# Setting a limit but want parent deck to control all sub decks

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**Created:** [January 29, 2026, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/setting-a-limit-but-want-parent-deck-to-control-all-sub-decks/68538 "2026-01-29T22:26:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sofiazubaidi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Sofiazubaidi](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Sofiazubaidi)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/setting-a-limit-but-want-parent-deck-to-control-all-sub-decks/68538/1 "2026-01-29T22:26:28Z")

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I have been trying to make my parent deck, in this case Biology, Chemistry and History all have main limits over all their individual sub-decks. So for example in biology, the parent deck is under the option biology and I have set a limit of 10 new cards/ day. I put all of my sub-decks and sub-sub-decks under this same option group of the main parent deck. But now for some reason I get 10 cards from one sub-sub-deck and then another 10 from another sub-sub-deck. This is very annoying because I want to say finish the maximum of 3 under one of the sub-sub-decks and then go to the next one and do 7, but instead it will give me a total of 13. It has just become unnecessarily complicated and I have no idea what option to use. Please could you help me to figure out the steps to make the parent deck control all of the sub-decks and sub-sub-decks so the limit applies and limits new cards to only my parent deck limit. Thank you in advance!

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**Author:** ![ZornHadNoChoice](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/zornhadnochoice/32/28874_2.png) [@ZornHadNoChoice](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/ZornHadNoChoice)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 3:51am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/setting-a-limit-but-want-parent-deck-to-control-all-sub-decks/68538/2 "2026-01-30T03:51:23Z")

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If I understand correctly, you want to click on the parent deck to study, and have it pull something like 3 from each subdecks until you have studied a maximum of 10, right?

If that’s the case, change the preset’s new limit to 3 and the parent’s deck specific limit to 10.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2026, 3:51am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/setting-a-limit-but-want-parent-deck-to-control-all-sub-decks/68538/3 "2026-03-01T03:51:29Z")

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