Your pod
Your pod is the small circle of people you play and trade with. Add the people you know, and Compendium shows you who's in it, who has the cards you want, and how your games have gone.
Steps below are shown for iOSAndroid — use the iOS / Android switch in the sidebar if that's not your phone.
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What a pod is
A pod is a list of people you've connected with, one-to-one. Once someone's in your pod, Compendium can:
- compare your Trade Binder with theirs and show every card overlap;
- let you seat them in a live game and share Game Log results with them;
- keep a running tally of the games you've played together and who won.
Pods are free — you just need a Compendium account. Whoever you invite doesn't need one yet.
Pod invites are one-to-one, by email. There's no shareable pod link. The QR code you may see in game setup is for joining a game, not for joining a pod.
Where to find it
Look for the Pod pill at the top left of the Decks screen. It's also on the Discover screen. The pill shows the faces of up to three of your pod mates — or a person icon if your pod is empty — and a small number bubble when there's new pod activity for you to look at. Tap it to open the Pod screen.
Two other ways in: the Pod group icon in the toolbar of your Trade Binder, and the Manage button in the Your pod section of game setup.
If you're not signed in, the screen asks you to sign in first: “Pods are free. Sign in to connect with the people you play with and see possible trades.”
The Pod screen has, from the top:
Your pod profile
Pod mates recognise you by your name and your signature commander — a commander you pick to be your face, shown as a round picture next to your name. Set both from the top of the Pod screen: tap Edit on the Your pod profile card to open your Profile.
If you haven't set a name, others see your email address instead. Compendium will offer a Your pod profile prompt when you open your pod, send an invite or accept one — add a name there, or tap Not now. If you signed in with Apple's Hide My Email, the prompt is mandatory: you'll be asked to Choose a name before you can use pod features, because a private relay address can't be shown to other people.
Invite someone to your pod
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Open the Pod screen
Tap the Pod pill on the Decks screen.
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Enter their email
Under Invite to pod, type their address into Their email address and tap Send. If your pod is empty you can also tap Invite a friend or, from game setup, Invite to pod.
Tap the Invite button at the bottom right to open Invite to Pod, type their address into Email, and tap Invite. You can also reach this dialog with Invite to pod from game setup or the pod-mate picker.
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Wait for them to accept
You'll see the same message every time: “If that email has a Compendium account, we've sent an invite.” It's deliberately vague so nobody can use this screen to check who has an account — it doesn't mean nothing happened. The invite shows under Sent invites until they answer, then they move into Your pod.
Your friend doesn't need Compendium yet. If that email isn't registered, they get an email inviting them to download the app, and your invite is waiting for them once they sign up with that address.
To take an invite back, tap Cancel next to it under Sent invites. It goes straight away, and you can invite them again later. There's a limit on how many invites you can send in a day, and each person is only emailed or notified about your invite once a week, so if you hit the limit, try again tomorrow.
Respond to an invite
Invites you've received wait in your Invites — the tray icon at the top of the Decks screen. Under Pod invites, each row has a purple Accept button and a round ✕ to decline. The Pod screen also shows a 1 pod invite waiting line that opens the same place, and the push notification (“{name} invited you to their pod”) takes you there too.
Accept connects you straight away and they appear in Your pod. Declining is silent — they aren't told. To stop someone inviting you again, block them.
Add people from a game table
You don't have to use email at all if you're playing together. There are two ways to add someone in the middle of a game night:
A pod mate's profile
Tap any row under Your pod to open that person's profile. It has:
The ⋯ menu at the top right has Remove from pod and Block — see below.
Pod activity
Once your pod has something going on, a Pod activity section appears on the Pod screen, showing the three newest items, with All for the last 14 days. Items are things like:
- “Jess added Sol Ring and 2 more to their binder” or “…to their wishlist”, with a chip showing whether it's On your wishlist or In your binder;
- “Sam shared a game with you”;
- “You played with Priya, Dan and 1 more”, marked with who won.
Card items open your Pod Matches for that person; game items open their profile. A purple dot marks items you haven't seen, and the number bubble on the Pod pill counts them. Invites never count towards it — those live in your Invites. If nothing has happened lately the section simply isn't there.
On Discover, a Your pod this week card gives the highlights: the newest item, tiles like 2 games together, 3 possible trades and 4 new in binders, and the last game you played. Rematch starts a new game with the same pod mates already seated; Open pod opens the Pod screen.
Possible trades and binders
Open Pod Matches from the swap-arrows icon on your Trade Binder, from Compare on someone's profile, from a card item in Pod activity, or from a Possible trade notification. For each pod mate it shows how many cards they have that are on your want list, how many you have that are on theirs, and the value difference between the two sides — positive when the cards they have for you are worth more, or Even when they balance.
Tap a match to expand the actual cards on each side — They have your wants and You have their wants — or tap View full binder to open their binder directly.
Each match shows two chips — They have N you want and You have N they want — with a thumbnail strip of the cards; tap View full binder to open their binder directly.
A pod mate's binder has the same Have / Want layout as your own, with the cards you could trade with them highlighted. Matched cards are also flagged in your own Trade Binder. If someone hasn't shared a binder yet, you'll see a message saying so.
See who has a card
On any card's page, an In your pod section — after Decks — lists which pod mates have it for trade (For trade, with condition, set and quantity) and which have it on their wishlist (Wants it). Tap a row to open that person's binder. Matching is by card name, any printing. The section only appears when at least one of your pod mates has or wants the card. See Card Details.
Notifications
Compendium can notify you when:
Turn each on or off under Pods & games in your Profile notification settings. They're all on by default.
Remove, block or unblock
Open the person's profile and tap ⋯:
To see who you've blocked, open the Pod screen and tap Blocked people for Blocked Pod Members. Tap Unblock to lift a block. Unblocking doesn't restore the pod: the connection goes back to a pending invite, and whoever was invited has to accept it again before either of you can see the other's binder.