Importing cards in bulk

Adding cards one at a time is fine for a handful. When you want a whole set in a binder, use Bulk add.

Open a collection you own, choose Add cards, and press Bulk add at the top of that dialog. (I opens the importer straight from the collection page if you prefer a shortcut.) The importer works in four steps: set up what you want, preview exactly what it will do, run it, and see what happened.

There are three ways to say what to import: a whole set, a pasted list of set printing ids, or a file. The file route has two steps of its own at the front and is covered separately in importing a CSV; everything below about copies, quantity, the preview and the run applies to all three.

Bulk importing is only available in collections you own. If a collection has been shared with you and you can add cards to it, you can still add them one at a time.

Importing a set

From a set is the usual case — "every Common and Rare in WTR, one copy each".

• Set — pick the set you want.
• Rarities and Finishes — leave these empty for everything, or narrow them down. Only the rarities and finishes the set actually contains are offered, so you cannot accidentally ask for something that isn't there.
• Language — English by default. Change it if you want the printings in another language instead.

Importing a list

From a list takes a pasted list of set printing ids, one per line:

WTR215
3x ARC077
WTR001-RF
JA_OMN109

An optional count comes first (3x WTR001 or 3 WTR001). Foil suffixes are -RF for Rainbow, -CF for Cold, and -GF for Gold. A language prefix looks like JA_OMN109. Case doesn't matter, and repeated lines are added together.

Lines we can't read don't stop the rest of the import — they're listed as warnings in the preview, and everything else still goes in.

Copies and quantity

Copies per card is how many of each card you want. What that means depends on the quantity setting:

• Top up to this many (the default) adds only what's missing. If you ask for 3 copies and already have 1, it adds 2. Running the same import twice changes nothing the second time, which is what you want when you're completing a set.
• Add this many more always adds that many on top of what you already own — for when you've opened another case of the same set.

Condition applies to the whole import, and it's part of how cards are matched. Importing at Near Mint tops up your Near Mint copies; it won't merge into a Lightly Played row.

The preview

Before anything is written, the preview tells you what will happen: how many copies, split between brand new cards and top-ups of cards you already have.

It also tells you what it's leaving out, which is usually the number people ask about:

• Cards skipped — you already have enough copies at that condition. Not a problem; it's the top-up rule doing its job.
• Printings that can't be imported — a small number of printings have no card product behind them, so there's nothing to add.

If the import would take the collection past your item limit, or is larger than a single import allows, the preview says so and the Import button stays disabled. See limits.

Adding a set from its own page

Every set page has an Add to collection action, and it opens the importer right there, on the set you're looking at.

Because the set is already decided, that version of the form is a little shorter. You pick the Collection it goes into (binders are listed first), and if the set exists in more than one language you pick which Release to import. Everything else — rarities, finishes, copies, quantity, condition — works exactly as it does from the collection side, preview included.

Things to know

• Importing needs a connection — the whole batch is sent to the server at once, so it isn't available offline.
• It also needs the card database, which installs in the background the first time you use Pitchstack.
• Acquired prices aren't set during an import. If you want them, the binder's price backfill can work them out afterwards.
• If part of an import fails, the summary offers a Retry for just the failed cards. Retrying is safe and won't double up anything that already landed.