Best way to sort cards?

[JaCe BeLeReN]

I sort the by color. Then buy rarity. Then alphabetize. It takes FOREVER..... but is quite rewarding once it is done because it makes it really easy to find cards.

Same here on that one. And it totally takes for ever. Especially when you put them in binder sleeves. 9 different binders, all rarity and alphabetized. I love the binders though. I get a deck idea, then pull out a binder and flip through the pages, no card hidden! Fantastic.

...except when I get new cards... Shifting a card over one slot 1000 times is annoying, need to find a better way for new cards.

If you find a way let me know. I get having to do that. That's another reason why I prefer singles. I know I will use them.

[Rass]

Go on top of a 40 plus story building and toss them.


That's how I feel when it comes to sorting because I amassed too many at once

[Hays413]

Haha yea for weeks I had stacks upon stacks of cards. Now it's much easier, got rid of so much crap. Not playing standard is awesome! Never need 4 of the same card. Except {Black Cat}. I want all of them!

[Richardalcala]

I sort the by color. Then buy rarity. Then alphabetize. It takes FOREVER..... but is quite rewarding once it is done because it makes it really easy to find cards.

Same here on that one. And it totally takes for ever. Especially when you put them in binder sleeves. 9 different binders, all rarity and alphabetized. I love the binders though. I get a deck idea, then pull out a binder and flip through the pages, no card hidden! Fantastic.

...except when I get new cards... Shifting a card over one slot 1000 times is annoying, need to find a better way for new cards.

I just insert a new blank page.

[cltrn81]

If you really want to go insane... Alphabetize them

Took me 3 days to do that over last x-mas break.  Color, rarity, and alphabetical.  Sure easy to find stuff now.  I also took anything in excess of 4 that was not worth a dollar or more and boxed them up as spares.  Needless to say I had about 500 or more of each color just in excess of 4.

[Silvrbacgorrila]

I keep my commons in a fat pack box organized by color. The uncommons, rares, and mythics are sorted by color in a binder. That's the way I like although it does get hard to sort through the commons but I don't have the patience to sort alphabetically.

[Hartman]

I have about 2000 uncommons/commons but I Put them in sections in 2 binders by color creature/non then mana cost it's easy building decks.

[Hays413]

Because I'm picky, I really don't like a bunch of pages with one or two cards in them. It annoys me

[Prophylaxis]

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/getting-organized/

This is a good article to read.

[BlackJester]

Note:  Merged with previous topic on the subject.

[Imdowd80]

Go on top of a 40 plus story building and toss them.


That's how I feel when it comes to sorting because I amassed too many at once

Same here, right now I have them sorted by color. I know I should at least put spells with spells and the like. But I really don't wan to.

[Rass]

I think when I get time I will do color/artifact then alphabetic. In 800 card count boxes so I can move them around and label them