diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HostsScreen.axaml.cs b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HostsScreen.axaml.cs
index aef33aa..794a00a 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HostsScreen.axaml.cs
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HostsScreen.axaml.cs
@@ -122,6 +122,13 @@ internal sealed partial class HostsScreen : UserControl
         // touched; see KeyboardTarget for the other half of who has the keyboard on this screen.
         Board.KeyDown += OnGridKey;
 
+        // The arrows' half of the selection, which the pointer's half writes by hand in OnPointerPressed. See
+        // OnCardSelectionChanged for why this is not simply a two-way binding.
+        Board.AddHandler(SelectingItemsControl.SelectionChangedEvent, OnCardSelectionChanged);
+
+        // Tunnelled, because a section's list answers Enter itself and nothing bubbles past it.
+        Board.AddHandler(KeyDownEvent, OnCardEnter, RoutingStrategies.Tunnel);
+
         // ◆ The band is the scroller's rather than any one section list's, because the space it is dragged
         // out over is mostly not a list's: a WrapPanel of cards is exactly as tall as its cards, and the gaps
         // between sections and below the last one belong to the stack around them. Tunnelled for the reason
@@ -315,6 +322,16 @@ internal sealed partial class HostsScreen : UserControl
             return;
         }
 
+        // An arrow with the board itself focused — which is where this screen puts the keyboard, see
+        // KeyboardTarget — goes into the cards: onto the selected one, or the first. Otherwise no arrow ever
+        // reaches a section's list, since none of them has the keyboard until a card has been clicked.
+        if (e.Key is Key.Up or Key.Down or Key.Left or Key.Right && ReferenceEquals(e.Source, Board))
+        {
+            e.Handled = EnterTheCards(vault);
+
+            return;
+        }
+
         if (e.Key is Key.A && e.KeyModifiers.HasFlag(KeyModifiers.Control) && vault.HasHostBoardEntries)
         {
             var order = vault.HostBoardOrder.ToList();
@@ -347,6 +364,80 @@ internal sealed partial class HostsScreen : UserControl
     /// on the empty space means is decided on the release. See <see cref="OnBandReleased"/>.
     /// </para>
     /// </remarks>
+    /// <summary>Enter on a card is the double-press, for somebody who got there with the arrows.</summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// Only on a card, for the reason <see cref="OnHostActivated"/> gives: Enter with the board itself focused
+    /// would connect to whatever was selected before, which is not something anyone is looking at. And not
+    /// while cards are ticked, where the selection is not what the set is about.
+    /// </remarks>
+    private void OnCardEnter(object? sender, KeyEventArgs e)
+    {
+        if (e.Key is not Key.Enter
+            || e.KeyModifiers != KeyModifiers.None
+            || Vault is not { IsChoosingHosts: false } vault
+            || RowUnder(e.Source) is not HostRowViewModel row)
+        {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        vault.SelectedHost = row;
+
+        _ = vault.ConnectCommand.ExecuteAsync(null);
+        e.Handled = true;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>Writes a selection the arrows made in one section's list back to the vault.</summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// <para>
+    /// The cards' <c>SelectedItem</c> is one-way, for the reason the markup gives: several lists rebuilt
+    /// independently would each null the vault's selection on every filter keystroke and every sync pass. So
+    /// the pointer writes it by hand, and until this nothing wrote it for the arrows — a card lit by the
+    /// keyboard was not the one the drawer's CONNECT and DELETE then acted on, which is the same mistake the
+    /// right-click handler exists to prevent.
+    /// </para>
+    /// <para>
+    /// ◆ Only from the list that has the keyboard, and only for a card. A rebuild's reset arrives as a change
+    /// to nothing, and the binding's own refills of the lists nobody is in arrive without the keyboard — both
+    /// are exactly the writes the one-way binding keeps out, and they stay out. A click arrives here too, after
+    /// <see cref="OnPointerPressed"/> has already written the same card, and changes nothing.
+    /// </para>
+    /// </remarks>
+    private void OnCardSelectionChanged(object? sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
+    {
+        if (Vault is not { } vault
+            || e.Source is not ListBox { IsKeyboardFocusWithin: true, SelectedItem: HostRowViewModel row }
+            || ReferenceEquals(row, vault.SelectedHost))
+        {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (vault.IsChoosingHosts)
+        {
+            vault.ClearHostChoiceCommand.Execute(null);
+        }
+
+        anchor = row;
+        vault.SelectedHost = row;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>Hands the keyboard from the board to a card: the selected one if it is drawn, else the first.</summary>
+    private bool EnterTheCards(VaultViewModel vault)
+    {
+        var cards = Board.GetVisualDescendants().OfType<ListBoxItem>().Where(card => card.IsEffectivelyVisible).ToList();
+
+        var card = cards.Find(card => ReferenceEquals(card.DataContext, vault.SelectedHost)) ?? cards.FirstOrDefault();
+
+        if (card?.DataContext is not HostRowViewModel row)
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        vault.SelectedHost = row;
+        anchor = row;
+
+        return card.Focus(NavigationMethod.Directional);
+    }
+
     private void OnBandPressed(object? sender, PointerPressedEventArgs e)
     {
         EndBand();
diff --git a/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/HostGridTests.cs b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/HostGridTests.cs
index 0215839..c8a8424 100644
--- a/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/HostGridTests.cs
+++ b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/HostGridTests.cs
@@ -465,6 +465,61 @@ public sealed class HostGridTests : IAsyncLifetime
         });
     }
 
