So does anyone else organize all of their cards? Even commons/uncommons?
I have mythics in one binder, rares in another, and all my common/uncommon foils in another.
I've almost filled my fourth 5000 card box with non-foil commons/uncommons, around 18,500 cards.
About 1,500 lands in a separate box.
All of them (boxes and binders) are separated by color, then type, then alphabetized, so I can find any card by name quickly.
Does anyone else do this? All the people at my LGS say it's dumb, but I've seen some of their collections and it's a mess. It takes them 15-20 minutes to find a single card...
I like my system.
Side note, one of the schools in my town is about to toss a bunch of furniture they don't use anymore and I'm trying to get ahold of a Dewey decimal card cabinet, and use that instead of cardboard boxes XD
Quote from: DrEggman789 on February 23, 2014, 03:47:19 PM
Side note, one of the schools in my town is about to toss a bunch of furniture they don't use anymore and I'm trying to get ahold of a Dewey decimal card cabinet, and use that instead of cardboard boxes XD
Sounds like a great idea :D
I organize my relatively small collection by set.
I keep my rares/mythics separate in a trade binder, then I have a separate little box for "cards I'm saving for commander," and now I'm using 6 different holiday gift boxes to store commons and uncommons, one for each color and one for multi/colorless, sorted by set then by cmc.
Throw them in tha shoebox! 😝
(On a serious note, Moneekah did a fantastic job sorting and alphabetizing the commons into 3k count boxes) our uncommons are in holiday boxes separated by standard and eternal formats)
Significant improvement from my shoebox method 😅
Do you also organise them alphabetically and in colour order?
I highly recommend merging rares and mythics and organizing by color or set depending on if you have enough to warrent set organization.
I organize all commons and uncomons that I use in 5,000 count boxes. So for me that means standard commons and uncommons. The rest are mostly split by color but i hope to organize them at some point.
I currently have 13 massive folders with hundreds of 9 sleeve card pages.
Two for each colour, two for artifacts, one for multicoloured, dual lands, colourless and any other special cards.
Within these folders I arrange in creature, aura, enchantment, sorcery then instants with any special version of a card at the end of that section (eg Day/Night Flip cards). Within those categories they're in set order (with the occasional out of order card if traded or bought back catalogue booster pack), then CMC then alphabetical.
I like order so I can place a hand on a card instantly. I'm more of a collector these days than a player.
Standard staples in a binder
Everything else I find useful or like the art goes into a huge binder of mine.
Keep useful commons in an old theros box
Keep bulk commons organized by set
Throw bulk rares/foils/uncommons into fatpack boxes
Probably do a huge flush of everything in eBay repacks again soon
Looked at my keeper binders and I've got a lot of stuff that can easily find homes
Quote from: Kaleo42 on February 23, 2014, 05:26:44 PM
I highly recommend merging rares and mythics and organizing by color or set depending on if you have enough to warrent set organization.
I organize all commons and uncomons that I use in 5,000 count boxes. So for me that means standard commons and uncommons. The rest are mostly split by color but i hope to organize them at some point.
My rares binder is a three inch binder and it is about to burst so putting my mythics with rares isn't an option...
As far as sets go, I only play legacy and EDH, so the sets don't matter so much to me. But I can see the value in organizing that way for modern/standard players.
Quote from: DrEggman789 on February 23, 2014, 08:16:10 PM
Quote from: Kaleo42 on February 23, 2014, 05:26:44 PM
I highly recommend merging rares and mythics and organizing by color or set depending on if you have enough to warrent set organization.
I organize all commons and uncomons that I use in 5,000 count boxes. So for me that means standard commons and uncommons. The rest are mostly split by color but i hope to organize them at some point.
My rares binder is a three inch binder and it is about to burst so putting my mythics with rares isn't an option...
As far as sets go, I only play legacy and EDH, so the sets don't matter so much to me. But I can see the value in organizing that way for modern/standard players.
Ah more sense made.
Oh and forgot to say, they are organized by color.
All cards separated by color, (W, U, B, R, G, multi, colorless)
Each color separated by type (creauture, instant, enchantment, sorcery, artifact)
Each type is then alphabetized.
As someone who has been organizing purchased collections for a new shop in town I need to say I can not stand type organization. There is only one apropriate type of player to do that and that is a commander player. Collectors order is the most universal organization method.
I forgot to mention that my mythics and rares for standard dont fit in a binder so I only put one of each in the binder and then have a box with the additional copies all in collectors order newer sets in front.
Quote from: Kaleo42 on February 24, 2014, 01:45:51 AM
As someone who has been organizing purchased collections for a new shop in town I need to say I can not stand type organization. There is only one apropriate type of player to do that and that is a commander player. Collectors order is the most universal organization method.
I forgot to mention that my mythics and rares for standard dont fit in a binder so I only put one of each in the binder and then have a box with the additional copies all in collectors order newer sets in front.
EDH is my main format. My playgroup has been playing much longer than I, so when we play legacy, I usually get stomped.
It works for me.
I organize mine by deck and I organize the order of cards in the deck by rarity. Keeps it simple
I use a 4 row cardboard box. Each row is a set(block plus core). And the entire box is all the sets that will rotate out at the same time. I put my commons/uncommons in this box. They are organized by card number, which sorts by color then alphabetical. Easiest way I've seen for organization.
My commons/uncommons barely fit in a 5000 card box. I just organize by color then alphabetical. It seems to make it pretty easy. My rare binder is sorted the same way.