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as your collection grows, so must your storage solutions change. Here are the phases my collection went through:
phase 1: everything stored randomly in prerelease and bundle boxes
phase 2: buying a few empty bundle boxes online so I have 5 bundle boxes, storing per colour and in ascending mana value
phase 3: getting a longbox (google 'tcg longbox') that holds 1000 cards and storing my cards in there. At this point I switched to ordering in the objectively best way for big collections: per set, from oldest set to newest set, in ascending collection number (the number on the bottom left of the card). Ordering per collection number will also automatically order your cards per colour and alphabetically for every set.
phase 4: getting multiple longboxes to accommodate the ever expanding collection, continuing with the collection method of phase 3
trades are still in a binder though!
Very fair! I would posit that for a large collection where you keep every single card you open, and for which you have an online collection tracker such as deckbox.org, using the organising system I mentioned is still the best. There will always be one single place that a card you're looking for would be, and nowhere else.
Well that's why I said it was only good if you have an online collection tracker where you catalog all your cards . I know exactly where all my copies of The Doctor are because I have recorded which versions I have. I can then build my decks online, and once I'm ready to play them I just go to my collection with a list of set and collector numbers and I can pull out exactly what I need
Im lying to myself by telling that im going to keep my collection pretty slim ( unless a copy card comes with awesome artwork, or is a foil ) so cards i like i would keep 4 + 1 foil, everything else is going to change ( because i dont have any target edition i would like to collect ( altho i have most of my cards from commander masters.
I would like to have it organised so i can brainstorm, i thought binders were awesome because i can list through the cards and maybe get an idea, but they are bulky and get filled fast - so i would keep binders for cards i really, really like.
Some unplayable i will keep ( that also depends on if i like the card or not )