If you’ve used the Copy Deck feature in Kickoff Tactics, you’ll have noticed it drops a block of text onto your clipboard — your formation, your starting XI, your wildcards, and a strange string of characters at the bottom. That string is a deck code, and as of today, kickofftactics.pro’s Deck Builder can read it directly. Paste in a deck you’ve built in-game and it appears fully assembled on the pitch here, card art (where we have it) and all — or build something new on the site and export a code to paste straight back into the game.
This guide walks through exactly how both directions work, plus a few things worth knowing about what the feature can and can’t do yet.
What a Kickoff Tactics Deck Code Actually Is
When you tap Copy Deck in-game, you’re not just copying a readable list for yourself — you’re copying a compact, encoded version of your exact lineup that any compatible tool can decode back into the same 15 cards, in the same formation, with the same wildcards. It’s the same idea as a Hearthstone deck code or a Marvel Snap deck link: a shareable string that reconstructs a deck perfectly, rather than relying on someone reading a screenshot and rebuilding it by hand.
Until now, that code only had one destination — back into the game itself. Bringing it onto kickofftactics.pro means your in-game decks and your Deck Builder decks can finally talk to each other.
How to Import a Deck Code Into the Deck Builder
- In Kickoff Tactics, open the deck you want to bring across and tap Copy Deck. This copies the full block of text to your clipboard, including the formation summary, your player list, and the code itself.
- Head to the Deck Builder on kickofftactics.pro.
- Find the Deck Code box near the top of the left-hand panel.
- Paste directly into the input field — you don’t need to trim anything out first. You can paste the entire copied block exactly as the game gives it to you, and the Deck Builder will automatically find and use just the code from inside it, ignoring the rest. A bare code on its own works too, if that’s all you have.
- Click Import.
If everything matches up, you’ll see a confirmation message and your full lineup will populate on the pitch — correct formation, correct starters in their proper positions, correct wildcards, complete with card art and stats. From there it behaves like any other deck you’d built directly in the tool: give it a name, add a commentary note, and save it to share with the community via the community deck archive.
How to Export a Deck Builder Creation Back Into the Game
Going the other direction works just as easily:
- Build a deck in the Deck Builder as normal — pick your formation, fill your 11 starters, and set all 4 wildcards.
- Once your deck shows 15 / 15 complete, the Export Deck Code button becomes active.
- Click it, and a deck code is copied straight to your clipboard.
- Open Kickoff Tactics, find the paste deck option, and paste it in — your site-built deck loads into the game exactly as constructed.
This is genuinely useful if you like to plan away from your phone. Sketch out an idea on a laptop where you can see full card art, compare cost curves, and read every ability at once, then send the finished product straight to your device without re-entering 15 cards by hand.
Why This Actually Matters (and What I Found Testing It)
The obvious use case is convenience — not retyping a deck you’ve already built. But testing this properly surfaced a use case I hadn’t expected going in: it makes the Deck Builder useful even for decks you don’t currently own the cards for.
I pasted a code for a deck built entirely around cards I don’t personally have unlocked yet, just to see what would happen. It populated exactly as if I owned every card, full art and all, because the Deck Builder works off the site’s player database, not your personal collection. That means you can now use deck codes shared by other players — in a Discord, on Reddit, wherever — as a genuine planning tool: see exactly what you’d be building toward, check the cost curve, understand the formation logic, before you’ve unlocked a single card in it. That’s a meaningfully different use case from “just copy my deck for me,” and it’s the one I’d actually recommend trying first if you’re deciding whether to bother with this at all.
The other thing worth flagging from testing: not every card will import or export yet. A small number of very recently added players aren’t fully synced between the game’s data and ours yet, and if a deck code contains one of them, you’ll get a clear message telling you which card couldn’t be matched rather than a broken or partial import. This isn’t a bug so much as an expected gap with any brand-new card — it closes automatically as our player database catches up, so if you hit it, it’s worth just trying again in a few days.
Tips for Getting the Most Out of Deck Codes
- Don’t bother trimming your clipboard paste. Copy the whole block from the game and paste it in as-is — the Deck Builder handles extracting the code itself.
- Use imported codes to scout the meta. If you see a strong deck code shared online, import it here first to actually study it — card art, stats, formation — before deciding whether it’s worth chasing in-game.
- Export before you experiment. If you’re about to tinker with a deck you like, export the current version to a code first so you’ve always got a way back to it.
- Save what you import. Once a deck’s populated from a code, you can immediately save and share it to the deck archive — a fast way to contribute to the community database without building from scratch.
Final Thoughts
Deck codes closing the loop between the game and kickofftactics.pro is one of those features that sounds small on paper but changes how you’d actually use the site day to day — it turns the Deck Builder from a standalone planning tool into something that fits directly into your existing routine of building, copying, and sharing decks in-game. Head over to the Deck Builder and try importing your current main deck to see it rendered in full — and if you build something new, export it and let us know how the round trip goes.