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What Is Pairing?

What Is Pairing?

Pairing records which front-facing and back-facing cards belong together. It helps the app keep related faces together during browsing, export, and deck-building workflows.

One back can be paired with several front cards. A front can also be paired with more than one back. This is useful when different cards share a back design or when one front needs to be available with different backs.

Pairing does not decide how many copies a deck contains. A deck entry has its own quantity. Pairing instead tells the app which opposite faces are valid relationships.

Pairing versus a two-sided card

The front and back remain separate saved cards. Pairing connects them; it does not merge them into one editable card or copy the artwork from one face to the other.

Diagram showing several front faces linked to shared and alternative back faces.
Pairing links reusable faces without permanently joining them into a single two-sided card.

Pairing is also different from a collection, which groups cards for library organization, and from a deck, which organizes cards into sets and quantities.

Removing a pairing does not delete either saved card. If a deck entry depends on that exact relationship, however, confirming the removal also removes the dependent deck entry after a warning.

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