Groups

A group is a small, closed circle of OpenRift users, like a regular playgroup, your locals, or a Discord trade channel. Inside a group, members share wishlists and tradelists with each other, pool cards into group collections, share their personal binders for others to peek at, and see matches when one member's wants overlap with another's haves.

A group page at a glance

Tuesday Night CrewAdmin

Matches

Group collections

Personal collections

Members

Settings

Closed by default, opt-in sharing

Joining a group always requires an admin to approve. Nobody can see your lists by joining anonymously.

Sharing a list with a group is per-list and per-group. Sharing your wishlist with "Tuesday Crew" doesn't share it with "Cube Night", and unsharing later only affects that one group. The list itself never leaves your account, only the contents become visible to the members of that one group.

Roles and permissions

Every member has one of three roles. Each group has exactly one owner.

Owner: Everything an admin can do, plus delete the group and transfer ownership. The role stays with the person who created the group until they hand it off.
Admin: Invite by email, approve or deny join requests, rotate or disable the join code, edit the group's name and description, promote members, and remove members.
Member: Share their own lists, create shared collections, set a nickname, and leave the group at any time.

Starting a group

Open Groups from the top navigation and click New group.

Name it after the playgroup, not the cards

The name shows up to every member. Pick something they'll recognize like 'Tuesday Night Crew' or 'Hamburg locals'.

Pick a URL slug

Used in the URL: /groups/<slug>. Lowercase letters, digits, and dashes. You can rename it later, but old bookmarks will break.

Decide on a join code

Leave the join code on if you want to share an invite link. Turn it off if you only want to invite people one at a time by email. You can rotate or disable it later either way.

Joining a group

There are two ways to end up in someone else's group. Both require an admin to let you in.

Invite code

Paste a code on /groups/join. The page previews the group before you commit; submitting sends a join request to its admins. You're a member once one of them approves.

Email invite

An admin sends an invite to your account email. It shows up under 'Pending invites' on the Groups page with Accept and Decline buttons.

Sharing your lists

Open the group, scroll to Settings → Share your lists, and tick the lists you want to share. Untick to stop sharing. Wishlists and tradelists feed the matches section; organize lists are visible to members but don't generate matches.

Wishlist

What you're looking for. Shows up under 'Members have what you want' when a tradelist matches.

Tradelist

What you're offering. Shows up under 'Members want what you have' when a wishlist matches.

Organize list

Reference lists you want members to see. Informational only, doesn't generate matches.

Matches

The Matches section at the top of the group page shows two views:

Members have what you want — a member is offering a card on a tradelist they've shared with the group, and the card is on a wishlist you've shared with the group.
Members want what you have — the reverse.

Click a member name on any match row to jump to their profile inside the group, which shows every match you have with that specific person. If a section is empty, it's either because nobody's shared the relevant kind of list yet, or because nothing actually overlaps right now. See Cards, Printings & Copies for how matches handle different printings of the same card.

Group collections

A group collection is a pooled inventory that any member of the group can add to or remove from. It's useful for a club cube, a draft pool, or a binder you run together with friends.

Group collections appear in your own collection sidebar alongside your private collections, with a group badge so you can tell them apart. They behave the same way as any other collection: cards can be moved in and out, filtered, searched, and printed as proxies. See Managing Your Collection for the details.

Personal collections

You can also let group members peek at one of your own personal binders without giving up control. Open a collection's share dialog and tick the groups you want to share it with under Share with friend groups. Members see a read-only view of the cards, just like an anonymous share link, but only while they're signed in and a member of the group.

On the group page, every shared personal binder is listed under Personal collections, subgrouped by owner. Click one to open its read-only browser. Leaving the group, or unticking the group in the share dialog, immediately revokes access.

Members and nicknames

The Members section lists everyone in the group with their role. Click a member to open their profile inside this group, which shows their shared lists and your matches with them specifically.

Set a nickname on yourself in each group as a place to leave contact info, like your Discord handle, store name, or phone number, so the people you're trading with know how to reach you. Nicknames are visible to everyone in the group and only to them.

Leaving, deleting, transferring

Leave: members and admins can leave at any time from the group's Settings panel. Your shared lists detach automatically; the lists themselves stay on your account.
Transfer ownership: owners can hand the role to any other member from the member action menu. Once transferred, you become a regular admin and can then leave like anyone else.
Delete: only the owner can delete a group. Members, invites, list-shares, and the shared-collection metadata are all removed. Members' private lists and their copies inside shared collections are unaffected.