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// The arrows' half of the selection. The cards' <c>SelectedItem</c> is one-way, so a card the keyboard lit
+    /// used to stay out of the vault — and the drawer's CONNECT and DELETE then acted on the card clicked
+    /// before it, the mistake <see cref="ARightClickSelectsTheHostUnderThePointer"/> is about.
+    /// </remarks>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task TheArrowsMoveTheVaultsSelection_AndEnterConnectsToIt()
+    {
+        await OnTheBoardAsync((screen, window) =>
+        {
+            var first = Row(vault, "prod-db");
+            var other = Row(vault, "stage-web");
+
+            Click(CardFor(screen, first), window);
+            vault.SelectedHost.ShouldBeSameAs(first);
+
+            window.KeyPressQwerty(PhysicalKey.ArrowRight, RawInputModifiers.None);
+            Dispatcher.UIThread.RunJobs();
+
+            vault.SelectedHost.ShouldBeSameAs(other, "the card the arrow lit, not the one clicked before it");
+
+            vault.ConnectCommand.ExecutionTask.ShouldBeNull();
+
+            window.KeyPressQwerty(PhysicalKey.Enter, RawInputModifiers.None);
+            Dispatcher.UIThread.RunJobs();
+
+            // The command, not a connection: these hosts were saved with nothing to sign in with, so it stops
+            // at saying so — about the card Enter was pressed on, which is the selection checked above.
+            vault.ConnectCommand.ExecutionTask.ShouldNotBeNull("Enter on a card is the double-press");
+        });
+    }
+
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// The board is where this screen puts the keyboard, and none of the section lists inside it has it until
+    /// a card has been clicked — so without this an arrow pressed on arriving went nowhere at all.
+    /// </remarks>
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task AnArrowOnTheBoardItselfGoesIntoTheCards()
+    {
+        await OnTheBoardAsync((screen, window) =>
+        {
+            vault.SelectedHost = null;
+
+            screen.Board.Focus();
+            Dispatcher.UIThread.RunJobs();
+
+            window.KeyPressQwerty(PhysicalKey.ArrowDown, RawInputModifiers.None);
+            Dispatcher.UIThread.RunJobs();
+
+            var focused = window.FocusManager!.GetFocusedElement().ShouldBeOfType<ListBoxItem>();
+
+            vault.SelectedHost.ShouldNotBeNull().ShouldBeSameAs(focused.DataContext);
+        });
+    }
+
     // ---- Helpers ----
 
     private static void RightClick(Visual card, Visual window)