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Donations

If you don't see enough decks you'd want to collect—or don't see any at all—then we do accept donations here! The general guidelines are:

• Members can donate up to 10 decks every month, although they can donate less if they prefer.
• Each donation will earn you 3 random cards (per deck) and for every 5 donations submitted overall, you can also earn 2 ribbons, 1 EXP!
• Once a donation is made into a deck, you can take 1 extra choice card from that deck when released, in addition to the regular amount of new release pulls you're allowed.

Currently, only Solo Stage and Unit Collab Stage decks can be regularly donated but they must first be claimed through your account, from the Deck Donation Claims form! Make sure to read the rules there, follow the claiming format & guidelines, and then you can submit the image donation links through the "Donations" tab in your account overview.

Once you've submitted a donation, the reward will be automatically sent to your account's reward page and when the deck is eventually released, it will show up as an additional field in the claiming form for that update (where you take the new release pulls) which you can fill out with your choice, if you use the form! The additional reward for cumulative/total donations submitted can be claimed from a separate link that's also accessible through your account page.

FINDING DONATION INFO

As we follow a particular format and preferred method of deck claims which may be a bit confusing to understand at first (or maybe you just need extra assistance and examples), let me explain in more detail!

We'll use this card as an example, of which the bloomed/trained version of the card has been made into makinishikino-shiningflowerbouquet. First, you can see that the "featuring" info/card details (as seen underneath the deck's name up top) is: Maki Nishikino | Card #2812 - Flower Festival (Bloomed)

While listing which character is (or characters, plural, if donating a unit collab stage deck) featured in the image is pretty straightforward, the rest might not be! So where do we get this information from? You'll need to find the card on its respective card gallery/archive site/wikipedia, which most popular/well known series should have at least one of (find a list of sites/resources here or ask on the Discord for help). If you don't have a site or resource to reference from for this info, just do your best to include whatever identifying info you can provide to prevent any potential overlaps from someone else trying to donate the same image!

Using the above card and page as an example, we can see the following details, as shown in the screenshot on the right. At the top, there is "Card # ID" which is #2812, thus filling in the first part of the card info. A few sections below that, is the "Collection" which is what we'd use for the "Set Name" portion of the card info; in this case, that would be Flower Festival. Lastly, you can see there's two versions of the card on that page: the unbloomed/untrained version on the left, and the bloomed/trained version on the right. Since the image we're donating is the bloomed version, we would write (Bloomed) for the third and final part of the card info. Combining all this info together in the given format (as seen on the donation claiming form/page), will give us the "featuring" info that you see in the above example, which is what we use for the deck claims list and deck page once it's made! This should also help others easily find what card/image has been donated so they don't claim the same one by mistake.

Even if you are donating an image that has multiple characters, you must still follow this format and provide all necessary info ONLY IF THE IMAGE IS CARD ART! If the image you're donating is other official/promotional art that is NOT a card, please see below.

DONATING NON-CARD IMAGES

Like mentioned, we do accept deck donations for images that are not originally card art. However, we only allow these images for Unit Collab Stage decks! Even if there are non-card art images of a single character, those cannot be donated as a Solo Stage deck. (They could be potentially donated to a Themed Collab Stage-type deck though!)

Acceptable non-card art images include, but are not limited to: album covers (or covers of any music release ie. singles), other cover art (ie. manga or novel adaptations and spin-offs), magazine photos (ie. official art created for a magazine cover/spread or other publication), promotional art for various adaptations (ie. anime, manga, novels, other games that don't have card art), promotional art for offline/in person events and/or collabs, and more! If you're not sure if something will be accepted, just ask in advance.

FILENAME FORMATS

In addition, we also have a specific format we'd like followed for donations. Since players are the ones who decide the full filename when claiming a deck, we want to ensure there's as much consistency as possible so there's less for us to edit/correct later on.

To summarize:

• Solo Stage Decks: charactername-deckname
• Collab Stage Decks (Units): seriesname-deckname
• Collab Stage Decks (Themed): themed-deckname

In these filenames, you'll see specific placeholder text that tells you what should be in its place so when everything is filled in, the full filename will be complete. Below is what each placeholder text should be replaced with:

• deckname = the chosen deck name in all lowercase with no spaces, symbols, etc; should not be just the card's set name but a descriptive name specific to the image itself
• charactername = the character's full name in "first name, last name" format (ie. makinishikino, not nishikinomaki); if they have a middle or otherwise longer name, omit/remove it from the filename but include it between the first and last name in the "Feature" info
  • If they have a stage name they go by more often, use that instead of their full name for the "charactername" portion and write their full name in brackets as part of the "Feature" info instead (ie. pareo-deckname for the filename & PAREO (Reona Nyubara) | Card Info for the "Feature" info, if the deck is of PAREO from BanG Dream!)
  • Please also use a character's respective birth or stage name (depending on which they go by more) when listing multiple characters in an image/deck! If the image is of an entire, official, unit/group then you can write just the unit/group's name (ie. "Poppin'Party" instead of every member's name for a PoPiPa puzzle deck).
• seriesname = the shortened version of the series' name, if available (ie. “enstars” for Ensemble Stars! or “bandori” for BanG Dream!)
  • If there's no shortened name then initials will be used instead (ie. “i7” for IDOLiSH7 or “llsip” for Love Live! School Idol Project/u's era or “imascg” for THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls)
• themed = does not change, as these are decks made through Collab Stage only, so they can't be donated

If you're ever unsure about what a series' filename should be because there's no other decks donated/released from it yet, feel free to ask first before claiming - or just use its initials for now when claiming and we can edit it later if needed!