Introducing Decks: Build, Share & Draw Your Own Card Collections
ComposerDeck 2.5 is our biggest update yet. Decks let you curate your own collection of constraint cards, yours and the catalogue's, and share it with anyone through a single link. Your students, your audience, your crew: everyone draws from your deck.
What Are Decks?
Until now, every draw in ComposerDeck came from our catalogue. You picked a genre, set your card count, and the engine dealt the constraints.
Decks flip that around. A deck is a curated collection of cards that you assemble yourself: pick from the approved catalogue, add cards you created, give it a title and a description, and it's yours. Up to 100 cards per deck, and up to 20 decks per account.
And here's the part we're most excited about: every deck gets a share link. Send it to anyone and they land on your deck's page with a one-click "Load this deck & draw" button. No account digging, no setup. Your constraints, in their hands, instantly.
A music teacher builds a deck for this week's class. A producer builds a "remix challenge" deck for their followers. A band builds a writing-session deck before going into the studio. Same feature, three superpowers.
How It Works
Create a deck from the new Decks section in the studio: name it, describe it
Add cards from the approved catalogue, including your own creations
Share the link: anyone who opens it can load your deck in one click
Draw: by default the whole hand comes from the deck, or dial it down to mix deck cards with the regular engine
Full deck, or deck + engine
When you load a deck, your next draw pulls 100% from that deck by default. That's the mode deck creators design for. But you can also use the stepper to decide how many cards of your hand come from the deck, and let the ComposerDeck engine fill the rest. A little bit of your teacher's homework, a little bit of chaos.
Your Cards, Your Deck
Decks pair naturally with card creation. You can propose your own cards from the contribute page, including devious red MALUS cards, and once they're approved they're available to slot into your decks.
Two things we locked in on purpose:
- Every card in a deck is moderated. Decks only ever contain approved cards, even private ones, so any link you open is safe to draw from.
- Card authors get credit. When someone draws a community-created card from your deck, the card shows its author with a link to their profile. Build a great card and it travels.
Everything Else in 2.5
Decks headline the release, but 2.5 wraps up a whole season of community features:
SoundCloud & External Embeds
Link your SoundCloud (and other platforms) on submissions: tracks now embed and play right on the submission page.
Follow Producers
Found someone whose draws you love? Follow them and keep up with their submissions from their profile.
Community Leaderboard
The leaderboard now lives right in the studio navigation: top contributors and most-liked submissions, always one tap away.
Better Profiles & Submissions
Rename your submissions, browse sibling takes on the same draw, and enjoy a profile that ties your whole body of work together.
Under the hood, 2.5 also ships a hardened error-monitoring and analytics stack, so we catch problems before you have to report them, plus a smoother onboarding tour for newcomers.
Start Your First Deck
Decks are live for everyone today, on the web app and coming to the iOS app in the next update. If you build one you're proud of (a teaching deck, a genre bootcamp, a malus gauntlet), share the link with us. We'll be spotlighting the best community decks in a future post.
Ready to build your deck?
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