Apologies if this has been discussed recently in detail, and if it has, if someone could point me in the direction of that thread, it would be greatly appreciated.
Anywho, I've been wanting to start keeping my >$1 cards in binder pages instead of just in old deck boxes inside fat pack boxes, and so forth. The one question I've always had about this method is how to best go about organizing the cards. Specifically, I would hate to always be getting things all well-organized, and then needing to add a card in the middle of it and having to bump everything after it over one slot. That seems tedious, time-consuming, impractical, etc.
Am I overlooking some easy solution? How do you all who keep a good number of cards in binder sleeves solve or circumvent this problem?
Not sure how others do it, but I organize mine by set, and by color within the set. I leave blank slots for cards of a set I don't have. At least, I do that with sets where I have a significant portion of the rares. Until I get to that point with a set, I just slot em in randomly.
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Set, color, collector number. I usually keep a handful of commons in each slot just to keep it looking pretty, and leave empty slots for what I know I don't have.
If I know the meta for somewhere I'm going that will probably have heavy trading I use a blank binder and just throw what I think I can unload into it.
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I use an old school binder and loose-leaf 9-pocket pages. The front section of my binder is for standard cards organized in color order (WUBRG then artifacts and multicolored cards). Each color gets its own pages, so no blue card will ever be in the end of the white section. This allows me to add more cards to a color by just adding a new page rather than playing leapfrog with the cards already in the binder.
The back portion of my binder is set up in the same way and then after that there's a section for all the lands.
I also never sleeve more than two to a pocket - one front and one back. This prevents the pockets from splitting and getting loose. It might take up slightly more space and you'll need more pages, but it's a good system because you'll never need to replace anything and you don't have to worry about jamming a playset into every pocket.
Keeping a separate binder for your bulk is a nice way to organize it without losing your quality cards in a flood of chaff.
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I only keep my >$1 cards in a trade binder as well. I have a Have/Want list on MOTL (Magic-Online-Trading-League) and list the cards there alphabetically by color.
My binder is also seperated by color and unless the card is very expensive I put multiple cards in one sleeve (it has never hurt any of the cards). When I deck a card, trade it, or add cards to the binder I change on the MOTL list, so I can use that online list as a fast look to see if I have a card.
I also have a seperate binder for bulk commons/uncommons that I wouldn't trade that are for deck-building (Elvish+Simian Spirit Guides, Demonic Tutors, Sol Rings, Duress, Hymn to Tourach, etc etc etc) also this binder has cards I am collecting that are going towards a deck I am in the process of building.
Organizing a trade binder is useless, other people are going to look through it, so I just toss things in with no particular order. About the time rotation happens I take all the now not standard legal cards and put them in a box and any multiformat cards will stay.
It's so much easier to just not care about order, I spend no time organizing and people still find the stuff they want. Also, I like people seeing "good" mixed in randomly as it stops people from looking at the first few pages and stop caring.
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Organizing a trade binder is useless, other people are going to look through it, so I just toss things in with no particular order. About the time rotation happens I take all the now not standard legal cards and put them in a box and any multiformat cards will stay.
It's so much easier to just not care about order, I spend no time organizing and people still find the stuff they want. Also, I like people seeing "good" mixed in randomly as it stops people from looking at the first few pages and stop caring.
Ehhh... it's not as much for trading purposes as it is for my own personal care and enjoyment of my collection. I'm an ISTJ/Organizer by temperament, and I like having things an an optimally-organized manner. I suppose there's no way to avoid having to redo things, though, other than just going by the collector's number on the card and leaving spaces for cards I don't currently own.
Are you talking about trade cards or a way to stockpile your keepers?
I have three ring binders full of 4x common/uncommons organized by collector's number and using placeholders for any playsets that I don't have any cards of. The rares I keep in a separate binder or box, depending on their value. This way I can easily find any card I own and put them back when I'm finished. I was able to widdle down my collection significantly once I did this huge undertaking by only keeping 4x of a card. I've been meaning to take a pic of it because with all the binders organized with their logos and such, it looks awesome.
I've tried a number of different methods, but as I trade and deckbuild I've found them all to be too much to maintain. Nowadays I have it sorted loosely by block and then by color. I also have high end cards all sorted into one area.
