How do you store cards?

By UCLAJediKnight, in X-Wing

How do you all store your cards? Binder? If you use a binder, what types of pages do you use? Do they make pages that fit upgrade cards? What about sleeved upgrade cards?

Yesh I use a binder. I use the ultrapro 9 card pages for my ship cards and the new ultrapro 16 pocket platinum pages for the upgrade cards. They work really good and are pretty cheap.

http://www.ultrapro.com/product_info.php?products_id=3887

I use 3 FFG deck boxes for my cards (example here ). Pilot cards are divided by faction, 1 faction per box, and then I sort upgrade cards by type and slot them in.

3 boxes currently holds all my pilot and upgrade cards, along with the damage deck. They each have a removable section at the bottom that I use to store my tokes (including ordinance tokens and what have you).

They were expensive, but I found them to be well worth it from an organisational stand-point. Unfortunately I'm now running out of space for the upgrade cards again, so may have to look at expanding once more.

In a binder full of card pages

Yesh I use a binder. I use the ultrapro 9 card pages for my ship cards and the new ultrapro 16 pocket platinum pages for the upgrade cards. They work really good and are pretty cheap.

http://www.ultrapro.com/product_info.php?products_id=3887

Same here.

Some ships where only 4 pilots exist share a 9 pocket sheet with another ship of the same faction.

The small cards i have sorted in groups, within the groups alphabetically. Epts, bombs, cannons, illicuts, etc.

There are new sheets out esp for X-wing with 2 large and some small pockets on one sheet. Good and elegant if you have a standard build (which I do not have). Cannot recall manufacturer right now .

I use one of these: http://www.miniaturemarket.com/ugd010480.html?gclid=Cj0KEQjw6O-9BRDjhYXH2bOb8Z4BEiQAWRdukwqQS2Y3LQVjDPzuQFjfzbOKqEeZQ4WK65iYSiYmRNoaAgXr8P8HAQ

The pages are not removable/addable, but it is big enough to hold multiple copies of every currently existing non-Epic upgrade, sleeved, with no problems.

I have tried those for both upgrade and pilot cards and found it too much of a headache when I added new ships and had to re-jiggle everything

So i resorted to binders that are easier to upgrade and shuffle when needed.

Yesh I use a binder. I use the ultrapro 9 card pages for my ship cards and the new ultrapro 16 pocket platinum pages for the upgrade cards. They work really good and are pretty cheap.

http://www.ultrapro.com/product_info.php?products_id=3887

For my upgrade cards I use 2" rigid, "safeTplus" brand, coin pages. Snug and easy to access/organize,91 cent with tax for each page at local coin-collector shop in Pacific Northwest, USA. 20 slots per page but they can hold up to 3 sleeved cards in each slot. I have these all in a "Five Star" zipper binder. For my pilot cards I use heavy duty card sheets in zippered binder, sleeved. My damage deck is my big squad box with my templates, tokens, etc. I keep all my Epic cards in a small Plano box with my other Epic game pieces.

I put this all in a dirty wheelbarrow and truck it around town looking for games. ;)

standard binder with baseball card sleeves for the pilots and smaller 4by4 card sleeves for upgrades.

Also have full page sleeves for my FAQ printout and various rule books. Apparently im the only one that ever had the thought of printing the faq for some reason because every time i pull it out to settle something i get "You have a printed faq?" lol.

My binder is about an inch thick right now. Mind you i dont have scum, probably need a bigger binder once i start getting them lol

I use one of these:

Ultra Pro 4-up pro binder

http://www.ultrapro.com/product_info.php?products_id=3415

All my pilots fit in 1/2, all the upgrades fit in the back half. I don't bring everything and I consolidate similar pilots (green squadron pilot, for example) at 3 to a regular slot. Wave 9 has filled everything, so I can probably fit HOTR, but at wave 10 I'll need another solution. I have at least one of everything.

Upgrade cards are also sleeved and fit 2 to a slot (side load), sometimes 4 to a slot. Since the binder is quad fold it holds things tighter and nothing moves!

