ok say we have

[ivory canopy]

so that means that I have to manually enter 52 entries? 😔

[heady hornet]

how do you fill cardFaces now?

[ivory canopy]

like this atm

[heady hornet]

ok, so they are already set in the inspector. So you just use that as the input into the Dictionary Foreach loop I wrote

so your Dictionary entry for the first element in your Array will be
"AceHearts", Sprite(AceHearts)

and you can access it using
cardDict["AceHearts"]

[ivory canopy]

i get it now, thanks

[heady hornet]

There is actually a much better way to do this but that is a discussion for another day

[ivory canopy]

if its not broken, dont fix it...

[heady hornet]

absolutely, not until you know much, much more

[ivory canopy]

i think i got it now,
could this theoretically work automatically where cardsStored is a dictionary of <string,Sprite>

List<string> newDeck = new List<string>();
        foreach (string s in suits)
        {
            foreach (string n in number)
            {
                newDeck.Add(n+s);
                string cardToSprite = (n + s).ToString();
                Sprite cardSprite = Resources.Load<Sprite>("Sprites/"+ cardToSprite);
                storedcards.Add(cardToSprite, cardSprite);
            }
        }