Aug 09 2011
My Approach to Card Storage
Today I ordered a couple cases of M12 and got a binder ready to hold it. I tweeted such and included the following picture. @the_toMatto asked about my organization system. I’d been planning to write about it, so I figured now was the time.
Early in my relationship with Magic, as my collection was outgrowing a couple 800 count boxes, I saw that one of the kids at the LGS I frequented was putting cards in the corners and edges of the standard 9-pocket binder pages. That left the center empty. He had various foils and such in the center spots. I figured that I could improve on that and use the center for indexing purposes. Being a programmer I wrote a program to generate a PDF of inserts. Here’s a shot of a page from my NPH binder:
So here’s how I store my cards. Each set gets a binder. Previously I used D-ring (D-ring, not round ring!) binders from Staples, which worked well enough. This time around I’m using Ultrapro Magic logo binders. Cards were put in the binder, two sets of 4 on each face of each page, sorted by collector number.
I have bulk basic land in a couple 800-count boxes, and a smaller box containing my ‘working’ basic land collection (many copies of my favorite version of each basic). Other boxes contain random selections of older cards.
If you’re interested, here’s the PDF for M12 center inserts. Print it, cut them out, and load up a binder.
