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How do you keep and organise your cards (advice for editions im not aiming to have complete)? (feddit.de)
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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 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!

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