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How do you keep and organise your cards (advice for editions im not aiming to have complete)? (feddit.de)

submitted 10 months ago by skele_tron@feddit.de to c/mtg@mtgzone.com

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I got that album thingy with inserts, but whats bugging me is - if im not aiming to collect a whole edition, how do i organise my cards? by color? by some other order? I have mixed WoE and Commander Masters cards, but would like to have them somewhere nice when they are not in decks.

If i like an ed and want to have it complete then its going into its own album / fold and sorted by numbers.

I kinda hoped ixalan would be it, but that mixed universe thing is so not my cup of tea...

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[–] calvinball@mtgzone.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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!

[+] lovestha@mtgjudge.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] skele_tron@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

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 )

[–] calvinball@mtgzone.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have a binder for each color and another binder for colorless and non-basic lands.

I only put things I'd conceivably use in binders. The rest just gets put in boxes and never looked at again.

[–] skele_tron@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Binders! Thats the solution to the thing i got into - i ordered by color, and then found i had thee boosters more - had to reorder to fit everything. With binders you can put in a new "empty page"

[–] lovestha@mtgjudge.social 1 points 10 months ago

@skele_tron everything I'm keeping (one copy of every playable card) goes in the fatpack box collection (sorted alphabetically).

Trades live in a holiday bundle box. As do cards I'm sorting. Chaff goes in a big box.