With altered.gg’s user-facing platform shutting down on May 20, 2026, we’re coordinating with several community developers and the Re:Union team to help you preserve what you’ve built — your decks, and as much of your collection as possible. This article covers what you can and should do today, and where we are on the harder question of card digital ownership. This is a difficult situation that many players feel deeply about, and we’re doing everything we can to help.

Regardless of the outcome of our efforts to preserve individual card digital ownership, Re:Union will continue to support ongoing online play past May 20 through Board Game Arena with all players having all common, rare and Exalted cards. We’re already working on providing new formats and developing Altered’s future.

What you need to know right now:

• Your decks can be saved now. Use one of the community deckbuilders listed below. Most of them share a centralized service that will connect to BGA and Re:Union’s future platform.
• We cannot yet guarantee that card digital ownership (uniques and alt art) will be recoverable. We’re working on it with Equinox and will communicate as soon as we have concrete news. This is not something that can be done without Equinox’s assistance.
• Commons, rares, and Exalted will be accessible to all players regardless.
• You can take a snapshot of your collection today as a personal souvenir — but be aware it is not, and will not become, a proof of digital ownership.

1. About your collection: What we know, and what we don’t

We want to be honest with you. At this stage, we cannot guarantee that the digital ownership of uniques and alt art will be recoverable. We’ve been working with Equinox and we are awaiting their decision. We’re doing the maximum we can —and if preserving digital ownership of your collection is possible, we will make it happen — but it wouldn’t be fair to promise more than that today. As soon as we have concrete news, we’ll share it. Whatever the outcome, the core game continues: Every player will have digital access to commons, rares, and Exalted cards from Sets 1 to 7. On BGA, this initially covers Sets 1 to 5.

What you can do today: Snapshot your collection

While the digital ownership question remains open, there’s one thing you can do right now: export your collection as a personal inventory snapshot. Think of it as a souvenir — a record of the cards you owned when altered.gg’s user-facing platform closed, that you can keep, browse, and use to rebuild your decks later.

⚠️For now, collection import is mostly functional only on altered-db.com.

⚠️Important: This snapshot is not proof of digital ownership⚠️ Here’s what it is, and what it is not: It’s a plain list. This snapshot is a file of card references, with no signature, encryption, or validation. Anyone could edit it before importing it elsewhere. It therefore cannot be used as proof of digital ownership. It’s a snapshot, not a live record. If you trade or transfer a card after exporting, the snapshot won’t update. It reflects what you owned at that moment, not later, so it cannot reliably represent your current collection either. Importing it into a third-party deckbuilder doesn’t make it authoritative. It just populates the cards displayed in that tool. That’s useful for browsing and rebuilding decks,but still not evidence of actual digital ownership on any future platform. In other words: a third-party inventory is a souvenir, not a deed. It has real value as a personal record, and to help you keep building decks with the cards you used to own. But if Re:Union eventually offers a real digital ownership migration, that process will run through a separate, secured mechanism, not a re-import of this snapshot.

2. Save your decks now

Your decks can be backed up today. Several community-built deckbuilders are, or will soon be, connected to a shared centralized service that keeps your decklists portable across tools. We suggest the following:

• altered-db.com — Deck saving and shared service live. Currently the only tool with mostly-functional collection import.
• deckbuilder.alteredcore.org — Deck saving and shared service live.
• altered.ajordat.com — Deck saving live; shared-service integration coming soon.

Note: alteredcore.org currently has a known bug on the import of uniques. Please report any occurrence to the admin.

Browser extensions to make migration easier

Several tools exist to make the process of collecting your decks and sharing them to one of the community-built deckbuilders. Try the following:

• Firefox — Altered Decks Retrieval Tool
• Chrome — Altered Decks Retrieval Tool
• Chrome — Ajordat import extensions

You can also migrate manually by copying and pasting your deck URLs. If you run into problems while importing, please reach out to the respective website admins.

Why this matters

Decks saved to a community deckbuilder will be able to be accessed on BGA through the shared service seamlessly — no manual re-entry needed. Remember that decks saved to altered.gg will not be available on BGA after May 20. If you want to preserve your current decks, they must be either migrated or rebuilt on one of the platforms with live shared service.

One additional note is that each of these tools also allows new decks to be built on the platform itself. If you’d prefer to start your decks fresh on a community deckbuilder with live shared service, that deck will be available for play as long as it meets the criteria for a legal deck. Remember that at least for now, uniques will not be playable in BGA-legal decks. We’ll communicate more on that as we’re able.

As Re:Union moves forward in maintaining Altered’s play on BGA, we’re also encouraging the community to come together to help us determine organized play, new starter decks and additional formats.

3. Maintaining community focus and Altered’s future

We understand that players have strong attachments to their decks and collections, and that’s why we’re pushing so hard as a team to make this happen. It’s also why we’re being as transparent as possible about where those efforts stand realistically.

Either way, time to take your collection snapshot and migrate decks is running out. Please make sure that you take these actions before May 20, when altered.gg services close. Check in with your friends and local players to make certain they know, as well.

Our mission is the same as it was when Re:Union started: To preserve the future of Altered’s gameplay by making it accessible and open to as many players as possible. As a fully volunteer nonprofit, we cannot do this alone. We need your help. Join our Discord to get connected with the community, even if it’s just to show support.