MTG - How To Sort And Store Your Magic: The Gathering Card Collection 

@Professor Make it happen :) this is a great idea.

Please. Card storage based on budget and expectation, like most of your modern stuff is. Haven’t even started playing again yet, and this channel is fun to watch and listen to.

Not a new video, but I'll give my two cents as a decade long player with a large collection: Separate cards into several broad categories: Decks / for specific decks General deck building (cards you want around for decks, for example commander staples) Collection (cards that you want to hold on to and are not for trade) Trades Bulk Basic Lands / Tokens When you obtain any product, be it singles, opening packs, getting a deck, or a secret lair, sort the cards out into these broad categories. Firstly, pull out any cards for decks, then any cards you want for decks in general, then anything you want to hold on to. The remaining rares, mythics, foils, and powerful uncommons/commons can go in trades, with the rest in bulk. As for organizing each section: Decks go in deck boxes. I personally have the plastic 2 piece boxes from ultra pro that are 2 dollars and store 100 sleeved cards. They look nice displayed on a shelf and fit perfectly in an amazon basics DSLR camera backpack, which holds 12 decks + dice and mats. You can also put them in smaller deck boxes in fat packs/bundles, or you can get something such as the ultimate guard box that holds 4-5 commander decks plus dice and mats, for on the go. For general deck building, I used to use fatpacks but found binders are nicer and easier. Same for my collection of stuff to hold on to (for no reason) such as cards I like, secret lair stuff, etc. As for trades, I currently have them in large plastic boxes (to store more cards, since I don't bring them frequently), but for most people I would recommend binders. One thing of note with ring binders, is the rings can indent in the sleeves. That's why I prefer the typical ultra pro / ultimate guard binders, although having modular pages is a million times better imo. You'll want to decide if you want a zipper, also if you want a backing on the pages, and finally the size. Typical sizes are 3x3, 3x4, 4x4, 2x2x2, 3x2, 2x2, 2x1. 3x3 is the most common and a general purpose good size. 3x4 is a bit large but good for specific purposes such as collecting a set or organizing playsets in 4s. 2x2 binders are nice for being portable. My bulk is organized by set and set ONLY. I have large plastic boxes from the container store that work PERFECTLY and are very large and stack well, they also come with dividers and are clear. In my opinion, it's not worth sorting even by color or common/uncommon here. Sorting by set is super easy (nearly instant almost all the time, given that when you get a product it's usually from one set, or a few standard sets), and it works chronologically, so adding new cards is super easy. As for sorting by color, it takes more time and requires that every single time you get a card from anywhere, you actually sort it. This way, if I open 36 packs, I can just throw them all in the set area (after removing rares, foils, tokens, lands). If you're looking for a specific card, searching the set is nearly instant. If you're browsing your collection in general for cards, and you're browsing bulk, and you need specific colors, and this happens frequently, then maybe you have different needs than I do. Personally, my bulk is almost always just going to sit there, and I rarely sift through it, and sifting through a hundred cards from one set to find a card is worth not having to organize every single card by number. If I want a specific card (dissolve from theros for example), then I go to theros and look for maybe 60 seconds max. It doesn't need to be organized even by color. If it was organized by color first, I'd have to search through every single blue card, which would be awful. My basic lands just go in small stackable plastic boxes that are labeled. My tokens go in a fatpack box (they outgrew the stackable boxes) Lastly, I just have a bunch of fat packs. They're very easy to store and fit together nicely, look nice, and are compact. I can hide away some cards in there but mostly just keep them empty. I've used them for trades and bulk in the past, but I think binders are better for premium cards and the container store boxes are best for bulk. I also have gift boxes that I used to use for trades and for modern decks, still have some modern decks in there. The boxes are very useful but I don't find myself using them much personally. Since they're more of a pain than fatpack boxes, I would store bulk or cards that aren't often accessed in there.

@@justingolden21 thank you so much for this post. It should be a blog post. Good read.

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Same here it helps a lot

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I agree

FuckYoCouchFish Those cluestones really ticked me off. I wrapped a friend's Christmas gift in them. Still have far too many.

Tolarian Community College banners are just as bad and both cards ruin drafting because by the end you have at least three dead cadrs in your sideboard

FuckYoCouchFish RIP Death by cluestone

I fucking died when he said this.

Heard the prof saying that 2 min. ago, ... still laughing tears. :-)

OMG silversnorlax likes toleration to yay

Never a bad idea to support a member of a TCG community. Despite us all playing different card games, I find we all enjoy doing what we do together.

Absolutely

Did you also literally LOL?

yerfdog1935 can you figuratively lol?

magerehenk  Well, you can definitely type this omnipresent internet slang term without actually laughing out loud in front of your computer or smartphone - and in fact thousands of people do this every single day - so saying that you literally lol'd actually does convey additional information.

Actually, whenever someone types "lol" I assume they are politely saying "That's a joke you made... yeah." When someone says that they actually, literally laughed out loud, I take it to mean that it was something legitimately funny. But then... sometimes people read into what others say/type too much.

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Indeed

Yes, I want to talk about effective setups for people who primarily draft and maybe have a standard deck from time to time, as well as other types of collections.

​@@TolarianCommunityCollege Hey Professor! I would love to know an effective setup for exactly that! Do you have any suggestions? I draft and was planning on having a few deck boxes for standard cards, then the rest of my cards somewhere else. I don't think storing my cards by set would work. I was thinking either a 3200 bcw box or an 800-1000 ct. bcw box for each color.

Cool, because I have several EDH/Commander videos I'd like to do.

That's really nice to hear, thanks! :)

100k? I'd be happy with 10k at the moment. Ha! Glad you enjoy the videos and find them helpful! :)

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True Story: For Christmas I wrapped some of my friend's gifts in cluestones. Saved me some cash on wrapping paper and finally put them to good use!

Josh Howson Thanks!

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