I'm new to the game but went in whole hog: I have all the chapter packs along with the core game. I'm wondering how people store the packs.

For example, for my Call of Cthulhu LCG cards I sort all the expansions for a Faction into one card box, ordered by Characters, Support, Events, keeping the numerical order and expansion pack symbols in each group in tact.

Do people just bust out the expansion packs and integrate them into a card box for each House? or do the packs have enough discrete personality that each should be kept separate and on its own?

Hey Mike,

When the game was distributed as a traditional CCG, I kept my cards (when I bothered to sort them ) in numerical order which general clumped them by house with cards within houses then be subgrouped by card type. So basically it resulted in how you keep your CoC LCG cards. For the LCG releases I have been keeping them for the most part in their chapter packs. By itself I don't think this is a great way to organize, but since I generally build my decks "on paper" first using the deck builder feature at http://tzumainn.com/agot/ , I find keeping the cards with their chapter packs makes hunting them down when I'm ready to actually put the deck together easier since the deck list the site gives you identifies what chapter pack (or core set/expansion, if that's the case) each card comes from.

EDIT: and since I'm talking about deck building, let me point out Rogue30's website: http://info.wsisiz.edu.pl/~szczesnj/ If buidling a deck from scratch or if your not that familiar with the various cards available, I think starting at Rogue 30's site is better place to start. His site has more flexible filtering and the results are in table form and "full text" so you can scroll down and read card after card for acquainting yourself with the cards and making big picture decisions for a new deck idea. Then when you've honed down your deck idea you can assemble it at Tzumainn's site.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm torn between the 'coolness' of the chapter pack themes (ie keep them together) and the practicality of assembling a deck with access to all the right cards (one big deck). I'm no where near organized enough, or frankly motivated enough to go through an online deck building exercise (I'm a lover, not a fighter!) but the sites you provided are very cool and I'll hopefully get to use them at some point.

I use 9-pocket pages (sorted by House, then type), because of LCG I rarely have more than 3 copies of each card.

Rogue30 said:

I do the same thing, plus within each House I separate the characters by their gold cost.

You page them no matter what chapter pack they come from?

Next silly question: do you sleeve?

BrooklynMike said:

I do (page them all, I mean). Because I don't buy more than one of each chapter pack, I can fit all three copies of any card in a single pocket. My method of separating them by House, card type, and (for characters only) gold cost is done to help with deck building. The fact that I also sort them by chapter pack and card number is just me being compulsive....

I sleeve my cards when I play them, but only because my meta allows limited proxies. If it weren't for that, I don't think I'd bother. I don't like shuffling a sleeved deck.

For fully released sets... I seperate by house then set then type, then collector number. (Makes browsing easier).

For sets not complete... I seperate by house then chapter pack then collector number. (This way as I add, they just get put at the end.)

I always sort my cards the same way.

First I separate all the cards by house. Then I break them up in stacks accoring to card types. Then I sort attachments and locations according to cost. Characters are sorted by first looking at cost and then by strength. In house events are sorted by type of effect. Diffrent saves get grouped together, various croud control effects go together etc.

Neutral cards get sorted the same way basically with some adjustments. Attachments and locations are simply sorted by cost here as well. Characters however are also sorted by traits. So all Night's Watch characters goes in one pile and allys goes in another and Wildling characters in a third etc. This to make it easier to find cards that work well together. Neutral events are also sorted according to what they do. Special types of events like Story events or Doomed events get sorted separately as well.

Dual house cards are all treated together as if they were a separate additional house.

Rare cards from the CCG are treated separately and are stored in 3x3 sleeved pages.

I'm getting much more serious about aGoT so I now have all the chapter packs and got binder for the cards. I'm getting ready to organize the cards into the binders and am thinking about this order:

1) All role cards in release order (core, Kingsmoot, whatever comes next), numerical within release (ie Core 1 - xxx, Ravens 1 - xxx).

2) All cards for a House in this order:
- House Card
- Agendas specific to the House
- All plot cards specific to that House, by release, numerical within release
- All characters by release, numerical within release
- All Locations by release etc.
- All Attachements by release etc.
- All event cards specific to that House, by release etc.

4) All Neutral cards in the same order as #3

5) All Multi-House cards in same order as #3

Am I losing any advantage or creating any problems for myself by doing it this way?

I always keep all cards in the CPs so I know where to find them all the time ;-)

BrooklynMike said:

Card storage is a subjective topic, so I don't think anyone would be willing to say that you're "losing" an advantage -- you may simply have a different set of criteria for what's important.

With that being said, I personally sort my cards the same way you described, except that within each House I sort my characters by gold cost first, then by release, and then numerical within the release. (And I start each new gold cost on a separate page, so that I can add new cards to the end of that page later.) I do that because it makes it easier for me to watch my gold curve when I'm building a deck. So to go back to your original question, from my perspective, I would "lose" some deck-building advantages if I did it your way. But as I said, you may have totally different criteria!

I also tend to put a copy of each of my multi-House cards together with other cards from that House instead of having a separate space for them. (Again, that's for deckbuilding purposes.) The only exception are the cards that have all six Houses -- I sort them with my Neutrals.