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I've tried a number of different methods, but as I trade and deckbuild I've found them all to be too much to maintain. Nowadays I have it sorted loosely by block and then by color. I also have high end cards all sorted into one area.
I find that unless you have a binder with only a few (<15) pages in it, keeping the "money rares" separate will usually cause people to skim over the rest of your binder. Integrating them into the regularly-sorted pages is a better way to encourage people to look through the lower-end cards, which results in you ultimately trading more of said low-end cards.
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I have a good first page(huntmaster, snap rtc) and the rest colur artifact multi land. The first page hooks them and the other good cards spread keep their attention.
All my cards are organized by collector number. I actually keep two sets of binders: one with Commons and Uncommons and the other is a trade binder with Rares.
For both of these binders, each spot is dedicated for a specific card so there is no hassle of having to squeeze a new card in between and move everything over. The trade binder has 68 spots dedicated to AVR: one spot for each Mythic and Rare in the set. And each spot in the trade binder is labeled with a permanent marker.
The non-trade binder has 244 spots dedicated to AVR: one for every card. Here, I just use the collector number to figure out where it belongs. (For example, Elgaud Shieldmate has number #50. The first five pages have nine slots each, accounting for #1-45. This means I know Elgaud Shieldmate belongs on the sixth page, fifth spot.) I don't take the time to label each spot on my non-trade binder, so I go by collector number. The spots where Rares belong remain empty (Rares go into the trade binder) but trying to eliminate these dead spots is too much of a hassle.
The problem is that this method of keeping a trade binder is not very conducive to trading. When someone looks through my binder, they have to shovel through all the bulk Rares and empty spots (for Rares I don't have) to find the good stuff. They usually get bored and stop trading. But I don't really trade much anyway.
I trade a lot and deal mostly with standard, so I have a Monster binder devoted to each set. Cards are sorted in a semi random fashion, and are allocated either 3 slots, 6 slots, 9 slots, or 18 slots depending on rarity, frequency traded, etc. The only rules are that the first page is usually the "flagship" card (so Avacyn for AR) for the set or the mythic cycle for the block (Swords for Scars block), the third pair of pages has the sets planeswalker(s), the back three 9-slot pages are devoted to foils (which forces people to look at your foils), and the two 9-slot pages before the foils are devoted to 3-card columns of whatever the popular/important uncommons in the set are.
Before you ask, yes I trade a lot, yes people know I trade a lot, and no nobody seems to mind looking through 4-7 binders (people dont usually care about the core set) when they have the opportunity to pick up however many they need of whatever many they need to play Standard that week.
I know I prolly don't belong in this discussion, but I never ever EVER put commons/uncommons into binders unless they are worth something (Bloodbraid Elf, Lingering Souls, Spell Snare, Maze of Ith). I have a large box with a divider in the middle and I stick my T2 cards in there, and have a seperate box for cards that aren't T2 and a seperate box for basic lands. I then have 2 binders, one for T2 rares, holos, and my collection of cards (Storm Crows, Chimney Imp, Hedron Crab, a ripped Stitcher's Apprentice, and a Future Sight Bloodshot Trainee), and one for my other rares. I organize all of my cards fist by color (WUBRG, then multicolor, then artifact, then non-basic land), then by set, then by rarity, then by multiples (so if I have 4 Torch Devil, it'll go before 3 copies of Faithless Looting), then by name.
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I organize the using the random manner: if there is a free spot a card goes there.
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I just started playing again at the start of Dark Ascension so I don't have a ton of cards. But they're separated into Staples binders whose color matches the card inside. At the moment they're only organized with Sorcery/Instant/Enchantments in the front and Creatures in the back. If I have multiples of a card I allow it to take up to 3 slots and then stack them behind the other cards. Although I'm considering just keeping a playset of each card in the binder and moving the rest into card boxes organized by color.
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Apologies if this has been discussed recently in detail, and if it has, if someone could point me in the direction of that thread, it would be greatly appreciated.
Anywho, I've been wanting to start keeping my >$1 cards in binder pages instead of just in old deck boxes inside fat pack boxes, and so forth. The one question I've always had about this method is how to best go about organizing the cards. Specifically, I would hate to always be getting things all well-organized, and then needing to add a card in the middle of it and having to bump everything after it over one slot. That seems tedious, time-consuming, impractical, etc.