Edited by jonnyd

I use a zippered binder with these pages for pilot cards -- http://www.ultimateguard.com/en/binders-folders/pocket-pages/18-pocket-side-loading-pages.html -- and these pages for upgrade cards -- http://www.ultimateguard.com/en/binders-folders/pocket-pages/32-pocket-mini-american.html . I typically start a new page for each type of upgrade so it is easy to add new pages when needed. The pockets can easily hold a few copies, even when sleeved so it doesn't take many pages for all the upgrades.

I use one of these: http://www.miniaturemarket.com/ugd010480.html?gclid=Cj0KEQjw6O-9BRDjhYXH2bOb8Z4BEiQAWRdukwqQS2Y3LQVjDPzuQFjfzbOKqEeZQ4WK65iYSiYmRNoaAgXr8P8HAQ

The pages are not removable/addable, but it is big enough to hold multiple copies of every currently existing non-Epic upgrade, sleeved, with no problems.

How many cards can you get in a single sleeve without stressing the cards?

Yesh I use a binder. I use the ultrapro 9 card pages for my ship cards and the new ultrapro 16 pocket platinum pages for the upgrade cards. They work really good and are pretty cheap.

http://www.ultrapro.com/product_info.php?products_id=3887

Same question?

Thank you,

Binders? This isn't a CCG.

I put them in the starter box. I do sleeve them though.

What ever you get make sure it zips closed so you don't loose anything.

I'm in the small minority, but I hate the binders. Binders are probably easier to carry around if you want to take everything with you all the time.

- The cards like to fall out. Yeah there are zippered binders but I've had cards go flying just by turning a page just a little fast

- It takes a while to find stuff if you have to flip through a bunch of pages.

- If a new card comes out and you have your cards organized in a certain way, you have to rearrange everything to put the new card in where it's supposed to go.

I use these boxes:

http://www.thebrokentoken.com/mini-american-card-case/

You have to put them together, but it's super easy. You can also paint/varnish them (and even apply Star Wars themed stuff to them if you want)... I haven't done that yet but probably will at some point. These boxes are wonderful. I have my upgrade cards in there organized by upgrade type, alphabetically, with the wood spacers keeping everything separate. When I need a card, I grab the stack, and shuffle through it to find what I want very quickly.

I don't travel for tournaments and if I go to a game store to play I either just use my squad builder printout or I bring the cards for my list. Even if I did travel or take my entire collection with me all the time, these boxes are small enough you could probably still keep them in your travel case.

Depending on the size of your collection and how many cards you need to store, I would get two of the boxes for the mini-sized cards. The site has other options that you can look into for storing your larger cards. I highly recommend these!

Btw, I have all of my cards sleeved and the boxes fit them great.

Edited by Mike_Evans

For my upgrade cards I made a box out of the cardboard from larger sets, and covered it in Star Wars sticky-book-cover-stuff. :D

I use one of these: http://www.miniaturemarket.com/ugd010480.html?gclid=Cj0KEQjw6O-9BRDjhYXH2bOb8Z4BEiQAWRdukwqQS2Y3LQVjDPzuQFjfzbOKqEeZQ4WK65iYSiYmRNoaAgXr8P8HAQ

The pages are not removable/addable, but it is big enough to hold multiple copies of every currently existing non-Epic upgrade, sleeved, with no problems.

How many cards can you get in a single sleeve without stressing the cards?

Yesh I use a binder. I use the ultrapro 9 card pages for my ship cards and the new ultrapro 16 pocket platinum pages for the upgrade cards. They work really good and are pretty cheap. http://www.ultrapro.com/product_info.php?products_id=3887

Same question?

Thank you,

I'm not sure of an exact number of cards per page slot, but several will fit in before it is an issue. Probably like 5 or so.

What ever you get make sure it zips closed so you don't loose anything.

This is very true. As with any pages, the ones I use,

http://www.ultrapro.com/product_info.php?products_id=3887

are great, but go lose cards occasionally if turned upside down. A zipper binder is key. I actually just bought one for my cards because my gliterstim cards fell out and got lost. Womp womp womp.

Pilots: each in a sleeve, then each faction in their own Card Storage Box (150 count) - the clear plastic kind, by the same company prominent in card-sleeve market. I separate the uniques from the generics within each box and have cardboard divider between them. I also have a 4th box to store 2 copies of each of the Rule cards (also sleeved).

