The app from Dragon Shield, the sleeve brand, has a scanner and a collection manager many people use for Magic, Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh!. Its successor, Sorted, works the same for what matters here. Both keep cards in folders and export each folder to CSV, and TCGJoin reads that CSV as is, language included.
What you need
- The Dragon Shield or Sorted app with your folders.
- A TCGJoin account (the free one is fine).
- To know which game each folder holds: the importer asks if the file does not say.
Get the file out of Dragon Shield or Sorted
- Open the folder you want to export.
- Tap ⋮ → Export → CSV.
- Save the file and repeat for every folder. Works the same with the new app, Sorted.
One file per folder: ten folders means ten imports, and each can be undone on its own. Dragon Shield writes the language as a full English name (“English”, “Japanese”, “German”…); the importer understands it and every copy comes in with its language.
Upload it to TCGJoin
With the file at hand, open your collection and tap “Import”. The same wizard lives in Profile › Settings › “Import my collection”. It takes four steps:
- Source: pick “Dragon Shield / Sorted” and the game of that folder if asked.
- File: upload it as is (CSV, TSV, TXT or JSON, up to 20 MB). No need to open or tidy it first.
- Review: every row lands in a group. Found (matched with no doubt by set and number), unsure (several printings share that name: pick one or accept the suggestion), not found, and skipped (proxies, quantity 0 or a game outside your plan).
- Import: choose whether to add to what you already have or keep the file quantity, and hit the button.
If something looks off, the import can be undone for 7 days, from the final screen or from Profile › Settings. It removes exactly the copies it added and leaves what you already owned untouched.
What comes across and what does not
From the Dragon Shield CSV the importer uses what identifies the card, how many you own and the language. The rest stays in the file for now:
- Comes across: the exact card (set and number when the file has them), the quantity and the language of each copy.
- Not yet: condition (NM, LP…), foil and purchase price. Copies arrive as non-foil; keep the original file if you care about those details.
- Common plan: one active game. If the file mixes games, cards from the others are skipped and the review tells you which. Importing is free on every plan.
- Nothing you already had is overwritten: by default quantities are added.
If something is not found
“Not found” rows are the ones that do not match the catalogue with the data in the file: they tend to be promos, cards from a game the app recognises and our catalogue does not yet, or rows without a collector number. In the review, tap “Download the not found rows (CSV)” to keep the list. Then run them through the scanner (for Pokémon or for Magic; the same one works for the other games): point the camera and they go into the collection one by one, with their exact printing. If it is your first time, the guide on how to scan cards with your phone covers it in two minutes.
If a whole column is the problem (the review flags the columns it did not understand), tell us from the suggestions box in the help bubble and we will add it.
With the folders in, your collection adds up the value of everything and shows what you are missing set by set. There is a hub for Magic, Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh!, and the rest of the supported apps are on Import collection.