“symlink” decks

I have quite a bit of decks, each broken down hierarchically, and at any given time I have quite a bit of cards to review. I don’t utilize Anki quite as the doctor recommends, but it works for me.
On any given period I’m particularly interested in reviewing a subset of my decks, strewn across various deck hierarchy trees. It would be nice if it were possible to aggregate these together in a single location. I’m thinking here of something like a symlink. Currently it’s very easy to move around decks, but I’d have liked to be able to keep the original membership of the decks, so that they would still be reviewed when reviewing their parent deck, they would be included in the statistics of the original deck tree &c.

Suppose I have the following decks:

food::fruits::red
food::fruits::yellow
food::fruits::green
food::veggies::red
food::veggies::yellow
food::veggies::white
food::baked::sweet
food::baked::salty

I’d like then to have a, let’s say, digest symlinking deck, under which other decks could be directly accessible as if they were one hierarchical level below it:

digest::[food::fruits::red]
digest::[food::veggies::red]
digest::[food::baked::sweet]

(and perhaps with the option of aliasing them, for example red fruits, red veggies, &c)

Cheers!
Mark

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Please see Adding/Editing - Anki Manual and the section above it.

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Thank you Damien.

Perhaps I should motivate my request more concretely.
I’ve helped myself learn and maintain several languages with Anki. Each of these have thousands of cards and at any given time some of these decks would be a bit neglected.
I subdeck each language like so: I’d have a subdeck with forward cards, another with backward cards, another for other kinds of notes. I like practicing these separately if only because for me reviewing forward cards is easier, and in some way it makes sense to be on top of that —recognizing words— before being on top of producing words.
For me having the “forward cards” subdecks of all my languages under a single symbolic deck would make ploughing through them easier. Sure, I could jump between them over the deck tree, but having them all in one place would make not only their access simpler, but in a banal way, it would make the decision of reviewing them all tad easier.
For this reason tags would not be on help here. First, I’m not aware that there’s a way to do a custom study based on tags? (I’ve never used the custom study functionality beside incrementing today’s new cards number so I’m not certain how it works) But also tags are properties of notes, while here the subdecks are sequestering cards.

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Thanks @Keks !

I reckon that it would still not do the trick for this here case, because such a filtered deck would mix together all the subdecks I’m interested in into one pile, so that I’d have to review i.e. German cards intermixed with French cards.

But it’s a nice thing to know.