Upgrades and damage decks: each card in a sleeve, then stored "filing card" style in a plastic container I picked up from the Hardware store - took a while to find one with the right height and width of sections, but it's almost perfect. Upgrades are grouped by type and separated with cardboard dividers. There's even enough space in it to remove one of the "internal walls" and store my large base plates and larger bomb templates. All damage decks (ie standard and each fore/aft set) kept in small zip-lock bag for ease of grabbing them all at once.

Any duplicates of unique cards are all stored together in one separate zip-lock bag (without sleeves).

Storage is my fourth most expensive faction :)

Edited by ABXY

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I use the Ultra-Pro 9 pocket side loaders for Pilot Cards, and Ultimate Guard 9 pocket side loader mini-american size for the Upgrade Cards. All are sleeved and I only use one card per slot. I've never had one come close to falling out. Not even a little out of the pocket. Nice snug fit. Would definitely recommend.

Edit: I did the tiny box method for quite a while, but once you hit a certain size collection it becomes terribly unwieldy and difficult to peruse what you've got easily.

Edited by Futant420

I'm in the small minority, but I hate the binders. Binders are probably easier to carry around if you want to take everything with you all the time.

- The cards like to fall out. Yeah there are zippered binders but I've had cards go flying just by turning a page just a little fast

- It takes a while to find stuff if you have to flip through a bunch of pages.

- If a new card comes out and you have your cards organized in a certain way, you have to rearrange everything to put the new card in where it's supposed to go.

I use these boxes:

http://www.thebrokentoken.com/mini-american-card-case/

You have to put them together, but it's super easy. You can also paint/varnish them (and even apply Star Wars themed stuff to them if you want)... I haven't done that yet but probably will at some point. These boxes are wonderful. I have my upgrade cards in there organized by upgrade type, alphabetically, with the wood spacers keeping everything separate. When I need a card, I grab the stack, and shuffle through it to find what I want very quickly.

I don't travel for tournaments and if I go to a game store to play I either just use my squad builder printout or I bring the cards for my list. Even if I did travel or take my entire collection with me all the time, these boxes are small enough you could probably still keep them in your travel case.

Depending on the size of your collection and how many cards you need to store, I would get two of the boxes for the mini-sized cards. The site has other options that you can look into for storing your larger cards. I highly recommend these!

Btw, I have all of my cards sleeved and the boxes fit them great.

I am with you. I have two of these for all my upgrades.

I bought this for all my pilot cards.

http://www.thebrokentoken.com/kit-for-humanity/

The no engraving one.

I can fit all three in the top of my Plano 1374. Not a perfect fit, but close.

I always did my CCGs in boxes. Can't do the folders.

Yesh I use a binder. I use the ultrapro 9 card pages for my ship cards and the new ultrapro 16 pocket platinum pages for the upgrade cards. They work really good and are pretty cheap.

http://www.ultrapro.com/product_info.php?products_id=3887

Same storage solution I've got. With dividers to separate ships by faction and upgrades by type.

How do you all store your cards? Binder? If you use a binder, what types of pages do you use? Do they make pages that fit upgrade cards? What about sleeved upgrade cards?

I use that tray from the core set, remove the plastic thing that holds the 2 ties and x wing, the small cards fit perfectly there.

I sleeve only those that I;m using. Mainly because my sleeves have little color stickers to denote which ship they correspond to, is a real pain when you have 5-7 TIEs with the same sculpt in play.

I redneck it and put tokens, cards, pilots, templates, and pegs/bases in a Stanley medI'm tool box, don't worry every thing is rubber banded, very fancy.

Initially I used UltraPro 9 pocket binder , but the collection outgrew it. Now I am using the Ultimate Guard QuadRow Zipfolio for the pilot cards and Ultimate Guard Zipfolio Mini for the upgrade cards. I do not sleeve my cards while in storage, only when going out for the tourney. For the casual games, I keep the lists in UltraPro 9 pocket binder pages , and those in the Quadrow zipfolio.

I found these, and they seem like a great solution, however didn't try them myself - Ultimate Guard 32 standard+mini pocket pages . These can fit two pilot cards and their 14 upgrade cards.