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Keep three TCGs in one collection

A mixed TCG collection should not need three separate overviews. TCG Actana keeps Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, and One Piece in the same main collection while preserving the details that belong to each card.

One main collection, separate scan batches

You choose one game when you start a scan batch. That keeps recognition and review focused on the right catalogue. After you check the results and add the batch, its cards join All Cards alongside the other supported games.

A mixed physical box is therefore easiest to work through game by game: first the Magic cards, then Pokémon and One Piece. Digitally, the batches come back together in one place.

This gives each step a clear job:

  1. Capture and review one game’s cards in a batch.
  2. Add the checked cards to the collection.
  3. View every supported game together or narrow the collection to one game.

The guide to getting scans and photos into Actana covers the first step.

A guide for each game

The overall workflow stays familiar, but the details you need to check differ by TCG:

The details stay with each copy

Putting several games in one view does not flatten them into a list of names. Actana keeps the card’s game, printing, language, condition, finish, and quantity with the recorded copy.

That matters when two cards share a familiar name, when a printing has several variants, or when your collection includes several languages. You can still inspect the card you actually own rather than a generic entry for that name.

Move between the overview and one game

When your cards cover more than one game, the collection sidebar shows the games present. Choose a game to narrow the view, or return to All Cards for the combined collection — the game filter replaces a second collection, not the other way around. The search and filter tools inside the selected view are covered in how to organise, filter, and search a large card collection.

The total shown above the collection follows the cards currently in view, so you can look at the whole collection and then focus on one game without maintaining a second list.

Add your own collections without losing the overview

You can create named collections for a binder, a specific set, or a personal side project. A card placed in one of these groups still remains part of All Cards — the named collection is an extra way to find it, not a separate inventory.

A shared overview of the value

The dashboard summarises the cards of all three games in the selected market view — the dashboard and price history guide explains what those figures mean.

Test Actana with your cards.Download the alpha for Windows or Mac and create your account in the desktop app.

Download the desktop app