Am I overlooking some easy solution? How do you all who keep a good number of cards in binder sleeves solve or circumvent this problem?
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U Vendilion Clique
If I know the meta for somewhere I'm going that will probably have heavy trading I use a blank binder and just throw what I think I can unload into it.
The back portion of my binder is set up in the same way and then after that there's a section for all the lands.
I also never sleeve more than two to a pocket - one front and one back. This prevents the pockets from splitting and getting loose. It might take up slightly more space and you'll need more pages, but it's a good system because you'll never need to replace anything and you don't have to worry about jamming a playset into every pocket.
Keeping a separate binder for your bulk is a nice way to organize it without losing your quality cards in a flood of chaff.
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My binder is also seperated by color and unless the card is very expensive I put multiple cards in one sleeve (it has never hurt any of the cards). When I deck a card, trade it, or add cards to the binder I change on the MOTL list, so I can use that online list as a fast look to see if I have a card.
I also have a seperate binder for bulk commons/uncommons that I wouldn't trade that are for deck-building (Elvish+Simian Spirit Guides, Demonic Tutors, Sol Rings, Duress, Hymn to Tourach, etc etc etc) also this binder has cards I am collecting that are going towards a deck I am in the process of building.
So Black A-Z, Blue A-Z, Green A-Z, Red A-Z, White A-Z, Multicolor A-Z, Colorless A-Z, Artifact A-Z, Land A-Z
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It's so much easier to just not care about order, I spend no time organizing and people still find the stuff they want. Also, I like people seeing "good" mixed in randomly as it stops people from looking at the first few pages and stop caring.
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Ehhh... it's not as much for trading purposes as it is for my own personal care and enjoyment of my collection. I'm an ISTJ/Organizer by temperament, and I like having things an an optimally-organized manner. I suppose there's no way to avoid having to redo things, though, other than just going by the collector's number on the card and leaving spaces for cards I don't currently own.
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I have three ring binders full of 4x common/uncommons organized by collector's number and using placeholders for any playsets that I don't have any cards of. The rares I keep in a separate binder or box, depending on their value. This way I can easily find any card I own and put them back when I'm finished. I was able to widdle down my collection significantly once I did this huge undertaking by only keeping 4x of a card. I've been meaning to take a pic of it because with all the binders organized with their logos and such, it looks awesome.
same here
Means you can always leave room for more cards, and I tend to put the money cards in the front page so I can keep track of what I have.
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I find that unless you have a binder with only a few (<15) pages in it, keeping the "money rares" separate will usually cause people to skim over the rest of your binder. Integrating them into the regularly-sorted pages is a better way to encourage people to look through the lower-end cards, which results in you ultimately trading more of said low-end cards.
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All of these are by set alphabetically with one card per slot. I.e. So at a glance I can see what i have and how many.
For both of these binders, each spot is dedicated for a specific card so there is no hassle of having to squeeze a new card in between and move everything over. The trade binder has 68 spots dedicated to AVR: one spot for each Mythic and Rare in the set. And each spot in the trade binder is labeled with a permanent marker.
The non-trade binder has 244 spots dedicated to AVR: one for every card. Here, I just use the collector number to figure out where it belongs. (For example, Elgaud Shieldmate has number #50. The first five pages have nine slots each, accounting for #1-45. This means I know Elgaud Shieldmate belongs on the sixth page, fifth spot.) I don't take the time to label each spot on my non-trade binder, so I go by collector number. The spots where Rares belong remain empty (Rares go into the trade binder) but trying to eliminate these dead spots is too much of a hassle.
The problem is that this method of keeping a trade binder is not very conducive to trading. When someone looks through my binder, they have to shovel through all the bulk Rares and empty spots (for Rares I don't have) to find the good stuff. They usually get bored and stop trading. But I don't really trade much anyway.
Before you ask, yes I trade a lot, yes people know I trade a lot, and no nobody seems to mind looking through 4-7 binders (people dont usually care about the core set) when they have the opportunity to pick up however many they need of whatever many they need to play Standard that week.
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I have my Inn rares in a binder, and my commons uncommons in a HUGE other one.
Mr organization goes like this
UNCOMMON, artifact-black-blue-green-red-white. COMMON, artifact-black-blue-green-red-white