Cards only good for type one go in a third binder. That used to be extended, now I guess it is modern. When they rotate out of standard, I move the cards to the binder that covers older sets. I have one binder that is only for tournament playable standard cards. If I still don't have enough to fill the box, I use old starter boxes to fill the empty space. If I don't have enough cards from a set to fill a box, I usually put a whole block in one box. Mainly, the names on the ends of the boxes are enough for me to find what I need. I don't really sort them in the stack in any way in particular, but sometimes put a little order in the stacks. This allows me to stack them in a closet or on a shelf with only the short side facing out and still read what set they contain. I label the boxes on all sides but the bottom. I find that more organization than that takes a ton of time to accomplish but achieves very little in terms of time saved when I need to get cards out to use. If it is two boxes, then one is for uncommons and one for commons, otherwise it is uncommons in the front and commons in the back.Ĭards are only sorted by color. If I have a huge number of the set, then I have two long boxes for the set.

Each set is ordered chronologically, and the cards are ordered by collector's number. Can you tell which set I have been drafting a lot lately? )įor the sake of discussion: how do you sort your cards? Mine are in a multi-row box, now with these suckers dividing them up. Here's a photo of my newly organized box! I don't have a ton of cards, but they're all scattered about in different sets.

Many of the icons were downloaded from BaconCatBug's thread on MTGSalvation forums, and more still are thanks to /u/Mediocritologist's post here. Excluded are Duel Decks, From the Vault, Premium Deck Series, Deck Builder's Toolkit, and possibly some of the other, more obscure sets.

The sets range from Alpha to Journey Into Nyx. I printed them on some sticker paper, cut along the guide lines with an Exacto, and threw them on some plastic dividers. Everything is finished and sorted so I thought maybe someone else could get use out of it. I made a label sheet for organizing my cards via plastic dividers: it's two 8.5' x 11' printable pages full of 2' x 1/2' labels for each set name, release date, and symbol.

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