, under Older Library.
Some older libraries contain card entries that were never attached to a collection. Decked Builder 2.0 does not throw them away and does not guess where they belong. Each group is placed in its own collection, named “Unattached Classic Cards” followed by a number, so you can look through it, move the cards you recognize into your real collections, and delete the rest. They are checked by default in the import sheet, and you can uncheck any group you do not want.
The old app stored a total for each collection, and sometimes the total did not match the cards that were actually saved. 2.0 imports the cards that exist and tells you when the old total was higher, so you know to check that collection.
To bring your Decked Builder 1.0.x library over, open Decked Builder 2.0 on a device that had 1.0.x set up and synced. If you no longer have one, your old data is probably still in iCloud, but this version cannot open it. You can start new collections and decks now; a later update may bring your old library back.
No. Importing is free, and imported decks do not count toward the free allowance of new decks.
They are files in the Decked Builder folder, which you can see in the Files app. With iCloud Drive turned on for Decked Builder they live in iCloud Drive; otherwise they stay on the device.
Because they are files, iCloud Drive keeps them up to date on your other iPhones and iPads that are signed in with the same Apple ID. Without iCloud Drive they stay on the one device.
If your library is stored in iCloud, a new device has to download your files first. With a large library this can take a few minutes, and your Decks and Collections lists may look empty until the files arrive. Nothing has been deleted: your decks and collections appear as iCloud delivers them.
Because they are ordinary files, you can copy the Decked Builder folder from the Files app to back everything up. A deck can be exported as a Text List, a Decked Builder File, a List Image, Card Images, a List PDF or a Card Images PDF. A collection can be exported as a CSV file that includes prices.
Point the camera at a card. Card Cam reads it, shows the card it thinks it found with a price, and keeps a running list of what you have scanned. A finish chip beside the shutter sets whether new scans are nonfoil or foil. When you are done, open the review list, check what Card Cam found, and tap “Add” to put the cards into the collection or deck you chose. Cards that Card Cam was not sure about are listed first under “Needs Review”, so you can check the card, the printing and the finish before adding them.
The Single and Auto switch on the Card Cam screen sets how Card Cam scans. Single scans one card each time you tap the shutter. Auto scans continuously: it adds a card to your scan list when the card holds steady in the frame, and it will not add the same card again until you take it out of the frame.
Auto is still being tuned. For now, set the switch to Single. The shutter scans one card in either mode, so if Card Cam is already on Auto you can still tap it, but Single is the setting that works best right now.
In the review list, tap the card to open its details and check it. Swipe a card to remove it, then scan it again.
In version 2.0.0 the review list can fail to appear after you scan a card. We know about it and are fixing it in the first update after 2.0.0.
Use good light, keep the whole card in the frame on a plain, dark background, and hold it steady. If Card Cam says to move closer, bring the card closer to the camera. Foil cards can glare under a bright light, so tilt them a little. Before you tap Add, check the cards listed under Needs Review.
A limited number. When the free scans are used up, Decked Builder Access gives you unlimited scanning.
Card pages show prices from card marketplaces such as Card Kingdom and TCGplayer, and a Buy button that opens that store. These are brand-partner links: if you buy through one, Decked Builder may earn a commission. The store’s price at checkout is the one that counts, because prices change.
Yes. On a card’s page, use the source picker next to the Buy button.
Decked Builder Access is the optional subscription. It includes unlimited decks, unlimited Card Cam, and collection merge and duplicate. Without it you can still browse, search and remove cards, make a limited number of new decks, and try Card Cam with a limited number of free scans. The plans screen in the app, reached from the subscription row in Settings, always shows the current price, billing period and any free trial.
Subscriptions are managed by Apple. To cancel, open Settings on your iPhone or iPad, tap your name, then Subscriptions, and choose Decked Builder. To get your subscription back on a new device, sign in with the same Apple ID, open Settings in Decked Builder, choose the subscription row, and tap Restore Purchases on the plans screen.
Nothing. The App Store privacy label for Decked Builder says “Data Not Collected.” Your decks and collections stay in files on your own devices and in your own iCloud Drive. If you want us to look at something, such as a bug or a library file, you send it to us through support. The app does not send it for you.
No. Decked Builder is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy. Not approved or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. The full disclosure, including card-image and set-symbol credits, is in the app under Settings, then Legal.
Use the Support page. Tell us your device, iOS version and app version, and what you expected to happen.
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